Is Marco "El Chino" Maidana part Asian? Unofficial Poll!

Is Marco "El Chino" Maidana part Asian? He looks like Chris John might have been "friendly" with his mom.. He looks like his great grandfather might have been Chinese at the very least. No bashing, Just wondering what NSB thinks. Poll to follow. Please discuss. the aboriginal people of america came over the asia/alaska land bridge so it's not surprising that some native peoples would look asian. also, its possible that some asians might have migrated into argentina in the last couple of centuries

funniest damn title I've read in awhile.

by 9pm last night, we adopted him....we traded Randy Suico, a bag of rice and a tricycle :dance: LOL.... green bro.

There were Japanese who immigrated to South America, so there is a chance his probably some ancestry in him.

so does anyone have pictures of maidanas family to see if they are asians.

He is part Mongolian part argentinian:hitit:

if he has japanaese blood he should be called "el japon" Looks like his friends growing up didn't check the Wikipedia page! Now he'll be forever mislabeled :(

From wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora Ahh yes the Meiji Restoration.. It's all clear to me now. El Chino is most certainly Chino. He needs to start big upping Japan!

http://www.jstor.org/pss/165454, another link concerning Japanese immigration.

Americas The Japanese community of São Paulo lived mostly in Liberdade neighbourhood.People from Japan began migrating to the U.S. and Canada in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration. (See Japanese American and Japanese Canadian). Particularly after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants were sought by industrialists to replace the Chinese immigrants. In 1907, the "Gentlemen's Agreement" between the governments of Japan and the U.S. ended immigration of Japanese workers (i.e., men), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the U.S. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned the immigration of all but a token few Japanese, until the Immigration Act of 1965, there was very little further Japanese immigration. That which occurred was mostly in the form of war brides. The majority of Japanese settled in Hawaii where today a third of the state's population are of Japanese descent, and the rest in the west coast (California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state), but other significant communities are found in the Northeast and Midwest states. With the restrictions on entering the United States, the level of Japanese immigration to Latin America began to increase. Japanese immigrants (particularly from the Okinawa Prefecture) arrived in small numbers during the early 20th century. Japanese Brazilians are the largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan (numbering about 1.5 million, compared to about 1.2 million in the United States), and São Paulo contains the largest concentration of Japanese outside Japan. The first Japanese immigrants (791 people, mostly farmers) came to Brazil in 1908 on the Kasato Maru from the Japanese port of Kobe, moving to Brazil in search of better living conditions. Many of them ended up as laborers on coffee farms. The first Japanese Argentine Nisei (second generation), Seicho Arakaki, was born in 1911. Today there are an estimated 32,000 people of Japanese descent in Argentina according to Association of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad. Japanese Peruvians form another notable ethnic Japanese community and count among their members former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori. From wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora

he´s famili come from spain Probably left Spain shortly after the Thai Invasion.. That explains those slanty eyes. Thanks for clearing it up!

How could I forget the infamous 1920 Japanese migration to South America. LOL, just read this in the internet, books, and magazines. I am not sure if it is the 20's though that they started immigrating. Remember Peru's past president was a Japanese descendant.

he´s famili come from spain

How could I forget the infamous 1920 Japanese migration to South America. That tears it.. This dude is Japansese. End of story!

Maidana probably got some Japanese blood with him. Remember around early 1920's, there were Japanese immigration to South America.

Asian bloodline,Argentinian nationality,fights for German promoter :) His promoters should concoct some story that his great great grandfather came over from the Philipines and banged his great great grandmother. Try and market him in Manilla a couple times. I imagine boxing tickets are selling very well there these days.

He looks like a larger Brian Viloria to me. He's Half-Pinoy. :D i though the same thing when i first saw him in the kotelnik fight.

Asian bloodline,Argentinian nationality,fights for German promoter :)

he didnt look asian to me

Man, I sometimes think JMM looks part Asian in some flicks. As for Maidana, he might be the missing link in the whole land bridge theory...