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Birth Name: Naya Rivera
Date of Birth: January 12, 1987
Race or Ethnicity: African, Puerto Rican, German
Rivera plays Santana Lopez in the television show, Glee. She stated in an interview that she is half Puerto Rican, a quarter German, and a quarter African American.
Her father is Puerto Rican and her mother is half Black half German.
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Most beautiful woman ever!
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Yes, a lot of mixed Taino/Arawak in Puerto Rico. A blend of various Europeans, a blend of people from other islands and countries and also mix of Spanish, Taino, and African ancestry. Majority of African Americans have European and Native bloodlines too!! So she looks Latina – Especially Puerto Rican/Cuban, Dominican and Brazilian.
The Tainos/Arawak originally came from South America, and then to the Islands of Puerto Rico, Dom Rep, and Cuba!
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She’s got the best of all worlds! GO GIRL!
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She looks a bit like Amber Rose
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She is pretty.
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She is gorgeous.
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Her father is Puerto Pican and her mother is half Black half German
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Overly simplistic but true and accurate.
Genetically most likely she would be something like:
Puerto Ricans average out to 33% European 33% African 33% Native (Tanio).
African Americans Average out to 75% African 25% European
So technically she would be 41.5% European 41.5% African 17% Native.
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she may have 41.5% European, 41.5% African and 17% Native. But by looking at her, i say the native gene is strong on this one. Beautiful
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she seems part Asian
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As soon as i saw her i thought she looked part Native American. Has she got a little bit of that in her? cause i don’t think Puerto Rico is that mixed, just white Spanish and black, and maybe Mulatto.
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There are actually a lot of indigenous or “native” people in Puerto Rico, and a lot of the people on the island may not be full blooded Taino (thats the name of the tribe) but they are mixed just like most Latin American countries.
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monica the talking about rihanna black is a strong color so lets see it you know the girl from shake it up zenedaya coleman type it up if you don’t know she is white and black but her skinned tone is black i’m indian but nobody is going to see that i’m black like batack obama he’s white but is black but people perfer him black because of the hertage is dark
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