Eva Mendes cast in “Hitch” to avoid B/W interracial couple
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MSNBC reports that Eva Mendes was cast opposite Will Smith in the romantic comedy “Hitch” as a way to avoid the taboo of a black/white interracial couple:
Eva Mendes was given the role opposite Smith because the moviemakers were worried about the public’s reaction if the part was given to a white or an African American actress, according to Smith. The actor is saying that it was feared that a black couple would have put off worldwide audiences whereas a white/African American combo would have offended viewers in the U.S.
“There’s sort of an accepted myth that if you have two black actors, a male and a female, in the lead of a romantic comedy, that people around the world don’t want to see it,” Smith told the British paper, the Birmingham Post while promoting the flick overseas. “We spend $50-something million making this movie and the studio would think that was tough on their investment. So the idea of a black actor and a white actress comes up — that’ll work around the world, but it’s a problem in the U.S.”
Eva Mendes — who is of Cuban descent — was seen as a solution because apparently, the black/Latina combination is not considered taboo.
Sony didn’t return calls for comment.
Damie wrote:
Doesn’t make sense? Mendes looks white.
Posted 26 Feb 2005 at 4:18 am ¶
patrick wrote:
you must be blind or somethin’…the minute i saw her i knew she was mixed, this woman is definitely no white by any stretch of the imagination…the fact that she is of cuban descent lends credence to my argument because on this island the whites, the blacks and the native population have been mixing their genes to a very large degree…
Posted 28 Feb 2005 at 2:16 pm ¶
Damie wrote:
She looks like many mediterranian whites I’ve seen (italians, greeks, spaniards). And scientists say they are slightly mixed also.
Posted 01 Mar 2005 at 12:23 am ¶
Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter wrote:
Wait, how is this still taboo? Was Sydney Poitier’s hard work in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” all for naught? Did I just compare Will Smith to Sydney Poitier?
Posted 04 Mar 2005 at 3:06 pm ¶
Danae wrote:
Indeed she looks someting else (prolly latina which is considered non-caucasian) I am fully greek and people always say I look mixed cause of my dark hair and maybe my bit tanner skin. we are still a minority to many
Posted 24 Mar 2005 at 3:56 am ¶
imma wrote:
Eva Mendes could easily pass as a spaniard,
let’s remember that hispanic / latino is not a race, not an ethnic group, is a simple term used in the United States to define people
many hispanics are white:
frank muniz = malcom in the middle
ricky ricardo - i love lucy
daisy fuentes = americas home video
giselle bundchen= victoria secret’s supermodel and actress
on taxi
andy garcia
emilio esteves
……………………..and many more
eva mendez is indeed caucasian, she is simply considered latina in the US, but being realistic putting the latino label aside, she is white, she most likely have ancestors from spain.
if you were to put eva mendez in a mediterranean country like italy, spain, portugal or greece, she wouldn’t stick out, people would probably think she is from the mediterranean.
caucasian doesn’t mean you have to be blonde with blue eyes, and with a german or english last name.
AND FOR THE LAST TIME, HISPANIC IS NOT A RACE, SAYING HISPANIC IS A RACE IS LIKE SAYING AMERICAN IS A RACE.
there are black hispanics:
sammy sosa
lisa left eye lopez
a lot of dominicans
there are native indian hispanics:
selena
oscar de la hoya
a lot of mexicans
there are asian hispanics:
alberto fujimori, peru’s president
there are arab hispanics:
salma hayek
shakira
there are white european hispanics:
frank muniz
EVA MENDEZ (c’mon)
SPANIARDS THEMSELVES
most Argentinians
Giselle bundchen the super model
Posted 25 Mar 2005 at 1:27 pm ¶
Gina wrote:
Patrick, being white doesn’t mean you have to be blonde with blue eyes.
the europeans are divided into three ethno categories
Northern Europeans (swedish, norwegians, fins)
Eastern Europeans (russians, polish, czecks)
SOUTHERN EUROPEANS (ITALIANS, SPANIARDS, PORTUGUESE, LOTS OF FRENCH, GREEKS)
EVA MENDEZ IS WHITE, SHE IS PREDOMINANTLY MEDITERRANEAN, YOU CAN TELL
Posted 25 Mar 2005 at 1:30 pm ¶
Aniki wrote:
Are you people blind or just in denial? This woman is about as white as Will Smith is white. I notice that it is becoming increasingly popular for white people to try and include everyone as white now. It’s like the one-drop rule as completely been put in reverse. As far as some people are concerned not only are Europeans white but so are Middle Easterners, Indians, North Africans and apparently even Hispanics such as Eva Mendes.
Just so you know you all look really pathetic to other races how you are scratching and clawing trying to convince people that a person such as Eva Mendes is a white woman.
Posted 25 Mar 2005 at 5:50 pm ¶
lucky wrote:
isn’t this the saddest thing you’ve heard?Especially in 2005.Why the hell should it matter what colour the actress is.Eva did a good job in Hitch,but was she cast because she was the best candidate or that she’s ‘white’ enough to attract a white audience and ‘coloured’ enough to not alienate the ethnic contingent?
Posted 26 Mar 2005 at 8:36 pm ¶
ialia wrote:
I don’t know
but I am from Italy and eva mendez looks very European
if she was to come to italy, france or spain she would look like a local
she is MEDITERRANEAN RACE
just like monica belluci
Posted 27 Mar 2005 at 2:16 am ¶
Aniki wrote:
I think it would be accurate to say that some Europeans don’t look very European. If there are Europeans that look like Eva Mendes then it is in part due to the fact that they have mixed with other non-European peoples in the past. The same people with this extremely over-inclusive view of who qualifies as white are the same people who do not consider all the original inhabitants of Africa to all be part of the same racial group. The same goes with Asia. I’m sure if one of you people who have this warped sense of what a white person is spoke to Eva Mendes and told her she was a white woman she would laugh in your face as I am sure most of the people who have read some of these posts have.
Posted 27 Mar 2005 at 6:22 pm ¶
Anonymous wrote:
who cares?
eva mendes is cuban-american
looks wise she looks southern european. (spain, italy, greece, southern france, portugal)
and it might be because the europeans mixed with cubans during the spanish colony, in case yall havent realized spaniards are white, that is where she got her looks from.
Posted 28 Mar 2005 at 11:34 pm ¶
Aniki wrote:
Yet another person in good old-fashioned denial. Do you not realize that the look that some of these Southern Europeans have is due to the fact that they are of a mixed lineage. It is not a case of Eva Mendes looking white for crying out loud but a case of some Europeans looking non-white. Saying she looks white is just as foolish as saying she looks black because many Cubans have African blood as well.
