Birth Name:
Samuel Timothy McGraw
Birth Place:
Delhi, Louisiana, United States
Date of Birth:
May 1, 1967
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Italian, Irish and Scottish
The American country singer was born to a mother of Italian and Irish descent named Elizabeth (Betty) Ann D’Agostino. His father, Frank Edwin McGraw Jr is of Scots-Irish descent.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/10/lkl.00.html
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hell no he doesn’t look native. that cornball borderline racist song of his just screamed that all he knew of natives was old hollywood westerns
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WoW who would have Knew he was irish
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Scots-Irish are people of both Scottish and Irish descent.
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i never knew that
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It says his dad is of Scots-Irish descent, although you have him down as Scottish.
I did some research on the “Scots-Irish” and from what I’ve found it is just an Americanism for “Northern Irish” which should just make Tim Irish and Italian.
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I think he looks quite Italian.
Ethnic
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wow…..quite italian. Italians can be blonde, red haired, brown,
black with every color eye imagineable. The dark olive
skinned stereotype of Hollywood is based on sicillians who are
in general darker than main land italians because they have
been invaded by many many people,
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As a Sicilian, I can tell you we come in all shades, NOT just darker skin. We are brunette, red headed or blond and some are darker skinned, some are very light. Annoyed needs to research more about what real Sicilians look like and not subscribe to the Hollywoood stereotype about all of us being swarthy. Sicilians are NOT any darker than the Italians on the mainland, in fact, I know a lot of people who have travelled to Sicily and are surprised that we are actually lighter than those on the mainland. Oh and by the way, we are Latin and not WASPs. American gets that wrong too. They lable Latins as people coming from S. America, Latin America. They are Latino, not Latin. The Spanish brought them their culture, language and their religion, but their DNA is still mainly that of the native people from those countries. If you think you’re Latin, than you should be Italian or Sicilian, Spanish (from Spain), Portuguese or French, who are also Gallic.
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Really i could’ve sworn he had some native american in him his eyes they look like native american eyes know what i mean?!
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me too
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