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Birth Name:
Rashida Leah Jones
Birth Place:
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Ethnicity:
African American, Jewish-Russian, Jewish-Irish, Welsh
The daughter of the music producer Quincy Jones is a model and actress. Her father is mainly of West African/Central African ancestry with some Welsh heritage, and her mother is Jewish with Irish and Russian roots.
She was once studying Hinduism but now she is practicing Judaism. She is famous for her role on The Office as Karen Filipelli and Louisa Fenn on Boston Public.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lipton
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She is real exotic looking to me nice mixture!
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I think peoples’ obsession with race and/or ethnicity is pathetic. If I’m black, so what. White, who cares… Race, throughout history, has always been used to divide and control the masses. We were all the same color at one point up until Pangea split. and only through environmental adaptation did we develop the distinctive traits we categorize today. The polished response is always “we celebrate our differences and that is why race matters.” We see how far that’s gotten us. It will soon be 2012 and we still have race riots and ethnic genocide. Obviously, this point out our differences idea is not working. My suggestion, point out our similarities as far as character traits are concerned. We should address Jared not as the black guy down the hall, but as the guy who is always willing to share the last piece of cake. Not as Sarah the white girl in accounting, but as the girl who volunteers at the soup kitchen down the hall. Furthermore, the whole thought of celebrating different origins and pasts is ridiculous to me as well. All that should matter is what you are doing with your life in the hear and now. That has nothing to do with what your great great great great grandmother did. If she was really wealthy does that mean that you have to be? If she suffered some type of persecution does that mean you were wronged via genetic legacy? Ofcourse not! People should align themselves not but the color of their skin but by the integrity of their actions. I assure you, if one places the primary focus on doing the right thing and surrounding themselves with other like-minded individuals, race will fade into the background. Most importantly, people will have to be judged for their actions as a person with the ability to know right from wrong. To hold them to any other standard (although potentially beneficial to them at the time) is an insult to that person, sending a message that they aren’t intelligent enough or maybe human enough to understand what they’re doing. Hopefully I haven’t offended anyone. Just understand all I am saying is that I want to be judged/noticed/distinguished by my actions, not by the color of my skin. When I die, I want the first thought that comes to the minds of those who knew me, “the world just lost a person of integrity.” Something I could control…
Hot debate. What do you think?
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you’s right
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Your comment was way too long and although it may have contained some valid points they were all overridden when you stated that all humans existed together on Pangea…. Pangea separated around 250 million years ago; humans evolved 2.5 million years ago. Does anyone else notice a slight discrepancy? So please, keep your pseudoscience to yourself, you make all people who actually research before they comment and people who might agree with you look bad.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. I wasn’t referring to the Pangea during the dinosaur age. There have been many versions of Pangea and have gone by several names. Sorry if I offended you with my “pseudoscience”. So let’s get accurate! Maybe I’ll teach you something along the way. Before Pangea there were other times when supercontitnents were present. Pannotia (formed 600 million years ago), Rodinia (existing 750 million years ago), etc. Note that Pannotia and Rodinia were also called Pangea Alpha and Pangea Promotae or something along those lines. I’ll look that up and post it later. There have also been several incidents where convergent boundaries have occurred post Pangea where although they go by a different name, just like Pannotia and Rodinia, they did in fact form one solid surface connecting all the continents at once. Now here is where it differs, a few of these times, Pangea was connected by ice and thus why scientists don’t call it a supercontinent. But I say screw that noise, if it’s connected and humans could (did) cross it to get to all other continents, then it was another version of Pangea to me. I wish I knew what the documentary was called. It was on the discovery channel. It lined out how man spread from Africa initially and eventually developed distinguishing traits in order to adapt to their surroundings. Essentially they crossed over and found their way to most of the continents at the time due to convergent boundaries. And the few continents that weren’t then attached by land were attached by ice. So yeah, not Pangea, a later version of it that technically cannot be called a supercontinent because it was partially connected by ice and not land. So you are correct it was not TECHNICALLY another version of Pangea and not TECHNICALLY considered a supercontinent because it was connected through ice (that was traversed) and not land. Doesn’t change the truth of the matter asserted. That man started out the same and crossed over solid mass to spread to all the different continents we know today. So if no one takes anything else from this just know that we all came from the same place. And SMH, try to be a little less harsh with your comments. A better way to say it would have been, “Although you make some good points, you’re mistaken about your Pangea theory. Maybe you should research it more and see if you can find validity in your theory.” To me I feel like I just described a criminal to a T to the police and then later on after he’s caught, I catch flack for saying he was wearing a black hat when he was actually wearing a blue one. It’s okay though. I was technically wrong about the Pangea aspect just like I was technically wrong about the hat being black. Good thing we still caught the fictitious bad guy and my comment that was “way too long” still contained a valid premise and got the message across.
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Sorry meant to add this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans#cite_note-HavilandPrins2009-0
I know it’s wiki but all the cites line up (already checked) so yeah there is my research. Sorry I made all those people who do their research before they comment “look bad”. But after looking at this, my point is proven. I especially like the part where it says “The concept was speculative until the 1980s, when it was corroborated by a study of present-day mitochondrial DNA, combined with evidence based on physical anthropology of archaic specimens.” So yeah… Checkmate.
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I agree… and SMH should chill out a little and be a little kinder with your comments. The anonymity of the internet makes people awfully brave when they don’t have to worry about getting smacked in the face for something they said. And as far as Rashida, she is beautiful. You can’t say for sure, but I bet she is just as beautiful on the inside. She just seems like a really good person. :)
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African American is such a dumb term! It is so broad!
I took a DNA test and I am a little more than half West African, a little more than a quarter South/Central African. And the rest is other (European, East African, North African, Asian). Technically that would make me mixed. People need to stop being so stupid. World isn’t black or white. And since according to white people all of my other is “not black” that would make me about 15% “not black”. Which is more than 1/8th. So technically I’m mixed, but the worl will never see me as such. Smh. Oh well.
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u guys all need to shut the fuck up shes mixed… black and white dumbasses
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-one thing i don’t understand is when people call people like Quincy in this case “mixed”, but don’t take into account what he considers
himself: black. i think it’s no one else’s business how a person identifies except the person him/herself.
-ALSO OF NOTE: i am a white person who has 7 of 8 great grandparents who are white and 1 great grandfather born to 2 black parents. i think it would be preposterous to call myself “mixed” or to assume that i have any cultural bond with other “mixed” people who have effectively lived daily with both races and cultures.
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It’s always something with you I bet… Did you notice the name of the website… JFC
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I think she is the hottest woman alive like An angle from heaven
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What kind of angle though? 90 degrees? 180?
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jewish as in israeli right? jew/judaism/jewish is an effin religion, i hate how people refer to jew as a nationality, ethnicity, religion is so damn annoying, so basically shes african american, israeli-irish and russian, welsh
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Jewish is a faith and ethnicity. to get technical, Judaism is the Jewish faith. Israeli did not exist until after world war 2, it was created with the hope of returning jews to their “home land” according to the Bible… i hate when people are too stupid to open a history book and close minded about religion they don’t even realize they buy into it.
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She looks like a tan white person.. but she’s still pretty.(no homo)(:
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