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Celebrity ethnicities that will surprise you.

Actor Rory Cochrane is Half Indian (Asian) and Half Irish

Nicki Minaj is Half Indian

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by Anonymousreply 283October 1, 2022 6:40 PM

Tilda Swinton is half martian.

by Anonymousreply 1July 28, 2020 7:46 PM

As is Benedict Cumberbatch, R1.

by Anonymousreply 2July 28, 2020 7:49 PM

Kim Basinger is half Native American/half Swedish

by Anonymousreply 3July 28, 2020 7:51 PM

Chrissy Metz is half butter.

by Anonymousreply 4July 28, 2020 7:54 PM

R1 thank you for making me laugh out loud

by Anonymousreply 5July 28, 2020 7:56 PM

Boris Karloff was more than 1/4 Indian.

by Anonymousreply 6July 28, 2020 7:59 PM

Eddie Van Halen is half Indonesian

Keanu Reeves is 1/4 Chinese

I remember a racist hard rock-loving neighbor who was so surprised upon finding out that the Van Halen brothers were not wholly white but half Asian.

by Anonymousreply 7July 28, 2020 8:09 PM

R7, did he stop listening to Van Halen, or did he just continue to listen to the Sammy Hagar recordings?

by Anonymousreply 8July 28, 2020 8:11 PM

I remember he still listened to them. Maybe it made him less racist, who knows?

by Anonymousreply 9July 28, 2020 8:23 PM

Mark Paul Gosselaar is part Asian (Indonesian)

by Anonymousreply 10July 28, 2020 8:25 PM

Robby Mendez is half Korean and half Mexican.

by Anonymousreply 11July 28, 2020 8:26 PM

The Hadids, Salma Hayek, Alia Shawkat, Xavier Dolan, Jenna Dewan, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jerry Seinfeld and Catherine Keener are all half Arabic/Middle Eastern.

by Anonymousreply 12July 28, 2020 8:36 PM

^^ with the name Hadid it's not that surprising

by Anonymousreply 13July 28, 2020 8:39 PM

^^I agree, but they're so fair complected that it does surprise a lot of people. Just like Rita Ora being 100% white surprises a lot of people. Genes are weird.

by Anonymousreply 14July 28, 2020 9:37 PM

Ellen Degeneres is half asshole, the other half too.

by Anonymousreply 15July 28, 2020 9:43 PM

Paul Lynne was half cunt!

by Anonymousreply 16July 28, 2020 9:57 PM

Lynne?

by Anonymousreply 17July 28, 2020 9:59 PM

Thank you, r14. I got dragged for filth and told, "Die in a grease fire, you race baiting asshole. She's white," after I posted this picture of Rita Ora to the ethnically ambiguous thread. My post was flamed and crossed out.

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by Anonymousreply 18July 28, 2020 10:00 PM

Link to the thread please, R18.

by Anonymousreply 19July 28, 2020 10:01 PM

R7 - don't tell him that David Lee Roth is Jewish then. 2 Asians and a Jew may be too much for him.

by Anonymousreply 20July 28, 2020 10:01 PM

Darren Criss is half Filipino and half pass-around party bottom.

by Anonymousreply 21July 28, 2020 10:07 PM

I am Black.

by Anonymousreply 22July 28, 2020 10:10 PM

r7 Keanu Reeves looks totally Eurasian. Nothing surprising there. He's like the Eurasian prototype and comes up first in any Eurasian guy discussion.

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by Anonymousreply 23July 28, 2020 10:14 PM

Michelle Wolf is entirely white.

by Anonymousreply 24July 28, 2020 10:19 PM

Carole Channing was a quarter black/a quarter corn

by Anonymousreply 25July 28, 2020 10:23 PM

DL is obsessed with ethnicity.

by Anonymousreply 26July 28, 2020 10:25 PM

Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke of Wesminster, the world's youngest billionaire, is part black. His ancestor, Abram Gannibal, was kidnapped from his native Cameroon as a child and given as a gift to Peter the Great. He was freed by Peter and became a nobleman in the court.

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by Anonymousreply 27July 28, 2020 10:27 PM

Justin Trudeau is 1/256th Malaysian and 1/256th Indonesian.

by Anonymousreply 28July 28, 2020 10:31 PM

Reese Witherspoon is 1/2 white entitlement.

by Anonymousreply 29July 28, 2020 10:34 PM

Shailene Woodley is part black. But you can kind of tell from her first name.

by Anonymousreply 30July 28, 2020 10:35 PM

r30 Waah that's very surprising.

by Anonymousreply 31July 28, 2020 10:46 PM

Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy. When you see his cloud of hair when it is not gelled and emo’ed, you’d be excused for thinking he has a Jewfro. But no, it’s an Afro. His mother is Jamaican of black and Indian descent. His parents met volunteering for Joe Biden.

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by Anonymousreply 32July 28, 2020 10:50 PM

Barak Obama is half black.

by Anonymousreply 33July 28, 2020 10:54 PM

Does Cash Warren count as a celbrity?

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by Anonymousreply 34July 28, 2020 11:02 PM

r34 Nope.

by Anonymousreply 35July 28, 2020 11:03 PM

Jennifer Tilly (and sister Meg) have a Chinese father.

by Anonymousreply 36July 28, 2020 11:04 PM

Jerry Seinfeld is half middle Eastern??!?

by Anonymousreply 37July 28, 2020 11:05 PM

*celebrity

by Anonymousreply 38July 28, 2020 11:05 PM

Taylor Lautner is half alpaca

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by Anonymousreply 39July 28, 2020 11:07 PM

Elizabeth Warren

by Anonymousreply 40July 28, 2020 11:09 PM

R24, right? I still am amazed at that.

I think the more interesting thread would be, "Which ethnic attributions are enough to break up a good dinner party?" Like Hitler was Jewish.

by Anonymousreply 41July 28, 2020 11:10 PM

Heather Locklear is Native American/Black.

