idTAPthat89
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OT: What ethnicity are you?So koza and I were chatting online about Europe and we got on the topic of what ethnicity we are. Just curious..what is everyone's ethnicity?
As for me, I'm 50% scandinavian (norway, denmark, sweeden) 25% french and the rest is a mix of german and greek. So basically..I'm a mutt! 
(Thanks for correcting me VAW  The blonde shines through sometimes. )
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The Very Angry Woman
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Re: OT: What nationality are you? | idTAPthat89 wrote: | So koza and I were chatting online about Europe and we got on the topic of what nationalities we are. Just curious..what are everyone's nationalities?
As for me, I'm 50% scandinavian (norway, denmark, sweeden) 25% french and the rest is a mix of german and greek. So basically..I'm a mutt! |
That's not your nationality. Those are your ethnicities.
To answer the question: my nationality is American.
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idTAPthat89
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Fixed. 
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Beagle On Stage
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I wondered when I read this if that was the right word, but could not think of the better one. I knew what was meant though.
I'm French through and through. That must be where I get my legendary skill in bed, my high capacity for alcohol, and my genetic disposition toward tobacco.
But sometimes I pose as a Jew. I like variety, and I can pass for one pretty easily. Unfortunately, I only have the slightest trace of Jewish blood - one ancestor in the eighteenth century - so I can't really officially claim it.
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Vanessa20
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50% Scandinavian (I think - there may be some Irish in there too), 50% Russian Jewish.
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kozafluitmusique
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Because of my mom, 50% Polish (her parents both Polish)! However, my grandfather was native Polish but he became an U.S. citizen, so 25% of that is native. I'm going to make it count. From my dad's side (both of his parents were Irish), I'm 50% Irish. Boooooring. Haha.
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idTAPthat89
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Yay! Another Scandinavian! For whatever reason I never seem to meet any other people with the same ethnicity.
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Mungojerrie_rt
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Mostly German and English. A bit of French, Scottish, Danish, Irish and such thrown in.
Explains my entire family of blue eyes.
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fjays
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I'm rather Scottish and English.. so pretty boring..
HOWEVER; Here's a random Fiona fact for you.. I am 1/64th JAMAICAN!!!!!!!
yes yes, its true
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Xxmcfly85xX
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Well my dad's family have been in Australia for like 200 years, so bascially that side of my is Scottish and Irish.
I classify myself a half filipino, but techinically my mum is half filipino and half chinese-spanish.
Bit of a mixed bag!
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jfmillet
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I'm Scottish, Irish and German.
My children are Scottish, Irish, German, Italian, Polish and Greek.
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Felix Felicis
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I have to say this ethnicity thing is a very American idea. Over here, you're from where you're from, and no one bothers with where your great-grandmother lived or any of that.
My family is all Northern Irish, with probably a sprinkling of English and Irish.
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Nudelkopf
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Australian for the past 150 years.. With one German thrown in there, at the great-grandparent stage.
Before that, English.
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jfmillet
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| Felix Felicis wrote: | I have to say this ethnicity thing is a very American idea. Over here, you're from where you're from, and no one bothers with where your great-grandmother lived or any of that.
My family is all Northern Irish, with probably a sprinkling of English and Irish. |
Well, that does make sense, since most of us are the products of immigrants, we like to know where we come from, because the fact is we haven't been in this country for that long. I know that my wife's mother's grandparents were actually born in Italy, and her father was the first of his family to be born in America. So, in their case, the family hasn't even been American for 150 years. It only makes sense that when the history is that recent, that we'd be interested in finding out more about it.
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Brigantine
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^^ yup.
Me: Dutch (origin of my maiden name), Finnish, Norwegian, and possibly some German, I never really got that figured out.
Luckily, someone put together a HUGE genealogy book of my dad's side in the 80's, so I have all that info. My great-great-great grandfather came from the Netherlands in the 1840's. It has pictures and everything. So cool.
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sylvesterm11
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I'm 75% Italian, 12.5% German and 12.5% Dutch.
I like my fractions to be even. Although, I think there's a little Swedish in me.. because I'm really pale and my dad's side of the family originated from northern Italy ... who supposedly "mingled" with the Swedish often. IDK.
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Salome
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1/2 Irish and a 1/3 russian and polish
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jfmillet
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| Salome wrote: | | 1/2 Irish and a 1/3 russian and polish |
Depending on how you interpret that, it means that you're only 2/3 of 5/6 of a person.
