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Birth Name:
Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas
Birth Place:
Glen Cove New York, USA
Birth Date:
October 13, 1980
Ethnicity:
African American
The singer/actress’s real name is Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas and is an African American. In interviews she has been quoted to say “I’m just black” when asked about her ethnicity.
Some sites have claimed that she is also of Dominican and Chinese descent, but these claims have not been verified.
Ashanti is also the name of a major ethnic group in the African nation of Ghana where the mother line is of enormous importance. The singer was named after this ethnic group by her mother.
Source:
http://ashanti.celebden.com/?cat=7
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WRONG, her father is has asian and black, and her mother is black. She said it in a interview awhile back when she came out with her first album.
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She’s very pretty but her makeup is wayyyyyyy to light for her skintone #justsaying
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Ya i agree she need to get a new make up artist.lol
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I agree with you Sunny B, I am a mixed trini and so my complexion has a yellow overtone when I am not exposed to the sun and when I travel, white people always want to know where I am from….Just because you are black it does not mean you have to be really dark skinned and wear weaves, i think in this day and age it is just plain ignorance. But to me Ashanti looks dougla (east indian and black), usually us trinis can tell because we are integrated
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I agree with the person before, why do people focus on complexions all the time. I am considered dark complexion with reddish undertones, and people ask me all the time where my parents are from, what country, what ethnicity or nationality. I think that’s irritating because I look exoctic I can’t be black. Because I’m beautiful I just can’t day I’m black. People have become obbssesed and people need to stop it. It’s crazy!
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Why Can’t You White People Face The Fact That She Is Just Black! She Have No White Blood, And You White People Always Try To Take Ownership Of An Full Black Person. Every Time There Is An Full Blooded Beautiful Black Woman, White People Assume They Have White Blood. Black People Come In All Shades, So Stop Jumping To Conclusions.
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They do that AS IF white blood means that’s where the beautiful black women who do happen to be mixed with white got their beauty. Truth is, all the “beautifying” features come from the BLACK side of the family. For example, the full voluptuous lips, the NATURAL big round behind/breasts, the tanned/dark skin, the curly hair. So trying to paint every beautiful sista as “mixed” or in other words, supposedly NOT black, really does nothing to help their obvious low self-esteem. Though it does seem to help (thanks to some black people’s continued slave mentality) in their scheme to use physical features to divide one group of blacks from the other.
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How exactly do you know it is whites who are implying she is mixed? For all you know, many of these people could be mixed or if another race.
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well she only looks mixed because she doesn’t know how to put on makeup.. if you compare the tint of her face with that of her arms or any other part of her body you will see that the light make up gives her skin a brighter hue.
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