Vin Diesel
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Birth Name:
Mark Sinclair Vincent
Birth Place:
New York City, USA
Ethnicity:
African American and Italian
Star of movies such as the Fast and the Furious, and XXX is half African American and half Italian American. He has played roles in films of various ethnic backgrounds.
He considers himself “of ambiguous ethnicity, Italian and a lot of stuff”. His nationality is American.
Celebrities with similar heritage:
March 14th, 2009
When the first Fast and Furious came out. His first movie that made him famous. No names but, I met a co-star that played in the movie with him. She just so happened to live a few houses from my uncle. SHe was very nice and down to earth. Well, being that my sister was infatuated with him we asked her his nationality. She told us that he in fact is Italian and Dominican. But, that he prefers to say that he is half African b/c he doesn’t want the media to judge him. Which in fact I think is totally retarded. Anyway, I wanted to share that info with you guys… C ya
March 15th, 2009
Thanks for the post. Very interesting, Ill look into it.
April 3rd, 2009
http://www.vindiesel.hu/ vindiesel/biography.htm
no one wants to be “black” which never meant being 100% african. there were obviously more mixed children during slavery than now. many virginian “free blacks” became melegeons or remained a slave if their mother was african or indian. these were the breeding rules in virginia. i hate the monolitic perception of being a black american. it’s nothing but classism to conquer and divide. the sons and daughters of imigrants understand the evolution of a group of americans who were bred in the colonies. And that claiming all ancestry does not mean that 1 is not black american.
April 3rd, 2009
correction “the sons and daughter of imigrants” DONT
April 6th, 2009
i consider him WHITE
April 18th, 2009
Im African American mixed with Cherokee and Native American. My Mom is Half Cherokee and African American. My father is Half African American and Native American. I could get careless about what hes mixed with. Hes a great actor. Good looking too lol.
April 20th, 2009
he has a nappy hair and a long nose, he has african descent.
April 27th, 2009
to bet…he doesnt have hair you idiot! and black people have all kinds of noses so your comment was realllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyy ignorant
April 28th, 2009
vin diesel is super sexy!!
May 10th, 2009
bet was probably refering to photos of him taken when he was younger. he had an afro. im really not buying that he says he is half african american because of the media because thats just silly. he is obviously(imo) half white and black especially after seeing pics from when he was youg
May 12th, 2009
“coolcat”, take easy! it’s just a comment Oo. You are a ignorant, the world isn’t USA!! go study geography!. Look that pics when he was younger: http://infodeu.net/u/97 and that video: http://infodeu.net/u/99
Black with thinner nose have white ancestry, no one in black Africa have thinner nose. he is half black and half african american. I guess he don’t like it =/.
May 13th, 2009
look okay as far as I concered Iam an Black American and Iam proud of it,black is beautiful and everyone is not mixed with something just cause its hard to believe because it shown in the past that EUROPEANS have brainwashed blacks in slavery to believe that black is not beautiful thats not true
August 1st, 2009
“bet” there are blacks in Africa who ave thin noses and dont have white ancestry.
August 1st, 2009
Of course there are Africans with thin noses. Look at this girl for example
http://ethnicelebs.com/dominican-sri-lankan-eritrean-or-kenyan
August 2nd, 2009
man, vin diesel is so hot.. man, he is sexyy ;) i love you vin!!! :)
and of course there a african american w/ straight noses.. a lot actually, the majority are of course light skinned african american, but there are a ton of drk skinned african americans with beautiful drk. brown skin and straight noses.. so what.. :)
August 2nd, 2009
he’s cool but this old video of him break dancing is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2Mb8pM6E8
September 14th, 2009
ANY OF YOU BEEN TO TUNISHA, AFRICA ? NONE OF THE PEOPLE I MET THERE LOOK EVEN REMOTLEY BLACK.
September 14th, 2009
Thats true, a lot of northern Africans look Arab or Southern European.
October 18th, 2009
Um all them not wid black women are sell outs gosh
October 22nd, 2009
i’m a mix of Uzbeki and Ukranian, and most people think i am totally African mix because of my nappy hair. but he is totally hot….
November 13th, 2009
@ ethnic Just curious and I hope this question doesn’t offend/bother you but whats your ethnicity?!(If you don’t mind me asking:))
November 13th, 2009
No its no problem. Im East Asian.
