Is she white, mulatto or mestizo?
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elitedancer0401 β 17 years ago(January 06, 2009 05:24 PM)
The Tainos died out long before Eva was born. The tiny amount left intermixed. Cuba had a very large slave population. Cuba, present day, is a predominantly black/mulatto nation. She's mulatta. Do not let her straightened and colored hair and nose job fool you.
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Jane_Doe01 β 17 years ago(February 02, 2009 03:01 PM)
I see plenty of indication of possibly African ancestry in her features. You're just seeing what you want to see. She doesn't look predominantly white at16d0 all. Funny how this is stated about EVERY hispanic celebrity who isn't as dark as Sammy Sosa. Seriously, every single one. They all either have to be white or predominantly white. That's ridiculous. You conclude what's in someone's blood simply by looking at their skin tone. Genetics are not that "black and white", so to speak. People shouldn't comment on topics they know nothing about.
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elitedancer0401 β 17 years ago(January 07, 2009 08:57 PM)
There are half white, half black people that look all white or all black. It does not negate the fact that they are mulatto/a. She is mulatta, even if she had pale white skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair.
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jerrycantrelll β 17 years ago(January 08, 2009 02:51 PM)
She is not mulatta.
Alicia Keys and Halle Berry would be called mulatas if they were from Cuba.
This woman is more white than any other thing.
She could have a black ancestor, but that is not mulatta.
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jerrycantrelll β 17 years ago(January 09, 2009 01:38 AM)
Cristina Milian is a cuban mulata. Dania Ramirez is dominican mulata.
Eva Mendes is not mulata and she would never be considered mulata in Cuba or any other country.
If you can't see the differences between a mulata and this woman you need to get Your Eyes Checked. -
elitedancer0401 β 17 years ago(January 09, 2009 09:37 AM)
I have been to Cuba several times, and this woman IS considered mulatta by many Cuban people. Cameron2000 Diaz would be considered a White Cuban. Her father was (may he rest in peace) a White Cuban.
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jerrycantrelll β 17 years ago(January 10, 2009 03:27 AM)
For the last time, this woman looks mestiza. Part white, part native american. Not mulata like Cristina Milian.
She could have a black ancestor, but that is not mulata.
You, like many americans, obviously have no idea about the cuban culture and the term "mulato".
Prefieres que debatamos en espaol?
Deja ya de discutir sobre un tema sobre el que demuestras no tener la menor idea.
Eva Mendes es mestiza, no mulata. No tiene la suficiente sangre negra para ser considerada mulata.
Es bsicamente una mujer blanca con algunos rasgos mestizos, no mulata como Halle Berry o Dania Ramirez. -
elitedancer0401 β 17 years ago(January 10, 2009 07:37 AM)
I am from the Caribbean, living in Miami (one of the highest, if not the highest concentration of people of Cuban descent in the US). So you assumed and look very stupid that I know nothing. I have been to Cuba many times(as I say again) and those people do NOT think she is mestiza. She is mulatta. Again, do not let the straightened and colored hair fool you, nor the nose job.
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lexiever-1 β 17 years ago(January 15, 2009 04:40 PM)
Well I know there are going to be like 15 posts trying to break down her ethnicity and go into a whole history Eva said it herself at the golden globes that she Cuban American. So that's what she is.
I'm gonna throw a planet at your face -
Josephll β 17 years ago(January 31, 2009 06:42 AM)
In every country apart from USA they distinguish blacks and mulattos from each other and in the majority of those countries they base peoples race on how they look like. Eva Mendes may have a distant African ancestor but she's cleary of White/Native American origin, which makes her mestiso if not White that she mostly look like. Calling her anything else then that would be ludicrous.
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Jane_Doe01 β 17 years ago(February 02, 2009 03:15 PM)
No, moron, get over yourself. What's ludicrous is your arrogance about an issue you clearly knowing nothing about. Did Eva personally tell you that she was white? I'd like to believe that you're jerrycantrell's sockpuppet (mostly since your writing looks strikingly similar to his) but unfortunately there are a lot of people out thee truly dumb enough to believe if a hispanic isn't as dark as Sammy Sosa or Celia Cruz, they're automatically all or mostly white (as if skin tone alone determines race. If it does, than Jennifer Beals must be surely lying about her black parentage). Like I said, this is easily a much wider misconception than the one white latinos exhaustively like to cite about people believing that white hispanics don't exist (which is not was NEVER a common belief. The U.S. categorized ALL Latin American descended citizens as Caucasians more than 50 years ago and hispanic mestizos and mulattoes were once the only people of color allowed to intermarry here).
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elitedancer0401 β 17 years ago(February 06, 2009 05:07 PM)
LOL jusb68t like with the previous poster, please get over the NOSE JOB and STRAIGHTENED and COLORED hair. This girl is a mulatta. When she first came out (and was low profile) it was known that she is the product of mulatta parents. Some websites still have that info up. Please stop trying to make her something she is clearly not.
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