Bianca A. Santos
Santos in 2014, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Bianca Alexa Santos
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: July 26, 1990
Ethnicity:
*father – Brazilian [Portuguese, African, possibly other]
*mother – Cuban [Spanish, possibly French, and other]
Bianca A. Santos is an American actress. She starred Lexi Rivera in the ABC Family series The Fosters and Lucy Velez in the MTV series Happyland, and co-starred in the film The Duff, as Casey Cordero.
Bianca is the daughter of Carmen Carnot and Carlos Santos. She has a brother, Bruno. Her father is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is of part African descent. Her mother is from Havana, Cuba.
Her parents are pictured here. A picture of Bianca with her family can be seen here.
Bianca’s maternal grandmother is named Mercedes Carnot.
You are not white and you have no idea what white people look like.
Do white people have a standard look? Even amongst European descent us Irish and Norwegian look different than Greek and Sicilians. In America whites of non Spanish origin often range from 0%-2% hidden black/African ancestry on average. and about the same Native American. I am confused what a white person looks like with my country of the United States Middle East/North Africa is labeled into white as well. No disrespect to you buddy. just a little confused
Often? What’s often to you, percentage wise?
There’s not a standard look, but there enough of difference to know a European from South/East Asian or a Sub-Saharan African. Southern Europeans sometimes though look like they’d fit in with MENA.
White is a weird term everyone has their own definition. Like you said MENA people in America get to check the white box on the census. But that seems more like a conflation of Caucasian and White. You can be caucasoid and not be white.
East Africa has a huge influence of MENA traits in their bloodlines, going back thousands of years because of genetic exchange. Sometimes they exhibits Caucasian features, but they still obviously are not.
White is a broad stroke term. Usually in America though, when you think white you picture light Anglo-Saxons because that’s what the media uses as the standard. There’s darker people in the British Isles, but they are considered odd looking. Moving to their Irish neighbors, if you’re Black Irish, they’re such an anomaly people think they’re from Spanish blood. Dark hair and eyes are prevalent in every area on earth. It’s weird people act like that’s not the case.
Passingtime85, yes. especially in the south where white Americans lived for generations hidden African ancestry it vey common.
Okay I think I get it. You pass for white/European, even though you are in fact mixed.
Odd look for a Spanish woman. Must have MENA heritage. I doubt if she has East Asian admixture though.
I don’t know about every person in Spain having MENA DNA, but it’s probably a sizable chunk.
ALL European peoples have DNA from the Middle East due to Early Neolithic Farmers/ENF who migrated from the Near East to Europe and intermarried with local Western European-Hunter-gatherers/WHG.
Now they may have some DNA due to the crusades. I doubt it would be too significant however.
Seeing through the Paternal lineages (Y-DNA), 4 most dominant Haplogroups in Europe: R, I, J and G.
R is mostly common at Western Europe, and somewhat Southern Europe. It peaks at Ireland at around 81%, then at France and Spain and England where it peaks around 60%. This was carried by steppe invaders from the EURASIAN steppes, the mass migration that happened around 4000 BCE. R1b and R1a originated around 22800 years before present, at the Middle East, Anatolia/Iran area specifically.
I is mostly common at Northern Europe, mostly among Germanic people and Balkan peoples. It peaks in Scandinavia and to a lesser extent at Germany, and then it also peaks at Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia&Herzegovina etc… Historically this haplogroup was mostly dominant at Germanic tribes such as the Normans, Goths, Anglo-Saxons and other Nordics and lesser at the Franks.
It migrated from the Middle East in the form of IJ and separated. So it can be described as the “original” European lineage, if you want to go historical.
J is common at Southern Europe, especially J2. J was carried dominantly by the ENF, Greeks, Latins(Romans), Etruscans, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Balkanic tribes (Thracians, Illyrians etc…) and also some J1 existed among the Steppe people, and later mostly by the Islamic Arabian settlers in Spain. This haplogroup was the brother of I, in form of IJ. However, J originated in either the Fertile Crescent area, or Anatolia.