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by Anonymousreply 42July 28, 2020 11:12 PM

I remember thinking "I knew there was something about her" when I found out that Merle Oberon was Indian.

by Anonymousreply 43July 28, 2020 11:17 PM

Heather has the same look as Farrah Fawcett who also said she had Native ancestry

by Anonymousreply 44July 28, 2020 11:17 PM

OrangeTard is 100% human

by Anonymousreply 45July 28, 2020 11:19 PM

Jennifer and Meg Tilly are both part Chinese.

by Anonymousreply 46July 28, 2020 11:20 PM

[quote] Jerry Seinfeld is half middle Eastern??!?

I’ll bet you he’s 100% Middle Eastern. My husband is Jewish & they spent hundreds of years in Russia/Europe and he’s 80% middle eastern. Jerry is half Syrian Jewish & they don’t marry outside the religion. It’s even not that often that they marry non-Syrian Jews.

by Anonymousreply 47July 28, 2020 11:31 PM

r45 False.

by Anonymousreply 48July 28, 2020 11:44 PM

[quote]Barak Obama is half black.

The man was president for eight years and you still can't spell his name?

by Anonymousreply 49July 28, 2020 11:46 PM

[quote]Darren Criss is half Filipino and half pass-around party bottom.

I think those are both the same half.

by Anonymousreply 50July 28, 2020 11:46 PM

Angela Lansbury is half Vietnamese.

by Anonymousreply 51July 29, 2020 12:00 AM

A cup is half a pint.

by Anonymousreply 52July 29, 2020 12:03 AM

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were half Japanese and half aeroplane!

by Anonymousreply 53July 29, 2020 12:04 AM

[quote] A cup is half a pint.

Mellisa Gilbert is half pint.

by Anonymousreply 54July 29, 2020 12:06 AM

RuPaul is Creole and turtle.

by Anonymousreply 55July 29, 2020 12:07 AM

The Kardashians and Jenners are all half plastic.

by Anonymousreply 56July 29, 2020 12:10 AM

[quote] My husband is Jewish & they spent hundreds of years in Russia/Europe and he’s 80% middle eastern.

And you were able to determine the exact percentage of his Middle Easterness how exactly?

Do you put a slice of pita bread and a slice of white bread in front of him and see which one he picks?

by Anonymousreply 57July 29, 2020 12:10 AM

MIchael Jackson was of African descent.

by Anonymousreply 58July 29, 2020 12:11 AM

[quote]The man was president for eight years and you still can't spell his name?

I'm ashamed. 😞

by Anonymousreply 59July 29, 2020 1:05 AM

R46 AH SO, very interesting

by Anonymousreply 60July 29, 2020 1:27 AM

R60 = Anne L. Lingus, MD.

Also posts "Sum Ting Wong" on every vaguely Asian-themed thread.

by Anonymousreply 61July 29, 2020 1:29 AM

Ho lee fuk! You're right R61. Dad jokes for ancient gay men.

by Anonymousreply 62July 29, 2020 1:51 AM

R61 no but i like that guy

by Anonymousreply 63July 29, 2020 1:54 AM

Paula Abdul is Jewish.

by Anonymousreply 64July 29, 2020 1:59 AM

[quote]Rita Ora being 100% white surprises a lot of people.

Rita Ora is not white.

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by Anonymousreply 65July 29, 2020 2:13 AM

She's Albanian, r65.

Are Greeks white? They're white in my book ...

by Anonymousreply 66July 29, 2020 2:14 AM

Danny Thomas was 100% Lebanese and 110% scat queen.

by Anonymousreply 67July 29, 2020 2:19 AM

Britney Spears is 1/16th Maltese (Southern European)

Taylor Swift is 1/16th Italian

Christina Aguilera's Ecuadorian father is 1/4th Swedish

by Anonymousreply 68July 29, 2020 2:22 AM

Angela Lansbury is White, and half Irish/half English. Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine are not half Japanese, they were born in Tokyo to White British parents.

by Anonymousreply 69July 29, 2020 2:24 AM

Charlize Theron is an African-American.

by Anonymousreply 70July 29, 2020 2:25 AM

Dominic Cooper is wholly white. And Lupita Nyong'o might be of Chinese ancestry.

by Anonymousreply 71July 29, 2020 2:39 AM

[quote] Angela Lansbury is White, and half Irish/half English. Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine are not half Japanese, they were born in Tokyo to White British parents.

R69 = humor challenged

by Anonymousreply 72July 29, 2020 2:42 AM

Angela Lansbury is half Vietnamese. That's a fact.

by Anonymousreply 73July 29, 2020 2:43 AM

So how come she never did "Miss Saigon?"

by Anonymousreply 74July 29, 2020 2:50 AM

I thought Vietnamese people didn't like Miss Saigon?

by Anonymousreply 75July 29, 2020 2:55 AM

Volleyball legend Gabrielle Reece is half Trinidadian. That's half black.

In an interview she said more black people could tell she was mixed more than white people. She said something about they could tell because her butt was high up on her body. Ok..

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by Anonymousreply 76July 29, 2020 3:01 AM

We have high water ass R76. What's so hard to understand?

by Anonymousreply 77July 29, 2020 3:04 AM

Catherine Zeta Jones is half transformer.

by Anonymousreply 78July 29, 2020 3:12 AM

The Sentatrice. She's half bottom, half mouth and no top.

by Anonymousreply 79July 29, 2020 3:13 AM

Derek Hough is half grinch, half Chiquita banana.

Brooke Burke/Burns. Whichever one was married to David Charvet is not white.

by Anonymousreply 80July 29, 2020 3:13 AM

[quote] Catherine Zeta Jones is half transformer.

And half ravishing ingenue.

by Anonymousreply 81July 29, 2020 3:15 AM

That Richard Tiffany Gere is actually NOT Italian or any kind of “ethnic” but pretty much all WASP or close to it.

Tiffany is apparently a “family name”.

And Betty White is half Greek. Maybe that’s not that surprising — but she’s played so many Minnesotan Norwegians (well, 2).

by Anonymousreply 82July 29, 2020 3:16 AM

Donald Trump is half-assed in everything he's ever done.

by Anonymousreply 83July 29, 2020 3:17 AM

[quote] Derek Hough is half grinch

Haha. Ginch-like creature. Haha.

by Anonymousreply 84July 29, 2020 3:29 AM

[quote] Derek Hough is half grinch, half Chiquita banana.

