Cameron Diaz
Diaz in 2011, Dfree/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Cameron Michelle Diaz
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, United States
Date of Birth: August 30, 1972
Ethnicity:
*father – Cuban [Spanish, including Asturian, possibly other], one eighth Spanish-Venezuelan
*mother – English, Scottish, Irish, German
Cameron Diaz is an American actress, model, entrepreneur, producer, and author. Her roles include The Mask, The Last Supper, My Best Friend’s Wedding, There’s Something About Mary, In Her Shoes, Shrek, Vanilla Sky, The Counselor, and Charlie’s Angels and its sequel.
Cameron is the daughter of Billie, an import/export agent, and Emilio Diaz, an oil company foreman. Cameron is married to musician Benji Madden, with whom she has two children.
Cameron’s paternal grandparents were of Cuban descent [with Spanish, including Asturian, ancestry]; her father also had one eighth Spanish-Venezuelan ancestry. Cameron’s mother has English, Scottish, Irish, and German ancestry. Cameron has also stated that she has Native American ancestry on her mother’s side (sometimes specified as Cherokee Native American). It is not clear if this ancestry has been verified/documented. There are no Native American ancestors, Cherokee or otherwise, in Cameron’s mother’s recent and relatively recent family tree.
Cameron’s paternal grandfather was Emilio Cadiz Diaz Jr. (the son of Emilio F. “El Gato” Díaz and Joaquina “Queenie” Cabranes Cádiz). Cameron’s grandfather Emilio was born in Tampa, Florida. Cameron’s great-grandfather Emilio was a Cuban emigrant, from Havana. Joaquina was also a Cuban emigrant, and was the daughter of a man surnamed Cabranes, and of a Venezuelan emigrant, Antonia Cádiz Sánchez, who was of Spanish descent.
Cameron’s paternal grandmother was Gertrudes Lavin (the daughter of Luis Lavín García and Mercedes Duarte Alonso). Gertrudes was born in Florida. Luis was born in Cuba, to a Spanish-born father, Francisco Felipe Lavín, and a Cuban-born mother, Gertrudes García. Mercedes was also born in Cuba, also to a Spanish-born father, Manuel Duarte, and a Cuban-born mother, Mercedes Alonso.
Cameron’s maternal grandfather was William Marion Early (the son of John Winchester Early and Chloe Kendall Allen). William was born in Missouri. John was the son of William Robin Early and Emma Rozella Fusselman. Chloe was the daughter of Charles Marion Allen and Catherine Delcina/Della Babb.
Cameron’s maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Jeanette Waddingham (the daughter of Joseph Herbert Waddingham and Elizabeth Rankin Withers). Cameron’s grandmother Elizabeth was born in California. Joseph was born in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, the son of Joseph Waddingham, who was born in North Cave, Yorkshire, England, and of Frances Anna Kels/Kells, who was born in Templeport Parish, County Caven, Ireland. Cameron’s great-grandmother Elizabeth was born in Illinois, to an English father, Richard James Withers, and a mother from Missouri, Nancy/Nannie S. Scott.
Sources: Genealogy of Cameron Diaz – https://gw.geneanet.org
Genealogy of Cameron Diaz (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Cameron’s paternal grandmother, Gertrude/Gertrudes Lavin, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Cameron’s maternal grandfather, William Marion Early, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Cameron’s maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Jeanette Waddingham, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Elizabeth Jeanette Waddingham on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Cameron’s maternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth Rankin Withers, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
That’s because Americans are so mixed up with multiculturalism; to the extent that many people of all ethnicities have lost their native culture and identity, most particularly Europeans living in diaspora in the ‘united’ states.
..trust me, there’s nothing better than getting together with all your FAMILY who have lived or can trace their lineage back to the same geographical place, they have called home for thousands of years. Who share the same blood. The same religion. The same ideals. The same history…everything.
Americans are so concerned with being politically correct and learning about every other people’s cultures, they have lost their own.
Look at Australia, 92.3% of the population are of European ancestry, compare that to around 40% of Americans who classify themselves as European. And the state censes includes Arabs, who are definitely not European, as they traded Europeans as slaves and invaded our homeland for many years.
What is your point? Are you against races mixing or something? That is your choice, but don’t try to tell others what to do.
And argentina a Latino nation in south america more than 95% are white!!
North Americans are i-g-n-o-r-a-n-t !!! Latino or Hispanic is not a race, it’s an ethnicity that was MANUFACTURED in the United States of America as a way of first categorizing the growing number of whites with Spanish surnames and later to include any race who shares a so-called common cultural identification and language. Similar to the use of the categories Asian, African, Middle-Eastern, European, Pacific Islander, etc. Outside of the USA, people don’t typically refer to themselves as Latino or Hispanic, just their place of birth, regardless of race. But it’s usage is gaining popularity, as the USA tends to be a precedent setter — for good or bad! Now, getting back to Cameron Diaz. She claims Spanish Cuban descent the same way many Mexicans claim Mexican of Spanish descent as a way of eradicating the blight that is their black or brown roots.
LOOK AT HER REAL CAREFULLY. SHE LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THE WAYAN BROTHERS IN “WHITE CHICKS” CHARACTER.
By the way, Spaniards are a mixed race people too – Arab, Afro, Celt, Romanian, etc. Most Cubans are mixed up like fruit cake. If’n and unless she can trace back many, many Spaniards from both sides of her father’s family for generations, the likelihood is a good shake of her daddy’s family tree will drop some black fruit.
You know, it’s really sad that people are always trying to whiten away any black heritage they have. Everyone should rent the movie “SKIN”. It’s based on a true story about Sandra Laing, the biological colored offspring who was born to a white Afrikaner couple during the height of apartheid in South Africa. Her life tragedy is a testament of how primitively un-evolved the human brain really is.
Sory but Spaniards didnt mix with Arabs at all and never with AFricans. What you been drinking?
Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people
“White people are archetypically distinguished by light skin. Europeans have lighter skin (as measured by population average skin reflectance read by spectrophotometer at A685) than any other group that was measured. Southern Europeans (measures taken from Spaniards) show a skin pigmentation in parts of the body not exposed to the sun similar to that of Northern Europeans and, in some cases, even lighter.[26]”
I love the Wayans, but Cameron Diaz does not look like them. LOL!
Cameron Diaz is mixed in my eyes she is white and native american maybe other races I have no idea. She is mixed period. Also I am Haitian I considered myself Latino period. Because people that are so stupid like to think we are not but we are. Our lanuages cream Latin and Cultures. It was a French man who used the would Latino for those who speak a Latin lanauge his name was napoleon bonaparte and he was the ruler of French colonies Haiti and Lousinia ect.
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Oops my first reply was incomplete