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Birth Name:
Alicia Silverstone
Birth Place:
San Francisco, California, United States
Date of Birth:
October 4, 1976
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Jewish-English, Scottish
An article about Silverstone’s family stated that the American actress was born to a Jewish English father and a Scottish mother. It also mentions that Silverstone had a very Jewish upbringing which included attending Hebrew school and Bar Mitvahs. The link to this article can be found below.
Source:
http://www.interfaithfamily.com/
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She is goregus!
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She is super pretty!! and she is half scottish, that is cool!! <3
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People should understand that there is no such thing as half Jewish. I also have Jewish in my ancestry as a RELIGION. Same goes for hall Muslim. These are religions, not races or nationalities. The Jews of Israel vary in color and ancestry yet they are Jewish in religion. Please educate. Thank you: )
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yeah you can be half jewish cause my friend is and she does not have the religion but the ancestry ,..and I’m Half Indo..and that’s not a race either but a consistency of (2) cultures (Indonesian and Dutch) and i’m 1/2 that would mean I’m quarter-1/4 Indonesian and quarter-1/4 Dutch from my mom’s side cause she is full “Indo” 1/2Indonesian and 1/2 Dutch a halfblood-mix child And i’m a quarterssss blood mix child haha
The INDO is a word to specify ethnicity-mixes without having to re-call or sum-up the whole shabang and also to acknowledge history ,..and so are other terms with other cultures around the world
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I know you shouldn’t stereotype ethnicities especially as genetics can really make people look different from what there background is, but even though I know she’s half Jewish, she just doesn’t look Jewish to me at all. I guess when I think of Jewish people I think of Barbara Streisand, Sarah Jessica Parker, etc.
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Nathan, her father is actually Jewish English.
thanks.
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no way shes english silverstone is an English second name and both her pearents are from England
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O I could see her her background before I looked on this page yeah she’s mixed ..that’s why she is pretty ,. you cannot look like alicia does just by being english. she has something extra. and no the nam silverstone is not english it’s a “re-newed” jewish name like goldberg or whatever.annnd you can see by looking at her , her skin-complexion(more to the olive) the somewhat darker shading around her eyes, her natural darker hair and the darker blue gray somewhere in between “mixed”-kid eye color haah
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I honestly believe that you are stupid. What is a “mixed-kid” eye color? There is no such thing as a “mixed-kid” eye color. We can have any fucking eye color.
What do you mean by she has something “extra?”
In one post, you implied that everyone is “mixed” and now you are saying you cannot be pretty unless you are “mixed.” So you are implying that everyone is pretty? Or are you just an elitist racist scumbag like I originally thought you were?
Second of all, Ashkenazi Jews are “white,” and Alicia is “white.” She is mixed ethnically, yes, but not in the way that you are declaring. She is pretty because of her family’s genes, not because she is mixed ethnically.
Also, you are ignorant as shit, stupid as shit, and racist as shit.
I am ACTUALLY mixed and I am simply disgusted by the attitude of “mixed kids” like yourself. You honestly believe that you are prettier, smarter, and better than “white-white” folks because of your race? How fucking sad!
And why do you continue to claim these “white people” as “mixed?” “White” is a social construct; their social construct. There is no such thing as a “white-white” person or a “pure white” person genetically, loser. The majority, if not all, “white” people are mixed ethnically and racially. This is their identification, and they have nothing in common with you.
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