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Birth Name:
Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo
Birth Place:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Date of Birth:
January 2, 1967
Ethnicity:
Filipino, Chinese and Spanish
The Hawaiian born actress is of Filipino, Chinese and Spanish heritage.Wikipedia states that she has Hawaiian heritage but most sites don’t agree with this. (1)
She got her stage name Tia because her little sister couldn’t pronounce Althea, and Carrere is a tribute to the former James Bond Girl Barbara Carrera. (2)
(1) http://www.celebstation.org/biography/821/Tia_Carrere
(2) http://www.e-hawaii.com/stars/index/tia_carrere/default.htm
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Happy birthday Mrs.Tia
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Priscilla, you sound ridiculous. There is no such thing as being a ethnicity “at heart”. If a white person feels they are black does that make them black “at heart”? NO! You are still white. You may WISH you are something else, but it doesnt change the fact that you are what you are.
Tia is NOT hawaiian.
Nessa, you need to educate yourself. Hawaiian is a ethnicity. Hawaiians are polynesian which includes Samoans, Tahitians, Fijians, Maoli of New Zealand etc. much like how Spaniards, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans etc are hispanic. They (as we) are distinct yet of the same ethnic group. Hawaiians are the indigenous people of Hawai’i prior to colonization by foreigners.
Some people try to say they are Hawaiian but are not. Much in the way that people who are from California call themselves Californians and people from Texas call themselves Texans, some people who are not of Hawaiian decent but live in Hawai’i call themselves Hawaiians not caring that they are being rude and insensitive to the actual Hawaiians (indigenous people of Hawai’i). I explain it like this.. if you are white and live in Asia you might call yourself Asian but that would be rude and insensitive to actual indigenous Asia and therefore no white people typically do that. When is the last time you met someone who lived in Asia but was white and called themselves Asian? It doesnt happen because people realize it is wrong. People do not care about this fact in Hawaii and call themselves Hawaiian sometimes even when they are NOT Hawaiian.
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well … what you said actually makes sense to me. my dad is chinese, and he was born in taiwan. much of the population of taiwan is chinese ppl not of indigenous taiwanese heritage but of various chinese ethnicities that can be traced back to mainland china. when i see him as taiwanese i only see it as a nationality for him not a ethnicity. his family has adopted the culture and food and dialect for generations but he is not an indigenous person of taiwan.
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That has always been on my mind. why do people from Hawaii think talk about themselves like its a race. Isn’t it a culture??? Like nicole scherzinger who always talks about herself as being hawaiian, but she’s half filipino half something else.
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nicole said shes proud of all her ethnicities,but out of the 3(which is hawaiian,russian and filipino)she was most proud of her hawaiian culture
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Tia Carrere is Filipina and that’s all!! Being from Hawai’i does NOT make a person Native Hawaiian!
Nicole Scherzinger is a full HALF Filipina and the other half is divided between Russian and Native Hawaiian. She carries her German-American stepdad’s last name, but is not German herself. Now, I’ve heard Nicole say she’s proud of being Filipina (when the Dolls visited the Phlilipines) and proud of being Hawaiian (when she visits her birthplace, Hawai’i). That’s how being multi-ethnic works–you get to be proud of all your heritages.
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