Classify Afghan-American actress

[Prismane]

Azita Ghanizada - Afghan-born American, small-time TV actress.

Since she's from Kabul, I'll assume that she comes from a Persianized Pashtun background.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1327/mv5bmjayodc2ntcznf5bml5.jpg

http://img.poptower.com/pic-38324/azita-ghanizada.jpg?d=600

http://img.poptower.com/pic-38320/azita-ghanizada.jpg?d=600

http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/3077/mv5bmtkxnji3nti1ml5bml5.jpg

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7248/mv5bmty1ndiwode1of5bml5.jpg

[Kanuni]

If you typed

Italian you would get Gracile Med

Balkans the answer would be Dinaro-Pontid

but since you typed Afghan i'll say Iranid.

[Trun]

She surely have underwent a surgery...

[Prismane]

She surely have underwent a surgery...
Most likely the nose, but doesn't seem anything major.

She has a picture on her Facebook with a cousin:

Is the orangey hair the result of trying to dye black hair?

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/374598_261730853891160_163866760344237_699162_4120 57849_n.jpg

[chipriota]

She kinda reminds me this Greek Cypriot singer
http://static.myworld.gr/assets/media/Top/people/86855.jpg
http://foxnews.gr/wp-content/uploads/cache/2404_NpAdvSinglePhoto.jpg
http://www.musiccorner.gr/wp/wp-content/uploads/eleftheriou_2010_05_08.jpg

[Svartálfar]

Alpinized East Med with gracile Indid influences.

[Aviane]

If you typed

Italian you would get Gracile Med

Balkans the answer would be Dinaro-Pontid

but since you typed Afghan i'll say Iranid.

Indeed.

That's the problem in classifications, they point to the area and then the person is classed because of where her lives.


Alpinized East Med with gracile Indid influences.

Doubled.

also with Iranid.

She could pass for Kurdish, Levantine, Caucasus, Turkish, Cypriot, Greek, Maltese and South Italian/Sicilian.

[chipriota]

She could pass for Kurdish, Levantine, Caucasus, Turkish, Cypriot, Greek, Maltese and South Italian/Sicilian.

I agree, I see her passing in Cyprus without any problem.

[Trun]

She could pass for Kurdish, Levantine, South Caucasian, Turkish, Cypriot.

Fixed.

[Queen B]

I think she can fit in Balkan area.
My mind goes to Maria Menounos, Eliza Dushku and Nina Dobrev

[Svartálfar]

Her eye shape is Indid without doubt.

[Trun]

I think she can fit in Balkan area.
My mind goes to Maria Menounos, Eliza Dushku and Nina Dobrev

She looks clearly Oriental, maybe in Greece she can, but here she'll be thought to be gypsy.

[Aviane]

She looks clearly Oriental, maybe in Greece she can, but here she'll be thought to be gypsy.

Agreed.

She would look more at home in Greece than the Balkans.

[Trun]

Agreed.

She would look more at home in Greece than the Balkans.

Greece is in the Balkans. I don't see her as Greek, but dandelion said she can pass as one, she knows better than me.
But definitely not in Bulgaria.

[Queen B]

Greece is in the Balkans. I don't see her as Greek, but dandelion said she can pass as one, she knows better than me.
But definitely not in Bulgaria.

I said '' I think she can fit in Balkan area'', and I named a Greek, and Albanian and a Bulgarian she reminded me of.

[Aviane]

Greece is in the Balkans. I don't see her as Greek, but dandelion said she can pass as one, she knows better than me.
But definitely not in Bulgaria.

Sorry I thought Greece was kind of seperate from it but If you mean so then I will take your word for it.

I know she wouldn't fit into Bulgaria but I thought some parts of Greece like Cyprus would be a definite.

[Queen B]

Sorry I thought Greece was kind of seperate from it but If you mean so then I will take your word for it.

I know she wouldn't fit into Bulgaria but I thought some parts of Greece like Cyprus would be a definite.

Cyprus is not part of Greece. Is a different country.

[Trun]

I said '' I think she can fit in Balkan area'', and I named a Greek, and Albanian and a Bulgarian she reminded me of.

