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Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by ektbear: 3:08am On Dec 08, 2013
Is this typical of South Africans or something? His eyes look strange to me.

EDIT: For more context, I'm watching a documentary on him right now.
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by lepasharon(f): 3:19am On Dec 08, 2013
He is a Bush man and thats how they look
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by Rad1cal: 3:51am On Dec 08, 2013
lepasharon: He is a Bush man and thats how they look

undecided
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by tpia5: 3:54am On Dec 08, 2013
capoid i suppose.
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by quivah(f): 6:35am On Dec 08, 2013
His father's father married my mother's great grandmother. Her father married a woman whose mother's mother was Chinese and father was half Nigerian half south african ...

He prolly took the gene from her

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Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by hisawesomeness(m): 7:04am On Dec 08, 2013
Why don't u ask his
mother
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by hisawesomeness(m): 7:06am On Dec 08, 2013
Why don't u ask his
mother
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by taharqa: 10:37am On Dec 08, 2013
He is part-Khoisan. They have epithelial folds in the eyes like some Southeast Asia populations, though they are not biologically related.

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Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by Nobody: 10:48am On Dec 08, 2013
Because his Khoisan race is ancestral to all mankind. You find all phenotypes among them.
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by wesley80(m): 10:52am On Dec 08, 2013
Would be interesting to know what the OP is actually insinuating.
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by PhysicsQED(m): 11:11am On Dec 08, 2013
ekt_bear: Is this typical of South Africans or something? His eyes look strange to me.

EDIT: For more context, I'm watching a documentary on him right now.

Xhosa and Khoisan intermarriage from centuries ago. Those kind of eyes can be found among the Khoi and the San peoples of South Africa.

Not all South Africans have such features.
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by itstpia8: 11:23pm On May 20, 2016



genes.
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by itstpia8: 11:26pm On May 20, 2016
Re: Why Does Young Nelson Mandela Look Kinda Chinese? by itstpia8: 11:28pm On May 20, 2016
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