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* [[Michael Jackson]] was often accused of having used plastic surgery to trying to make himself look Caucasian.
** He just bleached his skin to even out blotches caused by [[wikipedia:Vitiligo|vitiligo]]. Or so he claimed. There's plenty of proof online that he had vitiligo. Of course, vitiligo doesn't narrow your nose, give you a cleft chin, or raise your eyebrows.
* The treatment of Tiger Woods. His famous self-designation of "Cablinasian" refers to his Dutch, Black, American indian, Chinese and Thai heritage, but apparently ''some'' people still follow the [[Old Shame|"one drop rule"]] in regards to "blackness", to the point of chastising him as much for [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111204417/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/34288353/ns/sports-golf
* Despite common popular belief, "Latino" and "Hispanic" isn't a race as much as it is an identity, and most of the time it's a combination of races. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Admixturehispanicswest.jpg The average Latino is around half white/half native]{{Dead link}} but it isn't uncommon to find [[wikipedia:Christina Aguilera|White]], [[wikipedia:Alberto Fujimori|Black]] and [[wikipedia:Alberto Fujimori|Asian]] Latin Americans. [http://www.latina.com/entertainment/tv/jessica-alba-discovers-her-true-ethnicity-lopez-tonight The aforementioned Jessica Alba was astonished to find she is 13% Native American, 87% European.]
* Ladies, gentlemen and other curious creatures, observe a photo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory crew: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160215020246/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/2/11/celebrating-women-in-science one], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180923210629/https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7705/women-in-science/ two]. Or, on FotoForensics: [https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=37ad0a842c6663e6e9307b1ec8862f225b8e0fe8.965044 one], [https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=e86fb408c2c7b6326ba2d186ff5ab93711ba16c9.2356099 two]. Aside of the one glaringly obvious difference, compare apparent skin tones in the crowd. That's the change (as you can see in metadata) between 11 February 2016 (original date) and 15 March 2016. Not insisting on any specific conclusions, but the next time someone tries to use NASA in [[Appeal to Authority]] rhetoric, you have a memorable example to recall.
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