View Full Version : Could KJ Apa pass as fully British?
MobyD
03-12-2020, 12:42 PM
He has a Samoan grandfather but looks more like his British Isles side IMO
https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/kz9hyQNjXfh53tflZz_96BQ3p0U/fit-in/2048xorig/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2019/05/28/737/n/1922153/f26041dda82f49bc_GettyImages-1140239579/i/Kj-Apa-Natural-Hair-Color.jpg
https://pm1.narvii.com/6495/64d3d635fdcb5c0edbd5b8edd848325587bfd395_hq.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/KJ_Apa_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg
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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/62/62/42/6262423000b77bacc470fa1561616153.jpg
https://i.insider.com/599610f64dcf3559748b488f?width=1100&format=jpeg
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Celestia
03-12-2020, 01:11 PM
Yes.
Voskos
03-12-2020, 01:34 PM
I would've guessed him as a full white.
Grace O'Malley
03-12-2020, 01:37 PM
No. Maori or Pacific Island ancestry is obvious looking at him.
MobyD
03-12-2020, 02:58 PM
No. Maori or Pacific Island ancestry is obvious looking at him.
How though? If you’re talking about his nose, then I have to disagree. This nose type is not uncommon in NW Europe.
Gondor
03-12-2020, 05:03 PM
No. I immediately guessed the pacific ancestry
MobyD
03-20-2020, 06:41 PM
bump
Grace O'Malley
03-20-2020, 06:55 PM
How though? If you’re talking about his nose, then I have to disagree. This nose type is not uncommon in NW Europe.
It's obvious and if you can't see it then I can't understand how you can't. There are lots of Maoris and Pacific Islanders here and he has obvious ancestry from them. He definitely doesn't look fully British.
This is Daniel Carter, former All Blacks captain. He is British Isles/Maori ancestry.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/5nyw9u62jTeNsy6JyhVWDRlPipg=/360x384/filters:quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PWMQL6H2HNG2LPPFUAJ2D3RRXE.jpg
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/rd0JV16CIYPXIinTbW4lYBQXto8=/360x384/filters:quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2PFU7VYENZH7VJWMMEPXCU42FQ.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Dan_Carter_1024x768.jpg
MobyD
03-20-2020, 06:57 PM
It's obvious and if you can't see it then I can't understand how you can't. There are lots of Maoris and Pacific Islanders here and he has obvious ancestry from them. He definitely doesn't look fully British.
This is Daniel Carter, former All Blacks captain. He is British Isles/Maori ancestry.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/5nyw9u62jTeNsy6JyhVWDRlPipg=/360x384/filters:quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PWMQL6H2HNG2LPPFUAJ2D3RRXE.jpg
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/rd0JV16CIYPXIinTbW4lYBQXto8=/360x384/filters:quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2PFU7VYENZH7VJWMMEPXCU42FQ.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Dan_Carter_1024x768.jpg
This guy looks more exotic than KJ Apa.
Grace O'Malley
03-20-2020, 07:00 PM
This guy looks more exotic than KJ Apa.
KJ only has a grandfather that is Pacific Islander but it is still obvious in his looks. You can see the similarity.
Latinus
03-20-2020, 10:12 PM
Outside Anthroforums, a.k.a real world, yes.
MobyD
03-20-2020, 10:21 PM
Outside Anthroforums, a.k.a real world, yes.
Exactly. Some of these responses are obviously biased.
MobyD
07-04-2020, 01:46 PM
bump
MobyD
03-24-2021, 02:20 PM
Here with his parents
https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/04/01/12/kjapabelieve0104.jpg
TheMaestro
03-24-2021, 02:54 PM
Outside Anthroforums, a.k.a real world, yes.
This
Petalpusher
03-24-2021, 03:04 PM
I didn't know, when i saw it in Riverdale or something, i thought he had something uncommon, and it could have been just some exagerated cm. I guess he passes unless you know.
