photo credit: FranciscoVargas
Birth Name:
Nelly Kim Furtado
Birth Place:
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Ethnicity:
Azorean Portuguese
The Canadian pop star was born to Portuguese parents from Sao Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago. She stated this in an interview. She currently holds a Portuguese citizenship.
Source:
http://www.dailymusicguide.com/Interviews/nelly_furtado_interview.aspx
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she looks very typical portugese
she looks also like a portugese woman descended from a small village
i know 4 portugese people and 3 have blue-grey eyes , brown to black hair
only one has brown eyes
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shes portuguese just like me!!!!
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Portuguese are whites and Celtics read this on the Wikipedia
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She looks Jewish
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If you hate “white” people and especially the Europeans, why are you always on their pages, debating their ethnicity or race?
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she is fully white. SHE IS EUROPEAN (CAUCASIAN) BECAUSE SHE MIGHT BE TANNED A LITTLE DOESNT MEAN SHE IS NOT WHITE. THERE IS WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE TANN AND DARK ,BUT THEY STILL ARE WHITE CAUCASIAN..AND NO SHE IS NOT MIXED AND SPANISH (FROM SPAIN) PORTUGUESE,GREEK ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE SAME WHITE PEOPLE …THEY MIGHT BE A LITTLE TANNER BUT ITS THE SAME EXACT RACE.
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Being “white” is a social identity. Overwhelmingly in Portugal, the people are fair skin but there are regions of the country that there has a noticeable evidence of Afro-Arab, African, Middle Eastern (Moor invasion) ancestry as well as a huge Portuguese Jewish pop. Portugal also had a huge part in the Atlantic slave trade as evidence of Angola and a few other African countries that speak the language. Nelly looks like a typical dark skinned Southern European. Very few humans don’t have some mixed heritage.
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I love your post. Genealogists know that “white” is nothing more than a social construct. However, “me” claimed it exists scientifically on Mark Zuckerberg’s page. More proof that it had no idea what it is talking about.
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I love how they thumb you down for giving correct information, Memphis. Do not even bother to say anything on this site.
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SHE IS NOT WHITE
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Says the americunt
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all those portuguese that look anglo is because they are mix with northern europeans. the pure portuguese looks middle eastern or latin american.
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She looks admixed with something else….probably Arab.
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I assume she is not white as well . . . given the Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, Greeks, etc. all have their own race?
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