Sasha Pieterse
Pieterse in 2013, photo by PrPhotos
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Date of Birth: February 17, 1996
Ethnicity: Afrikaner [Dutch, other]
Sasha Pieterse is a South African-American actress, singer, and songwriter. She is known for her roles on television’s Heroes, Pretty Little Liars, Geek Charming, and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, and in the films The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, The Air I Breathe, G.B.F., Inherent Vice, Burning Bodhi, and Coin Heist.
Sasha was born in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Her family moved to the U.S. in 2001, and she was raised in Las Vegas and then Los Angeles. She is a U.S. citizen. Sasha is married to Hudson Sheaffer, with whom she has a son.
I suspect that her surname derived from the Danish patronymic Pedersen. I believe that she might have been descended from this ancestor https://www.geni.com/people/Barthold-Pieterse-SV-PROG/6000000003498139628 although not confirmed yet.
Am I the only one who thinks she looks like Aishwarya Rai here?
I would say so
she looks a bit like dutch model doutzen kroes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/–YqzTOn_YbI/TfEhqaFPGfI/AAAAAAAAAOw/LDz_1MQ0zgA/s1600/sascha+pieterse%2526+doutzen+kroesbewerkt.jpg
That is somewhat a bit true, but Afrikaner is majority Dutch in South Africa. The french and German are a tad bit lower in that country. Who cares though, Afrikaner is an ethnicity of Caucasian South Africans and sometimes other countries.
wikipedia: Afrikaners (including the Boer subgroup) are an ethnic group in Southern Africa whose native tongue is Afrikaans: a Germanic language which derives primarily from 17th century Dutch, and a variety of other languages. They are descended from Dutch Calvinists, Germans and French Huguenots, also Frisians, English, and minor numbers of other Europeans and non-European slaves and indentured servants
Afrikaners (including the Boer subgroup)[3] are an ethnic group descended from Dutch settlers and other ethnic groups living in Southern Africa whose native tongue is Afrikaans; a Germanic language developed in Africa which derives primarily from 17th century Dutch.[4][5] In South Africa, they constitute approximately 5% of the total population.[1]
The term Afrikaner as used in the 20th and 21st century refers to a specific South African ethnic group that is Afrikaans-speaking, i.e. those of the larger Cape Dutch origin and of the smaller Boer origin, who are descended from European settlers who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of administration (1652 – 1795) by the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC).
Obviously they are Dutch (some mainly, some wholly).
Never seen an Afrikaner that was wholly Dutch.
Afrikaner is not Dutch only. Most afrikaners has French Huguenot and German heritage too
Well she isn’t.
And the Dutch were/are way more represented there.