In a nutshell, Polygenic Inheritance is when in nature and in the natural occurrences of things, the genes mutate and adapt themselves to form the dominant ancestral trait.
Somewhere along the bloodlines of Sandra Laing's parents, is 'Black' blood - (well we all know that a lot of the white slave masters raped a lot of the young Black female slaves).
Sandra Laing's story is that she was light skinned Black female born to white South African parents during apartheid. Her parents saw her & brought her up as white and even got the South African government to reclassify Sandra as white, but the rest of South Africa saw Sandra as Black.
The results is a confused young woman who tries to make her life easier and find that 'sense of belonging' within Black South Africa. Against the wishes of her parents, Sandra chooses to identify herself with Black South Africa during Apartheid. Sandra suffered at the hands of the authorities, the communities and her family & this her story.
It's a tear jerker, so don't watch it on your commute to work like I did or people'll be staring at you.
The movie doesn't make much of an ordeal about the 'reclassification case' and is absent from DNA testing, but I'm not convinced that the mother didn't stray - with all those 'handsome' young black male studs as servants around whose to say different in apartheid times when peoples lives & jobs are at stake? If slave masters got away with raping black slave girls who is going to oppose a white women in charge during apartheid - which is just a fancy word that has similar connotations as the black slave trade did.
Sandra is also a middle child. Sandra also had siblings - 2 brothers. The eldest was white, but the youngest also had Polygenic Inheritance, but it appears that he 'accepted' his 'whiteness'.
One things for sure, when it comes to the natural order of 'genetics', it's a mystery as to how some things are a bit 'hit & miss'. It is also generally accepted that some thing may miss a generation or two.
The results is a confused young woman who tries to make her life easier and find that 'sense of belonging' within Black South Africa. Against the wishes of her parents, Sandra chooses to identify herself with Black South Africa during Apartheid. Sandra suffered at the hands of the authorities, the communities and her family & this her story.
It's a tear jerker, so don't watch it on your commute to work like I did or people'll be staring at you.
The movie doesn't make much of an ordeal about the 'reclassification case' and is absent from DNA testing, but I'm not convinced that the mother didn't stray - with all those 'handsome' young black male studs as servants around whose to say different in apartheid times when peoples lives & jobs are at stake? If slave masters got away with raping black slave girls who is going to oppose a white women in charge during apartheid - which is just a fancy word that has similar connotations as the black slave trade did.
Sandra is also a middle child. Sandra also had siblings - 2 brothers. The eldest was white, but the youngest also had Polygenic Inheritance, but it appears that he 'accepted' his 'whiteness'.
One things for sure, when it comes to the natural order of 'genetics', it's a mystery as to how some things are a bit 'hit & miss'. It is also generally accepted that some thing may miss a generation or two.