The grinch part I get. Why Chiquita banana?

by Anonymousreply 85July 29, 2020 3:33 AM

Bruno Mars's mother Bernie Bayot was Filipino, and his father Peter Hernandez is half Puerto-Rican and half-Jewish.

Aubrey Plaza's mother Bernadette is Caucasian, of Irish and English descent, and her father David is Puerto Rican.

Lynda Carter's mother Juana Cordova was of Spanish-Mexican descent, and her father Colby Carter was Caucasian, of English and Irish ancestry.

Eartha Kitt's mother was an African-American working on a cotton plantation when she gave birth to Kitt. Her father is believed to be the Caucasian son of the owner of the plantation farm where she was born.

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by Anonymousreply 86July 29, 2020 3:34 AM

What about Brenton Thwaites?

by Anonymousreply 87July 29, 2020 3:38 AM

r76 half Trinidadian doesnt make her half black. Majority of Trinidadians are of South Asian descent. And many S.Asians are fair skinned with caucasian features

by Anonymousreply 88July 29, 2020 4:19 AM

1/4 Clydesdale

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by Anonymousreply 89July 29, 2020 4:30 AM

half Oompa Loompa; half Orangutan

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by Anonymousreply 90July 29, 2020 4:36 AM

I was shocked to learn that Madonna is 100% white. How is that even possible?

by Anonymousreply 91July 29, 2020 4:49 AM

Haha 🤣🤣 r1 and r4 😂😂

by Anonymousreply 92July 29, 2020 5:11 AM

[Quote] Genes are weird.

Not really. Not at all. Women lie. From a quarter to a tenth (estimates vary) of children are not of the father their mothers say they are.

by Anonymousreply 93July 29, 2020 5:15 AM

Real African Americans:

Barack Obama's father is from Kenya

Tiffany Haddish's father is from Eritrea

Hoda Kotb's parents are from Egypt

Sam Richardson's mother is from Ghana

Dave Matthews' parents are from South Africa

Gabourey Sidibe's father is from Senegal

Rami Malek's parents are from Egypt

Liya Kebede's parents are from Ethiopia

Joy Reid's father is from the Congo

Charlize Theron's parents are from South Africa

Akon's parents are from Senegal

French Montana's parents are from Morocco

Kofi Siriboe's parents are from Ghana

Tyler the Creator's father is from Nigeria

Issa Rae's father is from Senegal

Uzo Aduba's parents are from Nigeria

Tom Morello's father is from Kenya

Doja Cat's father is from South Africa

David Otunga's father is from Kenya

Earl Sweatshirt's father is from South Africa

The Weeknd's parents are from Ethiopia

Yaphet Kotto's father is from Cameroon

Boris Kodjoe's father is from Ghana

Bijou Phillips mother is from South Africa

Ilhan Omar's parents are from Somalia

Moses Sumney's parents are from Ghana

Ramy Youssef's parents are from Egypt

Yvonne Orji's parents are from Nigeria

Iman's parents are from Somalia

Donald Faison's father is from Nigeria

Nipsey Hussle's father was from Eritrea

by Anonymousreply 94July 29, 2020 6:09 AM

Dave Gahan the lead singer of Depeche Mode is of Indian-Malaysian descent on his father's side while his band mate, Martin Gore, has an African-American father.

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by Anonymousreply 95July 29, 2020 6:48 AM

Cher is half Tramp from her mom's side and a gypsy thief was her father.

by Anonymousreply 96July 29, 2020 6:52 AM

John Wayne Bobbitt is half a man

by Anonymousreply 97July 29, 2020 6:56 AM

Halsey's father is African-American.

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by Anonymousreply 98July 29, 2020 7:02 AM

Maya Rudolph's mother is African-American.

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by Anonymousreply 99July 29, 2020 7:21 AM

Brendon Urie the lead vocalist of Panic! at the Disco is of about one quarter Polynesian descent from Hawaii, through his mother's side.

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by Anonymousreply 100July 29, 2020 7:42 AM

Boris Karloff was either half or 1/4 Indian, as in India the country. As there was no diversity in casting in his day, he picked a Russian stage name to cover his real ethnicity, because if he wanted to get any roles as an actor other than that of a servant or a villain, he had to pass as white.

by Anonymousreply 101July 29, 2020 8:25 AM

There is a surprisingly long list of celebrities who're part Native American (or they said so): Justin Bieber, Meghan Fox, Rosario Dawson, Tommy Lee Jones, The Jonas Brothers, Channing Tatum, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Miley Cyrus, Cameron Diaz, Cher, Elvis Presley, etc.

by Anonymousreply 102July 29, 2020 8:35 AM

I think Kelly Klein might be part Native American too.

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by Anonymousreply 103July 29, 2020 9:02 AM

Jerry Seinfeld is half Sephardic. I know it's been talked about above. But I have a real question. In younger photos he looks darker. I happen to find that look attractive. But in older ones he seems lighter. Do some people lose melanin as they age? I also realize this could be just something to do with the photography.

by Anonymousreply 104July 29, 2020 10:32 AM

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by Anonymousreply 105July 29, 2020 11:02 AM

[quote]Are Greeks white? They're white in my book

Rita Ora doesn’t look Greek. She looks African.

She might be from Albania, but she was obviously fathered by the Black mailman.

by Anonymousreply 106July 29, 2020 11:08 AM

Conan is 100 percent Irish, which is apparently an anomaly and means that there was a fair amount on inbreeding in his family.

by Anonymousreply 107July 29, 2020 12:04 PM

I have some African American in me, usually before 10:00 pm if I have a busy morning ahead. And on Wednesdays when the gardener comes, I might have some Latin DNA before noon.

by Anonymousreply 108July 29, 2020 1:01 PM

Halsey's father is biracial, no? I presume Martin Gore's father is as well.

by Anonymousreply 109July 29, 2020 1:10 PM

Conservative Republican Congressman, Bob Barr, who maintains both his parents were white, has been accused of straightening his hair and lightening his skin. Here's an old picture he can't get taken down from the House of Representatives archives.

