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Birth Name:
John William Oates
Birth Place:
Philadelphia, USA
Ethnicity:
Italian, British and Spanish-Moorish
John Oates is of Italian descent on his mother’s side. His mother’s name is Ann De Palma who is originally from Salerno Italy.
John’s father, Al Oates is of British and Spanish-Moorish heritage.
This information was quoted on the website below taken from a John Oates biography called Dangerous Dances written by Nick Tosches.
Source:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Hall-Oates-472/John-ethnicity.htm
http://www.nesiesnetescape.com/hoint.html
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Spanish-Moorish is just another way of saying black without saying it. You add the “SPanish-Moorish” with the Italian and you have a man who is basically mulatto, hence his appearance and his jet-black CURLY hair! You know he is not white white, just look at him next to Darryl Hall!
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There’s no such thing as “Spanish Moorish”. In medieval Spain, a “moor” was a Muslim. After the reconquista the vast majority of moors were expelled to North Africa and the few remaining ones converted and thus ceased to be “moors” and intermixed with the Christian population.
That was all before 1500. 500 years later it’s not only impossible to know who’s ancestors were converted moors but also, there’s no separate ethnic “moor” identity in Spain. Everybody is just Spanish (or maybe Catalan, Basque, Gallician, etc), there’s no such thing as a “moor” community.
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i cud of sword he was mexican, but thats a awesome mix he got…explains his looks too, especially the moorish look on him.
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I doubt that highly
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John Oates is Native American…
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Moors, Moorish-Spanish. Yes, from northern Africa. Check out features of Moroccan ethnicity that has similarity to John Oates:
http://images.google.com/images?q=moroccan+faces&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=G&imgtype=face&as_st=y
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Moors are people of African decent as in the Moor Othello in the Shakespearian play of the same name.
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Moors are people originally from northern Africa some of which inhabited Spain and Portugal hundreds of years ago.
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What is Spanish-Moorish?
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