What ethnicity are you?

dean cain was dean tanaka? well i never! :shocked:

whatever next, sarah michelle watanabe?! :hehe:

From Wikipedia: :)

Dean Cain (July 31, 1966) is an American actor most well-known for playing Superman in the television series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Born Dean George Tanaka, in Mount Clemens, Michigan to actress Sharon Thomas and US Army serviceman Roger Tanaka. His parents divorced before he was born, but his mother later married film director Chris Cain and moved to Malibu, California.

At Santa Monica High School, it became clear that Cain excelled in sports. When he graduated in 1984, he turned down 17 athletic scholarships to attend Princeton University, where he went on to captain the volleyball team and play free safety on the football team (setting the NCAA record for the most interceptions in a single season), in addition to joining the Zeta Psi fraternity. He was also rumored to have dated actress Brooke Shields who was one year ahead of him at the university.

Cain graduated from Princeton in 1988 (A.B. History) and immediately signed on as a free agent with the Buffalo Bills, an NFL football team, but a knee injury during training ended his football career before it began. With little hope of returning to sports, he turned to screenwriting and then acting, shooting dozens of commercials and appearing on popular television shows like Grapevine, A Different World and Beverly Hills 90210. In 1993, Cain took on the role of Superman in the new television series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, which ran until 1997.

In 1998, Cain started the Angry Dragon Entertainment production company, which produces the new TBS Superstation television series Ripley's Believe It Or Not. He has also starred in several films, including The Broken Hearts Club (2000), Out of Time (2003) and Bailey's Billions (2004). In (2004) he portrayed Scott Peterson in the fact based made for television movie The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story.

Dean Cain is a quarter Japanese, French-Canadian, Irish and Welsh and has a son, Christopher Dean Cain, with former girlfriend and model Samantha Torres

ooh! that's so interesting about dean cain. i used to like him in superman! that wa such a good show... and he's canadian! kinda.

and i'm a CBC: chinese born canadian :)

chubby_baby wrote:ooh! that's so interesting about dean cain. i used to like him in superman! that wa such a good show... and he's canadian! kinda.

and i'm a CBC: chinese born canadian :)

My netfriends say it's the other way around

CBC = Canadian Born Chinese

Interesting article on Dean Cain.
I wonder how many other Hollywood people have a pinch of Asian in them?

ahochaude wrote:Interesting article on Dean Cain.
I wonder how many other Hollywood people have a pinch of Asian in them?

i think many...

ahochaude wrote:Interesting article on Dean Cain.
I wonder how many other Hollywood people have a pinch of Asian in them?

This may answer your question aho. Sorry to repeat myself but I posted this already on page 17 but here it is again. Check it out:

Here is the link to MixedFolks.com. Check out the Hapa/Asian (Entire Asian Continent) section:

http://www.mixedfolks.com/

i'm half cotton, half polyester...and 1% spandex!

battlegirlai wrote:i'm half cotton, half polyester...and 1% spandex!

That's from Seinfeld!! :hehe:

ahochaude wrote:Interesting article on Dean Cain.
I wonder how many other Hollywood people have a pinch of Asian in them?

I think it's not a coincidence that he chose to stick with the Cain last name over Tanaka: I don't think he would've gotten the Superman role if he was Dean Tanaka. .. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
That's from Seinfeld!! :hehe:

it is?????? EWWWWWWWWWW...thankfully i didn't get it from Seinfeld (i can't stand that show)...its actually something my dad has said for years ^_^

battlegirlai wrote:i can't stand that show

:puppydog: :puppydog:


Maybe your dad got that line from Seinfeld... :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
:puppydog: :puppydog:


Maybe your dad got that line from Seinfeld... :hehe:

*dies laughing* my dad hates that show more than i do ^_^ its unlikely!

battlegirlai wrote:*dies laughing* my dad hates that show more than i do ^_^ its unlikely!

:ashamed:

bmwracer wrote:
:ashamed:

don't be upset ^_^ i don't mind if other people like Seinfeld! not everyone has the same tastes!

kenjilina wrote:i'm classed as european/british as i have a british passport but my mother is japanese and my father english.

i have lived in japan and in canada but have spent the largest amount of time in the uk.

Half Japanese half English? that have to be the best ethncity :)

I'm half `l(Dad) & half Malaysian Chinese(mum) but I'm British Born :(

Gundam-Freedom wrote:
Half Japanese half English? that have to be the best ethncity :)

I'm half `l(Dad) & half Malaysian Chinese(mum) but I'm British Born :(

i think deep down japanese and british people share a similar way of thinking, both being islanders an' all :hug:

however, having been to school in england and japan i found the japanese were more accepting of my parentage. i didn't enjoy school in england but in japan it was great.

kenjilina wrote: i think deep down japanese and british people share a similar way of thinking

And driving on the wrong side of the road. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
And driving on the wrong side of the road. :hehe:

yeah, noticed that the drivers side is on the opposite side, while watching the j-drama and from my trip to japan, as i recall. :hehe:

qilver wrote:
yeah, noticed that the drivers side is on the opposite side, while watching the j-drama and from my trip to japan, as i recall. :hehe:

Yeah, England and Japan seem to be the only ones...

Australia, maybe? :headscratch: