Bi-racial/mixed models

[luna1576]

i agree with iluvjeisa can we please move on now..

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Does anyone remember Yasmeen Ghauri from the 90's? Her father is Pakistani and her mother is German. I think she was born in Canada.

 

[oolie coco]

Yeah of course, I think they post a lot of pictures of her in the 90's thread.

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Beautiful Christy Turlington is bi-racial. She has a British father and her mother is from El Salvador.

 

[amphrosyne]

^ wow I never knew that...thanks no wonder she's so gorge

 

[oolie coco]

I don't think I ever knew that, either!!!!

 

[ALimaFan]

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But Ana and Cintia are probably predominantly white since most middle/upper-class Brazilians trace their heritage back to European countries like Portugal, Italy and Germany. I heard Adriana has some Black and Native American blood, though.

Yes, Adriana said that she is "African, Indian and Swiss." (Fashion TV interview) She is from Bahia. Everyone should Google images of the people of Bahia, think about what Adrina refers to herself as and look at her again.

The thing is that Adriana Lima looks so ambiguous. In some photos you can barely see any African lineage. In others it's beyond obvious. I think it's one of the characteristics that makes her the ultimate top model for advertisers (and beautiful IMO)

Her hair is almost always straightened, her skin pale or lightened and her eyes bright. This throws some people off but if her hair were in its natural state (as it is in The Follow film) and her skin darkened by the sun (a prototypical descriptor but not a racial determinant), one may be able to see all that she is more clearly.

 

[miche]

The 2000 IBGE census found Brazil to be made up of:

• white 53.7%
• multiracial 38.5% (mostly mixed White and Black (mulatto)
• black 6.2%
• Asian 0.5%
• amerindian 0.4%
• unspecified 0.7%

 

[sexydaydreamer]

Beautiful Christy Turlington is bi-racial. She has a British father and her mother is from El Salvador.

Really? Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info!

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

^You are welcome sexydaydreamer and amphrosyne

 

[luna1576]

The 2000 IBGE census found Brazil to be made up of:

• white 53.7%
• multiracial 38.5% (mostly mixed White and Black (mulatto)
• black 6.2%
• Asian 0.5%
• amerindian 0.4%
• unspecified 0.7%

why must they always use mulatto? is bi racial that hard to use

 

[cyberfruit]

why must they always use mulatto? is bi racial that hard to use

That's what many caribbean and South Americans call themselves, though. They call themselves "mulatto" or "mulatta" instead of bi-racial.

 

[luna1576]

i know and i find that sad

 

[cyberfruit]

How is it sad? The term isn't racist.

 

[oolie coco]

Any pictures?

 

[luna1576]

it means mule in portuguese does it not? i mean i can't speak for everyone but i find that offensive and i know people who feel the same. Maybe it's not considered dorogitory (sp?) in south america but ..i don't like it much

 

[oolie coco]

You're right, luna:

Wikipedia

The origin of the term given by most dictionaries is mulo, mule, from Old Spanish, from Latin mulus. The term was once a generic designation name for any hybrid species, and as a result it may be considered offensive by some English-speakers who might prefer the term Eurafrican.

 

[luna1576]

source: US vogue

yasmeen g

 

[cyberfruit]

^ She has got a body.

 

[scriptgirl]

The incomparable Noemie Lenoir:
from camera press