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Did you know that golfer Tiger Woods is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, a quarter African American, one eighth Native American, and one eighth Dutch? At an Internet site, Mr Woods refers to his ethnic make-up as ‘calabinasian’ — from Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian. Here’s how: His father Earl Woods was of mixed African American, Chinese and Native American heritage. His mother Kultida Woods (née Punsawad) is originally from Thailand and has Chinese and Dutch ancestry as well as Thai. And still on race manenos, Manchester United soccer star Ryan Giggs is not just of Welsh descent. He is also a quarter Sierra Leonean because his paternal grandfather is from Sierra Leone. Ryan Giggs describes his father as ‘black’ and himself as being of ‘mixed race.’