Birth Name:
Kimberly Alexis Bledel
Birth Place:
Houston, Texas, USA
Date of Birth:
September 16, 1981
Ethnicity:
Danish, French and German
Bledel is an American actress who is famous for her roles in the movies, Tuck Everlasting and Sin City and the television series Gilmore Girls. She was born to an Argentine father, Martin Bledel who was originally from Denmark and a Mexican mother, Nanette Dozier of French and German origin. She is fluent in Spanish.
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Actually, since Alexis has Argentine heritage, doesn’t that mean that she is part-”South American”?
Also, I’d like to state that just my looking at her and her facial features, she really does look more Hispanic (whether it’s Argentine or Mexican, or whatever) than Danish, as some of you have said.
Besides, why is this website even necessary? Why does society have such a hangup over categorizing people into different races and cultures? We’re people! When someone asks me what race I am, I always say…”Human”!!
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How can you look Hispanic or South American? You do realize that those are not races, right?
Most Hispanics are of mestizo background (a strong mix of Amerindian and European). However, there are many who are white, black, mulatto, and even Asian. You will find that the Dominican Republic has a population that is mostly descended from Africans, Europeans, and Tainos. They look more like Zoe Saldana and Celia Cruz (both black Hispanics) than they do Eva Longoria or Salma Hayek (Mexican).
Alexis is obviously white, not mestizo.
Argentinians and Mexicans are not the same. They are nationalities, and their cultures are very different. They are only lumped together because they are a Spanish-speaking group.
Your ignorance astounds me.
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Scott…You can not compare Argentina with mexico. Racially are very different.
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I am a white Latin American. People need to realize that Latin American/Hispanic is not a race, it is a cultural grouping with most (not all) of the members having some ethnicity coming from the Iberian peninsula.
My parents are from Argentina and I am fluent in Spanish as it was my first language. That is why I identify with fellow Latin Americans. Latin Americans come in various colors, but some people just assume you have to be Mestizo in order to be Latin American. People get confused when they learn that most of Argentina is white, most of the Dominican Republic is Mulatto, etc, etc, etc. That is the cultural tradition that established Latin America. We were truly the first people to start mixing it up:P
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Is the creator of this page serious? So wait other white latin americans are their nationality, but since she has Northern/Central European ancestry she’s suddenly not Latin America? Many people in Latin America have French, German, Dutch ancestry but despite that they don’t feel connection to it, they’re Latin Americans just like Black Latin Americans, Indigenous, Mestizo, Mulato, Asian, ect!
It seems unfair that she’s being portrayed as non Latino.
I’m Black and from Latin America, so should I now just call myself a Nigeria or Ghanan (assuming that’s where my ancestry is from)-Cuban, even though I have no connection to those lands anymore?
She speaks Spanish ffs, she doesn’t speak the other languages!
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To Yamila:
Why don’t you better open an encyclopedia and read more about Latin America before you give an opinion??
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Why are you saying that? I’m from latin america by the way, I think I didn’t explain myself better in my last comment but whatever :P
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To Salvatore Sardo:
I forgot to mention more races that we have in Latin America and they are: mestizo (the mix of white and Indian),mulatto (the mix of black and white),zambo (the mix of black and Indian) and the mix of all this groups.Also in Latin America we have other groups (they are not races) such as Arabs (Shakira),Jews (Luis Kreutzberger),etc etc.
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Yes that’s right but I think you didn’t understand what Salvatore was trying to say. I’m argentinian and like Salvatore said danish people in Argentina have their own community and their culture is very different from the rest of the country, the same with germans they have their own community. So maybe Alexis Bledel was raised with danish or german culture which are very different from the argentinian culture because we have mostly spanish and italian traditions, so calling her “latin” is not very accurate. I hope you can understand it!
