Summer Glau's Ethnicity by BCoat89

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Summer Glau's Ethnicity

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Friday, October 24, 2008 1:01 AM

Just to add. I am an Irish woman, with no exotic ancestry that I am aware of, and I have very black hair and very pale skin. Unfortunately,I still dont look anything like Summer, but some of us do have that coloring.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, there is a popular belief that sailors from the Spanish Armada brought the black-hair gene to Ireland, and certainly there tends to be a hub of black-haired folks around harbor cities.

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Friday, July 10, 2009 11:24 AM

CAYCEP

petite??? "Petite" to me means less than 5 ft. tall. Summer is 5'6". If she were to walk through a mall in China, she would tower over the majority of the women.
I'd say it's her round face, high forehead and eyes, but when I heard about her last name being German I definitely believe that she IS German, especially since I know several Germans who do look a bit asian, considering that round faces and high foreheads are also rather stereotypically "German"

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:00 AM

GRIPPER

Go back far enough ,and there is no "pure" anything-everyone comes from somewhere else.
My Dad was born in Portugal,but his family is form all over the Med(Sicily,Tuscany,Cavi in Corsica,Basque region of Spain).Mom is Irish(from the Six).
Lots Of Indian(Native American variety) folks have ancestry from Northern Asia via th eberring Strait.Eastern European,Russian?Another can of ethnic/racial seasoning mix.
Beyond a general description,or for historical context;I'd say none of it matters....put me in the "Summer Glau is classified as Very Very Pretty".
Hell, were there any "other than beautiful women in Joss Whedon's work(outside of that scary old bat that wanted to shoot Mal in the pilot?)

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:55 PM

JAMERON4EVA

She looks a little Irish, and German to me, but who really cares, SHE'S FREAKING HOTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:28 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

She's from the island of Hottee.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:13 PM

JAMERON4EVA

Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:
She's from the island of Hottee.

Isn't Jessica Alba from there too?

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:54 AM

BRIGHTEYES009

Who cares where her ancestors are from; She's a lovely girl (as far as I can tell) and a very beautiful and talented actress/dancer.

ps: hispanic means of or derived from Spain or the spanish (so the term is sometimes missused on Central or S. American people who have no Spanish ancestry)
pps: another thing, not all spanish have dark hair, dark eyes and a tanned or dark complexion; I should know, I'm spanish with light brown hair (used to be blond when I was little), green eyes and skin pale as a sheet. The dark complexion comes from the invading Islamic Moors and the inmigrating Jews before that. Previous to them Spain had been invaded by Nordic and Germanic tribes like Goths, Vikings, Celts, Suebi, Alanos,etc; and even the Romans where all blond and light complexion.

BrightEyes009

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:09 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Meh, I kinda figured with a surname like "Glau" she'd have at least SOME German or Austrian in her... or maybe she'd like to. ;)

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:50 AM

DMI

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.

Quote:
Originally posted by dug:
Are you discussing Race or Ethnicity? Not the same thing. Race is genetic; ethnicity is more....culture and heritage based.

What we're talking about is ethnicity. To quote Edward James Olmos, "There's only one race and that's the human race... when a bug hates you, that's racism."

Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:
You mean Texanian.

This made me laugh so hard. God, I hope you know it's Texan. Above all the German Irish stuff (thanks to the people who dug that up), I really buy that she's from Texas. I say that in the sense that I don't want to mess with her.

I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

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Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:46 AM

PCCH7

Whatever her ethnicity is, I wanna be that.. God..

"Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor.."

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:16 PM

YUKON

According to Wikipedia (and of course this must be taken with a few grains of salt and pepper) she is of Scots-Irish and German descent. However,she does have a slight look of the orient about her and that is what makes her an unusual beauty.

Yukon

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:13 PM

KINGEICHOLZ

Summer is AMERICAN INDIAN she is Cherokee I know this for a fact that's why her name is Summer is a Indian name.Now i will explain why she has chose not to say she is because parts for American Indians are not easy to get in T V or movies so saying she is something other then an Indian she gets more parts to play.

I R SMART

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:46 AM

ARMORGLIDE79

Quote:
Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
I've got it! I unearthed the secret to River's, I mean, Summer's ethnicity/race.

Are you ready? She comes from the land of DDG.

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS!!!

Enough said

Shiny! Let's be bad guys!

Nuff said LOL

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:01 PM

TWIGGEH

She is Scottish/Irish and half German and muttastic and before anyone gets offended I'm more a mut than she being Polish/Lithuanian/Danish and German/English I so have the right to say mut

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Monday, September 13, 2010 10:47 AM

KRELLEK

Quote:
Originally posted by TheGreyJedi:
While she does appear to have some pacific islander, looks can deceive. My sister in law is half pacifc, half caucasian, so I can say from experience, it could be the case.

But I'm think I'm going to have to say she's mostly caucasion. Celtic structure, the slender form, the cheekbones, the overall shape of the face and eyes, with germanic complexion, hair and eyes. True germanics are brown all around, not the blond/blue of Hitler's Super Race. The fair hair and pale eyes thing is Norse.

So appearances aside, I think I have to agree with piratecat. Probably caucasian.

Oh, and her middle name is Lyn, not Ale.

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I have read at the terminatorwiki´s or the summerglauwiki, it was mentioned she was of German, and Scottish and Irish i believe it was

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Saturday, February 23, 2013 5:08 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Wuerttemberger:
I'd say South European with an asian touch.

Gruss
Württemberger

That's one lucky Asian.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Saturday, February 23, 2013 5:32 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

I think the notion of some Asian ancestry came from a few of the early scenes in Serenity (the pilot). A combination of lighting and makeup did give her face a more rounded appearance and darker complexion, plus the surname of Tam might have given people that notion as well. We should also remember that the pilot was shot quite a few months before any of the other episodes, and it is possible Summer lost a bit of weight during that time, particularly her face appears longer and more angular in later scenes, so maybe a bit of "baby fat" loss.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Saturday, February 23, 2013 3:53 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

I think she's just a fine combo of hotness. Kinda like Katherine Zeta Jones, who is Welsh. She passed nicely as a Latin babe( per appearance in ZORO )

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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