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Birth Name: Cole Mitchell Sprouse
Birthplace: Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Birth: 4 August 1992
Race or Ethnicity: Dutch, German, Cherokee.
Identical twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse were born August 4, 1992 in Arezzo, Italy. They began their acting career at the tender age of six months.
Cole and Dylan claim to be of German and Cherokee descent, but according to the house of names, the surname Sprouse is of Dutch ancestry. Although born in Italy, they are not of Italian descent. Their American parents moved back to their native California four months after Dylan and Cole were born.
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- http://www.tv.com/cole-sprouse/person/6563/trivia.html?tag=page_nav;subtabs;trivia
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819850/bio
- http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=Sprouse
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Yeah they looked dutch to me , but they have a bit of a compact bone structure( well one of them) that isn’t dutch and the eyes are not dutch either (and their hair structure is just a lil bit thicker than dutch people’s hair)
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Wait, you have different kinds of Dutch hair.
My mom is Dutch and she has thick hair.
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Wow, okay… Umm some people need to take a chill pill.
Anywho! Wow, I didn’t know they were dutch! I’m ducth too. That’s cool. And German, I didn’t think they were German, I thought they were Swedish and Irish as they had Irish flags in their dorm on TSLOD. Maube thats just the Martin Twins :)
And with this whole Sprouse Twins being Italian, I have the same argument with my friends at school. I was born in Australia, and I’m Irish, Swedish, Dutch and Aboriginal, therefore, I’m Australian (cause of the whole Aboriginal thing)
Dylan and Cole were born in Italy, but have no ounce of Italian blood in them. They were only born there. They are American, but not Italian by blood. They only have citizienship to Italy, and an automatic citizenship to the USA. I don’t care hiw many people argue with me, but I dont see Dylan and Cole as Italians. To me they are American.
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Agreed
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You are Australian if you were born in Australia and identify as Australian. There are thousands of Australians with Aboriginal heritage who do not see themselves as Aboriginal. To be considered as Aboriginal you need to identify as such and be accepted as Aboriginal by the tribe/community/clan you belong to. Doesnt quite work if you have a distant ancestor who is Aboriginal. Even the way you post your comment ‘…and Aboriginal, therefore, I’m Australian (cause of the whole Aboriginal thing)’ suggests that you are only Aboriginal when it suits you.
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