Pau Gasol
Birth Name: Pau Gasol Sáez
Place of Birth: Barcelona, Spain
Date of Birth: 6 July, 1980
Ethnicity: Catalan Spanish
Paul Gasol is a Spanish professional basketball player. He played for FC Barcelona, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Chicago Bulls, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is 7′1″.
Paul is the son of Marisa Sàez and Agusti Gasol. His brother, Marc Gasol, also plays in the NBA. He is married to Catherine McDonnell, with whom he has two children.
It is said that Paul and his teammate Kobe Bryant communicated in Spanish during games to give them an edge over their opponents. Bryant was fluent in Italian as well as Spanish.
Great white man.
Of course he is not white.
wtf? are u blind ??
Good one.
he looks jewish wich means he still doesn’t look white.
get help with your insecurities. Your obsession with Southern Europeans is unflattering. don’t get mad because they are better than you
Why do people confuse Spain and Latin American countries?Spain is a white, Western, European country.
Latin Americans are not white (not completely). We have the blood of the indigenous people that were conquered.
People lump all the people of the Spanish-speaking world together
In fact Spaniard Spanish is completely different from Spanish in the Latin American countries.
Besides some don’t want to consider Spain as “Spanish,” but as “Castellano.”
actually spain is whiter than u.s.
85% is white. 15% mixed race or immigrants
does who look white in spain in the usa are considered mix. while the pure whites in usa look like dutch, finns ,and danish. btw spain is not whiter than usa they are mix with north african. they just try to deny it.
What is your problem with Southern Europeans? Why do you continue to harass them? Are you mad because they are considered white? You go from page to page writing crap about them like they have waged war against your family, making derogatory and disparaging comments about their ethnicity. You feel as if you have the right to make these comments because you are Northern European, as if you are better. It’s sickening.
Get a life.
I can tell you the same thing why the heck you keep reading everybody’s comments. that is more sickening.
you also need to get a life.
Actually, it’s more sickening that you think you are better than other Europeans because you are blonde and pale. Newsflash! Nobody wants to be you or look like you! So why do you care if they are regarded as “white?” Why does it concern you? Nobody has given this much of a fuck except for you!
“the pure whites in usa look like dutch, finns ,and danish”: some says finns are not “white”…..
So.. Europeans with Dark eyes and hair aren’t considered white? LMAO u sound stupid
If somb looks spain, he looks “jewish”?
I’ve been in spain and the majority of the people there doesnt look like Gasol..that’s for sure
The spanish looks like the actors javier bardem or banderas…or even ricky rubio,who is a great basketball player btw haha
I mean my point is that they are mediterranean and they look like white cubans or white mexicans but gasol seems to me be more french or even slavic..i’m not really sure
yeah..you are not sure. Spain has 48 millions of ppl and u cant pretend they look all the same
Spanish is not a race nor a ethnicity.
Gasol looks like the 90 % of catalans, but not like the majority of spaniards and obviously not like the south americans (some mixed with american native, or africans) that are called spanish in USA.
It’s funny how americans label gasol as a latino when his first language is not even spanish (he speak it with a strong accent) but catalan, more related with occitan and french than to spanish.
Spain And Its Official Language : “CASTILIAN”
Although the generic term commonly used and often associated with the language of Spain is Spanish the actual name of the language is Castilian and it is the language of the Castilla region of Spain.
Many when asked will say that the language of Spain is Spanish though this in fact is not the case. This being that saying that Spanish is the language of Spain would have been like saying that the language of Yugoslavia was Yugoslavian. Yes, the people of Yugoslavia could have been addressed as such but not there language for the name of their language was Servo-Croat. This being the case since there was no such language which could be called “Yugoslavian”.
Spain much like Yugoslavia or the ex Soviet Union or the country that used to be called Czechoslovakia has more then one language, as they have many regions which compose their country. All of which have their own language which should not be mistaken for dialects but languages. For instance the region called “Catatonia” which has Barcelona for its capital, has Catalan listed as one of their official languages while the “Basque country” has a completely different language which like Catalan will not be understood by somebody who speaks Spanish.
These are just two examples of how in Spain every region has its own language, however if the topic be the language which is commonly referred to as “Spanish” that is the one spoken in Madrid; which is not only the capital of the whole country of Spain but the region known as Castilla. It is this region of Spain that not only has imposed its language over the rest of the country but exported it to the world which has even accepted it as the language of Spain and labeled it as such with name of “Spanish” though technically speaking it should be called “Castilian”.
In conclusion I would like to say that though “Castilian” is the official language of Spain; it is not the only language and there are even many more all around the world who have taken to studying the other languages, which also have a rich tradition.
don’t have to make that big ass paragraph bro! nobody cares.
I am a Catalan man and I speak Spanish. Gasol is caucasian, like the vast majority of the Spanish people. As you said, Spanish is not a race, but a nationality and Gasol’s nationality is Spanish. BUT his mothertongues are both Spanish and Catalan (wich is a co-official language); Spanish is spoken all over the country and Gasol has a slight catalan accent, as well as people from Seville have andalusian accent…
Listo, que eres un listo / Llest, que ets un llest.
Agree with the “catalan man”. It´s amazing how americans can be such ignorants when it comes to the rest of the world.
Gasol doesn´t look like the majority of spaniards?? nonsense of a cathedral´s size.
We,spaniards,are europeans and caucasians. We are not like most of the south americans because most of them are mixed with native americans,not like USA citizens,because north american invaders just killed the native americans instead of mixing with them.
I´m spanish and I speak spanish like the 100% of the spaniards. In some regions (not all,but 5) people also speak regional languages,and for that reason the spanish language is known as castilian,but that doesn´t mean that Madrid or Castile imposed his language to the rest of the country.