Birth Name:
Mariah Carey
Birth Place:
Long Island, New York, USA
Birth Date:
March 27, 1970
Race or Ethnicity:
Irish, Afro-Venezuelan
The American singer was born to an Irish mother named Patricia Hickey and a father of Venezuelan and African heritage named Alfred Roy Carey. Mariah stated in an interview that her mother is a third generation Irish American.
She also mentioned on Lopez Tonight that she has a Venezuelan great grandmother on her father’s side. Unfortunately, her bi-racial family was the target of racial slurs and hostility while young Mariah was growing up.
Source:
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_8_37/ai_n27364315/
- http://people.famouswhy.com/mariah_carey
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I think it is mostly because of the differences
in language and culture and also scientific racism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Us_Our_Skeletons
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Irish is apart of Europe right, yea I thought so. Therefore Irish is white and a part of Europe. End of story.
Luomi: Sami look like normal Scandinavians to me. Why are Sami’s considered so different?
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@Fuzzybear
Some people also think that Finns and Sámi people aren’t white.
Does that make me “non-white”, since I am of Sámi and Kven descent?
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Irish are white, they are some of the whitest people actually because there is a low number of non- white immigrants.
What is Redlegs?
And she stated that her great-gma was Indian. that would make her dad1/4- 1/8 Indian. He probably had more white or Indian Admixture than that, because coloreds in colonized countries usually are mixed.
Just accept it she is more white. Black people are always trying to make somebody all or more black.
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lauren, badboy.inc black people don’t always claim mixed people because of their looks it goes back to the one drop rule used during slavery like mariah carey said cause white people never wanted to claim mixed people not even their own children as white so us black people took them in and claimed them. IF YOU knew anything about black people you would know this, plus their are plenty of blacks that look just as pretty and mixed that are actually just light skinned like me, take a trip to Ethiopia in Africa they are light skinned africans and many of them don’t have nappy hair. Mariah is a beautiful women of color because u know white people do not claim mixed people u said all that BS about black people making it seem like their not beautiful when u know society makes black people look like the underdog when really they are just as beautiful but it’s not embraced by America
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To Lauren
Ok just putting this out there,What if the mom is one of those Redlegs,and I’m not saying that she is;but that would take you percentages down making her more black.Also,what if the father isn’t mixed with indian,because I don’t know.Also it’s been said that Irish aren’t white
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Her mother is all Irish.
Her father is Afro- Venazuelan
That would make her 50% Irish
and anywhere from 25%-40% African
and anwhere from 10%-25% Ingenious Venezuelan- Native American
Depending on how much admixtures her father has
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To Helo Helo
How is she predominantly european,when her father is Afro-Venezuelan and African American descent,which equals black?
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lol makes me laugh, she predominantly european but calls herself black lol and she wnt take a test to prove it, jessica alba is so much better looking than mc
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Dumb as Pepe that show is fake and that girl was not all black she just indetifies that way duh…duh…duh
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She’s a thug
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