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Is Mariah Carey an Italian


MC played an Italian girl in this movie. She was good and believable,... started out as a distraction but I came to like her character as the film unfolded.
Is MC Italian? I always thought she was Black, or half Black half Mexican. Italians are white and MC was white in this movie, so why did I always think she was black?

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Mariah Carey is not an italian. She is of Irish, white, black, and hispanic decent.

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Oh, but she played an Italian is this movie right?

BTW, I actually enjoyed this movie. Shocking.

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Umm, I don't know if her character was supposed to be Italian. It was only said that she played as a New Yorker in this movie with a heavy NY accent, lol.

No, Mariah's not Italian...she's part Black/Venuzuelan and Irish.


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Last time I got yell at, but Italians are 'white', too (Irish are white, too - so why do you have, Irish, white, black & hispanic?).

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she's half white (irish), quarter black, quarter venezuelan...

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Actually I read in an interview with her that she is 3/8ths black; 1/8th Venezuelan; and 1/2 Irish.

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nope not italian. Shes just only black and white

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Mariah is half black and half white. Her father has Venezuelan ancestry, but that is not a race and many black people lived in Venezuela. I think it was a move by her PR people early on to basically say she is a bit of everything so she would appeal to the masses in the beginning of her career. Her mom is white (Irish) and her father was a full-blooded black man who happened to be fair skinned and thus Mariah looks so racially ambiguous. She actually looks Hispanic to me if I had to guess not knowing her background. She definitely plays that Venezuelan part up a bit. I remember she was even on the cover of Latina magazine back in the day lol.

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