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CoachIt truly depends on what are your criteria for "different" are: Appearance (skin color, hair texture, facial features, etc.), in ancestry, etc. There has been so much intermingling, either through interbreeding, marriage or rape throughout the world, that it's difficult to list persons as of one race or another.
Take myself as an example: My maternal grandfather was from Ireland (blond hair, blue eyes, small features), my maternal grandmother was medium brown-skinned African-American, with a wide nose and full lips. My mother looks like she is Mexican, with hair so straight she can't curl it and small features. My paternal grandmother was a Chicasaw Indian, with an Indian nose and thin lips. My paternal grandfather was African-American with full lips and wide nose. My father is medium brown-skinned, with full lips and nose.
Now, I was born with platinum blond hair that is very curly, sky-blue eyes, thin lips and a sort-of full nose. Today, still I have light brown hair and green eyes. Apparently, I took my grandfathers coloring, for even today in my 50's, I can't get a tan.
Every other member of my family has dark brown eyes and black hair. But their hair is not as curly as mine, and my youngest sister looks Indian, with small features and long wavy hair. According to the laws of the USA, I am (Negro) 'Black'.
Yet I know 'white' persons with very full lips, seriously full noses (that many get nose jobs to change), very curly hair (that's in fashion these days, again) that they wear in 'dread-locks'. Some of these people get their lips 'plumped-up' and get fake or real tans and they are MUCH darker than I am.
There are aborigines in Australia who have blond, wavy hair and cobalt-blue eyes, with very full lips, noses and very dark skin. I have met Asians, from western part of Russia, with long blond hair and sky-blue eyes.
It is difficult to declare black or white for many today.
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