What's your ethnic background?

One thing I always find interesting in people's ethnic backgrounds. Just something I enjoy talking about and finding out more about everyone I know.

So, if you care to share, what is your ethnic background?

Mine is:
1/4th Western European - Scandinavian majority, with a bit of British and German sprinkled in.
1/4th Canadian - half being French Canadian decent (according to ancestry research, it was originally Eastern European - Hungarian and Romanian a few generations previous to relocation to Canada) and the other half being Northwest Coast Native Tribe (Haida/Tlingit).
1/4th Eastern Indian/Pakistani - Punjabi and Tamil, primarily, and then Pakistani (in all reality, Indian and Pakistani are both pretty much the same background).
1/4 Middle Eastern/Arab - Lebanese, Egyptian, Saudi, Iranian/Persian, mostly.

No one ever guesses I'm white, though. I've got dark olive skin, jet black hair, and eye so brown they're almost black.

So yeah, that's me. I'm proud of my highly diverse background. How about y'all?

<<<---adopted - planet of origin unknown.

Ask me about my horses, or dogs...well, a couple of them..and I can pretty much tell you!

I kinda figure that - like the horses - once it's more than 4 or 5 generations back, it doesn't really matter.

Having said that, the little bit that I know about my family is primarily Scottish and Welsh, with a little bit of English and German thrown in somewhere along the way. They've all been here since before the Civil Way though...some of them trace back to the Revolution. My mother was very relieved when I showed no interest in either the DAR or the DOC.

I'm 100% American!

Amen, BF! Just like most of my critters, I'm just a good ol' American mutt.

English, Scottish, Welsh, Black Dutch.

I didn't check those boxes on my 1003 so you'll have to use your best judgement.

I too consist of the wretched refuse.
Mom's side were geneological maniacs. They have records that stretch back from the Mayflower. Going backwards, English, Irish/Celtic, Scandinavian/Norse.
Dad's side was a little less concerned. His father died when dad was an infant. My ancestors on his side were a little less educated (dad was the first to ever go to college). Most never finished grade school. Hence many of my relatives and ancestors on his side were superstitious. Speaking of the dead was considered bad luck, even rude. We know the family name is of Scotish extraction and that my great grandmother was full blood Cherokee. But that's about it.
So, I am a Cherokee Viking.
By the way, I am still quite upset that you can never find a good Viking restaraunt!

I think in some way I'm related to Mighty Joe Young

German.

My mom was born in Germany. Dad's parents/grandparents were german. I spent 7 of my first 15 years in Germany.

By the way, I am still quite upset that you can never find a good Viking restaraunt!

When you make a good stove why would you need a restaraunt?

Its the principal of the thing! We are unfairly discriminated against in the restaraunt demographic! Its a conspiracy I tell you! An unfair hate of haggis!!

Perhaps you should open one yourself? Who knows..it may catch on!

There must be a reason there are none. Do not encourage him.

"The Rape and Pilage Cafe"?

Cherokee Indian among other things (as RR Becca says I'm a mutt too), however I was in Hong Kong several years ago and people kept asking me if I was Dutch....

Isn't everyone a mutt these days?

Arian until the ancestors were invited into White Russia, then they got mixed up with the Slavs...

Slarian?

My maternal grandpa was full blooded hispanic, but grew up in Durango and Silverton, CO (working the narrow gauge railroad).

My maternal grandma is pretty much Irish, with a bit of Scottish, English and French in the mix.

My fraternal grandpa is Italian, although some relatives argue that we are Swiss. I argue, that you are never really Swiss, you are either of the Italian, French or German part of Switzerland. Plus, I had a really cool Italian maiden name.

My fraternal grandma was about as German as they came.

Some may consider me a mutt as well, but I love and am proud of each part of the pie.

My daughter is pretty lucky, her father is full blooded American Indian - as you can imagine she is beautiful! The tribe is Tohono O'Odham from southern Arizona. (Papago is the common name for the tribe)

I hve ridden that train so many times and have hiked the entire length of track over the years. Your grandpa was a MAN if he worked on that thing!! That is a very cool bit of family heritage!!

He moved to the midwest as a young man. But, we took a family vacation there when I was in my teens and rode the train and visited both towns. He told us they use to hike up into the mountains to fish and things. And then in the winter when they needed to get home - they would chop down a pine tree and ride it down the mountain in the snow. That was such a wonderful time... He's been gone for 19 years now, I miss that man.

