What nationally is Paula Abdul?

Question

I think I spelled nationally wrong if I did,my mistake.

Answer 1

A lot of people think she's black but actually she's jewish/syrian

Answer 2

Abdul was born in San Fernando, California to Harry Abdul, who once worked as a livestock trader and owns a sand and gravel business in California, and Lorraine Rykiss, a former concert pianist who once worked as an assistant to film director Billy Wilder. Abdul's father comes from a family of Syrian Jews who immigrated to Brazil,[1] while her mother is also Jewish and from Saint Boniface, an area of Winnipeg, Canada.

Answer 3

Abdul's father comes from a family of Syrian Jews who immigrated to Brazil, while her mother is also Jewish and from Saint Boniface, an area of Winnipeg, Canada.

Although Abdul is Jewish and of Sephardic and Ashkenazi descent, she bears an Arabic surname and is commonly mistaken as being of mixed-race heritage.