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Birth Name: Heather Renée Sweet
Birthplace: Rochester, Michigan, USA
Date of Birth: September 28, 1972
Race or Ethnicity: Armenian and Anglo
Dita Von Teese is an American burlesque artist, model, and actress.
She stated that her grandmother was an adopted Armenian woman.
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Btw she isn’t FULL or HALF armenian, she said herself she was part armenian from 1 grandmother, but she isn’t sure… which means either 1/4 or 1/8 or even 1/16.. shes mainly Anglo, i see nothing armenian in her, she looks like normal anglo american to me
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i almost thought von teese was her actual name. sweet is a really nice surname hhaha
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Of course she’s not full Armenian. There write what shes just have Armenian grandmom. There write ancestry about which we know now and it Armenian. Like on Ke$ha page (http://ethnicelebs.com/kesha-keha) there write what she’s Polish, but write what she has just Polish great-great-grandmother. We know just about her Polish roots. Ie, when we learn about others their roots, we will add. Is it not correct?:)
p.s i know MANY Armenians with red and blondе hair:D
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@aps:i agree with lil vache…i didn’t explane myself good,i’m sorry..
i think it’s not full-blooded armenian.
ps- i know some armenians and nobody have blonde hair…
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If you see the real pure armenians from Armenia they are blonde haired and blue eyed. I myself am an Armenian and I have those traits and my entire family as well. BUt the more dark colored Armenians are the middle eastern armenians whose ancestors lived in Syria and Persia.
So yes Armenians are blonde haired
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why the hell do all middle eastern countries claim that they sooo blonde?? i’ve never seen even a brown haired armenian in my life. why cant you get that you have nothing germanic or real european in you?
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Hey ethnic, Dita Von Teese is Armenian and Caucasian, she’s not fully Armenian, that’s why she doesn’t have an Armenian last name. lolz. =]] fix that. lolz
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I agree, she definitely has some Anglo heritage.
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Armenians ARE Caucasian.
Armenia is IN the Caucasus reagon .
You don’t have to be Nordic/Anglo-Saxon pale white to be Caucasian.
Armenian is an Indo-European language like 90% of the languages spoken in Europe.
Lots of Armenians dropped the (ian) from their names or translated it to English to blend in more swiftly,specially the early generations.
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I know that.! Duhh..! my point is that when I meant she was Caucasian, also, is that their is also some more Caucasian ethnicities in her other than Armenian, hence she is part Armenian. You misinterpreted what i had ta say.!
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Armenians are caucasian, but they are not european!!…
the caucasus region and peoples are very different genetically from most europeans and middle easterns… their gene pool is such a wide mix. Armenians speak an Indo european language, but so do iranians, indians, and europeans… armenians live below the caucasus mountain rounge… above the mountain range is russia and east europe, below the mountains is armenia, iran, iraq, azerbaijan etc. There are blonde and blue eyed armenians yes, because it does border europe, but beleive me, they are a minority
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anna, why not? First, she wrote it on her official twitter page, and secondly she is only 1/4 Armenian on grandmother.
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A lot of families in USA take English surenames. Plus, in past Armenians were blonde.
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i think it’s not true…her urname is english or anglo…
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she is goregous but i would never say that she is armenian !
btw. her natural hair are blonde
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