MobyD
03-24-2021, 05:10 PM
I didn't know, when i saw it in Riverdale or something, i thought he had something uncommon, and it could have been just some exagerated cm. I guess he passes unless you know.
I don’t think the average person is going to look at him and go, “Oh yea he’s obviously part Samoan!”
Pietro97
03-24-2021, 05:15 PM
Maori is visible
But not 100%
Pietro97
03-24-2021, 05:16 PM
I don’t think the average person, is going to look at him and go “Oh yea he’s obviously part Samoan!”
1+
Pietro97
03-24-2021, 05:18 PM
He passes as a white American
Creoda
03-24-2021, 05:32 PM
No. Australoid brow ridges + thick nose, black hair, brown eyes, bushy eyebrows and unusual skin.
Outside Anthroforums, a.k.a real world, yes.
His name gives it away, don't need to be an anthrotard to recognise that.
Latinus
03-24-2021, 05:56 PM
No. Australoid brow ridges + thick nose, black hair, brown eyes, bushy eyebrows and unusual skin.
His name gives it away, don't need to be an anthrotard to recognise that.
If he wasn't famous and didn't use that name, he would easily pass.
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Classic case of, 'Oh yeah I can see that', after learning he is 1/4 Samoan.
If I didn't know, I would have put him in the category of unusual looking Brits like Mr. Bean or Russell Brand (not that he looks like them, just that he is unique looking, like them).
Creoda
03-24-2021, 06:25 PM
If he wasn't famous and didn't use that name, he would easily pass.
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Not to me (or Grace).
Uranous
03-24-2021, 06:53 PM
the majority of its phenotype is European.
Davystayn
03-25-2021, 07:40 PM
He looks obviously mixed, doesn't even look paleo atlantid.
One of the worst things about this forum is people stating that people can fit somewhere that they don't live in.
Clear islander heritage which is common in NZ particularly. He doesn't pass as unmixed sorry
Ekjee
09-03-2024, 11:41 AM
So he isn t considered white?
Upsilander
09-03-2024, 02:33 PM
Ironically looks more Cromagniform than the majority of the British isles. The archaic admixture is not even that noticeable on his skull, only on close inspection (ramus, brow ridge, zygomatic arch,...)
Ekjee
09-03-2024, 02:35 PM
Ironically looks more Cromagniform than the majority of the British isles. The archaic admixture is not even that noticeable on his skull, only on close inspection (ramus, brow ridge, zygomatic arch,...)
Would you consider him white? I personally didn t know he ain t white
Upsilander
09-03-2024, 02:40 PM
Would you consider him white? I personally didn t know he ain t white
Yes. Didn't question it watching a few episodes of Riverdale. I even thought back then he had above average CM which is not that common in Anglo, simply assuming he was a random Amerimutt.
Most people wouldn't see that obviously the Tahitian admixture in this guy either even if he is half (his sister looks more "mixed" imo) :
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?386852-Kauli-Vaast-French-Surf-Gold-medalist
Ekjee
09-03-2024, 03:07 PM
Yes. Didn't question it watching a few episodes of Riverdale. I even thought back then he had above average CM which is not that common in Anglo, simply assuming he was a random Amerimutt.
Most people wouldn't see that obviously the Tahitian admixture in this guy either even if he is half (his sister looks more "mixed" imo) :
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?386852-Kauli-Vaast-French-Surf-Gold-medalist
I will never fully understand this cm thing lol
I have seen people typing with this even noneuro people
Upsilander
09-03-2024, 03:25 PM
I will never fully understand this cm thing lol
I have seen people typing with this even noneuro people
It's just the epicenter of it but non Euro people-yet mainly Caucasoid can have some form of CM. If you look at the cromag skulls you will start to recognize it after a while, as well as in wich ways moderns diverge from it.
Actually the only valid way to really classify people would be to post radiographies of their skull as real anthropologists would do, everything else is superficial. (don't do that tho)
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