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Brackynn
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My family has lived in Australia for a few generations now, but I do have Irish, German and Lebanese heritage.
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Salome
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ahh decended from irish prisoners sent to aussie land huh?
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Brackynn
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| Salome wrote: | | ahh decended from irish prisoners sent to aussie land huh? |
Haha, who knows, I might just be! All I really know about my ancestors is that they included a bunch of German potato farmers who came Down Under during some big potato blight and became sheep farmers instead.
They're still sheep farmers today
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Mungojerrie_rt
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Well back I have on pair who were a female prisoner and a male guard, on I think the second fleet. Apart from that, it's pretty much ordinary immigrants. The most recent being a great grandfather from Germany.
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random_person
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I'll copy what I wrote on another thread:
Right, I'll break it down:
Mum's family are Venezuelans descended mainly from Italian immigrants, although there's certainly a fair deal of Spanish colonial blood in there. I personally was born in Caracas (capital city of Venezuela) and as a result am near-fluently bilingual in Spanish and English (Italian has more or less been phased out of my family apart from those who still live in the mother country, although even with them Spanish has effectively supplanted it as the first language ).
Dad's family are Northerners (specifically from Sunderland up in Tyne & Wear) of Irish, English and probably Scottish stock. However, all of my life in England has been spent in the South East, so my accent is very indicative of that region.
As a result, I have the tanned skin, black hair and brown eyes combination typical of 'below the olive line', yet speak like a typical British middle-class Southerner (which sounds even more posh than usual, probably due to all the time I spent in my formative years with an upper-middle class family I know, to a point where if it was any more 'proper', I'd sound like I belong in the monarchy or something... ).
I usually just describe myself as 'Hispanic' or 'Italian-Hispanic' for simplicity's sake though.
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Catherine
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I'm a bit boring compared, aha, I'm just a 1/4 Irish and the rest English. Hm.. there might be more stuff in there as well. I'll ask my folks.
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aworthyboyishe
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I happen to be from good ol' New Orleans.
I'm 50% Cajun/French, been there since the Louisiana Purchase.
And the other 50% is 3rd generation Irish.
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Damask and Dark
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I'm unsure of all the exact percentages because my mother is not evenly descended from her ethnicities, but I think this is about the right order if they were sorted from greatest to least percentages (my father is half Swedish, a quarter Italian, and a quarter Polish so I put in those percentages):
1. German
2. Swedish (25%)
3. Italian (12.5%)
4. Polish (12.5%)
5. English
6. French
7. Norwegian
8. Irish
Heh, I think that's about right... I'm a "mutt" too, I guess.
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SmallTownIngenue
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| idTAPthat89 wrote: | | Yay! Another Scandinavian! For whatever reason I never seem to meet any other people with the same ethnicity. |
I'm Scandinavian too! Mainly Swedish, but some Norwegian. It's pretty common where I live though...ND/MN has a lot of those! 
My other large majority of my ethnicity is French and French/Canadian, a lot of my dad's family is from England as well. I'm also a teeny bit German and Irish I believe. But I just usually classify myself as Scandinavian.
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curlyhairedsoprano91
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1/2 Russian/Ukranian Jew, 1/4 Swedish/Danish, 3/16 Greek, 1/16 Egyptian.
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wtfchuck
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1/8th Irish, 1/8th French and the rest is English.
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bare24601!
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mostly Irish
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wtfchuck
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| bare24601! wrote: | | mostly Irish |
Hight-to-the-friggidy-five!
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Pounce
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| Salome wrote: | | 1/2 Irish and a 1/3 russian and polish |
Hmmm...that explains a lot.
I'm
1/2 English
1/4 Finnish
1/4 Russian
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Pounce
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| jfmillet wrote: | | Felix Felicis wrote: | I have to say this ethnicity thing is a very American idea. Over here, you're from where you're from, and no one bothers with where your great-grandmother lived or any of that.
My family is all Northern Irish, with probably a sprinkling of English and Irish. |
Well, that does make sense, since most of us are the products of immigrants, we like to know where we come from, because the fact is we haven't been in this country for that long. I know that my wife's mother's grandparents were actually born in Italy, and her father was the first of his family to be born in America. So, in their case, the family hasn't even been American for 150 years. It only makes sense that when the history is that recent, that we'd be interested in finding out more about it. |
Yeah, Americans do cling to their roots for some reason. Many born in America identify with some ancestral country. Most popular I can think of are Polish, Italian and Irish. Maybe it satisfies some human need as America doesn't have a deep cultural past. Thanks to "multiculturalism" we won't hold to any so our culture is always in flux . I'm a true immigrant but I'm fine with calling myself an American.
