Talk:Doutzen Kroes

Ethnicity missing
Kroes is not a Dutch name. It means KRAUSS. Krauss is a Jewish surname. She is half Jewish. Could explain why she says she's not religious.--64.134.170.18 (talk) 01:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC)--64.134.170.18 (talk) 01:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Ehm.. Kroes is very much a Dutch surname. Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 15:50, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

I don't want to add a new topic so I'm putting my comment here. English wikipedia is very inconsistent with any "nationality (definied by citizenship) not ethnicity in opening sentence" rules (for reference see the list of notable people indigenous to the Americas, for example) on top of which such a standpoint prioritises the voices of colonisers and nation states in power over indigenous and minority peoples. It's not a neutral choice to indentify someone first by the nation they live under rather than the people they belong to. Neonkarkki (talk) 20:58, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Doutzen Kroes
Stating Doutzen to be a 'Frisian' model is nonsense. She is a Duch model and she is born in the province of Friesland. For that sake we should rebrand Claudia Schiffer as 'Westphalian' model and Elle McPherson as a 'New South Welsh' model rather than resp German and Australian 7-11-2015

Place of birth?
The article currently states Kroes was born in two different places, and FMD supports one and IMDb supports the other. This supports that her POB is Oostermeer, which is likely more reliable. Does anyone know for sure about this?  Mbinebri  talk &larr; 13:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Eastermar and Oostermeer
The name of the town where Doutzen lived is spelled in two different ways either as Oostermeer or Eastermar. Eastermar is a village in the north of the Netherlands, in the province of Friesland. In Friesland the Frisian language is spoken as well as Dutch. Both languages are official languages of the Netherlands. The situation is the same as with Welsh and English in Wales or French and English in Quebec. --Raindeer (talk) 11:58, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for clearing that up!   Mbinebri   talk &larr; 16:22, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

IPA representation not found at link
her name is said to be pronounced as [ˈdʌu̯tsə(ŋ) ˈkrus], which is encoded in the West Frisian IPA. However, the glyphs [ʌ] and [u̯] don't seem to exist on the IPA page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/West_Frisian) to which the link points

something needs fixing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekkis (talk • contribs) 00:37, 16 April 2018 (UTC)