G is the dominant lineage of Neolithic Anatolians, this haplogroup most likely originated at the Caucasus, and it was carried by the Romans, the ENF, Greeks, and even peaks at Tyrol at 40%!
@jackson9
Don’t you look like David Schwimmer? The Irish and Sicilians intermarried a lot in U.S. so I suppose they did not see each other as worlds apart. The Norwegians stand out more, I agree, but you still get people with both Italian/Sicilian and Norwegian ancestry on EC.
Andrew, I look very much like David Schwimmer, yet sadly Follers says I don’t make his role on Friends :-) And I am aware of Irish/ Southern Italian (Sicilian) marriages in the U.S. I think I might have significant Italian ancestry on my fathers side, discovered by DNA test.My mother is 100% Irish my father who we thought was 100% Norwegian came up 24% Italian. but how does an Irish and Italian who love each other and often repopulate mean the couple show any type of physical resemblance?
24% Italian? That means your father may be 1/4 Italian and not fully Norwegian.
400 years of Moorish occupation influenced the Iberian peninsula. I see resemblance to MENA phenotype in her features.
Black heritage in Europe is rare.
741 million people. African heritage in non-immigrants is a drop in the bucket. It is rare.
The African ancestry could also be in the mother, being that she is cuban
To be Cuban does not automatically mean to have (Sub-Saharan) African ancestry. There are some family pictures on her official Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGCuGpDS8zs/?taken-by=biancaalexasantos
https://www.instagram.com/p/-hxm0by89W/?taken-by=biancaalexasantos
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKtYABHAoUd/?taken-by=biancaalexasantos
her (maternal?) grandmother: https://www.instagram.com/p/BPBLFy5AAL9/?taken-by=biancaalexasantos
@Andrew
First I have shown this at least a thousand times now, that pictures don’t tell you everything about a person ethnic background.
This guy has some African Ancestry, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at him :
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjA4NTMzNDkyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTY2MDA2Mw@@._V1_.jpg
Secondly, I said the African ancestry COULD BE in the mother, because she was Cuban , I DIDN”T say it was in the mother, So don’t get your panties in a bunch
Man, relax. I know that pictures don’t tell you “everything” about a person ethnic background. About her mother, if she has any African ancestry, I don’t think it’s relevant/recent. If you want, I’d like to know your opinion about Clint Dempsey. Thank you.
However most of the times you have posted that Belgian model over and over
Quote(However most of the times you have posted that Belgian model over and over)
Ok no problem, I will do my best to use other people from now on, to make you feel better
Being that Clint Dempsey is from texas, he could be of mixed ethnicity. He looks majority European, but looks can fool you. He tan pretty easy, I don’t think that’s his Irish blood. It looks like he has something non-white in the recent bloodline
I belong to every haplogroup that’s been mentioned above, so again please define what a white/Western EURASIAN/European is. Whatever you refer to them as, white isn’t a race.
No one has been saying white is a race. It’s a broad stroke term for a sizable portion of the European population. Caucasian/caucasoid is a race, white is just a generalization,referring to many Euro Caucasians. People from Ireland don’t look like Iranians, nor do they look like Saudis. All the same race though. But which of the 3 would most people consider “white”?
She’s very mixed, but she doesn’t look so racially ambiguous.
She can easily be full Italian or Turkish.
she actually does not look Italian.
Her mother is Carmen R. Carnot. She is originally from Havana, Cuba.
Her father is Carlos Santos. He is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and part African.
Her maternal grandmother is Mercedes Carnot.
She has a brother, Bruno.
The surname “Carnot” is of French origin. “Santos” is a very common Portuguese surname.
Her parents are pictured together here: https://www.instagram.com/p/1LUysiS84h/?taken-by=biancaalexasantos&hl=en
Mother’s last name is Carnot:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLL3-22B