Posted 31 Mar 2005 at 12:58 pm ¶
Sonia Lambert wrote:
Will Smith visited Birmingham England recently, promoting his movie ‘Hitch’ top UK photographer Pogus Caesar was there and captured some iconic images of Smith meeting and greeting hundreds of excited fans. Sadly no sign of co star Eva Mendes. /Photos in Exhibitions section of OOM Gallery/
Posted 26 May 2005 at 2:47 pm ¶
Mike Brant wrote:
Mendes it’s Portuguese and Mendez it’s Spanish.
All the names sounds like spanish but with a “s” in the end are Portuguese…
Posted 30 May 2005 at 10:24 pm ¶
petie wrote:
Glad you mensioned,her last name is infact Mendes…with an ´es´ not ´ez´…..which means she has had some portuguese origin….partly anyway..
Im live in spain/..her medditeranean looks are no different to the majority of the medditeranean popualtion!……..
Just cause you live in a mixed race socioty doesnt mean you must be partly mised race….duh
Look at her features & hair…….its what you look like at the end of the day…..very pale skin doesnt only equal white/caucasion!!—dickheads!
Posted 02 Jun 2005 at 9:05 pm ¶
Miguel says wrote:
first of all spanairds are non white spaniards are a mixed of arab which came from northern africa most likely from morraco or allgyeria. I have been to morraco and i have seen morracians that are whiter then spaniards. Remember spain portugal and southern france were invaded by arabs but were takeing out of france and left in spain. i seen spaniards that are darker then others becouse of that matter of mixing with arabs. spaniards are a mixter of arab german (gothics) which are white celts and roman. Spaniards that come from asturias have blond hair and blue eyes becouse of there german and celt descenents and or much whiter.
Posted 06 Jun 2005 at 7:58 am ¶
Sammies wrote:
The original Europeans…or white people…look like Eva Mendez…..they just beacame recently blonde hair and blue eyes in recent milenia……Spain,Portugal,greece…etc….has some of the original white (european)features…a girl in Spain or one of these countries dating a black guy is considered interracial…….
Posted 08 Jun 2005 at 6:37 pm ¶
Marsha wrote:
It is unfortunate that Aniki and some others feel that they need to include people with caucasion features under the “coloured” umbrella in order to gain acceptance for negroid ethnic groups. This only reinforces in negro people the idea that there is something wrong with the way they look. I use the term “Negro” not in a derogatory way but to distinguish it from “black” which they prefer because it includes just about everyone.
Whether or not she is mixed is irrelevant. Her features are certainly not negroid.
Thanks to Imma for pointing out that the term “Hispanic” does not represent a race or ethnic group. Many americans seem to be unaware of this.
Posted 10 Jun 2005 at 10:33 pm ¶
Aniki wrote:
Here we go again. Obviously you have a distorted view of what white people look like. Based on the language you use it is highly reflective of a desperate and bitter white supremacist. It seems to be a relatively new tactic of certain people with a white supremacist ideology to group as many people into the white category as possible. I do not recall anyone ever saying that Eva Mendes looked black by the way. It seems clear to me that you like many white supremacists have an irrational fear of non-white races uniting with apparently (blacks?) according to Marsha. I don’t know where you got that delusion from. I’ve seen this relatively new form of white supremacy more and more on different internet blogs such as this. I don’t think this group as many different ethnicities as possible into the white category is going to work. This is a nice fantasy for some people but this is why you will only see this garbage on internet blogs because no one would have the audacity to say such foolishness without being completely anonymous as I’m sure none of you have heard a anyone publicly make these idiotic assertions about these issues.
Posted 11 Jun 2005 at 2:40 pm ¶
Marsha wrote:
Anika, I am neither white nor a supremacist and you have completely missed the point that I was making. You seem focused on trying to isolate caucasions as though they were your enemy and as though sub-saharan african people had nothing to be proud of on their own and need to be part of some larger group. The one drop rule is unique to the US and is quite simplistic. The idea of purity of race and the notion of race itself was always bogus but to try to group everyone that is a shade darker than paper white into some sort of homogenous non white group is ridiculous. I live in the caribbean where mixing is quite common and accepted but even here Smith & Mendes would be considered an “interracial” couple. As far as isolating and identifying “Whites” as the enemy.
Among the earliest derogatory references towards blacks comes from Arab writers in Egypt, another part of the world that afro-centric blacks fall all over themselves trying to lay claim to. A land where they occupied the lowest rung of slave society. (Read “The end of racism - Dinesh D’Sousa)
The point is we all form part of a wide spectrum of humanity. Cultural differences and ethnicity are facts of life but that’s what makes the world interesting. To try to divide, group and isolate people to make yourself feel less isolated or more accepted is pure fantasy on your part.
Posted 25 Jun 2005 at 8:51 pm ¶
bernard wrote:
To American friends : “races” doesn’t exist, it is not genetic or scientific concepts. A “race” is an artificial classification of the people in fonction of arbitrary physical characteristics The concept of “race” could change in every nation or culture What exist is a continuum of physical individual different features wich evoluate slitetly country to country…
It seem to us unbilivible that the US socity continue to be separated in the “black/white” opposition I’m astonished to see that after 200/300 years living together “black” and “white” couples continue to be a taboo !
Here in metropolitan France, we have black people since only 25 about years only, but you can see “interracial” couple everywhere. a lot of people and stars are “mixed” - most miss France or football players are “mulatos”… no one is shoked
Posted 27 Jun 2005 at 1:53 am ¶
ignatius wrote:
I can asure you that in Spain Eva Mendes never would be considered white.
Posted 09 Jul 2005 at 10:40 am ¶
Alejandro wrote:
sorry, but my english isn t good.
Im spaniard and I think that Eva is mulata (white-black).
nunca (never) pasaria por española. si la veo por la calle pienso que es extranjera. He visto la pelicula y claramente, no es española. Cuando en la pelicula la hacen pasar por española, nadie en el cine, lo creia. Ella es muy guapa,…pero no española
Posted 12 Jul 2005 at 7:03 am ¶
Peanut wrote:
Eva Mendes indeed does look Mulato. Though not as much as Will Smith.
Posted 15 Jul 2005 at 2:56 pm ¶
Aniki wrote:
Marsha you have convinced me that arguing with a fool accomplishes nothing.
I’ll just give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were thoroughly brainwashed at some point in you’re life.
Posted 17 Jul 2005 at 12:37 pm ¶
Roberta wrote:
All of this aruging about race got me thinking. I am a half hispanic and half white female. I’m sorry, but I tend to think that most black people to try to play this all inclusive card when it comes to non-whites. I heard a black colleague of mine comment once that all non-whites (arabs, hispanics, etc) really fall into the category of black. I myself have predominantly caucasian features (hair, skin color, light eyes) but I have a bit of a “wide” nose. You would not believe how many times I have encountered black people who accused me of having this “black” feature and therefore have asked me if I was part black. Asians have wide noses, so do many Native Americans. I’m sorry Anika, you accuse white people of being all inclusive, but I see that very often among black people. And as for the one drop rule, I disagree with that. I met a man once who was blond haired and blue eyed and looked Nordic, but he admitted that his great, great grandmother was half black. Should be consider himself a black man?