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by Anonymousreply 110July 29, 2020 1:23 PM

Bob Barr today

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by Anonymousreply 111July 29, 2020 1:26 PM

Steve McQueen was 1/4 black (Butterfly McQueen was his cousin).

by Anonymousreply 112July 29, 2020 1:43 PM

R111 - I was going to say - his hair looks a lot straighter nowadays, but you can see it still has some curl in the most recent photo.

He has a very tight curl - that's not just wavy hair.

You know he runs from the sun like a scene from the Gremlins movie.

by Anonymousreply 113July 29, 2020 2:46 PM

I never thought about Bob Barr, but he does look like he's had his skin bleached. Reminds me of Eddie Murphy on the White Like Me sketch on SNL.

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by Anonymousreply 114July 29, 2020 3:25 PM

Bleached skin doesn't have that pink look.

by Anonymousreply 115July 29, 2020 3:26 PM

r106 my point is, Greece and Albania are adjacent. The last I checked, Greeks were not considered POC. (Of course the "Italians aren't white" troll would probably disagree.)

by Anonymousreply 116July 29, 2020 3:30 PM

Brenton Thwaites?

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by Anonymousreply 117July 29, 2020 3:33 PM

Bump

by Anonymousreply 118July 29, 2020 5:30 PM

Jamie Oliver is part Somalian.

by Anonymousreply 119July 29, 2020 8:54 PM

R104 melanin can decrease its activity as one gets older, i believe and also with some health disorders. skin, hair and eyes can get lighter and lighter.

this is probably more noticeable in people who aren't palepastywhite to begin with.

by Anonymousreply 120July 29, 2020 9:09 PM

Peter Ustinov was of Ethiopian descent;

Bernadette Peters is part Sicilian;

The Fonda family is of Italian descent.

by Anonymousreply 121July 29, 2020 9:22 PM

Barbra Stresand is part Burmese as she revealed once. Do any of you eldergays remember this?

by Anonymousreply 122July 29, 2020 9:32 PM

She's not Burmese ... she was just looking for a Mandalay.

by Anonymousreply 123July 29, 2020 10:14 PM

Marlon Brando is not Italian, but pretty much a WASP. His last name was derived from Brandau.

by Anonymousreply 124July 29, 2020 10:30 PM

Freddie Mercury is Indian (not sure if full or half), Kamala Harris is half-black and half Indian.

Dump is half shit and half self tanner. Ivanka is half silicon and half demon sperm.

by Anonymousreply 125July 29, 2020 10:52 PM

None of these actors who say they have "Indian" ancestry have any ties to any tribes, including tribal membership (give to 1/16 descendents). They are just making that up.

Kim Basinger has no ties to any Indian tribe and cannot be considered part Indian.

by Anonymousreply 126July 29, 2020 11:38 PM

R104 Seinfeld is not Sephardic - his mother was a Mizrahi Jew (Syrian/Middle Eastern), not Sephardic (Iberian Peninsula).

by Anonymousreply 127July 29, 2020 11:52 PM

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by Anonymousreply 128July 30, 2020 1:06 AM

Not surprising or news to most, but: Vin Diesel, The Rock, Wentworth Miller, Slash, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Beals are all 1/2 black.

by Anonymousreply 129July 30, 2020 1:14 AM

Mariah isn't half black. Her father wasn't monoracial.

by Anonymousreply 130July 30, 2020 1:21 AM

[quote]None of these actors who say they have "Indian" ancestry have any ties to any tribes, including tribal membership (give to 1/16 descendents). They are just making that up.

In the past Colton Haynes has posted his tribal membership card proving his Native American ancestry.

Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, The Irishman) 1/4 Jamaican. David Chokachi (Baywatch) is half Iraqi. His last name is actually Al-Chokhachy.

by Anonymousreply 131July 30, 2020 1:36 AM

Phoebe Cates - 1/2 Filipino

by Anonymousreply 132July 30, 2020 1:44 AM

We always thought Jamie Oliver was like us — Mongolian.

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by Anonymousreply 133July 30, 2020 1:48 AM

Comedian Paul Mooney stated in an interview that his friend, actress, Joanna Moore (Tatum & Griffin O' Neal's mother), told him her biological father's side of the family was black. He felt part of the reason she had so many demons stemmed from the fact the wealthy family who adopted her told her to never mention it. My mom had Tatum & Griffin pegged as mixed years ago.

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by Anonymousreply 134July 30, 2020 1:50 AM

R130: Mariah’s dad was black enough...

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by Anonymousreply 135July 30, 2020 1:52 AM

R109 Halsey's father is African-American with some Irish ancestry but he looks black. I assume that Martin Gore's father looks black as well. Gore never mentioned about his father being biracial.

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by Anonymousreply 136July 30, 2020 1:54 AM

Wentworth Miller's father is also mixed.

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by Anonymousreply 137July 30, 2020 2:00 AM

Of course Haley Berry and Derek Jeter

by Anonymousreply 138July 30, 2020 2:02 AM

Halsey's father is apparently called Chris Frangipane. Are we suggesting he's monoracial?

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by Anonymousreply 139July 30, 2020 2:02 AM

Haley = Halle

by Anonymousreply 140July 30, 2020 2:03 AM

[Quote] I assume that Martin Gore's father looks black as well.

Why would you assume that? Have you seen Martin Gore?

by Anonymousreply 141July 30, 2020 2:03 AM

Gabby Reece’s father appears to have a bit of Trump in him.

Or on him.

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by Anonymousreply 142July 30, 2020 2:03 AM

Jackie Kennedy Onassis is a descendent of Anthony van Salee, a Muslim mulatto, who settled in NY in the 1700s.

by Anonymousreply 143July 30, 2020 2:06 AM

Do famous film producers count? If so, Cash Warren (Jessica Alba’s husband) is 1/2 black

by Anonymousreply 144July 30, 2020 2:08 AM

R101 - a little Boris Karloff trivia; he was the great-nephew of Anna Leonowens of "The King And I" fame. She was 1/4 Indian.

by Anonymousreply 145July 30, 2020 2:10 AM

R141 Martin Gore's father is not biracial. According to Martin, his father is African-American. His mother has very strong British genes. Martin looks identical to his mother as illustrated below.

