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According to the PBS documentary African American Lives Don has 19% European DNA. He has this amount of Euro DNA, but he was picked to play a role in Hotel Rwanda, because they think he looks heavily African.
Think Don Cheadle can past for a native African or did he look out of place compared to the Africans he was casted along in Hotel Rwanda?
If Don really does have 19% European DNA, do you notice any Euro features on his face?
With 19% of Euro DNA you have to have some very visible Euro features/traits.
The genes that code for the way you look are different from your ancestral dna you don't need to have a certain percentage of european family members for your physical appearance (phenotype) to express more typical european features. There could be a red haired person in his background and the genes that express Red Hair are recessive and not dominant like brown or black hair color, he'll still carry that red haired gene, it may not be expressed until many generations in the future.
The genes that code for the way you look are different from your ancestral dna you don't need to have a certain percentage of european family members for your physical appearance (phenotype) to express more typical european features. There could be a red haired person in his background and the genes that express Red Hair are recessive and not dominant like brown or black hair color, he'll still carry that red haired gene, it may not be expressed until many generations in the future.
Though Don is quite African in appearance, his mother shows obvious European admixture.
There are a lot of dumb threads on C-D but this has to be up there.
Really.
This is supposed to be some kind of news?
When Emmett Smith was featured on Who Do You Think You Are his tests results also said 18% or 19% European and the woman said that was normal. Some places where the people have been more isolated, like the Gullah islands, have less, like 5%.
Huh? Any American-born "black" person who dates any ancestry back to the slavery days is going to be mixed-race....snipped... As a country, we still seem unable or unwilling to at least acknowledge what happened back then (and I don't mean attribute anything current to it, or restitution, or any such- just admit what happened, including the systemic rapes of enslaved women).snipped....
I do not believe that and I have read extensively on the subject and not just anecdotal, that EVERY black woman slave was ravaged and produced white children. What a crock and I don't care who you quote.
this is a odd thread an makes very little if any sense.THere is no EURO look. there are several Eruo Countries and many have black roots . Maybe he has Latin, French or Italian in him those three have a lot of black in their blood the euro countries near Africa like Sisiley hav a lot of dark skin people
LOL. which ones ? Dark skinned maybe but not necessarily "Negro" blood (at the risk of being non PC).
According to the PBS documentary African American Lives Don has 19% European DNA. He has this amount of Euro DNA, but he was picked to play a role in Hotel Rwanda, because they think he looks heavily African.
Think Don Cheadle can past for a native African or did he look out of place compared to the Africans he was casted along in Hotel Rwanda?
If Don really does have 19% European DNA, do you notice any Euro features on his face?
With 19% of Euro DNA you have to have some very visible Euro features/traits.
He looks like he just got off the boat.
Genetics is a weird thing. You can never be really sure what you will come out with when you mix two races. The perfect example of this is Victoria Rowell's daughter Maya. Maya has 25% black DNA. She is on the far right in the photo below which was her mother's wedding. As you can see, she has no distinguishable black features at all.
Here is a photo of Eartha Kitt with her daughter (the blonde one), who was also 25% black.
Ergo, even with 19% white DNA, Mr. Cheadle shows no distinguishable "european" features.
What? Who even cares? He is a stunning actor and that is all I need to know...
No doubt by now, most all of us have some degree or percentage of a different race on board ...
Not I. Pure white on both sides of my family for multi-generations. Maybe forever. That is a dying breed in this country...maybe the world.
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Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson
He looks like he just got off the boat.
Genetics is a weird thing. You can never be really sure what you will come out with when you mix two races. The perfect example of this is Victoria Rowell's daughter Maya. Maya has 25% black DNA. She is on the far right in the photo below which was her mother's wedding. As you can see, she has no distinguishable black features at all.
Here is a photo of Eartha Kitt with her daughter (the blonde one), who was also 25% black.
Ergo, even with 19% white DNA, Mr. Cheadle shows no distinguishable "european" features.
20yrsinbranson
I "assume" that is Ms. Kitt's granddaughter also in the pic. No obvious Negroid in her either. DNA is a very strange creature.
Not I. Pure white on both sides of my family for multi-generations. Maybe forever. That is a dying breed in this country...maybe the world.
Same here, tamiznluv. Actually, in my opinion, it does a disservice to both races to mix them. To me, a pure black race is as important to the cultural heritage of that demographic as a pure white race is to mine; likewise all cultural identities i.e. SE Asian, Polynesian, Hispanic, Indian, etc.
We share an unpopular and un-politically correct point of view, I believe.
According to the PBS documentary African American Lives Don has 19% European DNA. He has this amount of Euro DNA, but he was picked to play a role in Hotel Rwanda, because they think he looks heavily African.
Think Don Cheadle can past for a native African or did he look out of place compared to the Africans he was casted along in Hotel Rwanda?
If Don really does have 19% European DNA, do you notice any Euro features on his face?
With 19% of Euro DNA you have to have some very visible Euro features/traits.
19%? Not 20%? Who and who they come up with this insanely precise calculation? Was he the product of an orgy involving 4 skinny black man and a white midget woman?
Anyhow, I think he looks African enough. Heck, with proper costume and enough make up, I believe they could make Tiger Woods look African too.
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