Birth Name: Lionel Andrés Messi
Birthplace: Rosario, Argentina
Date of Birth: 24 June 1987
Race or Ethnicity: Italian Argentine
Messi is considered one of the best players of his generation and Diego Maradona himself declared Messi to be his successor.
Messi was born to Italian Argentine parents, Jorge Horacio Messi and Celia María Cuccittini. His family is said to have originated from Ancona in Italy. His ancestor Angelo Messi, moved to Argentina in 1883.
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http://www.aldia.cr/ad_ee/2006/febrero/24/ovacion11.html
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He looks a mestizo with pale skin
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why argue what he looks, when the fact is that he’s an ethnic Italian, otherwise he has lied to media fully! I can surely believe he did not do that, and plus there is more Italians ethnically in Argentina then any other ethnicity even Spanish, and far more than Mestizo or natives.
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His parents are Mestizo. Look down at the photos at the pictures of his parents. He is ethnically “Italian” just like any Mestizo with a Spanish last name is ethnically “Spanish”.
Also, have not payed attention? Isn’t the name of this website “ethnicelebs.com”? Where people discuss the race or ethnicity of a celebrity? So discussing a celebrity’s/sports figure’s race is very much a relevant subject. What a dumb assessment asking that question
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Lionel Messi’s grandmother at 5:46 of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0m6Vi3_kdE
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Okay. He is mestizo.
Now please shut the fuck up, Roger.
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Whoa now, doesn’t cursing or vulgar comments violate the rules of this website, eh?
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You are annoying. You flooded this page with nonsense. We get it! He is mestizo!
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Hey, you decided to click on this page and look athese comments. No one’s forcing you to do it. Now be a big boy, use your big boy brain and no cursing, my friend.
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Funny how people like u act tough when they are proven wrong. Try it on a random guy like me walking down the street, Nancy.
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Funny how people like u act tough when they are proven wrong. Try it on a random guy like me walking down the street, Nancy. Internet is a breeding ground for losers and pussies who lash out like a 5 year old bullied on the playground.
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This is Messi’s mother and Messi (in case people didn’t see it as if was thumb down-drowned):
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laf25n8lvD1qzcnjx.jpg
You can clearly see people with Mongoloid features. Messi and Messi’s mom both have frontal zygomatic bone features. Messi’s mom also seems to have a flat nose. I remember seeing a picture of his maternal grandmother on his website which was later removed (for whatever reason..). She looked almost 100% indigenous.
Messi is not White and those who still look to disagree with futile contradictions are trying to tell themselves that also.
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I am not going to give you the satisfaction of using online translate. What’s wrong with you, bro? Only spazzy, passive aggressive tools talk in CAPS. Why so mad, compadre? Am I touching a punctual nerve and you don’t like it? You want hear words in CAPS?: YOU’RE FREAKING LOSING IT, LOL.
This is a website that discusses a famous person’s ethnicity/race. If you don’t like it or don’t find it convenient, then simple solution; Get the f*ck out, freaking retard. OK, amigo?
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Ok.. Mejicano !!!
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“Mejicano”? As far as I know you’re the Mexican as you probably live in a shack and of Mongoloid descent just like Messi though you don’t believe it or don’t accept it. Plus you have the sophistication and intellectual pedigree of a person from a so-called “developing” country, Chuy.
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You are american ?
Americans are not as stupid and ignorant like you…
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I told you the country of my birth, and what is my ancestry. Idiot can not read
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Yes, Argentines are very “White”:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2009/12/how-argentina-became-white/
LOL, thanks, Mexican.
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hahaha … you’re an idiot to post information without knowing. That report was made by pro-Indian groups, left and communist. Manipulate information to their advantage. Blood tests were done on poor people, and in many cases, offenders. The study was divided into 3 regions (north, central and south) with similar number of people in each region, which is wrong, since you live in the central 2 /3 of the total population of country. In the northern region live mostly of mestizos and Indians, but do not reach 10% of the total population, with respect, they manipulated the data to its purpose.
I’m not saying there 97% white in argentina as the CIA says, but not 50% as indicated by the study this. The actual number is about 70% of whites of European descent exclusive. But I remember you, not interested … no?
