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Post by gee on Jul 7, 2005 11:11:30 GMT -5
As far as I know she isn't mixed. ![](http://www.jnautographs.com/captures/TyraBanks1902.jpg)
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Post by cocacola on Jul 8, 2005 17:49:42 GMT -5
Tyra banks has hazel eyes and she represents mixed black-caucasoid not just black. This girl isnt caucasoid-mongoloid/amerindian-caucasoid. She is half english/quarter thai and quarter indian(from India) ![](http://www.nauticalangels.com/images/cindy3.gif)
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Post by Rockstar135 on Jul 8, 2005 18:14:17 GMT -5
Tyra wears contacts, her natural eye color is dark brown. She also dyes her hair (which is naturally dark brown) and wears hair weaves.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jul 8, 2005 18:34:16 GMT -5
Mediterranean is winning, naturally. It's all about the golden mean.
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Post by cocacola on Jul 8, 2005 21:49:00 GMT -5
This is the highest quality picture i could find of Tyra. Her eyes look hazel. Click on the thumbnail. ![](http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6480/tyrabankssyba0032nd.th.jpg)
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Post by stegura on Jul 9, 2005 18:59:23 GMT -5
For the 353,854th time there is no such thing as the Slavic race!!
Slavic refers to a cultural and linguistic grouping. Slavs vary heavily in appearance and subrace.
There is also no such thing as "Neo-Danubian". It's an outdated pre-WW2 anthropology term. Most of the people previously classifed as such are Gorids (East-Alpinids) with a minority element of continental Nordics, Pontids, and Carpathids (east alpinid mixed with dinaric.)
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jul 9, 2005 19:13:49 GMT -5
For the 353,854th time there is no such thing as the Slavic race!! Slavic refers to a cultural and linguistic grouping. Slavs vary heavily in appearance and subrace. You're right. Slavs cover a wide range of phenotypes. There is also no such thing as "Neo-Danubian". It's an outdated pre-WW2 anthropology term. Most of the people previously classifed as such are Gorids (East-Alpinids) with a minority element of continental Nordics, Pontids, and Carpathids (east alpinid mixed with dinaric.) I disagree here. Neo-Danubian is a perfectly good term in my view. All it means is Danubian Nordic (or Continental Nordic, if you prefer) mixed with all the other elements you just described in varying degrees.
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Post by gee on Jul 10, 2005 1:17:12 GMT -5
This is the highest quality picture i could find of Tyra. Her eyes look hazel. Click on the thumbnail. ![](http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6480/tyrabankssyba0032nd.th.jpg) so what? She is still mostly Black, not 50/50 Balck and Caucasian. Anyway, in America she is considered Black woman.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jul 10, 2005 2:23:51 GMT -5
But would she be considered black in West Africa?
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Post by gee on Jul 10, 2005 17:13:08 GMT -5
But would she be considered black in West Africa? Why not? Especially if she doesn't straighten her hair. Do you think she can be taken for Caucasian by Africans??? ![](http://supermodelpages.com/tyra_banks/picture13.jpg) ![](http://supermodelpages.com/tyra_banks/picture20.jpg)
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Post by Dienekes on Jul 10, 2005 17:41:38 GMT -5
Only a minority of African Americans are good examples of the Negroid race; most have some degree of Caucasoid admixture which is phenotypically evident. Tyra Banks has considerable Caucasoid admixture. Often people forget that African Americans are not really pure Negroids, but rather a group of predominantly Negroid ancestry with various amounts of Caucasoid, and in some case Amerindian admixture. This leads to absurdities such as the following casting decision by the producers of "24": Son (phenotypically Negroid): ![](http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7964/main8fl.jpg) Father (Negroid with substantial Caucasoid admixture): ![](http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/889/palmerdavid7mn.jpg) Mother (Negroid with substantial Caucasoid admixture) ![](http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9264/sherrypalmer8eg.jpg) In real life, the above two would almost certainly not produce offspring that was phenotypically purely Negroid, yet this is assumed because of the false belief that African Americans are all genetically interchangeable.
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Post by catwoman on Jul 10, 2005 18:48:45 GMT -5
But would she be considered black in West Africa? Why not? Especially if she doesn't straighten her hair. Do you think she can be taken for Caucasian by Africans??? ![](http://supermodelpages.com/tyra_banks/picture13.jpg) ![](http://supermodelpages.com/tyra_banks/picture20.jpg) Even in the photo on the left, her hair is straightened (chemically relaxed). I've seen photos of her from her teens (before she started modelling) and her hair was quite nappy.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jul 10, 2005 22:31:01 GMT -5
Is there any backlash in the African American community for chemically altering the hair? Are some people fed up with the idea that woolly hair is ugly?
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Post by gee on Jul 11, 2005 0:16:59 GMT -5
Tyra banks has hazel eyes and she represents mixed black-caucasoid not just black. This girl isnt caucasoid-mongoloid/amerindian-caucasoid. She is half english/quarter thai and quarter indian(from India) ![](http://www.nauticalangels.com/images/cindy3.gif) these women must be 50/50 ![](http://tinypic.com/70kry1.jpg) ![](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/thai/nat/nat7.jpg) ![](http://tinypic.com/70l0e8.jpg) ![](http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3944/cat_mc02.jpg) ![](http://www.thaisupermodels.com/pic/cathaleeya/001.jpg) ![](http://www.averlo.com/modelos/Sonia_Couling/sonia%20couling_006.jpg)
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Post by shunya on Jul 11, 2005 0:26:17 GMT -5
In real life, the above two would almost certainly not produce offspring that was phenotypically purely Negroid [...]. Yes, *almost* certainly! Genetics aren't always so predictable.
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