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Post by yigal on Nov 10, 2005 18:55:55 GMT -5
the reason for the rumour of him being mixed is he looks friggin portorican!
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Post by aroundtheworld on Nov 10, 2005 20:03:22 GMT -5
Amalgam of ethnicities means mixed-race. Prince would be out of place in SSA.
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Post by aroundtheworld on Nov 10, 2005 20:04:34 GMT -5
If this is an average run of the mill Black guy then I am Sudanese with peppercorn hair. If he represents the new "Average Black Man" I must've missed that memo.
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Post by yigal on Nov 10, 2005 20:05:39 GMT -5
he looks PR
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Post by aroundtheworld on Nov 10, 2005 20:09:18 GMT -5
thank you. SSA's would kick his bright pale yellow-toned ass. A real black like Michael Jordan or R Kelley could at least hold their own. Shemar Moore and Prince would get a serious beat-down.
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Post by asdf on Nov 10, 2005 20:14:09 GMT -5
He doesn't represent the average black man but his ancestry probably isn't far off from the average. People like him are bound to pop up with ~20% Northern European admixture.
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Post by yigal on Nov 10, 2005 20:17:56 GMT -5
He doesn't represent the average black man but his ancestry probably isn't far off from the average. People like him are bound to pop up with ~20% Northern European admixture. lol i dont think u understand the phrase "the average" just because people like me and abdul pop out of south europe doesnt mean we are average at all, we are the exception not the rule as is prince
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Post by OdinofOssetia on Nov 10, 2005 20:18:35 GMT -5
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Post by Josh on Nov 10, 2005 20:20:46 GMT -5
He doesn't represent the average black man but his ancestry probably isn't far off from the average. People like him are bound to pop up with ~20% Northern European admixture. I think he is far more than 20% European. Look at Jerry Rawlings, former leader of Ghana, who was half Ewe and half Scottish. I'd say he looks more Negroid than Prince does:
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Post by yigal on Nov 10, 2005 21:28:43 GMT -5
funny he dont look have ewe except for the wooly hair, he has no other sheepy qualities
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Post by anodyne on Nov 10, 2005 21:59:59 GMT -5
"In case someone is interested in the true origin of many of the "Spaniards" in the Spanish Main, here we have something of an interesting discussion:"
LOL! this guy is a weird one. That thread isn't even about Spaniards.
Well, I guess now it is.
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Post by anodyne on Nov 10, 2005 22:07:08 GMT -5
"interesting, there are 16 castes"
I think there is a lot more terms for very rare combinations perecenatge wise. (like, 5/7th Ameridian, 1/4 Negro, 2/7 martian, etc.)
A professor of mine for a class on Latin American history told me there was like over 60 classifications and he said would give me a list of them but he never got back to me on that and i never bothered him about it.
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Post by vgambler33 on Nov 10, 2005 22:39:09 GMT -5
Also, weren't Mulattoes usually born from Spanish fathers and black mothers instead of the reverse? Yes.Thats why the paintings don't make sense.It was extremly rare for a black or mulato to marry a Spanish or Criolla women.
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Post by asdf on Nov 11, 2005 0:28:03 GMT -5
That isn't really what I meant. You can't get all the genes you need to look 100% European from a heterozygous 50/50 mix, but you might by two parents with the complementary characteristics, even though they're technically less Caucasoid than Rawlings.
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Post by MC anunnaki on Nov 11, 2005 2:33:25 GMT -5
@educate Me:
I think it's interesting to see that some of the pictures depict white Spanish women with coloured men. Perhaps the Spaniards, unlike the Anglos, had a more lax attitude to white women marrying non-white men?
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