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Post by Coffeecakes on Oct 14, 2005 3:14:57 GMT -4
Adriana's racial mixture is usually described as being Portugeuse, French, Indigenous, and Carribean. I have seen on a couple of sites replacing the Carribean with African. So I would say that yes she has black.
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Post by egplantda on Nov 3, 2005 0:23:07 GMT -4
That's unusual, especially, back then. What is Sean Paul? I remember reading that Sean Paul is a member of a prominent Jamaican Jewish family and attended the Hebrew school in Kingston. Can't remember where. Will look. Could be Portugese Jews. Found It![/color] The thing that makes Mackenzie Rosman (Ruthie) "look latina" is probably diluted African ancestry. Here's[/color] an article about Black/African-American Indians, some Cherokee, with some pictures. Ruthie's "Cherokee" heritage could be very mixed. Just like some folk's "latina/hispanic" heritage is. More black indians, including Cherokee: pictures[/color] Also this article[/color]:
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Post by raqs on Nov 4, 2005 14:25:59 GMT -4
Chiming in to point out that nationality (ie: Jamaican, Cuban, Brazilian) does not indicate a single race or ethnicity. For the most part the entire West Indies/Caribbean and vast sections of Latin America are multi-ethnic, multi-cultural nations. There are Caucasian Jews who were born and bred in Jamaica who consider themselves simply Jamaican (vs White, Jewish, or whatever). To use Jamaican as a race/ethnicity descriptor is inaccurate as it does not actually describe anything apart from the person being born in Jamaica. Sean Paul is mixed race. His mother is Chinese/white/black and his father white (Portugese Jew)/black. Both Sean and his brother look like what an average American might perceive as Latin. Funny story about his Portugese heritage here[/color].
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2005 2:03:40 GMT -4
Is Danielle Fishel's (Topanga from Boy Meets World) part black? Her hair, nose, lips, and her 'thick' body type in the latter years of the series are all quite blackish, and i swear if she got a slight tan she would be a dead ringer for my biracial cousin of mine.
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Post by soul on Nov 7, 2005 4:42:10 GMT -4
In America, having both parents with black blood makes him black more so than perceived as mixed, in which the parents are of different races from each other. If you (or John Paul) were going to use that loose of a definition, then all black people could be considered mixed, since somewhere down the line, most black folks have a mixture of some kind.
Oh, for the record, he doesn't look like he's a latino to me, just another light skin brother.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2005 9:50:24 GMT -4
That's interesting. In Jamaica, Sean Paul is widely thought of as half-Chinese/half Portuguese and not as black.
I mean, he's got a few other mixes in him, too, and one is possibly/probably black, but it's not what he's defined by other there. Like raqs said, the important thing is that he's Jamaican.
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raqs
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Post by raqs on Nov 10, 2005 12:12:18 GMT -4
In America, having both parents with black blood makes him black more so than perceived as mixed, in which the parents are of different races from each other. If you (or John Paul) were going to use that loose of a definition, then all black people could be considered mixed, since somewhere down the line, most black folks have a mixture of some kind. Well it's not me making up a definition - he's multi-racial (ie: mixed race). Period. In the islands racial mixing is fairly common and there isn't an overwhelming requirement to "identify" with a particular race or colour. There is the tendency to classify people on a on perceived class or social status, and when I say perceived I mean from a Caribbean POV not a north American POV. Frankly when I look at Sean Paul I see "rich boy" rather than "Chiney-bwoy" or "black" or whatever. But I guess that's a discussion for a different thread.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2005 16:00:08 GMT -4
Really? I'm neither American nor mixed race, but I've never heard of this before now. I don't think it's right to disregard or depreciate any other ethnicity that he (or anyone else) might have. He is all of those different cultures. Why would one ethnicity automatically overrule any others? The white and asian make up a large portion of his ethnic make-up- it's not like he's 1/18th Chinese and the rest is black. It doesn't make sense.
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Post by nursetrix on Nov 12, 2005 1:10:41 GMT -4
If I didn't know better, I would have guessed him to be Trini.
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Post by raqs on Nov 12, 2005 10:35:40 GMT -4
Oooooh... nursetrix. You knowest what you speakest about!
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