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Birth Name:
Lou Diamond Upchurch
Birth Place:
Phillipines
Ethnicity:
Scottish, Irish, Hawaiian, Cherokee, Filipino, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese
Star of the movie Young Guns has a Father of Scotch-Irish, Hawaiian and Cherokee Descent. His mother was a Filipina of Japanese, Chinese and Spanish descent. His Cherokee ancestry is said to be one-eighth.
He stated “People often mistake me for a Latino or even Indian, so I always mention in interviews that I am Filipino and I’m proud to be one”.
http://www.2g.org/home/news/meettheartist/currentnews-loudiamondphilips.shtml
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ah, you dont just have two parents!! lets do a graft kiddies…your parents had two parents on each side, and then there parents had two…I mean it goes to 2,400..saw a graft once on tv, or the magazine,..but dr once told me..Iam mex,french,sefardic (mediterrean jew,spanish…if I had four kids, once would probably have blue eyes and blond hair, my hubby had that, Iam complete opposite..so yea, genetics plays a big part, you never know whats going to show up…ever see black people with a white baby…hey it happens…so god likes to paint with colors….thank God
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