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Birth Name:
Kimora Lee Perkins
Birth Place:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Ethnicity:
Korean Japanese and African American
Fashion designer and wife of record producer, Russell Simmons was born to an African–American Father and a Korean Japanese Mother who adopted by an American service man during the Korean war.
There is some debate regarding her Mother’s ancestry. Some say she is half Korean while others say she is full Japanese. Kimora maintains that her mother is full blooded Japanese who was a war refugee that moved to Korea.
Source:
http://drinkthis.typepad.com/answer_this/kimora_lee_simmons_parents/
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Just imagine the world when everyone is the same color. That would be the end of a lot of problems we have today.
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Everyone is mixed – this is no such thing as “pure race”. For example, Koreans are mixed peoples of Mongolia and other Altaics. Africans are mixed of other groups as well. All of our racial makeups are constituted of continual admixture – one day, everyone will be beige.
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KoreanIsAsKoreanDoes, thanks for the comment, good point about the surname Lee. It definitely isnt Japanese your right. but I think Lee might be an English name as her mother was adopted as a baby and changed her full name to an English name, Joanne Perkins.
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If Kimora’s last name is Lee Perkins, she’s Korean and Japanese. No Japanese name is Lee, while both Chinese and Koreans have the last name “Lee.” Other Asians may spell it Le or Li, but Japanese names do not include “Lee.”
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i know some white people that went to africa and had there children there now tell me ethnic r they 100%african
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ethnic kinda but not really
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unless they just came over from Africa.
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yell all of them are. no black person in america is 100% black but to different degree
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errmmm no, not all of thm are :S
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See, folks don’t realize that all black folks are mixed to some degree. They are not just black. Non of them. Maybe the ones in the undiscovered lands of Africa.
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