Word: cablinasian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIGER WOODS The "Cablinasian" golf champ continues to turn his irons into gold. His latest incarnation: global pitchman for American Express. At least he's not endorsing sneakers...
...appearance last week on The Oprah Winfrey Show. When asked if it bothered him, the only child of a black American father and a Thai mother, to be called an African American, he replied, "It does. Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian,' " which he explained is a self-crafted acronym that reflects his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth black, one-eighth American Indian, one-fourth Thai and one-fourth Chinese roots with a precision that a racial-classifications expert under South African apartheid would admire. He said that when he was asked to check...
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