Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Mixed race kids have all the fun
More on Japan. This time in the form of a half-japanese, half-iranian (yes I said Iranian) baseball sensation, Yu Darvish.
From Espn’s feature of him,
The full family name is Darvishsefad. Yu’s grandfather was a travel agent in Iran who encouraged Yu’s father to explore the world, partially by finishing his high school education in the United States. Farsad did and went on to college in Florida, where he played soccer — or at least he did until 1979, when Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, kidnapped 52 embassy workers, changed the course of American politics, launched Ted Koppel’s career into orbit and instantly made things rather unpleasant for young Iranians studying in America.
Is it just me or have either of you noticed that mixed race kids are better looking and more athletic than the average single raced kid.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:39 am
al-tahafut said:
well, i’m not sure. but one thought that springs/leaps/bounds to mind is that it might be the case that people who are more successful, richer, or more good-looking are more likely to marry outside their ethnicity. so, their kids might have some advantages, genetic or otherwise, from the get-go.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
atomsmashin said:
a case of there being “..no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion…”
May 17th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
al-tahafut said:
ah, yes. but i wish it went the other way too. there’s a great deal of strangeness in my proportions, but, sadly, no exquisite beauty.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Atomsmasher said:
haha. i suppose the bit Poe forgot to mention was that you also need to find a stange enough beholder.
June 16th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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