What is Paris Hilton's ethnic background?

Answer 1

43% Ethnic French

5% Other French Groups (Bords, Catalans

22% Other European (Mostly Portuguese, Russian and Italian)

MINORITIES

15% Muslim, Arab, or Maghreb

9% Black or African

5% Chinese or East Asian

1% Other or Mixed

Answer 2

Her paternal grandfather's paternal grandfather was Norwegian and his paternal grandmother was German. Part of her mother's family is English and Irish from but that back 8 generations.

This site goes back to Elizabethan times in her ancestry http://www.wargs.com/other/hilton.html

Answer 3

If you want a translation, it is ethnicité. But this word is not very used.

If the question is "what ethnies live in France". Well, the question is much harder.

France is a country which has known a lot of invasion (Roman, The Huns, Vikings, Ostrogoths, Wisigoths, Asturians, and much more). So France has always been a real melting-pot.

In the near history, immagrations waves occured : Italian, spanish, portuguese before WW2, followed by an Immigration from former colonized countries : west African immigrants (Mali, Benin, Cantral afric, Niger ....) and Maghreb (Algeria, Morroco, Tunisia).