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Birth Name:
Adriana Francesca Lima
Birth Place:
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Date of Birth:
June 12, 1981
Ethnicity:
Swiss, African, Japanese and Native American Indian
The Brazilian-born model is of mixed ethnicity. In an interview on Fashion TV she stated that she is of Swiss, African and Native American heritage. While on another interview she mentioned that she also has Japanese heritage. These clips can be seen on Youtube at the links below.
Incidentally, Brazil has a large Japanese community that has been established there since the early 1900s.
Some sites say that Lima has Portuguese and French. She married Serbian basketball player, Marko Jaric in 2009.
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0UPv8gNHXU
http://www.adrianafans.com/
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Wow. First time I see her I joke to my aunt “she looks like she got black in her”. I joke but now I was accurate. She is a example of how beautiful the mixing of races can be (Excuse my english).
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN!
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SHE’S NOT A BRAZILIAN PARDO!
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80% of the people from her city – Salvador – are blacks. There are many blacks (light and dark) with blue or green eyes. I’m 100% that both her parents are mixed, and very probably, one of them are mulatto. She’s a model, she use a lot of make up and skin treatments, that makes her skin lighter. She’s pardo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo). An example: http://img717.imageshack.us/i/camilapitanga291008g.jpg/
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check how dark she looks on ugly betty episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoZGipp1fxg
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But Adriana doesn’t seem to be black. She looks WHITE. Her skin is white, and she has light eyes.
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In case you haven’t noticed, in this country people who have any measurable amount of African ancestry are considered black. I don’t think it should be that way but she is not white either.
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Hey.
She’s of African descent, but that doesn’t make her a mulatto.
She’s WHITE. She’s mostly european.
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To Anonymous
How do you know this?
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She’s just 1/32 black ;)
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To HelloKitty
I”m sorry, sometimes I get a little defensive. Here’s something you might find interesting:
http://knol.google.com/k/melungeons-redbones-and-other-u-s-maroons-e3#
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Fuzzybear, I think we have a misunderstanding. I agree with you. I was merely mocking all the previous posters. So many have basically said that she is too beautiful and exotic to be black and that if she has looked pale before that she can’t be mixed with black. People are small minded in America and think black or mixed looks a specific way and its just not true. I have a friend who is black and mexican (her mexican father is darker than her black mother) yet she is very pale, can’t tan, and burns easily.
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