Jessica Alba Is European
Actress Jessica Alba was surprised to learn that a DNA test which was taken during the George Lopez show indicated that she has more European blood than Latin American. The noticeably shocked actress, whose mother is French-Danish, and her father, a second generation Mexican, was expected to have more Latin genealogy than any other groups. The saliva swabbed off Alba was tested in a laboratory and the result was announced on the US talk show.The beautiful 28 year-old mother of precious little Honor Warren, was almost named 'Farah' after the Charlie's Angel's actress Farah Fawcett, but her father decided to change her name after she was born because she was brown-skinned. Alba said that her father thought she did not look like a 'Farah'.
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"Latin" refers to heritage from European regions that speak a Latin language (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese). Most Latin Americans have European Latin blood as well as indiginous blood, and also a fair chance of other ethnicities also mixed in, so I am confused as to why Jessica Alba or anyone else, would be shocked that her genetics showed her to be of mostly European descent. No mention was made in the article of her father's heritage,beyond saying he was second generation Mexican. Am I missing something?
You didn't miss anything. The article doesn't consider that the latim america population descends from immigrants from diferent european countries. Many Mexican Families are from Spanish ( Spain is in Latin Europe ). So his father can bear offspring close to Europen and there is also a good chance of being result of a mixture of Spanish, Portuguese and even black. Latin America is a great mix of ethnicities. For example :My father's family is French-Portuguese and my mother's family is germany and I live in Brazil. I am Latin
Well, half of her DNA would be from her all-European mother, and unless her father is full-blood native American, she'd get at least some European DNA from him, so unless she's really bad at math, she shouldn't be too shocked.
Jessica Alba has like the most part of french a source Latino-Germano-celtic if we refere to her most recent source, French, Danish and mexican.