Hi, im back, more on race/ethnicity =)
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My ancestors helped settle New York City. My family has been in New York and New Jersey since the 1600's. Although my ancestors were African slaves from Angola, I was able to find their birth, marriage and death in the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam. From what I can gather, my ancestry is largely Dutch, West African, and German.0
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Native Canadian...as per my papers, however I'm mostly just Canadian.0
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LOL cause if I said I was American I would be lying LOL
I am a kiwi from New Zealand with Maori, Yugoslavian and Russian background. Parents both from NZ though.
I'm a Kiwi living in the States. Dad's a NZ Maori, and mum's English, French, Norwegian and Gypsy mix.0 -
I'm American, but my grandfather was Cherokee and the rest of my ancestors are English and Scottish.0
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Cherokee and Scottish
Czech and English0 -
I am English Canadian (my parents moved to Canada from Scotland before I was born)0
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1/2 welsh, 1/4 english, 1/4 maltese
Mother Canadian, but her parents were english (my grandmother) and maltese (my grandfather) .
Birth Father Welsh (so were his parents)
Funny when you think of it... my grandparents families were the same, culturally, waaaaay back for many generations (in some cases have been documented/traced back at least to 1400s, and in one case back to the doomsday book).. and yet nowadays, the odds are that this, and future generations will almost surely be a combination of cultures.
Both sad and exciting at the same time, to me *S*0 -
I'm of African and Native American descent. But mostly -
I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free,
And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me,
And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today,
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God Bless the U.S.A.
(Sorry... I just had to. This song always brings a tear to my eye.)0 -
Proud, boring, American, white girl here0
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I'm Dominican American both my parents were born in the Dominican Republic. I usually always say I'm just Dominican, I always identified more with that side of me but I find myself embracing my American side more :bigsmile:0
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I had ancestors on the Mayflower (no kidding), so my family was here long before this was a country. I had ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War. I have two ancestors who were American Presidents.
I'm American.
You're like me! Which presidents?
I'm related to Patrick Henry, Herbert Hoover, some dude from the Mayflower, and General Sherman.0 -
I am American. Why doesn't anyone ever say that?
actually i said this the other day! some drunk dude was saying really rude racial slurs to me and my fam in an elevator and then asked what we were and i go ACTUALLY, WE'RE AMERICAN. BORN AND RAISED.
I'm a 3rd generation Mexican American.0 -
I am Mexican-American0
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Human being!0
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Lithuanian, Arab, Irish, via grandparents.'0
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Mutt!0
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I'm American; 1st generation American on my father's side & 2nd generation on my mother's side...I think that's kinda cool : )0
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Mom is Canadian ( with English ancestors ). My dad is from Romania but he's Transylvanian Saxon.0
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Human being!
that's what my mom says whenever anyone asks : )0 -
Interesting topic.
My grandparents and parents were all born in American but I think all great-grandparents were born in other countries and came here either as children or young adults...does that make me 3rd generation American?
Anywho...on my mom's side, one of my great great-grandfathers came here in 1850s-- family is originally from Belarus (I think it used to be called Prussia, land that's been claimed as either Russia or Poland throughout history). On my dad's side, the family is from Austria and Germany and came to America sometime around early 1900s...
I used to be really interested in genealogy and this is making me interested again...0 -
i'm american. My fam has been here since 17th century. i have ancestors who came on the mayflower0
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On my Dad's side: he was born in Nicaragua, as was I, so mostly Spanish with some bits of Nicaraguan Indian thrown in
On my Mom's side: a mix of European ancestry. She was born in South Carolina.
But just for fun, I'm a Jayhawk through and through!!0 -
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Puerto Rican, my family was born on the Island.0 -
Scotch-Irish, Scandinavian, German0
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i'm white0
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Moms side is mostly Irish...dads is Native American...Im a ginger...Both my parents have dark hair, my mom has lighter skin but my dad is SO DARK...Everyone thinks Im adopted, but I'm not...Lol.0
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a friend of mine who is also of Celtic descent came up with a clever idea for filling out those forms that ask for race.
Mark "other"
and then write in, "North Atlantic Islander"0 -
My ancestory is from Lithuania, going back to the 1800's. I was born and raised in South Africa. However I consider myself Australian having lived there for almost a quarter of my life. I now live in Canada.0
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Australian with a background of German/Hungarian/English!0
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French/Jewish one side French/Gentile the other side. Both sides happy to be in America.0
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