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Birth Name:
Rachael Domenica Ray
Birth Place:
Glens Falls, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth:
August 25, 1968
What Race or Ethnicity:
Sicilian, Welsh, Scottish, and French
The American television personality and author was born to Elsa Scuderi and James Ray. Her mother is of Sicilian descent and her father is of Welsh, Scottish, and French descent.
This was mentioned on an article on Vanity Fair. The url to this article can be found below.
She is able to speak Italian, though it isn’t her mother tongue.
Source:
http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2007/10/rachaelray200710
http://www.rachaelraymag.com/about-rachael/
rach-notebook/rachs-notebook—hello-38/article.html
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“Ethnic” is going behind the walls put up by the profiteers of Slavery & discovering what makes YOU, well…..you. It’s a private journey & anyone who shares their ethnicity understands we are much more then we appear to be on the surface to ourselves as well as each other. An eye-opening journey of self- discovery!
Iran/Persian, Sicilian, Mexican, Apache, Navajos, etc. Are just a few ethnic cultures with similar blood-lines. History, wars, border fights, etc. Shaped their identities & cultures. Stop hatin’ & share the love. Admire the Beauty! African Dispora, check it out.
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Yep. A lot of folks think like Pat. I guess standing behind a color, such as those instilled in times of slavery (“white” or “black”) tends to pit folks on one side or another which was the goal back then by those who profited from Slavery…ever seen the wealth of Banks in England? Slavery was the most profitable industry for Colonial powers!
But “ethnic” is going behind those walls & discovering what makes ME, well…..me. It’s a private journey & anyone who shares their ethnicity understands we are more then we appear to be to ourselves as well as each other. It’s worth the journey of self- discovery!
Iran/Persian, Sicilian, Mexican, Apache, Navajos, etc. Are just a few ethnic cultures with similar blood-lines. History, wars, border fights, etc. Shaped their identities & cultures. Stop hatin’ & share the love. Admire the Beauty! African Dispora, check it out.
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Huh…Iran/Persian, Sicilian, Mexican, Apache, Navajos, etc are just a few ethnic cultures with similar bloodlines???? So, Don Corleone liked to smoke the peace pipe??? Don Sitting Bull??? You know what I think you’re smoking something….from what I can tell from the sh*t you’re typing…lol.
Only one thing I will agree with you is that people that feel proud of themselves solely or largely because of their ethnicity or race are ridiculous and ignorant and probably have to do that because they can’t warrant any pride from their personal lives.
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Every person i know thinks shes hispanic definently mexican. i am being honest she really does look it.
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Every time Rachel Ray talks about her heritage she only mentions sicilian. I guess she does not recognize her father side French, Welsh, and scottish. It is called being prejuidice to yourself. Alot of people do this all the time. Say they are half Polish and half German they will only say they are German. In my family we are Irish, French Canadian and English German. The men only say Irish. It is very misleading and disrespectful because without the other sides of you in my case 50% non Irish I wouldn’t be here. So there is prejuidice among whites within themselves. I mean Halle Berry’s daughter is 75% white but yet she calls her daughter black. Prejuidice is prejuidice. I mean a prejudice white southerner made the 1 percent black rule and if you believe that ignorant racist then you are just like him.
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well we can only assume the child is 75% white,we don’t know the true makeup of both parents.I mean the father could be another one of those same self haters your talking about.However I don’t believe Halle hates her white half,because she is forever with her mother.Now I do understand what your saying,but that’s she chose to bring up her daughter,how she was brought up to think.From the new pics,she’s not whitish anymore,but that can change.Who knows how she will ID herself later.However what about the half blacks who only claim their white half like dinsel or jessica szohr who I heard myself say she was just hungarian
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i thought she was like Spanish or Mexican or somethin’
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yeah…I always thought she was mexican or spanish because she’s always cooking friggin tacos and nachos…lol. It’s like the actor that played the Mexican singer in La Bamba…..Lou Diamond Philips….Now I would have sworn he was Mexican or some sort of Latino …maybe a mixture of native american. He does have native american, but his father is of Scottish Irish descent and his mother is a proud filipina like you I guess…..I guess that’s where he gets his darker features…..but who would of thought….but then again I think a lot of filipinos could pass for hispanic since it was a colony of spain at one point.
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She looks hispanic to me..
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I agree lmao! :D
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very nice food
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