Thursday, Mar 11, 2010
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Miracle twins born to interracial couple

Florence Addo-Gerth with husband Stephan Gerth and their twin newborns. There is only a one in a million chance of giving birth to twins with different skin colors. With this kind of luck, they should have played the lottery. A German woman has given birth to twins with different colored skin – a one in a million occurrence, medical experts said. Florence Addo-Gerth, 35, gave birth to the two boys, Ryan and Leo, on Friday, July 11th, according to London’s Daily Mail. The mother is originally from Ghana, while the father, Stephan Gerth, is from Germany. The two infants, who caused quite a commotion at the hospital in Lichtenberg, Germany, where they were born, have already started to demonstrate different personalities as well. Light-skinned Ryan is “spirited,” while Leo is “laidback.” The proud papa said he was surprised by the children’s different skin colors, but he is just happy that they’re healthy.


 

 

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groundbreaking polling conducted by a leading Canadian sociologist confirmed what we already know. That 23 percent of Metro Vancouver teenagers, or one in four, have parents born in Canada. And 37 percent of teens in Metro Vancouver, were born outside the country, typically in Asia. And another 39 percent of teenagers in our West Coast metropolis have immigrant parents. Based on an extensive survey of Canadian teenagers, it was discovered that more than nine out of 10 Metro Vancouver teenagers said they have close friends who are not Caucasian.

The conclusion is that the younger people of Metro Vancouver are a remarkably international and intercultural generation. (more…)

Korean spouses have spent an average 13 million won ($10,600) in costs for interracial marriages, the Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) said Monday after surveying 266 matchmaking agencies.
“We conducted a survey of 1.044 companies but only 266 of them properly answered. The rest of them are marginal ones,” said Choi Eun-sil of the KCA.
Interracial marriages in Korea are increasing year by year, from 4,710 in 1990 to 36,204 in 2008. More than 28,000 Korean men married foreign spouses last year, more than double the 8,000 Korean women who married expatriate men. (more…)