Her Ethnicity


even if both her parents are either Cuban or American of Cuban descent i don't
see why see can't "white" characters. after all Cameron Diaz whose father is of
hispanic ancestry has made a career out of playing "white" characters as well.
to use the old expression if one can pass i don't see why either Garcia
or Diaz should be confined to playing hispanic characters. in THE WEDDING PLANNER
Jennifer Lopez played an Italian and being 100% Italian i thought she did an A+
job.

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Dude, are you that ignorant that you think because someone has a Spanish surname or are of Cuban descent, that means they are automatically not white?? Race is based on phenotype..physical features, what people look like. If it looks like a duck...
Also, the term Hispanic refers to culture. It is not specific race.


The first time we done knocked on the do, the second time we gon kick the son of a bitch in

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He actually meant it as a compliment. I guess it's the way we classify people here in America. We are fully aware that there are black Hispanics and white Hispanics but if someone is of Hispanic descent we classify them as Hispanics regardless of what color they are. It's the same with African Americans they are all shades and some are physically white and would be considered so in some countries but here they are still classified as African American we even classify people who aren't from Africa (Jamaican, Haitian etc) as African American and when we say black people we are referring to them. When we say white we are generally speaking of the majority anglo/european descent population. He wasn't being ignorant or racist. In Hollywood there are stereotypical African American and Hispanic roles and all the OP was saying was that it is great that she isn't pigeoned hold into playing these types of roles. Cameron Diaz, Joanna Garcia, Halle Berry have all played roles that were meant for the "white" Hollywood prototype all American blonde hair blue eyes. They just think it's good that more minorities are getting really great roles and aren't playing the sterotypical maid, druggie, prostitute type roles or even get a part at all. The OP didn't mean anything by it really. This always comes up when an American asks if someone is Black, White, Hispanic, Asian etc. Someone usually someone who isn't American gets offended or jumps to the wrong conclusion it's just they way we classify and the words we use to decribe people.

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