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Oct 7th 2007, 7:35 am

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Well consider poor Keanu Reeves-that could be some serious hyphenating!!

Is he half Jap then ? I've alway's thought he was

Oct 7th 2007, 7:38 am

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Is he half Jap then ? I've alway's thought he was

Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon. He is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiian, half-English, and a Canadian citizen.

Oct 7th 2007, 7:39 am

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Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon. He is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiian, half-English, and a Canadian citizen.

Choice of passports there then

Oct 7th 2007, 7:45 am

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Choice of passports there then

Yeah, according to Wiki, his mother was an English showgirl who met his dad while working in Beirut.

Oct 7th 2007, 7:51 am

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Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon. He is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiian, half-English, and a Canadian citizen.

Keanu

Oct 7th 2007, 7:53 am

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Keanu

Kins of sad, I didn't realize that his girlfriend gave birth to a stillborn baby and then she was killed in an accident 2 years later. His sister (his only full sibling) was diagnosed with leukemia a few years ago.

Oct 7th 2007, 8:11 am

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That's very sad, you can have it all and not have it all as well

Oct 7th 2007, 8:18 am

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Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon. He is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Hawaiian, half-English, and a Canadian citizen.

I actually met someone who said they were half English, Half Irish and half native American.
100% stupid IMO

Oct 7th 2007, 9:20 am

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The guy in the video. It always bugs me when an American says " Im Irish" or whatever, when they were born here. If your born in America, your American!
Not Irish!

So why does it bother you? Most people born in the US are descended from foreign born immigrants. When someone says I'm Irish they are referring to their ancestry they're are not claiming Irish nationality.
A lot of immigrants suppressed their identity due to discrimination in the past, changing their names to fit in.