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Birth Name: Nicole Polizzi
Birth Place: Santiago, Chile
Date of Birth: 23 November 1987
Ethnicity: Chilean
Snooki, as she is known on the reality show, Jersey Shore revealed, in an interview that she has Spanish heritage and that she was adopted and hasn’t met her biological parents. Snooki is of Chilean heritage.
She is a self proclaimed “guidette” who got her nickname Snooki in middle school being named after the character “Snooki the cootchie crook” from the movie Save the Last Dance.
Source:
- http://www.okmagazine.com/2009/12/jersey-shores-snooki-tells-all/
- http://www.faranduleo.com/2009/12/16/nicole-snooki-polizzi-not-italian/
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She loves Italians yet she doesn’t have one drop of italian blood in her..I’m 100% Italian..From the first episode of Jersey Shore I could tell she was Hispanic. You can tell because her lips are thin & she has a rounder face & short stature, although we southern Italians are olive skinned, we have a different kinda complexion then hers, look at Sammi whos Greek & Italian & look at the different kind of skin tones between her & Snooki. Even thought they both tan you can still tell the difference between a Meditaranean & a south American.
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no she is not
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I saw a picture of her on twitter with no make up or whaterer and her skin is already olive naturally.I dont know why she tans so much for.
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She doesn’t look Italian at all, which is the first thing I noticed when I saw her. She’s obviously Latin American and really looks more Native American than European. The facial features, round face, jet-black hair, darker skin (though the excess tanning adds to it), and very short stature all make her look Native.
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Clearly a Mestiza.
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Don’t b stupid, she’s got all the looks of inca indians, so she’s amerindian
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Chileans all know she’s an “india” that’s why she ended up in the orphanage where all poor brown kids go cause no one wants them…
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well okay what a stupid comment…chileans are brown…so wtf are you trying to say that chilieans don’t like their own race…and she is not an “india” lol you idiot…she’s an amerindian
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now if your skin is naturally tan .. you can stil claim to be WHITE by saying you just spend endless hours at the tanning beds LOL
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Lol!!
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Chilean isn’t an ethnicity, like what is this girl’s ethnicity Spanish, Mestizo, Italian, Portuguese, or Amerindian ??? Chilean is just a nationality with many different ethnicities! That’s like saying all the American born stars are just American, not Irish or whatever their ethnic backgrounds are ! Considering Chile’s population majority of the people are of Southern European or Mestizo descent so Snooki is either of European (Spanish/Italian etc.) or Mestizo descent I am guessing ! Her features though are pretty European/White, her skin is just tanned, because she goes to tanning beds and stuff too much !
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She look like Christina Aguilera
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