Birth Name:
Johnathan Dean Thurston
Birth Place:
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date of Birth:
25 April 1983
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Australian Aboriginal and Caucasian
Thurston is an Australian Rugby League player. He was born to a Caucasian father and a mother of Australian Aboriginal descent. A few websites claim that he is half Maori, but this hasn’t been confirmed.
He is known to not be vocal about his Aboriginal background but rather play the game quietly without bringing his heritage up. In addition he stated, “I’m just proud of my family and where I come from.”
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His dad is a Pakeha yes! His dad is not a Kiwi (Kiwi is either an All Black or our native bird from Aotearoa)
Who cares what nationality he is, Hes the bomb!!!
And I wish him all the best.
Let him keep representing my country Aotearoa, Pround to say he is my New Zealand brother :)
he’s half aboriginal and half whitr
his dad isn’t maori. his dad is kiwi, and it isn’t his real dad so he can’t be of kiwi descent.