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To: Mrs. Don-o

Ms. Hayek is Lebanese (Semitic) which is counted as white in the US. Most US Latinos are mestizo or mulatto, not white. Brown people have never assimilated into white culture in the US, Canada or Europe. In Latin America, they effectively “defined white down” to include as white anyone who was predominantly white (see Puerto Rico where most “whites” have considerable subsaharan African features).


75 posted on 06/23/2016 8:44:11 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: Clemenza
From Wikipedia:

Salma Hayek (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican-American film actress, producer, and former model. ...
Hayek was born Salma Hayek Jiménez in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. Her younger brother, Sami (born 1972), is a furniture designer. Her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, is an opera singer and talent scout. Her father, Sami Hayek, is an oil company executive and owner of an industrial-equipment firm, who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos. Her father is of Lebanese descent...

Whole family seems to be adapting pretty well for Semitic-Mesoamericans who most people would call white. The older word, often applied to old Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew villains, was "swarthy."


81 posted on 06/24/2016 4:48:38 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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