Hi, im back, more on race/ethnicity =)

virichi08
virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
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I really liked all the POSITIVE feed back i got from my post earlier, and now im curious as to what everyone's background is. Im not asking for a 3 page essay on who ur great great great great (x6) grandparents were. Just as far back as ur mom and dad. lol As for me i am Haitian-American. I state it that way because i was born Haiti and been in the states for 18/19 years. I do speak my native tongue pretty fluently. I like to say i speak 90% Engish and 90% Kreyol because there are some words i dnt know in both lanuages (that even sounds strange to me but its tru) Sometimes ill pick up a peice of vegetable at the market and ask my friends "how do u say this i english?" lol =)
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  • tpittsley77
    tpittsley77 Posts: 607 Member
    I am American. Why doesn't anyone ever say that?
  • thenewkayla
    thenewkayla Posts: 313 Member
    I Am a Mexican American!
  • virichi08
    virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
    I dunno. Sometimes when i tell ppl i'm haitian hey get all hostile and TELL ME im American and then ask me where i'm from. After i tell them their like, "oh, nevermind then." lol kinda funny to me.
  • sheshe32
    sheshe32 Posts: 195 Member
    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.
  • taylor5877
    taylor5877 Posts: 1,792 Member
    I'm Dutch english. My dads mom was also 1/4 American Indian. My dads father is an orphan, but both my grandparents have English surnames. My mom's family is dutch on her father's side and English on her mother's.

    My family has a bible (dutch side) that is about 1/2 Dutch and 1/2 English that dates back to 1600ish and documents our emmigration to the southern US (south Carolina) and then our distribution through the deep south.
  • virichi08
    virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
    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.

    cool! =)
  • tpittsley77
    tpittsley77 Posts: 607 Member
    What I meant was... people like me, at least 5 generation American, will still say they are Irish, or French, or Polish... yet they have to go back generations to find anyone not born here. By ethnicity I am French Canadian, German, and Native American. I am American tho.
  • virichi08
    virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
    I'm Dutch english. My dads mom was also 1/4 American Indian. My dads father is an orphan, but both my grandparents have English surnames. My mom's family is dutch on her father's side and English on her mother's.

    My family has a bible (dutch side) that is about 1/2 Dutch and 1/2 English that dates back to 1600ish and documents our emmigration to the southern US (south Carolina) and then our distribution through the deep south.

    WOW.... neat stuff....
  • virichi08
    virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
    What I meant was... people like me, at least 5 generation American, will still say they are Irish, or French, or Polish... yet they have to go back generations to find anyone not born here. By ethnicity I am French Canadian, German, and Native American. I am American tho.

    I understand what u mean. lol sometimes ppl give me a loong list and somewhere in that i get lost.
  • RhonndaJ
    RhonndaJ Posts: 1,615 Member
    Let see. I'm Bermudian. My parents were Canadian and Bermudian. Mom's side of the family is straight forward. English/Maltese. My father's side, both Bermudian, one black one white. Beyond that I have no clue whatsoever.
  • mbajrami
    mbajrami Posts: 636 Member
    Both of my parents are Albanian but were born in the former Yugoslavia. I am 1st Generation American. :-D
  • laserturkey
    laserturkey Posts: 1,680 Member
    Just garden-variety American here, but family tree reaches back to England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands. Why yes! I do sunburn easily! How did you know? :-P
  • Kenzietea2
    Kenzietea2 Posts: 1,132 Member
    I have no idea what I am. A white mutt I guess.
    My family on my mothers side seems to have been here for generations and generations so I guess I will go with American.
  • suztheq
    suztheq Posts: 168 Member
    I'm an American of Italian (50%), Irish (25%) and Cherokee (25%) decent. My mom is Italian, my dad is the mutt. :smile:
  • kyomoon
    kyomoon Posts: 30 Member
    How's this for straight forward and to the point... I'm Canadian mongrel! And proud of it!! :laugh:
  • FretheMJsmokingcannibal
    FretheMJsmokingcannibal Posts: 314
    Oh BOY! This is gonna be long...

