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Birth Name:
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg
Birth Place:
Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Date of Birth:
June 5th, 1971
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Swedish, Irish, English, French Canadian
The American actor and musician was better known in his early days as Marky Mark. He was born in Boston and is of Swedish, English, Irish and French Canadian descent. His first ancestor in America is William Hathorne who immigrated from Berkshire, England to Salem, Massachusetts.
He is known to have had a rough life during his teenage years. He was charged for assaulting two Vietnamese men and was involved in other racially motivated incidents against other minorities. As a result he has spent time in prison.
After his time in prison, the experience changed his views on minorities and motivated him to stay out of trouble.
http://www.wargs.com/other/wahlberg.html
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No,Wahlberg is Swedish.
”Berg” has nothing to do with jewish.
Berg is very normal in Sweden.
Wahlberg sounds very Swedish
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I guess no one cared to comment on the fact that he grew up a violent racist? Honestly, why isn’t THAT what everyone is talking about? Knowing what race someone is doesn’t make you knowledgeable. Knowing how he treats other human beings, how he acts on his values, and what he was taught to believe in his youth, and then ACTING on that information is the only responsible recourse.
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This site was very informative.. I always thought he was made into such a big star in Hollywood due to being jewish. Now I know he really worked hard to get were he’s at…
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We can give him that too…. would ya like that? ;T
This site IS very accurate regardless if you have a bad taste in your mouth after your visit. (don’t blame it on this site, though, alright?)
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A fan site of his also list German as one of his ethnicity as well.
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I heard that people who have berg in there last name probably have jewish or something
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Jewish? Berg means mountain in German and Swedish and is often used in names.
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True Ms. Beznit, but just because one has dark hair in Ireland definitely doesn’t mean they have Spanish connections.
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My mothers family is irish and most everubody has dark hair. There is such a thing as ‘dark irish’. Don’t forget that spain had stationed there in the 18th century. A lot of mixing went on.
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its easy 2 guess hes irish becase he has a glow of red hair “LIKE ME”
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he has red hair?
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I’d say 99% of Irish people don’t have red hair. This is just another stereotype.
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There is nothing wrong with stereo typing except for when its not true. As for 99% Irish not being redheads- YOU are Wrong – the Scotts & Irish have the highest percentage of redheads with 46% of Irish carrying the recessive redhead gene.
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Actually between 4 and 7 percent of people in Ireland have red hair. It is only slightly higher in Scotland. Having a recessive gene is one thing, actually having red hair is a different thing. Most Irish people have either light brown(Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Bolger) or black hair(Colin Farrell, Andrea Corr, Pierce Brosnan, Grainne and Sile Seoige) There are actually more blondes(Cara Dillon, Gemma Hayes, Mairead Nesbitt) in Ireland than red heads. Katie McGrath from Merlin has naturally blonde hair that she has died black. I think people should stop relying on 18th century stereotypes and come visit Ireland to see what we really look like.
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