My sister teaches school right outside DC. She has students from about everywhere in the world. I showed her the pic above of Maya and asked her what nationality she saw. She imediately thought Middle Eastern. I agree,although I could also guess Hispanic to some degree.
Man! What a messed up family!
Well, pacific islanders have a different quality to their ethnicity, all the way to Indonesia. And some even do have Africanlike features, like Samoans, etc. Not LoLo though. Not any Indonesians, really. And half of maya’s genes come from a very bland looking Caucasian. So she looks kind of “ethnic” without being able to pin down from where. Remember that many mestizos, from American Indians to central Americans, look quite Asian. That is because they are.
I tease a friend of mine who is of Korean ancestry and married a caucasian, that her Asian genes are weak, lol. Her kids look so much like her husband, only one of 5 looks pretty Asian. Sometimes mixed races will surprise you with their phenotype of one or then other parent.