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by Anonymousreply 146July 30, 2020 2:15 AM

R110, he looks like Sherman Helmsley

by Anonymousreply 147July 30, 2020 2:32 AM

Some biracial people identify as black or African-American.

by Anonymousreply 148July 30, 2020 2:36 AM

Martin Gore's mother looks long suffering.

by Anonymousreply 149July 30, 2020 2:37 AM

Princess Diana was part curry Indian.

by Anonymousreply 150July 30, 2020 2:51 AM

R148 Yes, isn't Obama considered the first black president in the history of the US?

by Anonymousreply 151July 30, 2020 2:52 AM

[quote] And you were able to determine the exact percentage of his Middle Easterness how exactly?

DNA, you fucking retard.

by Anonymousreply 152July 30, 2020 2:55 AM

that's a load of rubbish, R107.

by Anonymousreply 153July 30, 2020 3:16 AM

[quote]Jackie Kennedy Onassis is a descendent of Anthony van Salee, a Muslim mulatto,

No, you are mistaken, of course--they were Jewish.

by Anonymousreply 154July 30, 2020 4:38 AM

[quote]isn't Obama considered the first black president in the history of the US?

Seventh.

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by Anonymousreply 155July 30, 2020 4:47 AM

No, eighth.

by Anonymousreply 156July 30, 2020 4:47 AM

Fred @monsoon is probably a quarter Korean.

by Anonymousreply 157July 30, 2020 4:59 AM

[quote]That Richard Tiffany Gere is actually NOT Italian or any kind of “ethnic” but pretty much all WASP or close to it.

Who said he was italian? I forget, did he play a lot of Italians or, as you quaintly phrase it, any kind of "ethnic"?

by Anonymousreply 158July 30, 2020 5:07 AM

Sheba the cat -- British shorthair and NOT Ethiopian

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by Anonymousreply 159July 30, 2020 5:12 AM

Alexa Chung has a father who is 3/4 Chinese

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by Anonymousreply 160July 30, 2020 6:05 AM

Raquel Welch -- half-Bolivian

by Anonymousreply 161July 30, 2020 6:11 AM

Molly Yeh - star of "Girl Meets Farm" on Food Network is half-Chinese and half-Jewish.

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by Anonymousreply 162July 30, 2020 6:37 AM

Channing Tatum: Irish, French, German, African (Louisiana Creole) and Native American.

by Anonymousreply 163July 30, 2020 6:40 AM

Naya Rivera (RIP): father - Puerto Rican and her mother - half Black/German

by Anonymousreply 164July 30, 2020 7:15 AM

Kate Beckinsale's father was of one eighth Burmese descent.

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by Anonymousreply 165July 30, 2020 7:37 AM

See handsome Joseph Cotten of Shadow Of A Doubt, Citizen Kane and The Third Man fame.

Anyone else think he could have black ancestry?

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by Anonymousreply 166July 30, 2020 7:47 AM

Well, you should tell him and the genealogist that he hired R153. I personally don't give a shit but thought his reaction to it was hilarious.

Slash's mother is Black

by Anonymousreply 167July 30, 2020 9:46 AM

Freddie Mercury is actually Iranian. The entirety of the Zoroastrian community of Iran fled to India to avoid violent religious persecution when the country became majority Muslim. They are insular and only marry fellow believers, so the Parsis have remained a distinct ethnic group.

by Anonymousreply 168July 30, 2020 11:21 AM

I’m half drunk.

by Anonymousreply 169July 30, 2020 2:12 PM

R167: Slash is covered in R129. Anybody not mentioned yet? BTW - some of the people on here are not really surprises. We know Obama, Halle etc are biracial.

by Anonymousreply 170July 30, 2020 2:58 PM

Beyoncé’s maternal grandparents were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles, with roots in New Iberia; their ancestry included African and French (including French ancestors who lived in Canada). Through her mother’s line, Beyoncé is a 6x great-granddaughter of Acadian leader Joseph Broussard. Beyoncé is also of approximately 1/32 Irish ancestry, and has distant Spanish and Breton roots on her mother’s side, as well (at least one of her 5x great-grandfathers, Juan Tomas Francisco Garrido, was Spanish).

by Anonymousreply 171July 30, 2020 3:26 PM

Little Kim is half Asian and half Jackson.

by Anonymousreply 172July 30, 2020 3:56 PM

I think I'm turning Japanese.

by Anonymousreply 173July 30, 2020 4:19 PM

Jocelyn Wildenstein is half cat 🐱.

by Anonymousreply 174July 30, 2020 4:20 PM

Jacueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis's ethnic secret wasn't that she was part black...

Irish Catholics were still widely despised when JFK was an ambitious senator, and he and his even more ambitious father wanted him to marry up socially. Jacqueline Bouvier seemed perfect, she was polished, gracious, camera-friendly, and came from an old-money FRENCH Catholic family. Perfect wife for shutting up anyone who still thought the Kennedys were shanty Irish!

Jackie's closely held ethnic secret was that she had an Irish grandmother, who wasn't invited to the wedding or introduced to the Kennedys for ages.

by Anonymousreply 175July 30, 2020 10:03 PM

Why were they despised?

by Anonymousreply 176July 30, 2020 10:14 PM

[quote] Jackie's closely held ethnic secret was that she had an Irish grandmother

Was that grandmother a social climber and/or a maid?

by Anonymousreply 177July 30, 2020 10:18 PM

R125 - actually Freddie Mercury was Parsi from India. They are originally from ancient Persia and their language is similar to Farsi as spoken in Iran. Hence why he called himself "a Persian poppin-gay" in jest.

by Anonymousreply 178July 30, 2020 10:21 PM

R178, are you also R168?

by Anonymousreply 179July 30, 2020 10:24 PM

No.

by Anonymousreply 180July 30, 2020 10:26 PM

Here's Freddie Mercury's parents. For some reason, he came out looking much more Caucasian than either of them.