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wtfchuck
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| random_person wrote: | However, all of my life in England has been spent in the South East, so my accent is very indicative of that region.
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Ooh whereabouts, I'm from the South East too.
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random_person
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| Pounce wrote: | | jfmillet wrote: | | Felix Felicis wrote: | I have to say this ethnicity thing is a very American idea. Over here, you're from where you're from, and no one bothers with where your great-grandmother lived or any of that.
My family is all Northern Irish, with probably a sprinkling of English and Irish. |
Well, that does make sense, since most of us are the products of immigrants |
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Umm, I'm fairly sure that the British Isles hasn't been populated at all times that homo sapiens...practically everyone on Earth is the product of immigrants (apart from Africans who've never strayed from their home continent).
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Mumsytype
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Surrey here, born and raised ...
Hmm. Ethnically I suppose I'm all but 1/32nd Northern English - Derbyshire and Lancastrian in equal quantities. The remaining 1/32nd is Dublin Irish.
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Jman383
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Okay, just for funsies I'm gonna list both the ethnicity and the last name that goes with it
1) Greek (25%) Cannellos
2) German (25%) Westfall
3) Irish (25%) Howard
4) Welsh (12.5%) Evans
5) French Canadian (6.25%) Peletier
6) Mohawk Native American (6.25%) ??!?!?!
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LaGataNegra
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My ancestors were primarily German immigrants, with a handfull of English and Irish people marrying into assorted lines. The area I live in (Ohio, USA) probably spoke German as the primary language up till about the 1850s. Great-grandmother Wagner never learned English.
The line my mom genealogied (sure...it's a word) back the furthest is the Royers of Bohl, Germany, who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1600s. If your roots go back to Lancaster County PA, chances are good we're related. The Royers had lots of kids and spread out all over the country.
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Pounce
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| random_person wrote: | | Pounce wrote: | | jfmillet wrote: | | Felix Felicis wrote: | I have to say this ethnicity thing is a very American idea. Over here, you're from where you're from, and no one bothers with where your great-grandmother lived or any of that.
My family is all Northern Irish, with probably a sprinkling of English and Irish. |
Well, that does make sense, since most of us are the products of immigrants |
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Umm, I'm fairly sure that the British Isles hasn't been populated at all times that homo sapiens...practically everyone on Earth is the product of immigrants (apart from Africans who've never strayed from their home continent). |
Technically yes, but believe me. It's not the same sort of immigration. America is the product of colonialism. American culture doesn't stretch back that far so we don't have a strong sense of Americans as a "people". If we approach the cultural mindset of the Europeans we can only identify with the Indians (Native Americans).
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bare24601!
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| wtfchuck wrote: | | bare24601! wrote: | | mostly Irish |
Hight-to-the-friggidy-five! |
back atcha! 
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Jman383
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| Pounce wrote: | | random_person wrote: | | Pounce wrote: | | jfmillet wrote: | | Felix Felicis wrote: | I have to say this ethnicity thing is a very American idea. Over here, you're from where you're from, and no one bothers with where your great-grandmother lived or any of that.
My family is all Northern Irish, with probably a sprinkling of English and Irish. |
Well, that does make sense, since most of us are the products of immigrants |
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Umm, I'm fairly sure that the British Isles hasn't been populated at all times that homo sapiens...practically everyone on Earth is the product of immigrants (apart from Africans who've never strayed from their home continent). |
Technically yes, but believe me. It's not the same sort of immigration. America is the product of colonialism. American culture doesn't stretch back that far so we don't have a strong sense of Americans as a "people". If we approach the cultural mindset of the Europeans we can only identify with the Indians (Native Americans). |
Agreed. As an American, I have both an American culture, as well as a primarily Greek culture at home (despite being so many other things, the Greek side has always been held above everything else). I'm sure in England, it's not QUITE like that, unless you're from the Middle East and living in the UK, which is also very common (as countries like India were once apart of the UK etc etc).
The only difference is, EVERYONE in America has come from immigration, even the Native Americans, who, by now, also have traces of European ancestry. Also, the UK was settled WAY before the Americas were, making the population much more homogeneous in a way... if that makes sense.
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Pounce
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| Jman383 wrote: | Agreed. As an American, I have both an American culture, as well as a primarily Greek culture as well at home (despite being so many other things, the Greek side has always been held above everything else). I'm sure in England, it's not QUITE like that, unless you're from the Middle East and living in the UK, which is also very common (as countries like India were once apart of the UK etc etc).
