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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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Ive seen Snook on The View she said she wasnt Sicilian. She was adopted by Sicilian parents. She’s 100% Chilean and Steph watch the Ginny shit, that aint even cool.
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There is no way she is white. She look native american. She is short and has dark skin like one… or is her skin color just fake lol It sounds more reasonable for her to be chilean
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you sure hate spaniards
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I am Chilean and I think she could be perfectly Chilean, because of her features… maybe in the case of Chile she looks more indiginous than the majority -Chile and the other countries of the “Cono Sur” (Argenitna, Chile, Uruguay) have influence from european inmigration and there were public policies oriented to kill indiginous-… We, chileans, are a mix between spanish people and indiginous, unfortunaly more spanish… indigenous are more clean and interesting (spanish people are lazy)… Spain gave us its stupid religion Catholic that destroyed our important culture. Saludos!
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well shes adopted maybe by an italian family so she prob was raised the ginny way …who gives a crap…i’m happy they had someone different on that show and not only italians…
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so she is spanish? i know ppl can look like anything, and all that. But i dont get it. she does not have mediterranean features AT ALL. She is so..just disgusting. sorry for the harsh words, but this girl is so gross.
she is adopted, so she could be anything really. And i will take this info on her ethnicity with a grain of salt.
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Shes ugly AND short.
So sry 2 her fans, but its my opinion. T_T
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she kinda looks like a dark christina aguilera
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Is she from Spain (“Spanish”)? If not, then this needs to be corrected and list her ethnicity as Chiliean, Mexican, Dominican, etc – whatever her heritage is. Or just put “HISPANIC.”
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She would pass for a sicilian.Italians also have brown skin.Whats the big deal?
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