Mercury didn't hide his ethnicity, but he didn't make a big deal out of it either. He was no fool, he knew the popular music industry of his day wasn't open to minorities other than American Black people, and definitely not to minorities that nobody had ever heard of and whose background required long explanations.

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by Anonymousreply 181July 30, 2020 11:02 PM

[Quote] For some reason, he came out looking much more Caucasian than either of them.

Not really.

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by Anonymousreply 182July 30, 2020 11:03 PM

I had never seen Freddie Mercury's parents before. He was his mum's clone.

by Anonymousreply 183July 30, 2020 11:11 PM

His much mother was pretty. He wasn't.

by Anonymousreply 184July 30, 2020 11:20 PM

*His mother

by Anonymousreply 185July 30, 2020 11:20 PM

Sorry if someone has already mentioned this....but I remember reading a few times that apparently one of Princess Diana's great, great great (???) grandmothers was from India. Maybe someone here can chime in and provide details. Rather interesting little piece of info I thought.

by Anonymousreply 186July 30, 2020 11:48 PM

His mom was beautiful, he had her face and his dad's handsome hairline and build but his teeth sort of messed up his features. Overall, I thought he looked VERY exotic when he was in his early 20s in pictures with Mary and much more Persian when he was with Jim. He was one of those people you need to see next to another person to realize they have "handsome potential" and the other person, while cuter like Mary and Jim, doesn't have the same "it" factor.

by Anonymousreply 187July 30, 2020 11:51 PM

r181 Perhaps because they ARE Caucasian.

by Anonymousreply 188July 30, 2020 11:55 PM

[quote]Why were they despised?

For reasons that are well known to them.

by Anonymousreply 189July 30, 2020 11:55 PM

[quote]Halsey's father is apparently called Chris Frangipane. Are we suggesting he's monoracial?

"Frangipane" is an Italian name.

by Anonymousreply 190July 30, 2020 11:57 PM

[quote] . He was one of those people you need to see next to another person to realize they have "handsome potential"

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by Anonymousreply 191July 31, 2020 12:00 AM

[Quote] [R181] Perhaps because they ARE Caucasian.

Of course they are. Freddy's parents are Parsis aka Zoroastrians are Caucasian. They are originally Persians who emigrated to India to escape religious persecution.

by Anonymousreply 192July 31, 2020 12:30 AM

Freddie had the most beautiful liquid brown eyes ever. How sad he passed right when he finally found a loving relationship and before he got to see his godsons who he adored so much grow up. Terrible loss.

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by Anonymousreply 193July 31, 2020 12:52 AM

[Quote]Jacueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis's ethnic secret wasn't that she was part black...

[Quote]Irish Catholics were still widely despised when JFK was an ambitious senator, and he and his even more ambitious father wanted him to marry up socially. Jacqueline Bouvier seemed perfect, she was polished, gracious, camera-friendly, and came from an old-money FRENCH Catholic family. Perfect wife for shutting up anyone who still thought the Kennedys were shanty Irish!

[Quote]Jackie's closely held ethnic secret was that she had an Irish grandmother, who wasn't invited to the wedding or introduced to the Kennedys for ages.

Jacqueline definitely has black blood. Many genealogist have traced the family's lineage.

Here's a link to a segment that aired on Frontline on PBS.

Looking back , it makes sense that she was one of the architects of style and all around fabulousness.

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by Anonymousreply 194July 31, 2020 2:14 AM

But was it Black Irish blood?

by Anonymousreply 195July 31, 2020 2:20 AM

From Wikepidia:

[Quote]John Vernou Bouvier III was born in East Hampton, New York. His nickname, "Black Jack", referred to his perpetually dark-tanned skin and his flamboyant lifestyle.[1][2]

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by Anonymousreply 196July 31, 2020 3:23 AM

Shaun King is .000000000000000001% black...Or so he claims.

by Anonymousreply 197July 31, 2020 3:48 AM

Britney Spears is half girl, half robot, half ravioli.

by Anonymousreply 198July 31, 2020 7:54 AM

R196 John John looked liked him. No wonder Jackie adored Jr.

by Anonymousreply 199July 31, 2020 8:48 AM

Biracial bump

by Anonymousreply 200August 4, 2020 5:51 PM

Nicole Scherzinger's father is of Filipino descent, while her mother has Native Hawaiian and Ukrainian ancestry. She got her last name from her German American stepfather.

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by Anonymousreply 201August 8, 2020 5:49 PM

Mark-Paul Gosselaar is half Indonesian. His father’s a Dutch Jew who lost many family members in the Holocaust. When he was younger and a bleached blond teen idol it was hard to see. But now that he’s older and has let his hair go back to brown, his Eurasian roots are easier to see.

by Anonymousreply 202August 8, 2020 6:01 PM

Betty Gilpin is also half-martian like Tilda and Benedict.

by Anonymousreply 203August 8, 2020 6:11 PM

Datalounge could give the Mormons a run for their money when it comes to tracking ethnicities.

by Anonymousreply 204August 8, 2020 6:18 PM

Liza Minnelli is ONLY 1/8 Italian. Vincente Minnelli was half French-Canadian and 1/4 Italian, the rest English and Scottish.

by Anonymousreply 205August 8, 2020 6:26 PM

Gosselaar's daughter looks like his mother. Imagine the whispers behind his back from people who don't know his lineage.