The only difference is, EVERYONE in America has come from immigration, even the Native Americans, who, by now, also have traces of European ancestry. |
But the Native Americans came over a very long time ago too such that they they feel an identity as a people.
I've heard that Europe is experiencing a large influx of immigrants and it may affect "Europe" as we know it. Europeans like their connection to their past as it gives them a sense of identity but if the immigration is large enough, European culture could be wiped away in time just as the immigration to the Americas wiped out a lot of the Native American cultures. Well, maybe that is not a good analogy but unchecked immigration can certainly change in a big way the face of a culture. In the US there is some concern with the wave of South American immigration as to how it might affect what culture the US has now.
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random_person
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| Jman383 wrote: | | Pounce wrote: | | random_person wrote: | | Pounce wrote: | | jfmillet wrote: | | Felix Felicis wrote: | I have to say this ethnicity thing is a very American idea. Over here, you're from where you're from, and no one bothers with where your great-grandmother lived or any of that.
My family is all Northern Irish, with probably a sprinkling of English and Irish. |
Well, that does make sense, since most of us are the products of immigrants |
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Umm, I'm fairly sure that the British Isles hasn't been populated at all times that homo sapiens...practically everyone on Earth is the product of immigrants (apart from Africans who've never strayed from their home continent). |
Technically yes, but believe me. It's not the same sort of immigration. America is the product of colonialism. American culture doesn't stretch back that far so we don't have a strong sense of Americans as a "people". If we approach the cultural mindset of the Europeans we can only identify with the Indians (Native Americans). |
Agreed. As an American, I have both an American culture, as well as a primarily Greek culture at home (despite being so many other things, the Greek side has always been held above everything else). I'm sure in England, it's not QUITE like that, unless you're from the Middle East and living in the UK, which is also very common (as countries like India were once apart of the UK etc etc).
The only difference is, EVERYONE in America has come from immigration, even the Native Americans, who, by now, also have traces of European ancestry. Also, the UK was settled WAY before the Americas were, making the population much more homogeneous in a way... if that makes sense. |
Hmm, thing is that with all the colonisations and invasions we've had in just the past few millenia, I've never really bought into the idea of being 'British' apart from simply having been here for a significant period of time. I mean, who are the 'real' Brits? Those decended from the Celtic peoples? The Romans? The Angles? The Saxons? The Jutes? The Normans? The Norse? Not to mention the influx of peoples from outside of Europe in more recent history as a result of the Empire who have become naturalised. So who is 'British'? I simply consider myself to be a citizen of the UK whose recent ancestors came from x and y. I honestly don’t give a damn about whether I should respect my identity as being descended from the Irish/Spanish/Italians/whatever other distant roots; here and now I am a British Citizen.
In the words of Rakim, ‘It ain’t where you’re from; it’s where you’re at’.
Oh, little other thing I should point out - places you mentioned like India were part of the British Empire, not the UK. We ruled them, but we did not consider ourselves to be one country.
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jfmillet
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| random_person wrote: |
Hmm, thing is that with all the colonisations and invasions we've had in just the past few millenia, I've never really bought into the idea of being 'British' apart from simply having been here for a significant period of time. I mean, who are the 'real' Brits? Those decended from the Celtic peoples? The Romans? The Angles? The Saxons? The Jutes? The Normans? The Norse? Not to mention the influx of peoples from outside of Europe in more recent history as a result of the Empire who have become naturalised. So who is 'British'? I simply consider myself to be a citizen of the UK whose recent ancestors came from x and y. I honestly don’t give a damn about whether I should respect my identity as being descended from the Irish/Spanish/Italians/whatever other distant roots; here and now I am a British Citizen.
In the words of Rakim, ‘It ain’t where you’re from; it’s where you’re at’.
Oh, little other thing I should point out - places you mentioned like India were part of the British Empire, not the UK. We ruled them, but we did not consider ourselves to be one country. |
But, still, the fact that you can talk in terms of millennia is more than Americans can do. We have, at most, half a millennium, but for most of us it's more like 200 years. That's a huge difference.
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Jman383
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| Pounce wrote: |
But the Native Americans came over a very long time ago too such that they they feel an identity as a people. |
I know, my point was that even THEY are, for the most part, vastly integrated into a more European gene pool, especially those who are descendants from Native American/Colonial offspring, such as myself (Mohawk and French Canadian).
