Birth Name:
Naomi Campbell
Birth Place:
London, England
Ethnicity:
African and Chinese Jamaican
The British Supermodel was born to a father of Black Jamaican ethnicity with part Chinese ancestry. Her paternal grandmother was said to be of Chinese ancestry, with the family name Ming. This was reported on the British newspaper, The Independent. Naomi had never met her biological father who left the family before she was born.
Her mother is of Black Jamaican heritage.
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Africa is more diverse too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL1ZMJEEs4I&feature=related
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No matter what blood she inherited, oriental, african whatever. The importance is she’s goddamn beautiful and sexy.
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It’s all nonsense. Even if it were true, how can one take claim to something that is soooo far back???
Funny how white people don’t do this. Angelina Jolie has curly hair, full lips and played a mixed woman in a film. She doesn’t claim blackness though.
You have mixed people like Obama or Alicia Keys calling themselves black, and black people like Campbell or Beckford calling themselves mixed.
Funny that:/
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i’m so fed up with that … When black people are beautiful, media try to make them non black, overclaiming their non black side !! Naomi, despite of her “chinese” blood, has negroid features, including her eyes, her nose, her lips, and cheekbones !
For cry sakes i have thin eyes like chinese people, like every relative of my mother’s side, and no chinese blood believe me !!!! Maybe naomi has chinese blood, but its her black blood which make her so beautiful !!!!
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sometimes
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Jamaica is more diverse than many think.
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I grew up & live in multi-ethnic Hawaii and Naomi IS DEFINITELY part Chinese It is very evident in her face–her cheekbones and eyeshape are strong clues. I would guess that on the low end she’s 1/16 to 1/8 Chinese, and at the most she’s about 1/4 Chinese. I used to wonder b4 if she had any asian, so now I know that she is and that her particular asian is Chinese. Also, I did not know about the Chinese connection to Jamaica so it’s great to know about that now!
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why is it that on every other african-american/mix celeb page there’s at least one person saying that the particular celebrity is trying to deny being black? black is a pretty dominant gene. one can look almost all or completely black yet still have mixed ancestry. get a grip, people. maybe you all have a hard time accepting that you’re all 100% something.
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Yes there are a good portion of Jamaicans with Chinese ancestry, I know a couple personally who aren’t related.
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Descendants of indentured servants of Asian and Chinese origin continue to reside in Jamaica today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Jamaican
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I spoke too soon without reading this.
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