There is some resemblence between them and her, but I think her features are clearly more Oriental, moreover she surely has had a surgery intervention.
But maybe it's just me.

[Queen B]

There is some resemblence between them and her, but I think her features are clearly more Oriental, moreover she surely has had a surgery intervention.
But maybe it's just me.
Yes, she has the ''exotic'' vibe, that I can't pinpoint of what exactly it is.

[Jeanluigi]

In some pictures she resembles Ivete Sangalo from Brazil.

Ivete Sangalo:

http://liciafabio.uol.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Ivete-Sangalo-.jpg

Azita Ghanizada:

http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/3077/mv5bmtkxnji3nti1ml5bml5.jpg

[Aviane]

^^ They do look similar also they could be cousins apart from one who is Brazilian of mostly Portuguese origins I assume and she Azita Ghanizada who is a Afghan.

[Jeanluigi]

^^ They do look similar also they could be cousin apart from one who is Brazilian of mostly Portuguese origins I assume and she Azita Ghanizada who is a Afghan.

Agree. Ivete Sangalo is about 3/4 Portuguese and 1/4 Spanish by descent.

[GeistFaust]

Iranid predominantly, and I could see why people might conclude that she is a Dinaro-Alpinoid East-Mediterranid type or a Gracilized Mediterranid.

[Ar-Man]

If you typed

Italian you would get Gracile Med

Balkans the answer would be Dinaro-Pontid

but since you typed Afghan i'll say Iranid.

:vote_yes:

Iranid/Pamirid :D

[Sikeliot]

There is something "off" about her coloring and nose but otherwise I'll even say she could be Portuguese.

[Sikeliot]

She kinda reminds me this Greek Cypriot singer
http://static.myworld.gr/assets/media/Top/people/86855.jpg
http://foxnews.gr/wp-content/uploads/cache/2404_NpAdvSinglePhoto.jpg
http://www.musiccorner.gr/wp/wp-content/uploads/eleftheriou_2010_05_08.jpg

That singer you posted looks part East Asian or like a mestiza or something. Her eyes look Mongoloid.

[Ar-Man]

That singer you posted looks part East Asian or like a mestiza or something. Her eyes look Mongoloid.

It can be just the make-up, I don't see the epicanthus so they are just Medish eyes with make-up :wink

[Queen B]

Ι think its her makeup
http://www.alldaynews.gr/wp-content/uploads/0.jpgELEYUERIA-ELEYUERIOY-222222-300x225.jpg

[Ar-Man]

Ι think its her makeup
http://www.alldaynews.gr/wp-content/uploads/0.jpgELEYUERIA-ELEYUERIOY-222222-300x225.jpg

:vote_yes:

Still it's weird why modern women love to look mongoliform :mmmm:

[chipriota]

^Her eyes are East Med I think, not Mongoloid. It was the make up and the facial expression that made her look like that.

[Sikeliot]

I agree now that I saw her without the makeup.

[ChocolateFace]

she looks like Vida Guerra who is Cuban

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/161273/Vida+Guerra.jpg

http://www.rap-wallpapers.com/data/media/73/vida_guerra_wallpapers_083.jpg

[Stefan_Dusan]

She could look like any southern european. I even have some women in family who look like her. But that doesn't surprise me about afghans, I met many and not small percentage pass well as southern european.

I remember with my Indian friends always joking if there is region I can pass and claim as Indian. The guy says Punjab, but gets all serious, with beard and your height, you could say Afghanistan and people would believe.

[aherne]

She can pass as Romanian (that's about as dark Romanians can be), but atypical of course. In Greece or Cyprus or Southern Italy she would look regular...

[aherne]

she looks like Vida Guerra who is Cuban

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/161273/Vida+Guerra.jpg

http://www.rap-wallpapers.com/data/media/73/vida_guerra_wallpapers_083.jpg
Vida Guerra looks Semitic mixed with Iberian and African. There is zero similarity between the two...

[isthisreallife]

Well I'm just glad she ditched the robes...dat body mmm

[Leto]

She is pretty. I think Afghans could look a bit whiter if they were all clean, dressed in normal clothes and not so tanned.
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http://firepic.org/images/2014-11/22/3lm7xqks3mzi.jpg (http://firepic.org/)
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