Summer Glau's Ethnicity
POSTED BY: BCoat89
UPDATED: Saturday, July 27, 2013 04:45
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Originally posted by Fastmover:
She looks part Asian or Pacific Islander to me as well, and I'm familiar with the look being half-Asian myself :).
My mom was thinking that too -- Summer looks almost like me and I'm half Asian/Half European.
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Are you discussing Race or Ethnicity? Not the same thing. Race is genetic; ethnicity is more....culture and heritage based.
I think there are 8 racial categories for HUD's purposes, and it is possible to be in more than one. Such as a caucasian-native american. Or a African American-Asian (Tiger Woods?).
Along with the racial category you also have an ethnic component. According to HUD there are only 2 ethnicities: Hispanic and non hispanic. You can be of any race and be hispanic or of any race and be non-hispanic. If you have trouble wrapping your noggin around that, remember that a vast number of the hispanics from Mexico are of 100% Native American descent.
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I'd say South European with an asian touch.
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Summer's mom can be seen in this photo:
http://summer-glau.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=164&pos=20
She brought her father and grandfather to the Houston Serenity screening and I would describe them as average-looking middle-aged/elderly white men.
Glau is a Germanic name, I think. There are large populations of people of German descent in central Texas, and San Antonio (where Summer is from) has a very large population of Mexicans (either recently from Mexico or from when San Antonio belonged to Mexico) or Spanish if you go waaay back.
At the previously mentioned Houston Serenity screening, in the autograph line Summer saw two women that looked alike, and asked them if they were sisters. They replied yes, and Summer said that she and her two sisters all look alike. Therefore, Summer may not particularly look like her parents, but she looks like her sisters. :) The Glau children are probably just American mutts with an interesting mix of DNA.
- Amy, American mutt of WASP/Irish/Italian/Dutch/French/Honduran heritage.
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Sisters? That look like Summer? Sign me up...
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Very very sexy!
Oh wait that's not an ethnic group!
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I can safely say that I asked Summer about her views on the ethnic dispute and she smiled a secretive smile and said she enjoyed that people don't know and can't tell so we don't comment on it either way at her official website. And I have also met one of the other Glau girls and Summer's mom too. They are all gorgeous and gracious and that's more than enough information for me.
Andy
http://www.summerglau.co.uk - the OFFICIAL Summer Glau website
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Originally posted by amyel:
Glau is a Germanic name, I think. There are large populations of people of German descent in central Texas, and San Antonio (where Summer is from) has a very large population of Mexicans (either recently from Mexico or from when San Antonio belonged to Mexico) or Spanish if you go waaay back...
Therefore, Summer may not particularly look like her parents, but she looks like her sisters. :) The Glau children are probably just American mutts with an interesting mix of DNA.
- Amy, American mutt of WASP/Irish/Italian/Dutch/French/Honduran heritage.
Amyel , I vote for your answer as best yet !
You're correct , ' Glau ' is a name of Germanic origin . The Germans have contributed the most people to the population of the USA , followed closely by the Irish , but the mix is changing rapidly with time and significantly-uncontrolled immigration .
As for her ' muttness ' , Summer is definitely my kind of mutt !
Ethnicity-wise , I vote for creating a new category , which would be called , " So Very Pretty " !
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Glau is not a very common name in Germany (about 100 telephone book entries).
It mostly appears in East Germany (the new states, formerly known as German Democratic Republic).
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I'm sure you didn't mean anything negative when using the phrase American mutts to descibe the Glaus....but seriously, if Summer Glau is a mutt, then I'm Julius Caesar!
And besides...a mutt??? Isn't everybody in America basically a mix of parents whose parents were from different countries? Mutt is quite an unflattering term...I would prefer to classify Summer as uniquely breathtakingly gorgeous...or is that not politically correct these days?!
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