    Cherokee/Choctaw/Irish >Native American
    English/Welsh/Scott-Irish/ >Celtic
    CajunFrench/German/ >Germanic ???
    Spain???>Gauls/Celtic/Arabic
    ???>Baltic
    Melted together to form me! An American!

    Dad's has the Welsh/Scott-Irish/ 1/8 or 1/16 Choctaw/French/German/Spanish
    Mom's ???(Dad was adopted we think though he's Baltic) / English/Irish/Cherokee
  • FretheMJsmokingcannibal
    FretheMJsmokingcannibal Posts: 314
    I just killed this thread...
  • virichi08
    virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
    I just killed this thread...

    MURDERER! hehehee
  • mminor77
    mminor77 Posts: 313
    cherokee
    chocktaw
    canadian french
    german
    english
  • TxAngel79
    TxAngel79 Posts: 318 Member
    Native American and Irish on my moms side and English and Spanish on my fathers side! Yes I'm dark haired and tan very easily!!
  • cobracars
    cobracars Posts: 949 Member
    3 generations American
    4th generation back was German on both sides of family, with some English and Scottish mixed in back in the 1600's - 1700's
  • jcriscuolo
    jcriscuolo Posts: 319 Member
    1/4 Irish
    1/4 Italian
    1/8 Native American (Penobscot)
    1/8 British
    1/8 Dutch
    1/8 Welsh

    100% American
  • CarleyLovesPets
    CarleyLovesPets Posts: 410 Member
    Scottish Canadian.
  • g4genn
    g4genn Posts: 58 Member
    Franco-Canadian

    And it's franco Canadian for to many generations to count back. The oldest record bring some of our family back to 1600.
  • Starqueg
    Starqueg Posts: 39
    I'm a mutt. My mom's side has been here since before the Civil War, maybe even the Revolutionary War. I'm supposedly part Cherokee and Algonquin, but I've never seen any proof of that. From that side, I'm English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and maybe German. My dad's family is Eastern European and came over in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
    Oddly enough, the red hair is from my dad's side of the family, but I look Irish enough to be asked in Ireland if I'm Irish.
  • MouseTmom
    MouseTmom Posts: 201 Member
    American - but ancestors were german and irish. One of my ancestors was an indentured servant in Ireland. Her "master" was always raping her and one day in the field she took her sickle and killed him. She then stowed away on a ship and came to America!!
  • supplemama
    supplemama Posts: 1,956 Member
    I am an American who is primarily of African descent on both sides of my family (mom and dad). Like most Americans who are black I have other stuff in my ancestry, but I am mostly black. feel free to guess the other! LOL :smile:
  • DietCuki
    DietCuki Posts: 44 Member
    I'm Puerto Rican and American too. Born in the states (only one in my family born here) I speak English and Spanish and recently I discovered that I'm somewhat southern because I have picked up on the accent lol.

    And let me add, being a Puerto Rican who can cook authentic Rican food is horrible giving up all that yummy food rich in calories, sodium and fat lol but all for the sake of being healthy, I rather have my life and live it well than die at a young age due to not taking care of myself! =)
  • DaneDillinger
    DaneDillinger Posts: 70 Member
    I am American. Why doesn't anyone ever say that?

    I am second generation Italian-American. I look at it like this- there is ONE group that can claim they are "Americans," the same group that had their tribes slaughtered, women raped and land stolen by European settlers hundreds of years ago. The rest of us are descendants of emigrants from somewhere else living on that same stolen land. My family's history in America goes back about 60 years, whereas the family history in Italy goes back 300 or so years. That's the reason I personally refer to myself as a hyphenated American.
  • gpstrucker
    gpstrucker Posts: 930 Member
    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.

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