3/4 Irish. Paternal Grandparents were born in Ireland. This summer I visited the church they attended as children. Maternal grandfather was also Irish. 1/4 German. My maternal grandmother's family came over from Germany pre-Civil War. Settled mostly southeastern Illinois as farmers.

I'm Scottish on my fathers side and until this year I thought I was a Irish (that is for sure)/German mix...BUT we found out that my family was actually Russian and not German.

So weird because my great-grandmother always yelled at me in German and I never heard her speak Russian. ::shoulder shrug::

(and quite possibly my mother was the product of an affair with a Native American)

Ancestors are from the old country, Brooklyn.

Svetlana MonkEE?

Mother is half Chinese and Filipino.

Father is half Spanish and Filipino.

All in all - I'm still Filipino American

Hmm...I kinda like it! It does explain my love of Vodka.

german + irish + polish = 100% Stud!!!

100% German with an Irish last name. My dad's father was adopted by an Irish family, no idea what his born last name was though.

Our area has a heavy Czech influence, so my Mrs. comes from a German/Bohemie background.

No idea about my father's family- They never really got into that kind of stuff. I'm thinking just your average Western European.

On my mom's side, my great great grandma came over from Russia when she was a toddler- In those days you maried within your culture, even in America, so while I don't know much about her husbands family, I assume he was a Russian Jew as well.

Another of my great great grandma's was full Ottowa, and my grandfather always really identified with that part of his heritage.

Father: Brazilian
Mother: 1/2 Portuguese & 1/2 Irish.

I have olive skin, brown hair and light green eyes. I have dual citizenship (here and Brazil).

<---- was abandoned on the front steps of a church.

So I got no clue!

awwwwwwwww

he lived in the church basement which explains so much that he is in his comfort zone to this day

From my mom's side, pretty much 100% Norwegian. My dad's side gives me a mix of German and Swedish but mostly German. Great-grandparents on both sides emmigrated to the US after the Civil War.

You and your christmas pageant looking boots better be being sincere with that awwwwwwwww!!!

!!!!!!!!!!


i was!

Paternal side - Grandfather walked out of Russia to avoid the pogroms, Grandmother's parent's escaped Austria with her siblings (she was born here.) My Dad used to joke that they met running from Stalin and Hitler, respectively.

Maternal side - Grandmother came over as a little girl, also running from Hitler (Poland.) Grandfather may be Polish, we think - they go back as far as Staten Island to Jersey.

When people ask what I am I usually just say Jewish.

lol- Me too. :P Sometimes i'll go so far to say Russian Jew. But yea, culturally i am much more Jewish then anything else.

So you also don't know which planet you were dropped from, huh.

Does the Earth's yellow sun allow you special powers?

Maternal - Scottish, German, native American (Great Grand Mother was full blooded Iracoy Indian, last name of Neptune)

Paternal - German, Irish

So call myself full blooded American mutt

I dunno about ^^^him...but as for myself...most definitely it does!

Not me, It just turns me into a bronzed god.... alas.

German, Irish, Italian and Polish. One for each grandparent. My sisters and I always kid that we look Polish but sound Italian.

are you the only boy?

::runs::

And the Irish and German come out in your drinking I guess!

100% pure second generation Polish...and proud of it!

MOML is mutt w/Cherokee thrown in. Kids called themselves Polish Cherokees and got called to HS office and listed as minority for that toenail % of Cherokee.

oh, my!

German (Sieg), English (Pitt), and French (DeMoss & Hublar).

My maternal grandmother was born in NY but her parents were Jews who came from Austria in 1890. Can't find my maternal grandfather's family.

On my dad's side, his mother's people were primarily Dutch and English Quakers. Some of them came over with William Penn. His father's people were French.

I'm a mutt.

My BFF is descended from gypsies. I think that is the coolest thing ever.

Hispanic on my dad's side.
Hispanic & Italian on my mom's side. My mom says her family also has some German somewhere along the line.

German on my mom's side.
A mutt mix on my dad's side.

<------- mostly ape

^^^ with some Sasquatch thrown in for good measure

Italian on my moms side
English and some mutt on dads side.

Puerto Rican

Father's side emigrated from Hannover Germany to Minnesota in 1859 (dairy farming). I am 7th-Gen German-Minnesotan. Mom's dad emigrated from Norway in 1920 (he was 20) to build ships in Tacoma WA. Been to see relatives in both countries (way cool!).
Since I've been to Norway, I can speak with authority on the Viking Restaurant shortage. As I recall, I spent 2 weeks starving in that country, because they only eat dry bread and goat cheese! So, that's why there are no restaurants - their menues would be limited.