Posted 20 Jul 2005 at 9:32 am ¶
Jenna wrote:
Roberta, I read your post and I had to comment. First of all, I think all this business about what race eva Mendes falls into is ludicrous. But your post was the impetus behind my response. My father is from Norway and my mother is Italian. I have blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin. However, I have very full lips. They look as though I had collagen implants but they are natural. Do you know I have had a few black men ask me if I was black or part black because of my lips? I think it is insane how we point out one feature on a person and come to the conclusion that feature determines or somehow reveals what race they are.
Posted 20 Jul 2005 at 10:06 am ¶
vannessa wrote:
no one can call eva mendes white or meditteranean or , because first of all if she says that she is cuban american, she’s cuban american. It doesn’t matter what ethnicity she may look like because cubans come in all shades, colors etc., For example me. I have blue eyes, blond hair but i am cuban, i’m not from a european country. I am a cuban native. You can’t claim that she is from european decent just based on her looks, after she clearly said that she was cuban american. Just cause she doesn’t look cuban or from spanish decent, doesn’t mean she’s not. You guys can’t judge her nationality just by her physical features and then label her from european desent. She “might” look like alot of meditterean people/natives, but that doesn’t mean that she is. So you guys can stop calling her waht she’s not. She said herself, that she is cuban american.
Posted 21 Jul 2005 at 3:44 pm ¶
Deanne wrote:
I can’t believe that in this day and age that people argue over race. The minute someone becomes famous every ethnic group wants to claim him/her. There are no pure races, we are all a mixture and occasionally children are born who look more like their ancestors. the “one drop” rule is something that whites brought about for their own reasons. That rule cannot take away what we inherit from our parents. I come from parents who are both of mixed races but often I am mistaken for a Latina. Whether or not there is Latin blood in my ancestry doesn’t matter really. We are all of the human race and can learn from each other. No one has been given the right to decide whose race or ethnic group is superior. We generally say we belong to whatever race or ethnic group our parents are a part of. So if a man has great, great grandparent who was of the black or Negro race the according to White people he IS black even if the other great, great grandparent is white and if each successive generation married someone white. The point is this, if the “one drop” rule is all inclusive then are there any truly white people left?
Eva Mendes says she is Cuban American? Then that is what she is to me no matter what she looks like. Don’t argue with someone about who or what they say they are; accept it and go on.
Posted 24 Jul 2005 at 2:38 pm ¶
tommy wrote:
i cant understand Alejandro. im portuguese and if she said she were portuguese id believe her, and its not to do with her last name either. mediterraneans can look like more than one thing but her look can definitely fit with mediterranean.
she is cuban-american so thats what she is, and she may have black blood you cant always really tell, but to say you cant say she looks mediterranean because she is cuban is like saying portuguese people dont look portuguese because they are born in the usa and are portuguese-american now. or italian or irish or whatever.
so you can say she looks cuban. since she in fact is that means that cuban can look like her. but i dont think its wrong to say she looks mediterranean because more likely than not that is part of her ancestry so it would make sense.
Posted 01 Aug 2005 at 4:58 pm ¶
Galgabe wrote:
I am from Northern Italy. Here many people have blond or brown hair because of the constant fluxes through history of german and celtic tribes. I can ensure you that here Eva Mendez would not be considered Italian or white but a mixed (beautiful) woman. I suppose she is 2/5 afro and 3/5 white. Here people are not racist towards latino cause we share many cultural features (such as religion or languages) with them. Anyway, a dark latino will be regarded with a little of suspicion. Sadly that’s life
Posted 12 Aug 2005 at 11:39 am ¶
kaka wrote:
Eva medes desnt look spanish, at least from spain. Shes too exhotic!
Posted 01 Sep 2005 at 1:11 pm ¶
Mediterráneo wrote:
Hi from Spain.
I was this weekend in Asturias and I dind’t see this aryan dream. Of course, there are blond people in Asturias, but also in Andalucia (an also in some north African Berberian populations).
Eva Mendes is, definitively, Latin-American. I was watching photos in http://www.starpulse.com/Actresses/Mendes,_Eva/Pictures/ I think that she is a perfect example of the Cuban mixing process, where Spaniards inter-marriage with people with blood partially mixed with blacks, ancient Caribean indians and even Chinese people.
Race is an obsolete concept in terms of genetics, sadly it still keeps its relevance in terms of sociology (mainly in the USA). Things like the pathetic American taboo of no couples of different “races” goes in this way
I am a tan Iberian guy, from Castille (central Spain) and a I love Mediterranean features, but I agree with kaka that she will be considered exotic here.
Somebody posted a comment futher up saying than iberian people from Asturias have blond hair and blue eyes.
Posted 12 Sep 2005 at 7:43 am ¶
monkeylumps wrote:
Eva Mendes is a pretty lady. I believe that whatever culture she identifies with most, that is up to her. America is obsessed with race. It is all about putting people into boxes just so everyone can feel comfortable & more secure.
Blond hair & light-colored eyes aren’t a requirement for being white. Hispanic is not a race, it is a subgroup of people with mixed African/Native/European ancestry. Caucasian means people from the Caucasoid parts of the world…this includes Asian & Mongolian peoples. That is the correct term, although in America, Caucasian means “white”.
Okay, so she has tanned olive skin, brown hair, & slightly fuller lips than the average white person. She is Latina. Many Mediterranean girls look like this, too. She is clearly neither all black (DUH!) nor all white. She & Will Smith were considered an interracial match in the movie because that’s what they are! She is non-black and he is Black. She identifies with her Cuban roots & although many Cubans have African blood, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t call herself “black” or she would’ve said that she’s Afro-American. Latin women are very diverse in appearance. I know a very fair Puerto Rican woman with thin lips, curly red hair, & green eyes. She speaks like your average black American, she only hangs around Black people, she has two children by Black men, but she calls herself a white American. Will Smith might not be very dark but he identifies himself as Afro-American. He is married to a light-skinned woman, Jada Pinkett-Smith, who also identifies as Black. He has a wide nose, thick lips, and he is clearly very much a part of Afro-American culture. To say otherwise would be ridiculous.
Eva Mendes has the option to identify with whatever ethnic group or culture she wishes. Although racial issues were never brought up in the movie (thank the Lord!), they were still an interracial couple. Billy Bob & Halle played an interracial couple in “Monster’s Ball”. Wesley & Annabella did it in “Jungle Fever”. Let’s accept the fact that this is another one of those times.