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To Salvatore Sardo:all countries (and the people) colonized by Spain are Hispanic (or Latino),in other words Hispanic (or Latino) is a culture,Not a race.A Hispanic can be of any race,can be white (Sofia Vergara),can be black (Zoe Saldaña),can be native (Evo Morales),can be Asian (Alberto Fujimore) etc
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She is not latin, she is mostly USA american and european, that’s it.
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Yamila: Why don’t you better open and encyclopedia and read more about Latin America before you give an opinion???
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Both of her parents are from Latin America. Are you dense?
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Alexis’ original nationality is latin american and so is her culture (being raised by hispanics) but her ethnicity is totaly european. So she can call herself a white latin american. just like a black person in the U.S.A. would call him self a black american which i think is more appropiate than afro american. I’ve never heard of white americans calling themselves euro americans…
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Not true at all
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explain yourself
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You prove it
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Her father is Argentine but from Danish ancestry. Danish Argentine have their community in Argentina and they still practice their European traditions and are very different from any other Latin American country.
To claim that she is Latina is absurd because she is not. She is American from Texas and has Danish, French and German heritage.
I am Italian born in Sardinia and I work in Buenos Aires Argentina for few years and know their culture. Specially the aristocratic people from Buenos Aires, they are pretty much Europeans with 100% European ancestry. they travel to Europe, Study in Europe and even still have their social clubs and read their news papers in Italian, English and other European Languages. For other Latino Americans countries who are Mestizo is unheard. She is White and she is American.
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You are wrong prove it again
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Salvatore,I left a couple of comments for you,I hope you read them.
Let me add something: Leo Messi’s nationality is Argentinian,his race is white,his ethnicity is Hispanic and his origin is Italian.
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Latin America is diverse culturally and ethnically! I’m a black Cuban and many of my cultural practises are African, so does that not make me Latin American? Seriously so you have to be brown/mestizo to be Latino? Salvatore don’t be ignorant. You don’t know how her father is I know German Argentines and they don’t know shit about Germany, don’t assume stuff. Obviously Argentina is culturally mostly European so they’re different than say Mexico which has Amerindian and European culture mixed together! Latin America is not homogenous in culture, race, ethincity! Read a book before you comment on us.
She’s Latin American, end of story.
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anybody knows some Danes with surname Bledel except her father?
in fact it’s a French surname
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There are no Danes with that surname. But that doesn’t mean that her grandparent’s didn’t come from Denmark, since they could have origin from elsewhere in Europe. The spelling of the name could be due to a transliteration of the original surname, though. She says in interviews that they were Danish, so who are we to question that? I’m sure that there are plenty Danish people with surnames and/or origin from other parts of Europe.
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i think you also,would in doubt in her Danish heritage if she has name like Maria Suarez or Natasha Ivanova
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Yes, I can understand that, since it simply cannot be a Danish surname, unless the original spelling was different.
I have read about Danish Immigrants to Argentina, who changed their name from Blædel to Bledel, for practical reasons, so it’s possible that the original surname was Blædel. The descendants of those people live in Buenos Aires, I believe. However, they immigrated more than hundred years ago.
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Why are people acting like someone can’t be a white hispanic? Come on now…
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when people start understanding that hispanic is NOT an ethnicity but a nationality or maybe not because it’s a continent.
Just like we say white americans…but the true americans are the natives!
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According to this site and its racist agenda, it’s the bad thing to be white and you should be ashamed for being that race.
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-serpent- that’s bullcrap …most people are just f-ing mixed cause the world and the people on it been here to too long not to be…I am,.. so f-inggg whatttttttt
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Oh, it is? Then why are you preaching idiotic bullshit about “white-white” people, or whatever the fuck that means?
You are a racist hypocrite.
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Do you have prove at all ?
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It’s not even a Nationality. It just means that the person has origin in Spain (or rather, the Iberian peninsula), or Hispanic America – the parts of the Americas which was Spanish or Portuguese colonies. It’s actually a bit odd that such an ancient Latin word is being used nowadays. A nationality would be something like “Argentine” or “Mexican”, or “(US)American”.
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