Again show that you were wrong, very sad mejicano :(
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What has to be analyzed below are his sayings: To say that I am a Mexican who lives in a shack and from caractrísticas mongoliodes, is very unfair on your part…That problem is if I am ?…That comment shows that you’re a shitty person, Intellectually and spiritually poor. Having to resort to a social declassification, very sad. What happened? bother to tell you “Mexican”?.
And to say that my intellectual lineage is that of a developing country…why ? hahahaha Oh God, do not be so hard. If my thinking is “developing country”, which is for yours brother. I read a comment of yours in which he said that Ashkenazi Jews are mestizos….mestizos ???? that gross. That is a thought of a first world developed country? You’re kidding me ?…not fuck with me.
You are from another world, an alien, no one can understand. Nobody understands your thoughts so high. You must be the son of poseidon…Percy Jackson !!
You’re very poor and basic…very very very sad.
Hasta la vista baby..
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“That report was made by pro-indian groups, left and communist and done on Indians”-Ahahahsha, of course!! It’s not a bias, subjective claim, is it? Well if my memory isn’t clouded a lot, but didn’t you show a “legitamite” chart that showed Argentina’s “real” White population and was “real”? Yeah, I should believe that better…as it was a survey.
You claim I’m ignorant because I called you “Mexican” well, who actually began it, mi amigo? I am not even remotely close to Mexican. Yeah, you sure disproved that your Developing educational system is on par.
Another thing, I said Ashkenazi Jews are “like” Mestizos as the are mixed with two races. Again, your lack of comprehension stems from your remedial education. Again, proving me wrong.
Anyways, you have no counterproof that this test was done on people from rural areas. I highly doubt the rural Indians have that much European genes. Whether you like it or not, there is a probability a hidden Mestizo, hate or love it. There is a 46% chance that you are solely white. Hate it :)
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What country are you from? No one will die…
I would like to go someday.
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Originally from Baltimore, Maryland now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
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you are the same idiot who said Zuckerberg is a distant Mongolian
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I didn’t say that, the website did. The website said it found DNA evidence in “Ashkenazi Jews” that said they descended from Khazars. The Khazars originated in central Asia, but genetically linked from the Mongolian area. Look at Zuckerberg’s eyes, they’re almond-shaped.
You looked very smart, didn’t you?
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Excellent, nice place!
I guess you know a lot of mestizos, there is a lot of hispanic immigration.
I’m from Buenos Aires and here there is much immigration of indigenous Bolivians and Peruvians. I know the Indians and mestizos, Messi at most be the grandson or great-grandson of an Indian. Not is the prototype of the South American mestizo, so it is difficult to see.
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I was studying the phenotypes of race and got really into it, for whatever reason. Lionel Messi caught my eye because he has pale skin (of a White person), but had strangely high-cheekbones (of a Indigenous person). I went to reasesrch more on his family and background and slowly realized found out his descent.
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Yes, I saw your ‘photo’, and it looks like you’re mainly of European lineage.
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Pride is not a virtue for my. So, I wanted to apologize for the insults, and for have called “mejicano” (It bothers you much). I do not behave like a gentleman, sorry about that.
I get upset a lot to you talk about the development of my country and the inheritance of my thought.
While I do not share some details of your thinking, Messi is a mestizo/castizo and can not defend the opposite…more when I saw the photo of his grandmother (is like you said).
Again, all the hatred came for the “development of my country” and not Messi.
I hope you do well in life. It would be nice to show me the studies you saw on the phenotypes of the races. I also studied it, knew it would lose about Messi.
But nobody likes to lose once the game started.
Good luck Roger.
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I admit that I went a little overboard in this debate. This is a meaningless issue that was being discussed so I was off in insulting you. Apologies from my behalf.
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LOL, all the thumbs down clearly signify that I’m right, but hate to admit it. There are some resentful Latinos who wish they were White. So sad.
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That is your interpretation.
I think it is, because you speak subjectively, without scientific proof.
Master of anthropology, define what a white person for you?
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You’re kidding me.
Please tell me you are just blabbing nonsense to annoy or are you really this dense? Didn’t we just go over this until finally being convinced.
I already proved to you Messi is a pale-Mestizo. You saw the photo of his parents who are clearly non-white. You want to know what a “White” person looks like? A white person in your country is a person with non-Mongoloid or non-Africanoid features.