Posted 26 Sep 2005 at 3:15 pm ¶
lebron wrote:
First of all i wouldn’t DARE PROCREAD with a spaniard im a black cuban born in the u.s. i have been to spain 4 times ,argentina 2 times in my life and i barely saw any blonde spaniards or argentinians. In my trips to spain i was never discriminated or kalled black. Many cubans dominicans and puerto ricans
etc are mullattos do to the fact that spaniards are’nt racist unlike british or french just see for your self look at jamiacan,trinidad and other english colonies i barely see any mullatos. Racism doesn’t exist in the minds of spaniards do to the fact that they are non whites. i have study the history of the iberrian penninsula and in fact it was invaded by arabs,muslims for 800 years. when i visited southern cities in spain there are moorish archetecture houses that have been there since the moorish invasion.
To further explain myself the spanish language itself has arab words like sugar in spanish it its said asugar the same in arabic there are many more words like pantalon which in english means jeans or pants in arabic its said the same way pantalon just like in spanish. Even spanish names and last names have arabic influence for example Omar,Radamez,mejia,albornoz,aznar,jimenez etc. There have been DNA test on spaniards that originate from the south parts of spain and have genetic similaritys that a mooracians,lobenis,algerrians have but no similaritys to germanic genes,celtic ,roman or greek. If you ever travel to so kalled latin America youll see many wierd people that look arabic and muslim do to interracial marriges that arabs had during the invasion. me my self explained this to many arabic looking hispanic and they think im crazy. but in fact its the truth during the last 100 years of the moorish invasion of spain many jews arabs and muslims pradamelly gypsis from northern india converted to christanity and were able to stay in the spanish penninsula and not expell from spain. Next came the colonial times when spain conqer territory in south america and carribean. Remember jews arabs and muslims converted to christianity during the last 100 years of the moorish invasion which means that all those that converted to christanity came to the new world just like a spaniard of germanic celtic roman greek ancestory did. For that same reason you have latinos of germanic ancestory probebly from the visigoth ,celtics roman and then arabs and gypsis.Me my self i don’t considerd my self latino i don’t understand how in those miss univers buetty pajent they have all these
blond/blue hispanic woman that don’t look nothing like a spaniard or the people of there native country. im guess that there probebly norigeins finlish or german or italians that left kids behind in those countrys. And its the truth spaniards or non white
Posted 01 Oct 2005 at 9:41 pm ¶
Brian wrote:
I love how someone said that because Eva Mendes said she is a Cuban-American she is not white. So if Hillary Clinton STRESSED American, would that make her not white? It’s the same thing. Eva Mendes looks VERY Mediterranean, therefore White, but she probably does have some traces of non-Caucasoid blood.
People on this board make it seem as though Latin American people are one people, who happen to look different from one another. Caucasians in Latin America DO exist. Just watch a Mexican telenovela. Many Cubans in Florida are White. Latin Americans, for the most part, are of mixed descent.
People seem to think that being from a Latin American country is completely different from being from the U.S. Vannessa, you, a blonde blue-eyed Cuban, said that you aren’t European because you’re Cuban. Well, honey, just take a look at Caucasian Americans - they’re NOT European either! They’re AMERICANS of European descent. They have English, Irish, German, Italian, Eastern European descent. You’re a Cuban of European descent, just like Caucasian Americans, only that - I’m assuming - it’s of Spanish descent, unlike most Caucasian Americans. It’s essentially the same thing.
Posted 25 Oct 2005 at 12:02 am ¶
Sergio wrote:
In brief: Most Arabs are caucasians, as are Iranians, Afgans and many other nationalities. It is only in the US where many people are arbitrarialy labeled “non-white” , even if they are caucasian. As far es Eva Mendes, she could play any part since there are many people in Europe who do look like her. Many people in Latin America who look like her, many in India who look like her etc. Yes, in Spain there are people who look like Eva Mendes, just look at Lola Flores’s daughters, of course, they are of Gypsy ancestry, but Gypsies are caucasian also and many non-gypsy spaniards are of Gypsy ancestry, even if culturally they no longer are. Among the Portuguese, there is also a great variety of phenotypes, all within the Mediterranean variant of the caucasian race, as well as people of Germanic genes, same as in Spain. And yes, Will and Eva are an interracial couple, but, in the US, if you have a label like Latino, Hispanic, Arab etc. the masses think it is a “non-white” racial classification. Even the media are responsible for this.
Could Eva Mendes play a mixed-race woman? Of course, she can also. Perhaps that is a good thing in actors, it facilitates the portrayal of many characters and situations.
Posted 06 Nov 2005 at 6:35 pm ¶
COSMIC LIGHT wrote:
If I were from Mars, I would call myself a Martian. Since I’m from Earth, I call myself an Earthling. If any of you believe that Adam and Eve were our first parents, then you would know that every single gene in all humans came from these two people and were multiplied. As they multiplied, they spread throughout the lands and eventually certain physical appearances became more and more common in one region because people were using up similar genes over and over creating (common physical appearances). Look at humans all over the world and see how people vary in height, complexion, eye color, hair color, nose size, foot size, face shape, skull shape, ear size, body shape, lip size, hair texture, neck length and on and on and on. This is all coming from a common ancestry. Since, God did not create a whole bunch of Adams and Eves at the same time, he gave two people all the genes needed to multiply into all the different types you see through out history and it will continue. People are confused with the differences between, continents vs. nations vs. culture and religion. They mix all these things up when determining a race of a person. If you take all these differences into consideration, you would find that there is no such thing as a race. To use the word race in the best form would mean that every “so called” group of humans in a race must have identical features. They must all have the same hair color, eye color, height, complexion and not be able to breed with any other race. I have a funny feeling, that no one will understand a word I’m saying. Eva Mendez(or “es”) is not mixed, nor is Will Smith. They are two human beings that received the genes needed to give them the physical appearance that they have so that they can be clearly identified by all other beings. This was so simple, but the race of mankind decided to make up rules of sub races and created a mess. There is no such thing as a “one drop” rule. Which human being INVENTED that rule? and why do all other human beings follow the lead of somebody’s invention? If a person wants to follow these rules of race then you’ll have to be specific. I think the mistake was in using the colors “black” and “white”. That was the mistake in human history. There is no value in these words when it comes to physical appearance. What makes you black and what makes you white? What physical traits are you looking at? You’ll have to be specific. I guarantee no one can get this right because everytime you think you got it, you’ll find a feature that appears a little different.
Posted 23 Nov 2005 at 9:46 pm ¶
juan pablo lorenzo wrote:
Eva mendes is not white, look a the colour of her skin. There are people of black origin that are whiter than she is and are classed as not white. George bush is white, he is not the same colour as eva mendes or iranian, arab and spanish people.