45% norwegian, the last 1/4 is german and irish.

Cornhusker be thankful you were not offered lutefisk!

Italian. That's it.

We have creatures around these parts called Skunk Apes...I think that fits very well!

Those are the southern version of yetisasquatchbigfootskunkapeneanderthalerectus arent they?

Yes. Precisely!

Maternal gma-- 100% German
Paternal gpa-- 100% Armenian
Maternal gpa-- German, Scottish, Irish, English???
Paternal gma-- Never been able to get a straight answer on this, but she saws we are part NY Jew. Um, huh? Not really a race...

Italian, Sicilian and Cherokee Indian...yes I have a temper.

A little bit country
A little bit rock and roll

Actually, being Jewish is one of those things that can refer to one's ethnicity OR religion. One can ethnically be a Jew without being a practicing Jew and one can be a practicing Jew without ethnically being a Jew. But there is such a thing as a Jewish ethnicity.

I was referring to "NY Jew,' not just Jewish...

Tim Whatley converted for the jokes

the dentist?

yes

'nurse, we could use another schtickle of flouride'

Not according to HMDA....

Italian/Irish heathen

<--- nearly 100% good little German footsoldier.

Well, that's true, but according to HMDA the only distinction as far as ethnicity is "Hispanic" or "not Hispanic", so Italians, Germans, Polish etc. would not be an ethnicity according to HMDA either.

^^^ things that make you go "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Ba dump bump!

Sorry, as an old geography teacher, this stuff is interesting to me and in my present job, it's annoying to hear stuff like "the applicant checked that he was 'white', it doesn't matter that they didn't check 'hispanic' or 'not hispanic' cuz it's obvious if they're white, they aren't hispanic". Me: "um, no, it isn't obvious. If you don't believe me, go to Spain and tell me that some of the blond-haired, blue-eyed Spaniards there aren't white."

what states does the Red River border?

Ha. Oklahoma and a state south of Oklahoma.

And Arkansas...fer a bit.

Reminds me of the Blake Shelton song... a very good one!

let me guess....Badonk Badonk...

If texas suceeds from the union will texan be an ethnicity?

REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!

Why do they have better rates than enterprise?

remember the pie a la mode!

Maternal - Scottish (MacPhearson), Irish (Barnett) and American Indian (Sioux)
Paternal - French Canadian (Mercier) and German/Austrian (vonVergosen)

so....basically...a mutt!

I really have no idea, but a short google search indicates that my father's surname, Cobb, it is from Medieval England. My mother's maiden name is "Lamb" which, from what I can tell from a crude search, comes from New Zealand.

Maternal - Scottish, Irish, English, and German
Paternal - German, French, and Blackfoot Native American

^^^^ That is what I am talking about! Pure Michigan!

Maternal grandmother - Austrian and Hungarian.
Maternal grandfather - 100% Polish

Paternal grandmother - Scottish, Irish, English
Paternal grandfather – American. We can trace this side of the family back to my 7th great grandfather who fought in the French & Indian War.

I grew up in a Greek and Italian neighborhood. One thing’s for sure - between my family and my neighbors I always ate a good variety of food when I was a kid.

If your ancestors named Lamb ended up in New Zealand, they were almost certainly convicts exiled from England.

or hobbits

What makes you think they aren't successful?

Polish - 100% plain and simple.

^^^^ Explains a lot

:watches Clarice kick PP's butt with her hooves:

Deeq....do you say "huhves" "whooves" or "hoofs"? :random:

<<<---not DeeQ (obviously)

BUT, I simply say FEETS!

Not DQ either, but I have it on good authority that she typically says "whoo::hiccup::ooves"

German, Dutch, Irish, possibly some French, Creek Tribe - native american.

hooves...

Me: It's time to get their feet done.

Farrier: Yeah...any lost shoes?

Me: No, not until 5 minutes before you get here...as usual.

Farrier: Ok.

After:

Me: Oooohhh...those new Nikes look real good! Thanks!

Feet look good too!

(note: no mention of Hoofs or Hooves! )

are you mental?

Nope. I'm physical.

No. Alien. Happy Birthday.

Yes, she is.

Fixed

Nothing wrong with a little gin in your blood, if its quality stuff.

But what about the nicotine and Aquanet? D

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