Ethnic
November 30th, 2009
lol I forgot that I asked sorry. I have a lil Blasian cousin(She’s so cute). Her mama my aunt (by marriage) is cool as hell!! Ya’ll are some cool ass ppl, had a few Asian friends back in High School:)
November 30th, 2009
good to see you back here.
December 7th, 2009
@ethnic yeah good to be back, I see you added Oprah and some more ppl. I’ll have to go check it out;)
December 28th, 2009
He looks white to me.
January 27th, 2010
He looks white…how is he black?? WTF??
January 27th, 2010
come on guys, go to study geography and history, this girl from Eritrean, a lot of arabs and others mediterranean races immigrated to there during many years, that people is very very mixed. Do you know egypt history? that people were black 5.000 years ago, now they are arabs. I’m talking about full blacks in saharan africa, not mixed blacks in north areas. A white with black ancestry can have a long nose, and isn’t a white features, but he still white!! did you see my point?? god, isn’t so difficult to understand, basic history knowledge. Other thing, Tunisia doesn’t look anything, IT’S a arab country, like Egypt, Marrocos and Algeria LMFAO that was good
January 27th, 2010
Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Somali (except for the minority of Bantu people who live in these countries) are considered genetically white (because Arabs are white).
February 4th, 2010
that’s a bunch of BS ,the Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Somali aren’t are considered genetically white.Arabs aren’t pure anything,they descent from black people,but over time have mixed with white people;just like the north Africans have.
February 5th, 2010
I agree fuzzy bear. They are not white
February 5th, 2010
this is to Dean,if you visit the Southern part next time,you’ll see the black people.Also they were badly treated by foreigner(aka the French) and push toward the south,during Colonial Times.There are still black people up there,I doubt you when all over the place.Also you don’t have to have black skin to be part of the black culture,Black is simply an umbrella term.I can show you,a few black people who lived there life as white people.
February 21st, 2010
For all you caucasians he does not look WHITE okay! he looks mixed and plus most african guys shave their hair. Another thing to miss nappy-non-black-hair-girl you don’t know what nappy hair is maybe you should show us a picture to prove your point coz I’ve never seen a european have nappy hair before lol.
February 22nd, 2010
to bet: you keep saying to some1 who dont agree with you to study geography, but you dont seem to know really africa lol
In northern africa (morrocos algeria tunisia) there is black people too even if they´re less numerous,i know black people from each of these countries. In egypt there were black people 5000 years ago but they move to sub saharian africa. In east africa(ethiopia erythree somalia soudan), there is black people called “semi bantous”(sorry it´s the french term i cant say it in english) there is nubians too
February 22nd, 2010
Most of the Moroccans I know, will tell you in a second that they are mixed blooded.Also that their ancestors started off as what we call black people,but over time have mixed
February 22nd, 2010
i couldnt finish my comment so i continue: people who live in eastern africa are blacks, never considered as white people, not mixed, and they have thin noses. In fact, im cameroonian, i live in france and in france you have immigrants from almost all the african country. And i certify that sub saharian africans not mixed can have thin noses curly hair (not coarse) and green eyes too. So please stop talking about a continent that you don´t know because its too complex and to understand this continent you must go there or know a lot of africans, because all africans are different. I´m cameroonian, different from a congolese who is different from a senegalese etc …
February 22nd, 2010
and for information, don´t tell a northern african that he (or she) is white lool they´re arabic !!!! And arabic people are definitely different from white people (the truth is in france white french ppl hate northern africans arabic more than sub saharian africans black)
February 26th, 2010
Black people are native to sub-Saharan Africa. Northern African are originally Caucasoid Berbers but blacks have immigrated there, especially in recent times due to economic opportunity and for easier access into Europe. East Africans nowadays are mixed with black Africans and Arabs. African Americans on average are about 20% white due to slave times: when white slave owners would have sex with their black slaves.
I always knew Vin Diesel was mixed. It is obvious he is definitely not just black or just white. He possesses qualities of both races: nappy hair from his black side (although like most people with nappy hair he shaves his head) and narrow nose, relatively light skin from his white side.