Posted 28 Nov 2005 at 6:48 pm ¶
Maire wrote:
I have to say that although the ignorance of some of these posts was disturbing, I was happy to read so many others that were gratifying and enlightening on the topic. The socio-historical realities that we still live with here in the U.S., such as the one-drop rule, are finally coming under fire. On another note, I hope that it will also become common knowledge at some point that (as someone mentioned) human beings cannot be biologically classified into races. On the scientific level, race is bogus. But on the sociological level, it is oh so alive, as these web postings clearly make evident. In terms of human anthropology, one can still say there are clines in human variation that correspond to what we would call ‘race.’ Eva Mendes certainly looks Mediterranean from a distance, and many Mediterranean people have her coloring. Yes, she looks pure n certain lights, and at certain angles, but I agree that there is something more exotic present than you would find in Southern Europe. She is obviously mostly white, but with trace amounts of black African ancestry, perhaps 15-20%. In Cuba of course this mix is not untypical. Cheers to Marsha, Brian, Monkeylumps, CosmicLight, Sergio, Roberta, and Mediterraneo for your insightful and factual posts, as to all of the others who think along a similar vein. To Patrick, Vannessa, and especially Aniki: the one-drop rule is bogus. I say this because your opinions seem to be base on it. If Mendes has a *drop* of non-white ancestry, it’s *foolishness* and *racism* to call her white or even mostly white. Please! Do yourselves a favor and get into the 21st century. The 19th century has been over for awhile. Oh, and btw Aniki, brilliant strategy on your part. Anyone who disagrees with you is a “. . . desperate and bitter white supremacist.” You’re so clever, Aniki. Did you think it up all by yourself?
Posted 02 Dec 2005 at 1:39 am ¶
Anthony wrote:
Hi, my name is Anthony, both my parents are from the Dominican Republic, I am Us born. My mother is Dominican of Mediterranean, Spanish, Eurpean ancestry. My father is Dominican of African ancestry, with some traces of European ancestry as well. I came out looking mulato, with semi kinki, brown wavy hair, with green eyes, with european facial features. My two sisters came out realy fair skin, with good hair with European facial featurs. My Father is Dominican of mostly African ancestry, but my sisters and came out looking mostly like our mom, why is that?
Posted 02 Dec 2005 at 1:46 pm ¶
sahba wrote:
eva mendez doesnt look meditereanean she look more indian. this is a medditerean spaniard http://www.uv.es/uifst/laui/raul.JPG
Posted 07 Dec 2005 at 11:41 pm ¶
Clara wrote:
If you are mixed, with a father from latin america, and a mother from north america with European descent, what would you be classified as? Having olive skin, dark eyes and hair, and somewhat “latin” features, would I be classified white or latina?
Posted 11 Dec 2005 at 3:42 pm ¶
Kristy womack wrote:
This is a wonderful pic and you should really start dating because you look beautiful togethe.
Best wishes,
Kristy Womack
Posted 14 Dec 2005 at 6:34 pm ¶
God wrote:
All of you are really, really lame.
Sincerely,
God
Posted 15 Dec 2005 at 5:46 am ¶
candy wrote:
Close to a year now people from around the world and all ethnicities have been trying to place Eva Mendes in or out of a certain box. The argument can go on for many more years, and in reality the argument has been going on for thousands of years. We are arguing something that does not exist. There is no box, there is no compartment, there is no section to place people in… don’t put Eva Mendes in or out of a box, and she won’t put you in or out of a box. The imaginary box has been created to support an Us vs Them mentality. The Us vs Them mentality was created to support the human concepts of war, class structure, and culture preservation.
If we can ever look pass the Us vs Them mentality, we will finally… not see that imaginary box… until then keep on arguing.
Posted 17 Dec 2005 at 11:20 pm ¶
monkeylumps wrote:
Very true…*nods at Maire & Candy*
Why do we feel that we have to classify people? And most of all, classify them based on their appearance? Eva Mendes has a phenotype that is common to most people of Latin extraction, but how she is identified should be entirely up to her. People in Miami walk up to me all the time speaking Spanish. I’m multiracial, have NO Spanish or Latin roots whatsoever, but because of my dark brown hair alone they think I’m Hispanic. Strange…I look like a white woman but I’m sometimes mistaken for Dominican or Colombian because I’m brunette. Classic case of people assuming things based on phenotype. I don’t speak any language but the Queen’s English and I have NEVER visited a Latin American country or island! I’m 1/4 Lebanese. The rest of my background is Polish/Swedish/British/Afro-Caribbean (African). Unfortunately I live in a part of Florida that has a high Latin population and the people here are very ignorant about other types of people outside their own group.
People debate about Mariah Carey all the time. She does have some Latin heritage, but again, I’ve had it with people who try to force an identity down other people’s throats. Everyone is mixed in some way but clearly there are people who have a higher percentage of mixture than others. Why does it have to be a big deal? Why is it always necessary to analyze someone else’s race? Aniki might not have posted here in a while but if you ask me, she or he is totally misinformed about a lot of things. First off, there are no “white supremacists” here. There are no black supremacists here. This is a site for mixed people and anyone who wants to join in a civilized discussion. Opinions as well as facts are welcome here, but stupidity is not. Like many multiracials, I feel that the One-Drop Rule is a falsehood, a mere social construct to hold people back. No one said anything was wrong with black people or looking black. But it is obvious that Eva Mendes is mixed, not black, not white. You seem to be the desperate one here, because you make it sound like she’s 100% black and it is so clear that she isn’t! I don’t see any white people on here claiming that she’s fully white so your comments are lost.
Posted 19 Dec 2005 at 2:45 pm ¶
RICARDO wrote:
Eva is a mixture of white and african blood.The statement ,she is mediterranean is true because all of the people in those countries are much darker than true white folks in northern Europe. Sicillians ,Portugese Arabs Iraqui”s Turks Iranians East Indians and many others are varying racial mixture of black and white and yellow asian. White American want to include other races into the pink white group to increase thier numbers in the world. The world is compose of 90% non-white groups.
Posted 27 Dec 2005 at 1:30 pm ¶
Vera Verdalles wrote:
First of all, I’m from Spain, from Asturias (a region in north Spain). If that girl, Eva Mendes, lives in my city I’m sure I’m gonna think she is Cuban, Brazilian, etc. I don’t think she has mediterranean appearance. In my oppinion she is a bit mix with black people.
In the other hand, I’d like to say that it’s true that people from the north of Spain is whiter comparing with the south of Spain (Andalucía). In the case of Asturias, we’ve got celtic origin (not iberian like in the south). Germanics where living here as well. And… the Arabs never live in this region, never!
I also wanna say that not all the people from the south is tanned, there are whites, white-blonds as well, but not as many like in the north of Spain (Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria, León, etc)
I suppose the same happens in Italy: the people from Sicily is more tanned that the people from Trentino-Alto Adige (in this region they speak German).
