Why does she have an Italian Last name in Battlestar Galactica?

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So what your saying that you should stick to stereotypes.

Because there is no way she could have had say a Korean mother and an Italian father hence the last name.

It has nothing to do with bloody race or "ethnicity".

The writers obviously want to depict the 12 colonies civilization as one based on Hellenistic culture (alexander's empire and it's successor states) as well as possibly Roman culture. Hence "Gaius Baltar" and "Valerii" as well as the colonies having corrupted names derived from the original Greek signs of the zodiac.

Yeah, because there totally is a Korea in the twelve colonies.

Yeah....she really looks like she would have an italian father. Come on. The writers are lazy.

Her grandfather is 100% Italian. It's possible. Kristin Kreuk doesn't look Dutch or Chinese, but she is both so Grace playing part Italian is not as far fetched as you think.

You mean they would be less lazy if they gave her a Korean last name and informed us that she was a Korean...because, you see, Korea is a part of the 12 Colonies?

Now if you were to say they are lazy because they can't come up with some names that sound absolutely nothing like Earth human names... that would make sense. Although I'm not sure it would be that easy to actually come up with those names, since most of them would probably sound like some versions of this or that ethnicity's name anyway...



better sorry than safe

She was born in LA, and has lived in Canada most of her life. Her name is Grace. I know Koreans, you are a very proud (haha), nationalistic (snickers) people. But take a deep breath and relax. Your people are just the same as everyone else. Calm down, you dont need to be represented everywhere or do good at sports and science. Nobody cares. There is not a game going on and people are not keeping tabs about how many times Koreans do this and accomplish that. Nobody cares about that barbaric chimpanzee crap outside of Korea. My tax dollars help pave her streets and give her health care. And when I see stuff like in her trivia that she considers herself "A Korean first" before a Canadian, I remember why there is so much racial tension here. That crap has got to end. If you are proud of Korea more than Canada - go live there.