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Is Neymar Asian?

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Marta Catalano answered

Hi,

Apparently Neymar is not Asian but is heritage is quite mixed.
Both his parents come from mixed European and African backgrounds. You can see a picture of a younger Neymar with his family here:

As you can see, none of them look ‘conventionally Asian’.

There’s a common knowledge that he also has Japanese heritage but that is quite common because a lot of Brazilian people come from different backgrounds. 

In Brazil, there is one of the biggest Japanese communities outside Japan and the majority of Brazil-Japanese citizens support and root for Neymar! Too bad he is out of the World Cup now due to a fractured vertebrae...

However, there’s still no evidence of him having a Japanese or Asian heritage.


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