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."
Yes, the Levantines (Syrians and Lebanese) are quite successful throughout Latin America. Does this mean that the hordes of mestizos that form the bulk of Latin American immigrants are a genetic and cultural asset
to the US? NO.