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by Anonymousreply 206August 8, 2020 6:26 PM

Gosselaar is still fapworthy.

by Anonymousreply 207August 8, 2020 6:54 PM

r206 the blonde woman is his second wife and not the bio mother of his daughter.

by Anonymousreply 208August 8, 2020 7:11 PM

R166, my parents have been saying this about Cotten for years. He was from a part of Virginia where passing for white was pretty much the thing to do.

by Anonymousreply 209August 8, 2020 7:20 PM

R208, I know that's not her mother, however, biological mother is also white.

by Anonymousreply 210August 8, 2020 7:36 PM

R166, R209 I thought so even as a child. Cotton’s voice is gorgeous too.

by Anonymousreply 211August 8, 2020 7:37 PM

I had no idea back in the day that Gosselaar was Eurasian. With the bleached hair he looked like your typical white California surf twink with a tan.

by Anonymousreply 212August 8, 2020 8:28 PM

Back then AC Slater was the "ethnic" one.

by Anonymousreply 213August 8, 2020 8:31 PM

R205 that is very surprising, given her looks.

by Anonymousreply 214August 8, 2020 8:38 PM

R211 yes. Sexy voice. And a very underrated actor.

Kristen Kreuk of SMALLVILLE has an Asian mom as well. Phoebe Cates is also of Eurasian ancestry.

by Anonymousreply 215August 9, 2020 9:55 AM

Penn Badgely's (Gossip Girl) great-grandfather was Jamaican.

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by Anonymousreply 216August 9, 2020 4:12 PM

Yes r216, I’ve heard about this as well.

Shane West’s grandparents were from Jamaica too. And he does have ambiguous facial features.

by Anonymousreply 217August 10, 2020 2:04 AM

Since when is Eurasian an ethnicity?

by Anonymousreply 218August 10, 2020 5:43 AM

Yvonne Elliman who is half-Japanese

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by Anonymousreply 219October 25, 2020 5:08 AM

R7 Eddie van Halen has blue eyes, so he can't be half-Asian! According to the website below, he's half Dutch-Indonesian, but has no hint of actual Asian ancestry.

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by Anonymousreply 220October 25, 2020 5:53 AM

Thank you, R126. Virtually EVERYONE who says they are "part" Native are lying. And most of them claim to be Cherokee, of course.

Yes, thank you, too, R131, for pointing out that ONE of the dozens of celebrities who claim to be Native can prove it.

by Anonymousreply 221October 25, 2020 5:55 AM

R220, Indonesia is in Asia, you dumb turd. Eddie was Asian!

by Anonymousreply 222October 25, 2020 5:59 AM

R222 I know where it is, moron. I'm not American, so I know my geography. But his mother was merely Dutch-Indonesian. She was only Asian in the sense that Charlize Theron is African, retard.

by Anonymousreply 223October 25, 2020 6:11 AM

R223, "merely"? You dumb racist Canadian fuck!

by Anonymousreply 224October 25, 2020 6:16 AM

R224 = flailing while failing.

I'm not Canadian either, but it's flattering you think my English is good enough that I could pass for one.

by Anonymousreply 225October 25, 2020 6:21 AM

R166 I always assumed he did! He’s my favorite actor.

by Anonymousreply 226October 25, 2020 1:06 PM

R201 but 100% skank.

by Anonymousreply 227October 25, 2020 1:08 PM

R223, have you seen her photograph? She is clearly a tiny Asian lady.

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by Anonymousreply 228October 25, 2020 1:18 PM

Here's another one. Just Google Eddie Van Halen mother, and you can see lots more.

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by Anonymousreply 229October 25, 2020 1:20 PM

Is Dominic West part black? I always assumed he was. I first saw him in a movie where he’s taking a bath and the female lead is spying on him through a keyhole. Hot!

by Anonymousreply 230October 25, 2020 1:21 PM

Mel Gibson is American, and never mastered the Australian accent, even though he spent quite a few years of his youth here.

by Anonymousreply 231October 25, 2020 1:44 PM

Ashley Judd is a wop, born as Ashley Ciminella.

by Anonymousreply 232October 25, 2020 1:51 PM

I am very thankful to the DLers who track these halfbreeds. Just the other day I was thinking about fapping to Goselaar. And now I learn he is both a Jew and a Chinaman. NEVER AGAIN! Crisis averted.

by Anonymousreply 233October 25, 2020 1:55 PM

I would like to notify you that my Barron is 100% white. Please do not put him on your list.

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by Anonymousreply 234October 25, 2020 1:56 PM

why didn’t Maria’s part black/part Latino father so his duty and take care of his white wife and his mixed kids? why do they always fly the coop?

by Anonymousreply 235October 25, 2020 2:18 PM

Dean Cain is 1/4 Japanese.

by Anonymousreply 236October 25, 2020 2:45 PM

Some of the posters here are disgusting and racist. Very interchangeable terms on DL. Even the hipster queens. They try to hide their bigotry in ironic eye rolling humor, but it is what it is...

by Anonymousreply 237October 26, 2020 4:02 PM

Parsis and Zoroastrians are two different religions R168

by Anonymousreply 238October 26, 2020 4:09 PM

Sephardim from Greece and Turkey are not necessarily darker than any other Europeans R104

The Mizrachi Jews from Morocco and other North African countries are often (but not always) darker and can even look biracial

by Anonymousreply 239October 26, 2020 4:18 PM

Beyoncé is part retard.

by Anonymousreply 240October 26, 2020 4:50 PM

Dean Cain is 1/4 Japanese but 100% deplorable.

by Anonymousreply 241October 27, 2020 12:55 AM

Paris Jackson is white

Prince Jackson (the elder) is white

by Anonymousreply 242October 27, 2020 1:05 AM

Test.

by Anonymousreply 243October 27, 2020 12:22 PM

[Quote] Darren Criss is half Filipino and half pass-around party bottom.

Your math does not compute. All Filipinos are pass around party bottoms.

by Anonymousreply 244October 27, 2020 1:32 PM

Chris Meloni, Mark Ruffalo and Madge are all half French Canadian by way of their mothers.

by Anonymousreply 245October 28, 2020 3:28 PM

Yikes R245!

I still miss Scott Ruffalo, brother of Mark. He was such a great guy.

by Anonymousreply 246October 28, 2020 8:17 PM

Who the HELL was Scott Ruffalo???

by Anonymousreply 247October 29, 2020 12:44 AM

Kim Basinger is German, according to an interview I remember. Not sure why she would claim to be Native American. Go look at a picture of her parents. No

by Anonymousreply 248October 29, 2020 1:39 AM

Michelle Branch's mother is of Dutch-Indonesian (Eurasian) and French descent. Her father is Irish.