About the surname, Mendes can be portuguese, but also can be Southamerican. The people from Southamerica, Caribeans, Mexicans, etc… speak a different kind of Spanish and they pronounce phonemes “S” and “C” in the same way (in Spain we distinguise them). So… maybe is a problem with the spelling! Many Southamericans write “coraSón” instead of “coraZón” (the correct one), “deSir” instead of “deCir” (the correct one), etc… so maybe it happened the same with “MendeS” instead of “MéndeZ” .
To end, I just wanna say that the girl is beauty, so… don’t care about her race!!
Besos desde Asturias.
Posted 28 Dec 2005 at 11:30 pm ¶
larry wrote:
HISPANIC is NOT a Freakin Race get over it! We Latin AMERICANS can be WHITE, BLACK, INDIAN, ASIAN just like the good old US of AMERICANS
Thus, I am Mexican-American of European ancestory and nothing more.
Posted 07 Jan 2006 at 11:09 am ¶
iberiano wrote:
my family comes from extremadura in west-central Spain and i can tell you eva mendes does not look like a spaniard,definately latina,just read the comments from the spaniards themselves on this page! They were born and bred there so they what their own countrymen/women look like,therefore eva mendes is not black or white but “mulatta”. Don’t see what the big deal is though, i see interracial couples everyday,who cares?
Posted 10 Jan 2006 at 5:13 pm ¶
lawrence john wrote:
HEY just responding to what LEBRON said what a twat so Spaniards arent racist cos theyre not white what a joke my mates mum is a spaniard and she hates blacks and mongloids blacks especially other spaniards ive met are also much this way im not saying all r but i havent met every spaniard so i cnt say maybe a large percentage of them would feel the same about blacks maybe not we will neva no.The fact u stated that spaniards arent white is even more laughable my mates mum looks pretty white to me or maybe she just did a jako or how about not.ive been to spain many times and the indigenous population look white also they may have dark hair and skin but so do northern europeans also the statment british and french are racist what a joke ur goin on bout racism but ur the one whos a racist sayin stuff like that look at the french foreign legion there is a high element of races that arent white ur sayin about no admixture in jamaica and trinidad well whats that got to do with anything y does that make british and french racist even if it does show the fact that the majority didnt wanna mix sexually with blacks why is that racist if people wanna stick to their own then thats their choice it doesnt make them racist and if u or ne1 else thinks it does then uve got a serious problem the majority of blacks could have not wanted to mix with the whites sexually so r they racist to NO of course not but u wont c it that way will u ur the biggest racist of all
Posted 12 Jan 2006 at 7:40 am ¶
iberiano wrote:
lawrence has a point………..
Posted 14 Jan 2006 at 2:48 pm ¶
iberiano wrote:
lebron if spaniards are so “arab muslim”like you say could you please explain an event called the “Spanish Inquisition” in detail please i’d like to hear it?
Posted 14 Jan 2006 at 2:50 pm ¶
lawrence john wrote:
very true Iberiano and where is LEBRON from again?oh thats it NOT Europe so hes talkin about something he has no real experience of ,what does he know about British and French, living in England i think i can speak with a little more knowledge of the country and people, i may not live in France but its only a stone throw across to the other side of the channel.Maybe u should study and blabber about your own continent and its people.
Posted 20 Jan 2006 at 8:47 am ¶
mark wrote:
Im hispanic of arabic ancestory my grandparents came from granada in souther spain. my last name medina is a muslim name by the way just like mendez witch is also muslim. A dna test that i took resulted in my ancestors come to spain during the moorish invasion of 711. Many arabs have ancestors still living in spain. the spanish look has arabic/jewish and northern african futures for example deep set in eyes high cheek bones and smaller fourheads. the average spanish woman is about 5′2 and average men are about 5′8. Mostly northern european have smaller cheek bones bigger fourheads no deep set in eyes. Nordics viking germans celts have theys facial futures unlike spaniards souther italians/cisilians creek portuaguez are similar.
Posted 21 Jan 2006 at 11:49 pm ¶
tiago wrote:
You americans are so ignorants…
do u for example know where is located spain? or portugal? hehehe i wonder u dont know.
fuckin jerks
U fuckin LAMES
Posted 02 Feb 2006 at 5:11 am ¶
Denver wrote:
I have been to southern Europe many times their are definetily whites in that area that are as dark as eva mendez. Just watch one of them get a sun tan. I’m 1/4 Italian, 1/4 French, 1/4 Scottish, 1/8 German, and 1/8 Black. I have dark features, but all European features hair and skin ect. Eva Mendez is darker than me, but that does not mean she could not be European in appearance. As far a being black I highly highly doubt that she is. Most Latin Americans if they mixed were with native americans not blacks. Black white miscegination is not as common in Latin America as all of you are making it out to be. She probably has native blood if anything. Most of you pure Europeans would be shocked how many mixed European and something else there are. They look white like me, but are in fact mixed. Many of us are civilized just like you!
Posted 03 Feb 2006 at 2:09 am ¶
Rosa Rosae wrote:
Well, in answer to Denver, I just wanna say that girl is original from Cuba and in that country there are not native americans. In all the Caribean countries the mix people is going to be mixed with blacks (not with native americans ’cause the Caribean countries were the route for slaves time ago. Look countries like Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba or Dominican Republic). So that girl is mulatta, so sure she has not south european appareance, impossible!!!
Posted 03 Feb 2006 at 7:01 pm ¶
lawrence john wrote:
DENVER you are talkin crap,yeah europeans do darken with the sun clap clap.But what does that mean?What is ur point sure we may go dark like her when we are in the sun u will find that in winter we are less browned and more clearly just white depending on the person though as some europeans have a more pink tone others a brunette tone of the skin or olive but the skin colouring dont mean nething as u can easily tell a european by their facial features and eva mendes dont look european at all and for europeans being mixed and not being able to tell what are u on about yes alot of people are mixed with non european but it would then make them mixed race not white race u dont really seem to know wot ur talkin about so maybe u should stop posting stupid comments.
Posted 07 Feb 2006 at 11:03 am ¶
Hispanus wrote:
Whenever I take a look at a site like this one, it saddens me to observe how much importance is still given to external “racial” appearance/”racial” extraction, as if it was something that shaped individual identities and status. It doesn’t: racism is crap pseudo-science and whoever upholds its tenets has a serious identity crisis probably derived from an inferiority complex (it’s common among “white trash” for example.)
Yet, it also saddens me to see how surprisingly little knowledge there is among many (especially ome people from the USA who immediately equate Hispanic and Spanish, think that “latino” is a racial definition, and feel entitled to have a big-mouthed opinion about anything however little they know about it) about the racial make-up of my country (Spain) and the looks of Spaniards.
