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Birth Name:
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera
Birth Place:
Andalucia, Spain
Ethnicity:
Spanish
The Spanish actor was born in Málaga, Andalucia, Southern Spain.
His real name is José Antonio Domínguez Bandera.
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I watch Desperado today. He look different from all of the Mexicans in the movie. Like he had tan skin like them but his face structure and features look very different from them. My papa could tell the difference too and he didn’t think Antonio was really Mexican. Come to find out he’s not
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I thought he was cuban everbody always said he was a cuban.
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Banderas it is european , ( white it is a very confuse term ,) personally I believe that in Europe we have two Caucasian races . Nordic and mediterranean ,( Mediterranean share background with middle est and north africa , greeck , and italian and many french and portoghes )
Antonia Bandera a caucasian mediterranean person ,.
yes he is not blond or blue eyes , since he is from south Europe .
Now if you define be white only for people with very light skin , maybe he is not , since he is skin like many other south european it is more brown .
I am italian , my mother have super withe skin my father too , but i have more brown , olive
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I disagree Alex. I think your comment describes your negetive personality not the American public. There are people who are not racist toward any ra e, but more of a behavior. RUDE AND INCONSIDERATE comes in all race size and religion.
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I know first hands that most American confuse nationality with Race. Antonio Banderas is WHITE of spanish heritage and nationality. The confusion is further exacerbated when you have Americans who claim that anybody with a spanish surname isn’t White and try to be politically correct or unoffensive by calling people of mixed races spanish. This why Mexicans love to be called spanish. When that name got a negative connotation they were called hispanic and then latino. American ignorance ruins it for people who are truly white of Spanish origins. Many Americans can tell you facts about celebrity gossip, but they can’t even name the branches of government! Its true look it up on credible sources. Then you have American ignorance of supposed God-fearing christians promoting hate but don’t even know the names of the books in the bible. So don’t be offended real,white-spaniards, America’s ignorance currently catching up to them. As you know Karma. Soon American will be a race in other places in world associating them with brown people, even if some are white. Karma is $%^&*! Enough with the ramble, the point is it’s just pure American ignorance and our geocentric view of the world.
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I definitely agree with you Alex! However, we are all not as ignorant as the corn-fed inbreeds of the south and mid-west ;). Many Americans just don’t feel the need to learn about culture. All we care about is new comers being Americans. In the end it doesn’t matter if America understands because we are to busy being brain washed, mindless sheep that the elite want us to be. Divide and conquer is their motto. We are all the human race. for our real importance lies within. Antonio Banderas isn’t the only one this site names their Nationality as their race or ethnicity. Oh and BTW there is a slight difference between the two America.
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Spain is part of Europe, and native Europeans are White ethnically. Native Spaniards are White, and not to be confused with Spaniards whose ancestors came from other countries and settled in Spain such as from the the Middle East & Mexico.
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hes white not Spanish. spanish is the language he speaks its not his Ethnicity and/or race.
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What are you on about he is from Spain in Europe so he is Spanish and his ethnicity is Spanish..Yes Spanish is a language aswell as his ethnicity,,God why are people so confused about people who live in SPAIN IN EUROPE! and LATIN AMERICA HISPANICS,Jesus christ it not that hard t work out
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he’s white. Spanish is not his race. its like when an american says his/or her race is american and his/or her ethnicity is american doesn’t make sense what so ever. im sorry if you don’t see or know the history behind what’s actually considered to be “Spanish” and whats not. he’s a Spaniard i.e white!!!!!!!! in america the idea of what ethnicity and nationality really is is pretty screwed up here and people do get away with it a little bit too much to the point of denying their own ethnicity. he doesn’t deny his ethnicity, he says he’s white and if you take off that sprayed on tan of his he’s just a regular white guy from spain.
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A person from Spain is called Spanish.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spanish
Spaniard or Spanish means someone from Spain whether they are white, yellow or brindle. If you are from Mexico you are Mexican or Boliva you would be Bolivian. People from Mexico or Boliva might speak Spanish but they are not Spanish. Americans speak English but they are not English.
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Just to clarify Antonio Banderas is full Spanish so his ethnicity is Spanish as well as his nationality. If you were from Mexico and your full ancestry was Spanish this would be your ethnicity as well. You would be Mexican of Spanish ethnicity or American or Irish ethnicity.
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I meant to say American of Irish ethnicity.
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difference between “spanish” people- Puerto rican, dominican republic, haiti, cuba to name a few are west Indian islands or west indies i.e Caribbean islands and if you don’t believe me then go look it up on wiki or look in a geography or history books. majority of the islands are inhabited by blacks/ biracial blacks who for some reason won’t say their either west indian. black or biracial black but would rather say their “spanish” alot of shit went down on those islands b/c of crazy dictators who couldn’t deal with their own ethnicity and themselves and put their own people in fear of being killed if they considered themselves to be black. so the whole “i’m spanish!!!! i’m latin!!!!” shit you hear was just done so they wouldn’t get killed back then.
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he stills sexy as fuckkk!!!
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