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by Anonymousreply 249October 29, 2020 2:00 AM

Edward Norton is Ecuadoran.

by Anonymousreply 250October 29, 2020 2:31 AM

Had no idea Gabrielle Anwar is half-Indian.

by Anonymousreply 251October 29, 2020 2:35 AM

Edward Furlong is part Russian and Mexican.

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by Anonymousreply 252October 30, 2020 12:12 AM

R247 Mark Ruffalo had a brother, Scott. Scott was a hair dresser at this crazy, posh salon in Beverly Hills. Guiseppe something. It has been over 20 years and I forget. Scott was a great guy, his smile was amazing. And then this horrible Persian woman shot him and killed him. She died of a drug overdose before she could be prosecuted.

I miss Scott to this day.

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by Anonymousreply 253October 31, 2020 9:41 AM

Birthday boy Jim Parrack looks like he's half-something.

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by Anonymousreply 254February 8, 2021 1:57 PM

Hunter Biden is 10 in... err 10% Dominican

by Anonymousreply 255February 8, 2021 2:08 PM

Canadian songwriter, Dan Hill, has an African-American father.

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by Anonymousreply 256February 8, 2021 6:29 PM

Bump.

by Anonymousreply 257January 16, 2022 7:14 PM

What are you looking at me for? You don't even know who I am.

by Anonymousreply 258January 16, 2022 7:24 PM

We’re obsessed with your fivehead, Merle Oberon at r258. Still stunning though.

by Anonymousreply 259January 16, 2022 8:34 PM

[quote] Merle Oberon

It is the clothes which made her stunning. If you saw her dressed in rags she'd look like Estelle Thompson.

by Anonymousreply 260January 16, 2022 8:44 PM

R82- He is the most ETHNIC looking WASP. He looks too ethnic to be descended from the Mayflower people.

by Anonymousreply 261January 16, 2022 8:56 PM

Merle telling people that her Indian mother was her maid or cook - Holy Shiva.

by Anonymousreply 262January 16, 2022 9:34 PM

Steven Tyler is Italian, German, Ukrainian, and grouper.

by Anonymousreply 263January 16, 2022 11:07 PM

R94 - Being Egyptian and Moroccan are not the same things as being African.

Egypt is a transcontinental country linking the continent of Africa with the Middle East. It is not an "African" country culturally or ethnically, or, as it happens, genetically.

Arabs are not Africans. Despite a wide range of skin shades, Arabs belong to the Caucasoid DNA group.

Ditto Morocco. It is a cross amongst Berber, Arabian, and European influences. Moroccans are not Africans.

Unless you're solely counting literal geography, those are not "African" countries like Nigeria and Somalia and the Congo and South Africa.

I have friends who family came to Britain from Egypt a generation ago. They would never call themselves African-English, nor do they look African.

I would venture to guess that the same is true of Egyptian-Americans.

by Anonymousreply 264January 16, 2022 11:28 PM

Sarah Jessica Parker is more than 3/4 race horse.

Nearly a thoroughbred.

by Anonymousreply 265January 16, 2022 11:28 PM

r42, Please explain. This is unbelievable to me. If you tell me 1.9% on some DNA test I will slap you through the computer monitor.

by Anonymousreply 266January 16, 2022 11:29 PM

I remember "Death to 2020" referring to the former president as "human-pig hybrid Donald Trump".

by Anonymousreply 267January 16, 2022 11:30 PM

The Bogdanoff twins were a quarter African American.

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by Anonymousreply 268January 16, 2022 11:36 PM

Not true r268. And not funny either. Two crazy white men who destroyed their faces with plastic surgery. Of course, with those exaggerated facial features, they must look like black people.

by Anonymousreply 269January 17, 2022 12:00 AM

R269 I'm not r268 but I believe they actually did have a quarter African American ancestry. If I recall correctly they were partially descended from a black American musician. And they were not born with exaggerated features. If you Google their younger photos they were once attractive and healthy multiracial men. Unfortunately they started the horrid surgeries and went downhill from there. Obviously there was some mental illness at play.

by Anonymousreply 270January 17, 2022 12:29 AM

I'm seldom surprised by anyone's ethnicity. So many people seem to imagine that there is a uniform look to every ethnic background. While certain features may be more common among certain groups there are always outliers.

by Anonymousreply 271January 17, 2022 12:32 AM

He was Polish

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by Anonymousreply 272January 17, 2022 12:41 AM

r269 "Their mother was the daughter of an African-American father, musician Roland Hayes, and a European countess, born Bertha von Kolowrat-Krakowska/Krakowský, who had met during a concert in Vienna, Austria."

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by Anonymousreply 273January 17, 2022 12:44 AM

Hailee Steinfeld. Her maternal grandfather was half Filipino and half African-American. Her brother Griffin has more of a multiracial appearance.

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by Anonymousreply 274January 17, 2022 12:45 AM

Enrique Iglesias is half Filipino. No wonder he’s so good looking!

by Anonymousreply 275January 17, 2022 12:45 AM

I’ll retract my comments then r274. My apologies

by Anonymousreply 276January 17, 2022 12:46 AM

Leslie Steiner: Hungarian-Jewish, East Prussian Jewish.

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by Anonymousreply 277January 17, 2022 12:47 AM

Its totally true and before the surgeries they resembled their handsome grandfather.

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by Anonymousreply 278January 17, 2022 12:50 AM

Never understood their mental illness. they were charming young men.

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by Anonymousreply 279January 17, 2022 12:52 AM
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by Anonymousreply 280January 17, 2022 12:54 AM

R266, I'm not r42, but the deal with Heather Locklear is that she's supposedly Lumbee. Locklear is a Lumbee name.

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by Anonymousreply 281January 17, 2022 1:13 AM

Heather Locklear is said to be Melungeon. I wish I were either part Melungeon or part Iraqi Zoroastrian. So gritty-glamorous and recherché.

by Anonymousreply 282January 17, 2022 1:22 AM

Zoroashtrian

by Anonymousreply 283October 1, 2022 6:40 PM
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