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Birth Name:
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom
Birth Place:
Canterbury, Kent, UK
Ethnicity:
English
His maternal Grandparents are of English Descent and Orlando’s Mother, Sophia Copeland was born in India. His biological Father, Colin Stone is an Englishman. His legal father was a Jewish South African named Harry Bloom. Therefore biologically he is of English ancestry. Many discussions on the web state that he is Mexican or Jewish but there is no evidence supporting this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bloom
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I ALWAYS THOUGHT MAYBE HE WAS A PERCENTAGE OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN EXTRACTION, SINCE, HIS NAME WAS ORLANDO AND OF HIS SWARTHY FEATURES. HE COULD BE HAVE BLACK IRISH BLOOD ROOTS, SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE…WHICH IS VERY PLAUSIBLE, SINCE, A LOT OF BRITS ARE MIX WITH THEIR NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES… LIKE SCOTLAND, IRELAND, WALES, SINCE, FROM BACK IN THE DAY , ESP. ROYAL MARRIAGES. TO ME…. IT SOUNDS LIKE ORLANDO REALLY DOESN’T KNOW OR MAYBE, HE REALLY DOESN’T HAVE THAT MUCH INTEREST IN FINDING OUT. WHICH IS WHY HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF JUST BRITISH.
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he is a very dark haired/featured brit !!!! Wayne Rooney is more typical, but yeah he’s still white but more Italian/Greek looking !
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The concept of racial purity is more a matter of ancestral amnesia than historical fact. Recent advances in genetic sequencing of ancient bones have shown that the ancient Greeks looked much like their modern counterparts (i.e. mostly dark-haired and olive-skinned), and there is little reason to believe that the same doesn’t apply to the Romans.
The Finns are a very pure group, and have been rewarded for extensive (albeit often unintentional) inbreeding with some 30 genetic diseases found almost nowhere else in the world.
Have you ever been to Africa or Asia? People on these continents are as diverse and mixed as those of Europe, or even more so – especially in Africa, as the cradle of mankind.
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The above was a reply to A/N.
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LOVE IT!! From one site owner to another.. outstanding. I need to make a blog like this. Keep up the good work! TV Repair Orlando
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I always thought he was italian:)
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uhhh, his mum’s name is sonia, not sophia
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Orlando is like many other people in England. Think about it: The Romans conquered parts of England and a city in the Southeast was called Londinium (London, anyone?) by the Romans. People in England are mongrels just like any other country. Most are mixed with Anglo, Saxon, Roman, Welsh, Cimric, Gaelic, and some of the ancient tribal peoples that lived on the islands of England , Ireland, and Scottland. Duh!
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The vast majority of DNA in all parts of the British Isles (among natives) came over from the Iberian peninsula towards the end of the last major ice age speaking a language similar to Basque. That is a very long time. No subsequent invasion contributed more than 5%.
The article text can be read here:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I/2007-08/1186836645
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As the article says:
“Dr. Oppenheimer disputes this, saying the similarity between the English and northern European Y chromosomes arises because both regions were repopulated by people from the Iberian refuges after the glaciers retreated. ”
In any case, the total invader input is said to be 30% in the article, which seems plausible to me, give and take a little.
Nevertheless, there are many “dark Brits” who look as dark as Bloom, he’s not unusual at all. Just look at the Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, English Rowan Atkinson,Tony Robinson, Charlie Chaplin, Colin Firth or the Beatles. Also Irish Dave Allen or Colin Farrell. They don’t look like him, but the all have dark features. They aren’t even among the darkest Brits. They’re like ordinary people you see every day on the streets in Britain/Ireland. They may be a minority, but they’re common enough.
Young Tony Robinson:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9434/tonyseatedbw.jpg
A very typical Brit, in the places I’ve mostly been to, which is south western England. People say that the NE Brits are more fair, with mostly blue eyes, but I’ve never been to those areas, so I dunno.
I would recommend that people visit England, though, the British countryside is very nice. Then they can see for themselves that the Brits aren’t all blonde blue eyed people. Big cities kind of don’t count due to Immigration, but in the countryside and in small towns they’re still predominantly native Brits, and many people have brown eyes and dark hair.
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WHILE YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT THE ROMANS INVADING GREAT BRITIAN FOR A TIME, JUST AS THE MOORS (BLACKS AND MIDDLE EASTERN ARMIES) INVADED LOWER/SOUTHERN EUROPE AROUND 711 A.D., WHICH CHANGED THE RACIAL MAKE-UP FOR SOME PEOPLE LIVING IN THOSE COUNTRIES, WHICH IS WHY SOME DARK SKINNED, DARK HAIR, DARK EYES, ETC., ECT., ETC., THE ROMANS WHO INVADED BRITIAN AT THAT TIME WERE ALSO WHITE ANGLO SAXON AND WERE NOT THE ITALIANS YOU KNOW TODAY. MOST EVERY BROWN OR DARK SKINNED PERSON WHO LIVED IN ROME DURING THAT ERA WERE SLAVES AND WOULD NOT HAVE TRAVELED TO GREAT BRITIAN WITH THE OCCUPYING ARMIES.
ORLANDO BLOOM IS BOTH ANGLO SAXON AND AFRICAN, BECAUSE THAT IS WHO JEWS, ITALIANS, SPANIARDS, PORTUGUESE, BASQUE, ALBANIANS, GREEKS, MOROCCANS, PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, ROMANIAN, ETC., DESCEND FROM.
THERE ARE ONLY THREE (3) GENETICALLY PURE RACES: THE WHITE SKINNED ANGLO SAXONS; THE BROWN/OLIVE SKINNED ASIANS; AND THE BLACK SKINNED AFRICANS, AND THAT IS IT. YOU ARE EITHER ONE, OR MORE, OF ONLY THESE THREE (3) GENETIC RACES. SORRY, BUT IT’S TRUE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
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There are no “genetically pure races”. Genetics doesn’t support the idea of discrete races, in fact the opposite is the case. It does show genetic “clustering” based on geography, IE that people who live closely together are more closely related than people who live farther apart (obviously excepting migrations in the past 500 years).
Genetics doesn’t say that there are no races, but it shows that potential human races aren’t discrete, which also means that they’re not pure.
You can always find people who have extreme features and contrast them, but in doing that you ignore all the intermediate people, and the natural variation within the populations. Racialist views are based on stereotyping, and if humans should be split up in races, it would have to be split up into endless different racial categories, because there are always whole populations which does not fit into any of the few categories, no matter how you make them.
Just because you say: “SORRY, BUT IT’S TRUE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT” doesn’t mean that your post has any merit.
But then again, you write in ALL CAPS.
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He Loos 100% hispanic to me.
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