Is Vanessa Hudgens' Asian ancestry obvious to you when you see her?

[Sikeliot]

Her mom;

[SwordoftheVistula]

Definitely, I would have immediately thought her to be a mestizo were I to encounter her.

[Ibericus]

She doesn't look european at all, she has a pseudo-Mestiza look

[Sikeliot]

Could her mother pass as Amerindian?
She's Filipina with some Chinese and Spanish ancestry (although I doubt the Spanish is significant at all).

[GeistFaust]

Could her mother pass as Amerindian?
She's Filipina with some Chinese and Spanish ancestry (although I doubt the Spanish is significant at all).

She seems to have a similar genetic composition as Enrique Inglesias and it seems like they share a similarity in that regard but it is obvious she has Paleo Mongoloid influences when you mention it.

[Sikeliot]

Where would you place her mother if you didn't know?

I don't think her look is very Chinese, Japanese, or Korean but she's unmistakably Asian to me and not Amerindian.

[SwordoftheVistula]

Where would you place her mother if you didn't know?

Central American, mainly because she looks mongoloid but not east asian, and most of the mongoloid types around here are central Americans.

[Boudica]

I really didn't know she had asian ancestry, and don't really see it..

[Sikeliot]

Central American, mainly because she looks mongoloid but not east asian, and most of the mongoloid types around here are central Americans.

So she does look Amerindian to you then. I would mistake her for Indonesian, Malaysian, or Cambodian before Mayan but for some reason SE Asians and Central Americans have some weird overlap despite Amerindians having come from Siberia.

[Logan]

I really didn't know she had asian ancestry, and don't really see it..

I wouldn't think her is too dissimilar to some Mediterraneans. It might depend upon where one encountered her.