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Birth Name:
Christine Marie Flores
Birth Place:
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Date of Birth:
September 26, 1981
Ethnicity:
Afro-Cuban
The R&B singer was born in New Jersey to Afro-Cuban immigrants named Don and Carmen Flores. Milian is able to speak Spanish.
Source:
- http://www.superiorpics.com/christina_milian/
- http://www.westlord.com/christina-milian/trivia.html
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with so gene pooling, and gene drifting, no one knows what they are mixed with anymore.
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Well it says she is AFRO Cuban and the Afro! is there for a reason and so what she is what she is! Also its funny that the Latino’s here are proud that Milan is Latino why don’t they claim the blacks in Latin america. Christina is beautiful women if she was darker with curlier hair big lips I wonder how many Latinos would be proud to call her Latin then
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I went to Cuba in 1996 with a group from my University. When I shared my itenerary with my grandfather (born in Santa Clara 1927 and raised in Havana) there was a notation that we were visiting Atarés “an Afro Cuban neighborhood” and my grandfather laughed and said that all of Cuba is an AfroCuban neighborhood- the music, religion, food, and just over all way of behaving, in particular in Havana is “afro”, regardless of skin color.
White skinned Cubans wear “collares” reflecting their participation in santería, they dance “son”, and play the “tambores”, and walk with “tumbao” (swagger & rhythm- u know, like our president!).
U get the point!
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She’s afro cuban i think we can all see a difference between her and Jennifer lopez seriously. I know J-lo is Puerto Rican but it’s the fact that they are both latinas.
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christina millian is a beautiful black cuban and the fact that she speaks spanish dosen’t make her a latina
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She is from Cuba and she speaks spanish that makes her latina. Her blackness doesn’t cancel it out. Just like how Blacks’ African heritage doesn’t make them not American and whites’ euro heritage doesn’t make them not American. Ethnicity is not a single category almost all of us are a mix.
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LATINO isn’t a race, it’ s a culture, an ethnicity. She is BLACK (well she looks more mulatta to me) and LATINA. PERIOD.
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Well there are black people in America that dont like being called African American does that mean that none of them like the term no. Alot of just want to be called American! However, we still African descendents stop trying to white wash people, there are also white cubans and Im sure they are proud because a lot of them are racist as hell!
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By the way, for anyone who cares. Recently there was an article in the Havana Times interview “Afro Cubans” who many said that they didn’t like the term, they knew very well who they were and that they descended either partially or fully from African Slaves brought to Cuba, but that the term itself made them feel like they were less Cuban than white Cubans, since white Cubans would just be called “Cubans” while they had the hyphen added to them as if they were not as Cuban.
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