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

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  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    First gen. American. Known ancestry: Thai, Chinese, Mexican, Native American of some sort, Spanish, German, & French.
  • Chameleone
    Chameleone Posts: 281 Member
    By blood I am Mozambican, 100% on both sides

    Canadian on paper =)
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    60% Spanish-Mexican, 30% Filipino, 10% Native American (Aztec) but my nationality is Filipino.

    EDIT: My grandma on Dad's side came from Andalucia, Spain (particularly Malaga) which explains my Middle Eastern/Indian look
  • LilacDreamer
    LilacDreamer Posts: 1,364 Member
    Irish German Scottish English French Austrian Polish and Native American.

    Mostly Irish and German but my maternal grandfathers surname and family are big in Scotland. There is a family tree that dates back to 1600 Scotland and I am on it. :) It's kind of cool.

    It also states that someone with my mothers maiden name from Northern Ireland married someone with my fathers surname in the 1850s...in New jersey (we are all from NYC). It's super weird since both are uncommon names in the US. Would that make my parents distant relatives? Kind of creepy, but their families never knew each other or anything.

    I kind of think that might be why I was born with a very rare medical condition...1 in 200,000 babies are born with it and it takes 2 of the recessive genes (1 per parent) to make it happen.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 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.
    Same goes in my case & which is why I always refer to myself as a hyphenated Filipino. I know Filipino isn't a race but over 95+% are native Asians (Malays & Chinese to be exact) which makes them the true Filipinos & also the stereotypical ones that foreigners only know.
  • Anastasia0511
    Anastasia0511 Posts: 372 Member
    Italian. My dads family are from Italy my moms the east coast lol.
  • virichi08
    virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
    nice to see soo many different ppl on here. Guess ppl of my nationality dnt diet (lol) or just not on MFP *giggles*
  • LouiseRose92
    LouiseRose92 Posts: 112
    My Dad is English&my Mum is Irish.
    I'm English :)
  • Halleeon
    Halleeon Posts: 309 Member
    African-American and Irish-American over here. Although my face somehow is bright blue and white...I'll never understand these crazy genetics.
  • SKP1986
    SKP1986 Posts: 392 Member
    I am American with German/Irish background
  • shannajojo
    shannajojo Posts: 192 Member
    I'm American with mainly German, Welsh, Black Dutch, Cherokee, and Choctaw Native American heritage.
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    native(senica) amarican+irish(catholic) amarican= me!:bigsmile:
  • retrobaby
    retrobaby Posts: 613 Member
    Dad=Filipino Mom=Puerto Rican
    That makes me Puertopino or Filarican

    I speak fluent Spanish and English. I tried Tagalog/Ilocano, but no luck...sorry dad. Some words are the same:)
  • Feisty_Red
    Feisty_Red Posts: 982 Member
    Irish..surprising? huh ;)
  • SkinnieFinnie
    SkinnieFinnie Posts: 145 Member
    I'm Texan :wink:
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    I find it very odd the way Americans so often refer to themselves as '1/16th Cherokee; 1/24th White Russian; 1/3 Irish'... what's that about? I don't know any other nation that does that. (And that's not because the US is somehow uniquely an immigrant culture, before anyone suggests that's the answer.... )
  • crazybunnychick
    crazybunnychick Posts: 4 Member
    I'm a mutt lol.
    I was born in Germany, but I'm American lol
    My father is French, German and Native American (Blackfoot and Powatomee) and my mother is Dominican, French, Swedish, African and German :P
  • FindingSamMon
    FindingSamMon Posts: 993 Member
    I'm 1st generation Canadian. Both of my parents were born in Jamaica. There is Indian, Irish and Scottish in there but that's from the grandparents and beyond (and that is also where I get the freckles :smile: )
  • HamsterNut
    HamsterNut Posts: 78 Member
    English, English ... end of really :-) as far back as I know where born in england
  • intergalactick
    intergalactick Posts: 18 Member
    I'm Italian-American for the most part but I guess I'm considered Italian, Irish and Polish by my family, lol.

    So you can understand how dieting can be hard for us :wink:
  • skipbeat97
    skipbeat97 Posts: 5
    I'm Irish, Scandinavian, and Portuguese.
  • Arperjen
    Arperjen Posts: 108 Member
    I'm an American mutt.

    Mom's side: Irish-German
    Dad's side: English-Norwegian.
  • Loves418
    Loves418 Posts: 330 Member
    I am Israeli. I was born there as where my parents. I consider myself American because I have been here since I was 1.5years old. I especially keep it to myself in the South....we have sadly come across many closed minded people here. I don't even like telling people we are Jewish..sad but true..those are the days I miss my Brooklyn NY where NO one cares what you are.
  • jeannette120
    jeannette120 Posts: 65 Member
    My dad is from Italy and came to the US when he was 26. My mom from Iowa.
  • Heaven71
    Heaven71 Posts: 706 Member
    I am American. Why doesn't anyone ever say that?

    THIS!
  • fugaj01
    fugaj01 Posts: 171 Member
    50% german, about 50% bohemian and a smidge Fox indian.
  • Simone_King
    Simone_King Posts: 467 Member
    American..but half german.

    Mom was born and raised in German.

    Dad..somewhere in the united states. I keep asking but it changes. I think it's Organ?

    To the person who's Jewesh..

    Keep in mind you are in the Bible belt. o_o Also, it depends on where you live in the South.
  • yerfgirl
    yerfgirl Posts: 65 Member
    I can honestly say I don't know as my Dad's parents were both adopted. Record keeping was poor and they never disussed it with him. So he's a big question mark. Mum's parents were from Germany via Ellis Is.

    I thinking learning were peoples' families are from is interesting so this has been a good thread to read.
  • TinkrBelz
    TinkrBelz Posts: 866 Member
    I am white and a US citizen. My mom was adopted so we have no family history. And my dad...not sure about them either...again generations of people born in the southern US.

    My husband has Apache Indian in him, so we think that is pretty cool...but again, generations born in the US.
  • fugaj01
    fugaj01 Posts: 171 Member
    Note to everyone saying American... this thread is about ethnicity, not where you are from. I am proud to be American too, but race/ethnicity is about your roots, ancestral history. No one but native americans are ethnically American. Don't make this difficult. You all know what she is asking here. Geesh. Why does everything have to be a political debate? This is under Chit-Chat, Fun and games message board, let's all just chill! :drinker:

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