February 26th, 2010
To You
I know that’s what they have been teaching you guys,but that incorrect.Now true black people are native to that part,however they were also native to north African.The Sahara,wasn’t always a desert.Black people were all up there,there’s plenty of proof.Now when the Sahara started to get dry,the black people moved in 4 directions(north to the Mediterranean ,east to the nile,west to the Atlantic,and south).Now berbers were black that came back into africa around 8000yrs or more ago.White people weren’t around at this time.white skin didn’t show up to around 5.5 to 6000yrs ago in the Caucasus Mountains,not in Africa.Now berbers come from what is now call Eurasia,but they were still black people,and mixed with other black people that were already there.Now after a time white people show up and ( romans ) who name them Mauri or moor.Now whites show up and now you have (diversity)in certain berber tribes.Now arabs show up,but not the color you think(black and dark brown).
February 26th, 2010
Had to do this in two parts:
They take over,make arabs out of the berbers and the other black people.Start a slave trade of blacks and whites(mostly women),have a lot of babies all colors.They take over spain,have lots of babies called (Moriscos).Now the moors are kicked out of spain,the moriscos are kick out later,move to north africa;and have a lot of mixed blooded babies so they are mixed blooded people,not white.This taking to long so lets just say that moors have always been synonymous with black people example( the song of roland),when your describe as the only thing white about you is your teeth,your black:
http://www.africamaat.com/IMG/gif/Roland.gif
more pics:
February 26th, 2010
My fault three parts:
The pics I want to show want go through,so
There’s a lot I could tell you,but lets just say the people of North African weren’t always how they are now
March 1st, 2010
to you: black people lived in north africa before the arabs came along, it’s not recent !! Fuzzybear you’re right, where did you learn all this things ?? i’m very curious !!
March 2nd, 2010
To drexxx
Do a lot of studying,and a lot of the teachers are starting to teach this in class
March 3rd, 2010
okay !! because actually before reading your posts, ii had got the feeling that a lot of american people live in their bubble, like they didn’t pay any attention to what’s going on in the other places. I’m pretty happy because i was completely wrong !!!
March 3rd, 2010
To drexxx
Well unfortunately,your not completely wrong.Alot of them are in their own little world.Now I can only talk about the people I’ve come in contact with,but their proud to be stupid.They don’t want to go to school,or learn anything other than what the streets teach them.I was always told to learn both
March 3rd, 2010
what a pity … !! It reminds me a funny show , where french reporters go in the US and ask american people on the streets the question :Do you know a country which begins by the letter U: NOBODY COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION !! I was so shocking ! Nobody found : United states
March 4th, 2010
To drexxx
Yeah,that is bad
March 17th, 2010
@Fuzzybear
You don’t know what you are talking about. Where did you learn history. Nearly every scientist agrees that whites (light-skinned Caucasians) evolved within 10-15 thousand years of entering Europe — which was about 40-50 thousand years ago. So white people existed by 25-40 thousand years ago. Blue eyes are said to have appeared 10,000 years ago, so where do you get the impression that they only arose 6,000 years ago?
Secondly have you looked at ancient Egyptian depictions of themselves and their neighbors? Libyans (North Africans) are shown to be a light-skinned type of Caucasians. West Asians (Middle Easterners) were portrayed as only a little bit darker than the Libyans. Nubians were described with typical black features. And the ancient Egyptians themselves were depicted as red/tan or yellow. So Caucasians were documented to have been living in North Africa during Ancient Egyptian times, which is at least 4,000 years ago.
The North African environment for the last 10 thousand years was was no different than that of West Asia or South Europe. They all have Mediterranean conditions, so why should the natives of this region look any different than other Caucasians with a Mediterranean appearance.
And I’m not American. I am a Lebanese from Brazil.
March 17th, 2010
To You : I know you didn’t talked to me but i agree with Fuzzybear when he says that white people appeared 6000 years ago, a learnt it too while attending a biochemistry class, i was very surprised by this information, but i don’t think that my biochemistry teacher could lie lol
He said litterally (i translate from french): the “white” phenotype is actually a genetic mutation which appeared 6000 years ago in the caucasian region and then get fixed.