It's like in Harry Potter. There is no such thing as "purebloods" anymore, anywhere... unless they are 1st generation (aka the children of immigrants) or (though very rare) second generation.
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TylerMcMahon
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I'm gay
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Orestes Fasting
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Just to throw a wrench into the works of the what-is-ethnicity debate: what is the time cutoff anyway? If your grandparents are of Dutch origin but it turns out that, IDK, back in the 17th century their ancestors were French Huguenots fleeing the country for the Netherlands, does that make you Dutch or French or both?
And no, I didn't pick the 17th century randomly. I have some Irish and German blood, but the rest of my ancestors have been American for a very long time--the best-documented part of my family tree goes back at least to the Salem witch trials. Does that mean I can claim American ethnicity?
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Jman383
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IMO, if the percent goes beneath 5%, you can't really count it. To me it's not about time period, it's about how big of a part of it is in you. But that's just me.
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broadway_bound92
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I'm French, Irish, German, and English
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LadyOfTheLake
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Czech.
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And All That Jazz
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Asian. My dad was born here but his parents are from China. My mom's from Taiwan but her parents came from China too.
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ActingDude17
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Mostly German, with some Scotch and touches of French and Swiss.
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RED15
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I'm (mostly) Irish, English, Welsh, and Polish.
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lilmissbroadway
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I'm mostly Scottish and British. I also have some Dutch in me.
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Buff Daddy
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I'm English (but since I've been living in Australia for nearly 37 years I consider myself an Australian!)
Buff
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brizejellicle
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English, French, Scottish, German/Pennsylvania Dutch, Hungarian
I'm another one that should be able to claim American...my aunt traced our family back to one of the Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation.
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Quique
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Spanish on mom's side. Mexican on my dad's.
Or
...mix of Native American and European blood.
Or
...mestizo.
Or
Latin, Latino...whatever that means.
Or
...Hispanic, which mostly refers to culture though, not race.
Or
...oh hell, I'm just MEEEEEE. LOL.
Nah, but seriously, a lot of Hispanics/Latinos have trouble identifying with one particular race, much less with the terms Latino or Hispanic, which--like I mentioned above-- denote culture and origin, NOT race. Our racial history is so diluted, most find it impossible to trace their own accurately and have mostly broad generalizations and their looks to go on.
I know a few details about my grandparents; my grandfather was from Spain--had the thick Spanish accent and all--and died of throat cancer when my mom was only two. I know my father's mom was born in Los Angeles, and would reside back and forth between here and Mexico (where her parents were from) and attended Roosevelt High in L.A.
I say I'm Hispanic just for the sake of simplicity. I have both European and Indian blood and I don't look completely Ameri-Indian nor do I look White at all. Like most Hispanics, I'm a mutt. 
But racially, I like to say I'm Mestizo. 
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MiSS.DRAMAqueen
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well,
I'm half African-American && half Dominican.
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jackissensational
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I'm entirely, 100% Irish. My mom brings up our full-blooded heritage thing all the time. I'm pretty sure she married my father just b/c he was the only one whose biology could fit the criteria she wanted for her children.
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Jman383
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Congrats, Jack. You're a minority
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Nudelkopf
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| Brackynn wrote: | | They're still sheep farmers today |
We're still cattle farmers!! Mum and Dad met on the station (in the middle of queensland.. about a million acres, it was).. Mum's first gift from Dad was a hand made bridle
| LadyOfTheLake wrote: | | Czech. |
And woo, my boyfriend is czech Like, he lives there kind of czech.
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Beagle On Stage
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I can trace my lineage back to Noah's Ark. I proceed from Japheth and his wife Miriam.
Psych. But I told a friend that one time and she bought it. lol.
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shakalakababy
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50% Eastern European Jew (mostly russia I think?) That's where my great grandma moved from when she came to america at least, which I don't consider some distant connection. She was alive for the majority of my life.
50% German and austrian
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sweetsoprano
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Mostly Irish and a tiny bit French.
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Oli-Ol
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1/8 Czech
1/8 Irish
1/16 Scottish
11/16 English
But I generally just put English as the others are so small as to be generally considered unimportant. Although personally I think that my Czech side of the family is very important as that is where I get my nose from!
And one of my surnames is Scottish but I don't tend to tell people that...
(please Scots don't take offence)
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LadyOfTheLake
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| Oli-Ol wrote: | | Although personally I think that my Czech side of the family is very important as that is where I get my nose from! |
Yay for Czech noses, lol!
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greenelphiexoxo
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Filipino!
