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Birth Name:
Pamela Denise Anderson
Birth Place:
British Columbia, Canada
Date of Birth:
July 1, 1967
Ethnicity:
Finnish and Russian
Her great-grandfather, Juho Hyytiäinen, was Finnish, a native of Saarijärvi. He changed his name to Anderson upon arrival in the US.
She has Russian ancestry on her mother’s side. Her mother previously thought that she was of Dutch ancestry.
Source:
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19328845/
- http://www.pamwatch.com/nov99.html
- http://www.boston.com/
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Inka Finland is often considered a Scandinavian country, and of course she does not look like Finnish, becouse that passed a not single generation. I dont know about her Swedish blood. Yeah, may be she really has swedish origin, but if her family knew about it she would say that there is and swedish origin. But on the other side, she is always think what she is Dutch ancestry on mother, but turned out to be Russian…
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Ah I see now that her great-grandfather had a Finnish name. That doesn’t change the fact that she still might be Swedo-Finnish. Many Swedo-Finns (like the famous Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi) changed their Swedish names into Finnish ones to appear more Finnish.
It would be interesting to search further into her origin.
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Pamela doesn’t look Finnish at all and if judging by her last name she’s of Swedo-Finnish origin, which means that she’s a descendent of one of those Swedes who came to Finland during the Swedish occupation and stayed. So not really of Finnish blood unless they mixed with real Finns. That’s why she looks Scandinavian (Swedish), since Finns are not Scandinavians.
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Thanks Sanna. hello to you in Finland
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She does look finnish :)
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it’s Saarijärvi. With i.
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I never would have thought that she is Finnish-Russian descent! But now I see in her face something Slavic and Scandinavian.
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her name sounds scandinavian. anderson… all the sson, sen and son surnames are
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Thanks for the update and link.
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On a website she stated that she recently discovered that her mom is not of Dutch ancestry instead her mom has Russian ancestry reference at: http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/06/19/pamela_andersons_mom_wish/
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