Charli XCX
XCX in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Charlotte Emma Aitchison
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 2 August, 1992
Ethnicity: Scottish, Ugandan Indian
Charli XCX is a British singer and songwriter.
She is the daughter of Shameera (Manji) and Jon Aitchison. Her father is of Scottish origin. Her mother is Indian, from Uganda.
Charli has said, “I grew up around people throwing the word Paki around… And they’d be like, ‘Oh, we’re going to the Paki shop,’ like a corner shop or whatever. I personally think that’s really racist. A lot of people I knew would throw that term around, and it would always upset me, not because I’m Pakistani, but just because I thought it was really wrong. And my mom actually once had an incident where she was getting out of her car in broad daylight, in the middle of our town, and these guys went past her on a bicycle and threw a milkshake at her and called her a Paki. She was so upset, as she would be. But that’s nothing to some things that happen.”
she could easily pass for iranian, indian and afghan
So, she’s mixed-race. I knew there was something interesting there and it’s a wonderful combination. As for her comments about her mother, she must have took them personally, because it was clear they were directed at South Asians as a whole.
She’s looks like an attractive white girl and she is white. I’m white I know how my race looks.
Middle eastern people look completely different and she doesn’t have an ounce of middle eastern in her. Travel across europe and you’ll see plenty of girls with her look.
You might want to give some thought, that maybe those girls that look like her aren’t full European. Europe has a long history with many different people in it.
Perhaps it’s you that needs to travel across the Middle East and the Caucasus (especially Iran and Armenia) and you will also see plenty of girls with her look. Nobody is disputing that she is white-passing, but saying “She looks and is white, I know because I’m white and (I think) Middle Easterners look totally different so that makes her pure white, end of story…” is too simplistic. If you knew your ‘race’ that well, you would also know that the vast majority of the Middle East are not considered a separate ‘race,’ if you believe in the concept of race. I’m not exactly sure what it is that you think Middle Eastern people look like to say that they look ‘completely different.’ That area of the world is much more diverse than you give them credit for, but the reality is that if you compared her to the vast majority of mainland Europeans, and the average Lebanese/Persian/Armenian/etc, she would easily fit in much better with the latter group, skin color aside (or not, many people from that area can be pale as well.)
But you were right about one thing. She doesn’t have “an ounce of Middle Eastern in her.” Her mother is INDIAN.
She was considered exotic in uk, so shes not white
She doesnt look white, she looks pakistani, arab, indian:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/15/article-P-4e03ef93-175d-4755-a7e1-0c988a94e54a-6WMHe2W6e-HSK1-83_634x356.jpg
This site pick dark pictures for white people and light pictures for mixed people hahaha
She cant fit in uk, thats why people there asked if she was pakistani
She looks middle eastern to me more specifically armenian. Not white in the european sense at all.