Great list, must have taken that funky ghetto hijabi girl (with an interesting story, and probably confused identity) ages to put together. Although it would have been better with some links included but I trust her anyways.
Smallville’s Lana Lang is the HOTTEST, followed by Lisa Ray at number 15! (if you’ve been too busy living on Mars, Lana Lang is number 25 in the list in case you’re wondering). Nicole of the Pussycat Dolls is too damn slutty. Meanwhile, Halle Berry is getting too old.
There are all kinds of awesome, delicious mixes on that list including Ethiopian Irish. I bet at least 20% of those people grew up with some big identity crisis issues.
And hey, did you know Heroe’s Nathan Petrelli is half Iranian, half German? Boycott the freaking show! Say NO to evil Iranians, all of them, starting with beloved Ahmadmidgetnejad! 
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Oh, this list makes me jealous. I always wanted to be bi- / multinational
But after researching more than 500 years of family history still no foreign blood in my veins…
I’m surprised by Middle Easterner Detector didn’t go off for Nathan Pitrelli, guy… I’m usually good like that.
And Simon, don’t feel bad about not being multiracial, you’re not defined by your race after all! Unless you’re a half Arab chick like me, in which case everyone else defines you by your heritage and do their best to impose their expectations on you! Faaaabulous…
Kinda disappointed Alexander Siddig didn’t make the list. He stared in Syriana, The Kingdom. Kingdom of Heaven and so on……..
Courtesy of Wikipedia.
“Siddig was born in Sudan, and spent most of his life in England. Born to an English mother who worked as a theatrical consultant[1] and a Sudanese father, Siddig describes himself as Muslim. His maternal uncle is English actor Malcolm McDowell, and his paternal uncle is the former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. He is also descendant from Muhammad Ahmad Al-Mahdi. He studied at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate. He was credited under the shortened name Siddig El Fadil until October 1995 (three seasons into his run on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), when he changed his stage name to Alexander Siddig, as he thought it would be less confusing and easier to pronounce by American tongues than his original name - not to mention a lot quicker than his full name; on set, however, he became known as ‘Sid’. In 1996, Siddig and his co-star Nana Visitor became involved - their son, Django El Tahir El Siddig, was born in 1996 and the couple married in 1997. They eventually divorced in 2001. In 2005 he was briefly involved with his Whose Life Is It Anyway? co-star Kim Cattrall, a fellow LAMDA and Star Trek alumna”
Halle Berry getting too old ? Not for me
I find defining people as mixed race a bit silly. I mean, I’m a Polish-Iraqi Jew, but I never thought about it too much until university and then only because my university was much more monocultural (French Québecois) than the previous school environments I was in. Even then, I don’t think it would have been an issue if it wasn’t for the Iraq war and the fact that my mom’s family stayed in Iraq for a much longer time after 1951 than most Iraqi Jews. The way people decide on race is extremely arbitrary, which supports the argument that a most of this stuff is societal. I have an Armenian friend who everybody always thinks is related to me and a Greek friend who says that most people who meet him think he is Lebanese, but according to this list Greeks and Armenian are probably “white” while Lebanese and Iraqis are “arab.” I remember seeing in Russia the way they mistreated the students from Africa (for example I remember walking past a store in St. Petersburg where a student was hired to greet customers while dressed like a character in a minstrel show); however one of the most popular writers in Russia, Alexander Pushkin, would have been considered African-American had he been in the United States instead of Russia. These classifications also ignore that the deinitions have always been changing. I remember reading about the fact that in the late 1800s in the south and west of the United States there were race riots and lynchings against Italians and Greeks for the same reasons as the race riots and lynchings against African-Americans (although on a smaller scale.) The British used to consider themselves a different race from the French. So I have to say I really hope the trend continues and classifications like the ones used in the blog you refer to disappear (although I hope I haven’t subverted my point with the examples I used.)
It looks like these pseudo iconic stars are put on the pedestal as if there were semi-gods or old Olympus. It is pathetic.
What have they contributed to the world or to their country? What is acting or singing compared to teaching, mentoring or healing?
I guess they will lead us to the land of Coexistance, the promised land of transparent racial and ethnic lines. Bunch of media hyped rubbish. If people want to worship them for their beauties and skin deep color. That’s fine as long as they do not shove it in my throat.
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