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Marta is NOT a Minority.


I was reading recently that after DNA testing most "Latins" are just European people. They might have some tiny amount of Native American genes but most are a large percentage European.

I am a third Shawnee and have light brown hair and blue eyes. So, yes, it's cool and I know the story why I have NA genes, but I'm not NA. I may not be 100% white but by looks I am very much in that range.

The actress is this is a BEAUTIFUL white girl. Why couldn't they cast a woman who have brown skin and looks Native American if they wanted to make the point?

There's TONS of beautiful Mexican girls I have seen when living in Denver, and that would have been part of a much better message, to cast someone like that.

Seems weirdly racist to cast a obvious Caucasian.

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"A third Shawnee"
So you have three parents?

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I hope this is trolling....because one great grandparent obviously doesn’t make you one-third something.

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It has to be trolling. I refuse to believe that anyone is that stupid without it being on purpose.

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He's not trolling he's just full of shit and reacts badly when called out on it.

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I'm amazed that you're Shawnee. Almost all white people in the U.S. who claim Indian genes say they're Cherokee.

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Shawnee were in PA.

German people were not racist, that was the British. British culture has always been scummy, based on stealing, and they were and are even racist against their own white people. Jews and Arabs were heavily involved in all of that stuff too.

So, Germans sent Indians to school, got married, shared stuff, etc. My family was in PA before the Civil War and were those kind of people.

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This Shaman, he's Mayan,
And Apache, and Incan.
Plus he's Micmac, Cree, Aztec, with blood of Seminoles,
This Shaman is Navajo.

This Shaman's also Sioux,
Probably is Iroquois too,
And he's Mohawk, Seneca, and don't forget Cheyenne,
This Shaman is Algonquin.

This Shaman's Shoshone,
Kickapoo and part Hopi,
Also Nez Perce, Pueblo, Ute, and Mohican
He's every type of Indian.



Thanks for coming folks, I'm here all week!

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?.? She's Cuban, brah.

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Okay, they are largely European people.

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Because like it or not mestizos aren't as physically attractive as White people. So ironically even when Hollyweird wants to make an anti-White movie with Hispanic immigrants as good guys they have to cast a White girl.

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Latino/Hispanic includes a very wide range of peoples and can be either very cultural or more racial in nature. You can have red hair and blue eyes and if you and your parents were born in Mexico and speak Spanish, then you are Latino/Hispanic. But yes, I would love to see more indigenous peoples from the Americas in movies.

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Of course not.

Latino is not a race. There are white/black/asian latinos. It simply means you come from a latin language speaking country in the Americas.

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While I liked her in the role I somewhat agree with the TC. It doesn't help that neither she or the young woman that played her sister look anything like the woman that played their characters' mother.

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Well, the producers cast a Cuban actress to play the part of Marta. The Thromby family members thought she was from various central or south American countries or even from the USA (anchor baby). Kind of funny if you ask me.

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