And for the Ancient Egytians, Herodote (the very first historician of the world) mentioned in his books that he could describe egyptians as red-skinned with kinky hair, but red is actually an ancient term used to describe black people. (i quote Pr Cheikh anta diop’s book “Nations nègres et cultures” http://www.answers.com/topic/cheikh-anta-diop)
March 17th, 2010
To You
If any scientist told you that,they need there degrees taken away.Pale skin as in white people didn’t appear until 6000 yrs ago,that’s been proven.I wouldn’t have said it other wise.Also the black didn’t instantly transformer once they enter europe,that took time.Also,you can have blue eyes and be black:
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg269/ally0479/blueeye3.jpg
http://www.africancolours.net/media/10929_2_03,%20Miss%20Richard%20Wachira.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/436511376_10bac511f2.jpg?v=0
Now also,I know what picture your talking about,and it’s not 4000yrs old.next the north African berbers are not white,their mixed blooded people,and most of them will tell you that,and the way they look now is not how they always looked.I could go into,but it would take to long,let’s just say a lot of sex.
March 17th, 2010
Part two
Next Egyptians,they showed themselves a lot of ways,it’s because they are mixed blooded people to.Over thousands of years,they went from black to what they are now.Here’s a few example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/MentuhotepII-FuneraryStatue-CloseUp_MetropolitanMuseum.png/455px-MentuhotepII-FuneraryStatue-CloseUp_MetropolitanMuseum.png
http://wysinger.homestead.com/senusreti.jpg
Tuthmosis III:
http://wysinger.homestead.com/files/2tuthmoseiii.jpg
http://wysinger.homestead.com/wallimage.jpg
As you can see,not Caucasians.Plus a number of ancient historians have described them as black people.Next,it seem you know nothing about North African,from the fact you said any of the things you said.Also just I want you to know how people change over time,here what persains use to look like:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Persian_warriors_from_Berlin_Museum.jpg
See how they changed
March 17th, 2010
To drexxx
Thank you,it’s so sad he doesn’t really know anything.I could have given him a lot of stuff on the subject,but it would take to long
March 17th, 2010
to fuzzybear
I can’t completely blame You because he (or she) is sticking to what he (or she) learned at school, and if you want to explain all your knowledge it would take a lot of time you’re right
and one question fuzzybear how old are you??? what are you studying ????
March 17th, 2010
To drexxx
Yeah I know ,and I don’t blame him/her,much LOL.Well I’m a young man of 20,and I’m studying electronic engineering,with a little bit of computers stuff.The history stuff is just for my own knowledge.It started with my friend showing me something about Moses and his miracles that I over looked.About how he put his hand to his chest and his hand became white.Well if Moses was already white how would that be a Miracle.And this is what made me start to look at history again
March 17th, 2010
To drexxx
How old are you?
March 17th, 2010
OMFG FUZZYBEAR YOUR A BOY!?
im sry but i thougth you were a girl lol:)
This is mind boggling!
March 17th, 2010
To Kira
WHAT!!!!
March 17th, 2010
To Kira
It cool,how have you been anyhow?
March 17th, 2010
I’m twenty too, i will celebrate my 21st bitrhday at the end of the month loool, and i’m studying medical biology !!!
And since i decide to cut my relaxed hair to be nappy (3 years ago lol) i started making researches for myself about african history, sometimes my studies can help ( genetics for example)
Anyway everybody in my family is already interested about african history, i’m not the first one who try to know something new about it !!!!! My father is a history teacher in the university of Yaoundé, and he teach us(me and my siblings) the taste of history looool
March 18th, 2010
dont worry Kira I think someone thought I was a girl before I put my pic up. lol.
Drexxx and Fuzzybear I remember being around 21 all those years ago. What a time i had. It has to be one of the funnest times of your life. hope you all make the most of it.
Admin
March 18th, 2010
To Drexxx
The medical field huh.My mom tried talking me into becoming an Anesthesiologist,but stupid me said nope.Now although I didn’t go the nappy route,I got into it because over here in the history books,black people are a chapter.Now I knew we did more than that .Now if they had given us two chapters,I might not have so nosy
March 18th, 2010
To Ethnic
No,I don’t get to have any fun :(
March 22nd, 2010
to fuzzybear
Lol in france we don´t have any chapter in history books, so you have to figure it out by yourself, but most of black ppl in france are coming directly from africa or are of 2nd generation french so most of them have parents or grand parents who can tell them about the history of their own country, but for the west indians it’s more complicated because they are slave descendants as african americans.