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so you’re saying a indian, who generally have same features as a regular white guy compared to that of a east asian or african is white ? but messi who is Italian ethnically isn’t ?
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if u look white ur white and i always thought of messi as a white guy, never mexican or mongloid
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Excuse me, but the question was serious.
Your answer is not serious, and meaningless.
Messi’s mother may be mixed. His father did not.
Where are you from “Roger” ?
You step scientific evidence, provided by the CIA.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Ethnic_Composition_of_the_Americas.PNG
I hope do not go babbling nonsense as you have done so far.
You think to convince someone?
Surely… I am a mestizo repressed, wish to be white..haha.
White peolple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people.
Percentage of whites in the americas. According to Stormfront, a neo-Nazi website. http://i56.tinypic.com/evc412.png.
You see, all Latin American countries are not the same racially. There is a difference between a Mexican and a Uruguayan, Similar to that between an American and a South African.
Your problem was that lump all Latin American countries under a single race, in your eagerness to prove that messi is a mestizo.
You think that all people of Latin America are like living in the U.S. And that is due to their great ignorance and lack of knowledge on the subject.
Ayyy, ayyy cuando vas a aprender a escribir en español Roger, Rogercito, Rogerito. Yo soy el pobre latino “mestizo” y muerto de hambre… ¿ encima tengo que escribir en tu idioma ?
Te metiste en un tema que no conoces, LA RAZA CAUCASICA. La cual se dividen generalmente en tres grupos por motivos lingüísticos, denominada aria (indoeuropea), semita (lenguas semíticas) y camitas (bereber Cushitic y Egipto). Pareciera que para vos, solo son blancos los EUROPEOS ANGLOSAJONES.
Ademas decir que en la escuela me “lavaron la cabeza” con el sistema de castas, cuando en mi país, lo que menos importa es la raza de las personas…somos todos humanos. Te pusiste a hablar de cosas que ni sabes, ni entendes.
Creo que ya ni interesa saber si Messi es indígena, mestizo, castizo o blanco. Es Argentino y es el mejor jugador del mundo.
HACE UN MES QUE VENIS HABLANDO PELOTUDECES, DEBERIAS PEDIR PERDON A TODOS POR HACERLES PERDER EL TIEMPO :) .
Y deja de poner toda esas letras abreviadas como LOL, LMAO, etc…flor de pavadas.
Au revoir, Ciao, Chau…
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*Note: If you want people to understand a paragraph-long writing in a another language, please have the effort to translate it.
Maybe it seeems you’re trying to “lump” all Latin Americans (or at least the ones from your country) as lamentably dumb. Uhum, was I ever talking about OTHER people apart from Messi? It was clearly you without any real contradictive counter-talk.
Hey listen if you’re so pent up on proving your country’s “whiteness”, listen I’m not questing it. I don’t even care. So don’t show me obscure charts based on survey instead of actual genetic tests….because I don’t care. Happy that you “proved” your country’s “whiteness”?
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Maybe Latinos have a misconception of the term-”White”. A White person is a person of the Caucasian race, not a a pale skin color. It seems you have the severe confusion of that or you’re a Mestizo-Latino who despises your ethnic heritage and will do anything to masquerade as a “white” person.
Messi may have pale skin, but it is evident that his parents are Mestizos, and he has Mestizo features. Therefore he is a Mestizo. Someone who tries to disagree with no real argumentive, evident contradictions is just desperatly sad to prove that they can white too
Also, have you ever seen an indigenous person? You’re going to tel me they look even remotely white? Seriously, listen to yourself.
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Mira bobito…ya me di cuenta que sos un mejicano reprimido. Estan calentitos por que siempre le ganamos en el futbol, y ultimamente atacan en todos los foros diciendo que somos mestizos igual que ellos.
1) Decir que Messi es un mestizo chola (Indigenas de tierras mejicanas)… ni siquiera pudiste buscar un pueblo indigena argentino, tontin?
2) Escribir en el post de Messi y Maradona…diciendo que son mestizos…mmm casualidad ??
3) No te vi escribir (“A mestizo”) en los post de personas estadounidenses que tienen descendencia Indigena…mmm por que??
4) Te pregunte tres veces de que pais eras, y nunca me respondiste…mmm y ahora supongo que me vas a responder, a pesar de que te lo pregunto en español ??