First, there is the myth that we do not look European and that Islamic domination of large (but constantly diminishing) areas from 711 to 1492 must have left in us a predominant ly Arab genetic legacy. Nothing wrong with it if it were true, but it is a misconception. From a historical perspective, although an Arab minority came with the invaders, most islamic settlers in Spain were of Berber (Northern African) origin. Islamic and Arab is not the same thing. Berbers are white, although they are now mostly mixed, by the way.
As regards my own observation, having lived in Britain, I can tell you that it is probably easier to tell a Moroccan (to give an example) from a Spaniard than to tell a Spaniard from an Englishman, let alone a Frenchman. In actual fact, I passed unperceived in Britain. Most took me for a native. OK. Its true, Spain is a sunny place and the percentage of darker complexions, hair and eyes is higher than in Central-Northern Europe, but that does not make us un-European. Another misconception.
From the point of view of genetics, in fact, most Spaniards (60-70%), as far as the Y-DNA goes, belong to the R1b haplotype, also the most common in France, Belgium and the British Isles and appearing in percentages above 40% in most other parts of Europe. This fact does not only make us European, but the oldest Europeans in fact: descendants from the hunter-gatherers who came to Europe around 35.000 years ago, much earlier than indoeuropean farmers and cattle-herders.
The percentage of contribution of Northern African blood to our genetic pool, according to the articles I have had access to varies from 3 to 14% (by fuzzy logic, it must probably be something like 10% then, depending on the area), but we also have typically Northern European haplotypes (I, some say 13%), as Roman Hispania was invaded by the Wisigoths, as well as others which are typically Mediterranean and Middle Eastern.
I was not aware of the general lack of knowledge, and the stereotypes on what a Spanish person should look like until I, as an adolescent , went to East Anglia (England) with a group of other Spanish secondary students. It must have been around 1986 if my memory does not fail me. I remember the scene very clearly. On the day we were leaving, my hostess was talking to another hostess saying that I did not look Spanish. The other lady, in turn, replied that the young Spanish guy he had had as a guest did not look Spanish either. Then, all the other youngsters started boarding the coach taking us to the airport, and the too women looked at us surprised and told us they thad hought that the French group (we shared a school with them for English classes) had already departed. We confirmed that that was the case. I suddenly realised that the fact that there were a few blonde heads among the Spanish youngsters boarding the bus had confused them. On another occasion, I was made fun of by some drunk members of staff of The Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh who started to suggest that I must have been the product of Summer romance between my mother and a northern European. These things leave a mark.
And no, my dear USA citizens, Spain is not in South America and many of my dear South American brothers have a different ethnic background from us people of Spain, a European country.
Anyway, who cares? In 150-200 years, to talk about race will not make sense anymore, because everyone is going to be so mixed that it will not matter any more, and identities will be defined by interests, abilities and feelings, not by origin. It’s our inexorable future, and I cannot wait. I cannot wait for religious fundamentalism of all descriptions to disappear too.
Posted 12 Feb 2006 at 8:47 pm ¶
Nicky wrote:
I don’t care what Eva is.She thinks she’s too white to be the Will Smith’s or Denzel Washington’s love interest.It’s thanks to these two BLACK actors that we’ve heard about her.She would never be cast to star in a Mexican telenovela.The actors in the Mexican telenovelas are far whiter than she is.Take Dominka Paleta for example.She’s a blond blue eyed beauty from Poland.Do I need to say more?
Posted 13 Feb 2006 at 12:50 pm ¶
iberiano wrote:
To all who read this you need not read anything except that which hispanus just posted,the nail was hit squarely on the head….he is absolutely correct in every form,mark you state that the spanish “look”of deep set eyes,high cheekbones,and small foreheads,(maybe in granada this is the norm) but in extremadura where my family comes from it is not,or in castile or in catalonia,the arabic influence survives in the very southernmost part of the country and thats about it,go to a world cup soccer site and look at spains national team they come from all parts of the country and they look very european,not middle eastern or north african,listen to hispanus……he clearly knows what hes talking about…..moreso than anyone else who has posted here
Posted 13 Feb 2006 at 3:43 pm ¶
Denver wrote:
Well she might not look white enough for some of you but she for fucking sure doesn’t look black. If I saw her walking on the street I would say she was hispanic and not think any further of it. She has hispanic features she could be mexican. I would guess that over anything. I mean im 1/8 black and I know a black when I see one.
Posted 14 Feb 2006 at 2:56 am ¶
Coco wrote:
ALL OF YOU ARE PATHETIC. ALOT OF PEOPLE LOOK LIKE A DIFFERENT RACE. THE GIRL SAID SHES CUBAN THATN SHE IS CUBAN. GET OVER IT. SHE DOES NOT LOOK WHITE EITHER, REPEAT SHE DOES NOT LOOK WHITE. AND FOR YOUR INFO NOT ALL SPAINARDS COME FROM WHITE PEOPLE, SOME COME FROM BLACK. AND ALSO MOST CUBANS COME FROM BLACK PEOPLE NOT WHITE. SO WHAT IF SHE WOULD MIX WITH ITALIANS. ITS CALLED A TANNING SALAN.
Posted 25 Feb 2006 at 9:26 pm ¶
Rochelle wrote:
wow these posts really interested me and shocked me..
comments like Denver really get me frustrated “I know a black when I see one”..that means you would be one of the “typical” people that would come across me and assume I was full black. Yes indeed I have chocoloate colour skin and my nose is not straight but I represent myself as Jamaican and Cuban. My father is Jamaican and my mother is of Jamaican and Cuban (my great gran is Cuban)..My mum is of light skinnned complexion so people often think she is mixed race or has some sort of mix in her ? You can’t imagine how this makes me feel.Sometimes I feel like an outsider in my own home. My point is from the amount of igonrant people we have around us today I would feel uncomfortable representing myself as mixed race(although it is of little percentage). I embrace my roots and am happy to say I am Jamaican/Cuban female. In Britain (where I live) there are very few cubans so it is harder for me to dig deeper into Cuban culture. I would have loved to have spoken spanish as my second language but this was not spoken to me when I was a child. From going on the Interent and through research I have found Cubans are of different shades of colour, from blue black to chalk white..Denver my point is after reading my post would you still know a black when you see one ?
Or would you just class spotting a black the same way the media tend to sterotype black features and appearences ?
