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I'm OK with this perspective. I have it the same although opposite end of the spectrum. I realized, after having my first, just how happy I was that she "looked like me," ie, that she looked like my ethnicity. I know she is paler, and my boy darker, but both fit very well within the med spectrum. It would be weird for me to have a Nordic looking child, and I would feel bad having a mixed child. It's a normal, human feeling to try to preserve your tribe. So, I don't take it personally, but keep in mind that having a dark haired wife of your ethnicity does not mean that you will have dark haired children. Do not a rule out a pretty Swedish lass because she has brown hair to match those blue eyes.
These four children:
Come from these two:
She is 1/2 Asian, so it's not as though they are pure either. They have six now, and all of them are blond haired, and some are blue eyed. It's not uncommon for me to see Anglo American families, with one parent brown haired and the other blond, have nothing but blond or red haired children. Genes don't "disappear" within one generation.
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