LOSER OF THE LIFE !!!
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When you speak to me, you speak to me in the Anglophone language. Do not attempt to communicate with me in restaurant-kitchen or home-depot-parking-lot tongue. If you do, I will treat you as such. Do you understand, my Mestizo friend Juan?
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I understand my American friend.
I’m not mestizo. Best, Check it…EthniQuiz…Dani85 (january 20,2012). I am not handsome, but who cares.
You should participate Roger.
Yo se que tu entiendes español, nunca se sabe cuando lo puedas llegar a necesitar.
Eh you are researching? hahaha
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Do not waste your time with this moron who thinks that all Latin Americans are mestizos.
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Not what I said. Please learn to read carefully. I was only talking about Messi in particular being a Mestizo, in which he is.
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Messi does have dominant mongloid features. Are you blind or do you just worship caucasians?
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He’s Italian ethnically it is literally stated on mainly every website you check, and he looks pretty Italian too it is surely believe able, and as for the mongloid cr*p that must be a joke cause East Asians are ethnic mongloids and Messi looks nothing like a east asian !
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Yeah he’s 99% Italian big shit man
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are u asian ?
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No…..why?
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This is mongoloid : http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rAsiSS06Zgg/TFu6w7W7wMI/AAAAAAAAA1E/RfHfkS15V4E/s1600/FC%25252BBarcelona%25252Bv%25252BChivas%25252B34QNBWz2Zkol.jpg or this
http://www.lionel-messi.co.uk/wp-content/themes/new-cstwebservices/images/lionel-messi-wallpaper.jpg
You are very confused…
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This discussion I get tired, you win.
His mother is a mestiza…
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even mestizos aren’t mongloid smartass, but caucasoid, so regardless messi is caucasian
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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V4Li9INRwjY/SpwMWuV11_I/AAAAAAAAAu0/HzG2BqKe78Y/s400/Fabio_Grosso_Juventus.jpg
He is Fabio Grosso, an italian player.
I’m informed :)
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Many Mediterranean have the brown eyes. Many oriental Europeans have big cheekbones, the Finns also. He is a distant cousin of Bojan krkic (Spanish and Croatian heritage). Besides, you think that for having a mestizo great-grandmother, he is mestizo ?… And other seven European great-grandfathers? The Italians did not mix with the amerindian in Argentine.
For you Wentworth Miller is white ? …think it.
The american people know little on races…they invented the Latinos. The Latin race does not exist.
Anyway, i respect your opinion.
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hahaha…man..!!! You do not understand !!
You classifies the race by “look” and “skin color”. You say “Looking at pictures of his family members I can tell”.
I do not classify people by their skin color. There are many Spanish, Italian they are olive-skinned. They are Caucasian, not mestizos.
You can not compare Argentina with other Latin American countries. You can not say “The thing is Latin Americans, about 85%-90%, are mixed. Mainly with Indigenous”. In Argentina there are more descendants of Italians in the U.S.
U.S. only surpassed Argentina in European immigration.
Where are you from ? Why not know much about European immigration.
“They counted as a Ethnic group of people, but not a race”. I do not think… for them Latinos and mestizos are the same. They say whites, “Latinos”, blacks, Asians.
The descendants of Spanish and indigenous, non-Latinos, are mestizos.
In any case, I’m Latino, because my great-grandparents were French, Italian and Spanish. They are the true Latinos.
You say “Messi is a Mestizo by genetics and heritage”…How do you know friend?…did a blood test? Do not use words needlessly.
I know American history, and the rest of america, especially the history of my country…Argentina.
Regards
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You are actually wrong about the cheekbones as well. There are many Europeans with high cheekbones and almond-shaped eyes. Those are common traits in the East.
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Listen…forever we will discuss. I have an anthropological vision, and your a racist vision and exclusive. Start doing blood tests and endpoint. LMAO ??? Me garco en vos, sos un pelotudo importante !!
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“White” is a social construct anyway. If you have not noticed, many “whites” have at least one non-white ancestor or a mixed ethnic background, yet still go through life as “white.” It is not a big deal. For example, I visited several countries in Eastern Europe, and I noticed that their bone structure and head shape is very distinctive and different from most other Europeans. They still see themselves as “white,” though.
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You so retard…he is white. 100 % Italian
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No .
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