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Birth Name:
Alfredo James Pacino
Birth Place:
East Harlem, Manhattan, USA
Ethnicity:
Italian and Sicilian
Considered one of the best and most influential actors of all time, Al Pacino was born in Manhattan. He was born to Italian and Sicilian parents, Salvatore Alfred Pacino and Rose Gerardi. His Mother was of Sicilian descent.
Source:
http://www.sicilianculture.com/people/pacino.htm
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Sicilian Origins in Europe:
http://racialreality.110mb.com/sicily/
N and S Italians look the same:
http://italianthro.blogspot.com/2010/09/northern-and-southern-facial-composites.html
http://italianthro.blogspot.com/2011/07/soccer-player-facial-composites.html
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Fomorians were black people in Ireland most Irish look white but are mixed with these blacks. We all come from two people on earth.
All ireland has black blood. Some have black looking hair.
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Here read who is really white in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people
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I can’t believe the ignorance I’m hearing. The Moors were not black but were Caucasian Arabs/Berbers from North Africa. The fact is that many of them were only slightly darker than the larger Greco-Roman population in Sicily that they conquered (or in Spain’s case, the much larger native Spanish population).
In addition, the Moors did not alter the genetic landscape of Sicily or Spain that much at all. Sicilians are mostly descended from Ancient/Byzantine Greek and mainland Italian ancestry, and in addition to a little Moorish ancestry, there’s also Norman, French, Spanish, and some other bloodlines added into the mostly Greco-Roman bloodline of Sicily.
While we’re at it, just look at Al Pacino himself. He’s very light-skinned, with dark hair/eyes, and with classic Southern European facial features. That’s really the standard Sicilian right there. You get some who are darker and some who are lighter, but he’s quite normal and is obviously white.
@Ena: Your aunt is either not actually Italian or she’s a racist northern Italian talking out of her butt. The truth is that the northern Italians look like the French/Central Europeans and the southerners tend to either have the classic Roman look or, in the case of many Sicilians, Calabrians, and Apulians (all areas heavily colonized by Greeks), a very Greek look. The differences are there but they’re not so pronounced that you have a bunch of blond Germanic-looking people in the north and very dark Arab-looking people in the south.
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The word moor is deprived from the word moreno which means dark or black you idiot the moors were so-called black people and so was hannibal a blackman do some fuckin research
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Sicily was invaded by the moores so now many sicilians have African ancestors
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Ummm Sicilian and Italian are the same thing! Sicily is in Italy!
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No shyt bitch
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I am from europe , in europe moors , berbers are not white but they are africans and they are treated like that .In spain when i was a child i was told that that pure moors were black skin the ones who colonised spain were black skin moors only in america they are white why? because you can’t believe that backs were civilized? and created civilization? every one is white in americ mexicans were consider white in 1940 too .My aunt who is northern italian with red hair , fair skin and blue eyes who is married to my uncle told me when i was a child that people from sicily were mixed with african and she said that is why they are darker then northern italians .In italians don’t consider people from sicily italians they think they are north africans even pizza was created in sicily and in italy is consider ethnic food.Nothern italians hate southern italians because they are mixed my italian aunt told me.
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They knew,they just don’t teach it.They didn’t stop calling black people moors until later,when they change it to Negro.Moors were here,as slaves and as free black men.They even pass laws to protect them here in the states from white people;they were to be seen as white people with the same rights.
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Moors were not black but Arabic. In fact, their facial features were far different from what black facial features resemble. They weren’t here as slaves. Historically, they were Muslims who migrated from Northern Africa (what is now Libya, Tunisia, etc) to Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy.
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YOu are so dumb. Moors didn colonized Spain. Only some part in the south. And never mixed with the white Spaniards. Spaniards are mostly light skin, brown hair and green eyes. Very tall too. think of PAu Gasol but not as tall LOL
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Most berbers are actually white!!
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“nothern italians hate southern italians because they are mixed ” so much ignorance in this comment , the most mixed people from italy , are the one from the north , that is why many of them look so different than the rest of italy .
The true italian are caucasian mediterranean race , most of them have dark hair , and brow eyes ,and skin from very light to very brown .People from north italy was mixed whit the savage barbarian from Germany and other country of north europe and also whit some celtic blood.
In scily , Moors that are also caucasian , have only a 10 % of black , so if a sicilian woman married a moor , the child will be only 05% black , still very caucasian to me ,95% caucasian mediterranean
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Northern Italians have arab in them. Romans put over 1 or two million people to do there work. The german tribes mixed with them there nose are different from germans and are mixed. They have the same dna as the south but have
blond pigments and red so has sicily have the same in towns. alot of germans and northen peoples are mixed with yellew people and are from bushman. Any way we all come from Africa from two people the first man was black and white and spotted.Food weather temperture changed man. We all come from the same place it is called progression. Chinese are black and Japanese they mixed with black and they are blacker in the phillipines and are there now. They come from bushman have slant eyes like chinese and Japanese. Whites have round eyes. Lookup genetic drift. A jewish person told me we all come from the same place. This is not to do with bible but two people made the human race we are all 1000 cousins down the line.
Face facts Northern Italians you are not german but mixed blood from many places on earth.
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