I am interested to hear many reply’s in response to my heritage also
Posted 10 May 2006 at 9:39 am ¶
marko wrote:
i thing i have to say is that the blond hair blue gene come from the Baltic sea in norht eastern european countries like POLAND,FINLAND,SEWDEN,NORWAY,GERMANY,HOLLAND,LATIVIA BALTIC COUNTIRES ETC. in western europe the CELTS and Germanic tribes did have blond genetics. im american if dutch ancestory and i lived in spain for three years and let me tell every that all the spaniards i incounter were white but most had heavy black hair. i barely incountered any blond spaniards but i did see a little with blond marks and blue and green eyes.
the first inahbitants of spain were iberians which were neothlagic people that lived of farminng. next to spain came the CELTS which came from central europe but are cocasian and did bring blond hair genes into spain SCOTTISH AND IRISH ARE MOSTLY CELTIC AND HAVE BLOND, RED HAIR. NEXT in spain came the Greeks,Carthigians which are norther african civilation but are non cocasian exept for the Greeks. then came Romans
which touch the locall spanish inhabiatants latin but barely mixed with the localz. most hispanics and spaniards speak a latin language which is spanish but are not of Roman ancestor and it simple to say becouse the romans were part Nordics and Celtic in spain there no nordics. the Germanic tribes visgoth came to spain after the collapse of the roman empire and did live their genetics in norther spanish territory. in northern spain is more Celtic,Germanic then southern spain. souther spain is more moorish and norhtern african.the spanish language has arbic influence and flamenco also.
Posted 13 Jun 2006 at 11:10 am ¶
Joey wrote:
Ok Ok…enough already…my gosh. Some of these posting about who look white and who does not..what is hispanic…what is not is a bunch of crap.
First of all just for the record….SELMA HAYEK born in Mexico..her mother is of Spaniard parents..her father is lebanese (arab). Shakira is also half arabic…born in Colombia. Emilio Estevez..father Martin Sheen whos real name is Ramon Martin Estevez is actually half spaniard and half irish. Rita Hayworh ( real name margarita cansino) ..spaniard..Enrique Iglesias…spaniard, antonio banderas ..spaniard…penelope cruz..spaniard…cruz vega..spaniard.
We all look different…spanish people(spaniards0 are a mix of much…we have alot of Moorish blood(more than 700 years of rule) we have celtic,gree,roman,phoenician, cathanginian,germanic,semetic, gypsy,the original north african tribes the IBERIANS….so we are mixed. Contrary to popular belief…..most spaniards are not blonde and blue eyed and white skin…we are a meditterranean people. We are mixed……Hope this helps!!
Posted 21 Jun 2006 at 12:55 am ¶
Jamie wrote:
Race is not really the word for what you’re trying to describe. Species, an outward form or appearance, might be a better term. There are enough differences between European Caucasians and Sub-Saharan Negroids that they could be classified as two different species. Of course, they will never do that because of the PC ‘Let’s bullshit everyone and tell little black kids they were Egyptians” world we live in. I wouldn’t say I’m a racist, because I like Asians, etc, ( a racist only likes his own race) but I can pretty much predict what a person of a given race will do in a given situation a good percentage of the time. The other night we had a driver robbed, beaten with a club, and left for dead in the whitest neighborhood we deliver too, and I knew the assailants were Negroes. How could I know that? Experience. It’s really not race or color though. It is culture. That is why you hear people say “White people rob and beat people too!” Of course they do, when they’re into the black or “hip hop” culture. When I say black, I am referring to American descendant of slaves blacks, not those of other cultures. I once heard a baby in a parking lot crying and babbling. My back was turned to them. For some reason, I immediatly knew it was a “negro” baby just because of the intonations syncopation of his voice. I am a guitarist and have a really good pitch, maybe that is why I knew. When I turned, sure enough I would’ve won the horse, it was a little 6 month or a year old negro baby. What amazed me was how, if we are all the same (of course we’re not) could I possibly know the color of that baby or his facial features merely by the sounds he made which had a very “Ebonicy or ghetto” intonation? Maybe it’s just me….
Posted 21 Jun 2006 at 7:21 am ¶
Isabelle mcfadden wrote:
I am portuguese and the name Mendes is for sure Portuguese. Portuguese people come in all colors. eva would be on the darker shade of Portuguese people so you would think she could be mixed. but it doesn’t matter her nationality. She is beautiful
Posted 21 Jun 2006 at 10:50 pm ¶
Rochelle wrote:
yea maybe it is just you jamie..not every black person is influenced by the “hip hop culture”..please broaden ur sights instead of allowing the media to shape opinons for you.Plus your post has no relvenace to what anybody was talking about
get a life
Posted 25 Jun 2006 at 6:40 am ¶
Rochelle wrote:
ps so ur saying u can guess you can guess what a person of a given race will do in a situation yea ?
ok try this one
what would a white man do if he was walking alone and a genuine black man walked past saying hello ?
or
would a white boy be stopped by the police for walking down the street with his hood up?
OR EVEN
graduation day in a working class area
HA HA HA
expand ur knowledge
every1 is a individual regardless of their race !
Posted 25 Jun 2006 at 6:45 am ¶
Alessandro wrote:
It seems that a lot of people writing on here want to talk about their own ancestry (Maybe some people want very hard to be accepted as white and that is why they are saying that Eva Mendes is white - so that they can say “if she’s white then so am I”). I think the topic to be discussed was why Eva Mendes’ ethnicity got her her role in Hitch. The topic isn’t “is Eva Mendes white?…or can I discuss how white I am or am not…or can I tell you what I think of Spaniards? So……I myself did not see Hitch and don’t want to because I find Will Smith and Eva Mendes annoying. I, an American, would have seen Hitch even if it had been about a black/white relationship…as long as they were actors that I like…race doesn’t matter in making me want to see a film and it shouldn’t have been posed as a problem for the producers of Hitch.
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 7:42 pm ¶
mariza wrote:
eva mendes, while of partial european descent, definitely looks to be mixed of something else. she has already stated taht her parents are of mulatto descent from cuba. i come from portugal and while she might not immediately stick out as in say sweden, you can definitely see that she does not just have european features. don’t get me wrong either, there is nothing wrong with that because she is beautiful. people should stop trying to claim her for their own though, without knowing the facts.
Posted 08 Aug 2006 at 12:46 am ¶
Donna wrote:
Here i was looking for pictures to take to the hairdressers of eva mendes hair colour and i stumbled upon this. I am a person who loves knowing what ethnicity people are, as i love learing about different cultures and countries. I am half scottish, quarter asian and quarter english so when i read articles about certain people i think oh they are like me a bit of everything it makes me feel good about myself as for years i didnt no where i belonged i was quarter asian and told by people that i wasnt classed as mixed race but was told by others i was, and in a sense i always felt like i was as i have dark hair olivie tanned skin and big lips and people would always ask me what my background was. I have come to the conclusion that if your comfatable in your own skin it doesnt matter what race you are and that you shouldnt be judged on what box you tick on an aplication form. You are what you are and and i love the fact that when i meet people they wonder what my background is as ive been told i can pass for so many so like me and a good number of the population out there it doesnt matter what people say we are lets keep them guessing.
Posted 31 Aug 2006 at 4:45 pm ¶