And as far as I know, the only one here...
any other filipinos out there?
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kakoforever
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1/2 Ecuadorian, 1/2 Irish.
Beat that. lol. When I was little I asked if that meant I was "Spirish".
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SomeoneLikeYou
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I am 60% Italian, 20% German, and 20% Polish. Although my family embraces its Italian heritage the most (we have fish on Christmas Eve) and I have an Italian last name, people tell me I look more German than anything else...lol
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fjays
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| greenelphiexoxo wrote: | Filipino!
And as far as I know, the only one here...
any other filipinos out there? |
I love Filipinos! My aunt is Filipino, so my cousins are half, and they are the most beautiful children I have EVER seen! So I'm guessing you're gorgeous too ?
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<3Wilson<3
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Well in all simplicity...
I am 50% Puerto Rican- dad's side
50% Guatemalan- mom's side
... The Puerto Rican side, I assume, has French (indicated by the last name), Italian, and some sort of African. As for the Guatemalan side, there is Spanish, German (Great grandmother married a German), and some native tribal Mayan. My grandfather belongs to one of the two only tribes in Guatemala that *claim* to descend from Mayans.
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Xxmcfly85xX
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| greenelphiexoxo wrote: | Filipino!
And as far as I know, the only one here...
any other filipinos out there? |
MEEEE!! haha, well half.
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STRWBRRY
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Mostly Dutch, a little bit Spanish.
I found that out 2 moths ago. I was pretty happy being 100% Dutch is so... Dutch.
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NoOneMournsTheWicked
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Ashkenazi Jew of various sorts (Polish mostly, Austrian, Russian), Greek, Scotch-Irish, French, Mongolian, and American Indian (but not enough to get a scholarship).
Ethnically, I don't consider myself white. I'm a mutt. I put 'other' on all my papers.
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Mistress
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I'm Croation on both sides of the family, which is probably where I get my appetite for smoked and dried and roasted meats...and my arteries probably hate me for it XD
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Alexia Dark
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I'm at least 1/4 Welsh... I'm pretty sure the rest of me is Irish/Scottish. I'm half red-head, so there's proof of that.
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wicked_diva
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I'm 1/2 Russian, and 1/2 Austria-Hungarian. I've recently found out that in the Austria-Hungarian part, there can be found Transylvanian and Romanian, but when my ancestors left, it was all Austria-Hungary.
The interesting thing is, both my parents are half and half too (me dad's a muggle, mam's a witch! - sorry, I had to). But apparently, until my dad's hair all went grey, everyone thought he was Irish. His whole side of the family all has been redheads for multiple generations, apparently. He was rather upset that my brother and I got my mom's brown hair (though his curls and his freckly pale skin).
I'm like 3.5 generation American, though. All my grandparents were born here, and one of my great grandma's was born here, too. And possibly her husband, but I'm not sure.
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RED15
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| Alexia Dark wrote: | | I'm at least 1/4 Welsh... I'm pretty sure the rest of me is Irish/Scottish. I'm half red-head, so there's proof of that. |
What do you mean you're a 1/2 red head? Are you just angry like we are? lol
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Cinderelli
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Haha... Bold Irish, mating with everyone. Tut tut.
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Bagnew
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1/16 Maori
Some other parts Pakeha (NZ European), Swedish (From Malmo, which I ironically found out while I was playing for "A Little Night Music"), Irish, Scottish, English and probably some other bits
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WontYouCharlestonWithMe
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Mainly mexican and cuban. Some spanish and french as well.
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sweetsoprano
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I'm almost all Irish and a little bit French and Scottish.
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katethegreat
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1/2 Scottish, with Swedish not too far back - East Coast fishermen, pretty standard. Possible Italian from a not knowing the exact identity of my great grandfather.
1/2 English, from a long line of fairly insignificant people with random surnames...Mangnall anyone?
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lovesinging
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Mostly German and English, but I have pretty much everything in there. My dad says that there's no Irish, though (which is odd, because my last name is apparently of Irish origin.)
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Beagle On Stage
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| lovesinging wrote: | | My dad says that there's no Irish, though (which is odd, because my last name is apparently of Irish origin.) |
That's been known to happen. I have a very English last name due to a stepfather's last name being taken at the turn of the twentieth century, but there isn't a drop of English blood to go with it. Maybe there is a similar event in your family history.
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SeasonsOfLove
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100% Irish, though I live in the North.. Suppose that's why I have a ridiculously Irish name (Orláith-Marie- Orla for short)
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