Why does Mariah Carey say she is Venezuelan when she is Cuban American?

[Sikeliot]

Her father is not of Venezuelan descent; all documentation shows his family is Cuban.

So why does she say she is part Venezuelan?

[Zuh]

The hipocresy of some people to make them seem more exotic when an ethnic group is not so common reminds me of Salma Hayek all her family members are Mexicans from Veracruz and she is only a quarter "Lebanese" the rest is "colonial" Mexican .

[skain]

The hipocresy of some people to make them seem more exotic when an ethnic group is not so common reminds me of Salma Hayek all her family members are Mexicans from Veracruz and she is only a quarter "Lebanese" the rest is "colonial" Mexican .

Ethnicity:
*Lebanese (father)
*Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] (mother) She is half lebanese.

[Zuh]

Ethnicity:
*Lebanese (father)
*Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] (mother) She is half lebanese.

I call that bull shit there's no documentary documents that valids that Salma hayek has recent Spanish ancestry or recent Lebanese they are all colonial Mexicans with those admixture..

[skain]

I call that bull shit there's no documentary documents that valids that Salma hayek has recent Spanish ancestry or recent Lebanese they are all colonial Mexicans with those admixture..

Salma was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. Her father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, a businessperson, is of Lebanese descent. Her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, an opera singer, is of Mexican (Spanish, possibly other) descent.
Salma’s paternal grandfather was Elias Hayek Labahi (the son of Amado Hayek and Aurora Labahi). Elias was born in Mexico City, to Lebanese parents, from Baabda, Mount Lebanon.

Salma’s paternal grandmother was Adela Domínguez Marún (the daughter of Nayib Hid, later Narciso Dominguez, and of Nesnefer, later Isabel, Marún). Adela was born in Mamantel, Mexico, to Lebanese parents.

[Latinus]

I don't really know. She is American. Maybe she lumps all Latin Americans into the same nationality.