What's your ethnicity?

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  • SPBROOKS68
    SPBROOKS68 Posts: 561 Member
    Grandparents on Grandmother's side immigrated from Ireland - Grandfather on Dad's side was Cherokee Indian.

    Mom's Mom was from Holland (Dutch) Dad was German - So I am a big ole mixture but I have skin like an indian (tans easily) and my hair turns RED whenever I try to dye it.

    I want to go to Ireland, Holland and Germany before I die as I did the ancestory thing and want to walk where my ancestors walked...
  • Barkley87
    Barkley87 Posts: 126 Member
    Boring white English.

    My mum's ancestors are originally romany gypsy and my dad's are Norman nobility though (my great great great etc. granddad is William the Conqueror), so that's a bit less boring.
  • ruurik
    ruurik Posts: 143 Member
    Irish (both north and south) and little bit of Scottish/Norwegian.
  • YokoJ
    YokoJ Posts: 253
    Straight cracka here! White girl :)

    This made me LOL in the middle of target. Lol
  • qotu79
    qotu79 Posts: 13 Member
    I'm United States of American! I totally identify with the heritage and share the language..English and Spanish.
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    According to wikipedia, "An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other through a common heritage, consisting of a common culture, including a shared language or dialect. The group's ethos or ideology may also stress common ancestry, religion, or race"
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    I'm a bore snore. Going to family reunions is hilarious as there is nothing but 100% Caucasians out of 70+ relatives!!!!!!

    I'm English, Irish, German, & Swedish. So white as can be.
  • miranda_mom
    miranda_mom Posts: 873 Member
    Don't know the percentages but I am German, Swiss, Scottish, Northern Irish, Norse (my Scottish ancestors were descended from Vikings who sailed over to Scotland), French, and Northern African. (In college, I met a professor from another school who had actually done research on my family and he knew about this connection - Moors from Nothern Africa had traveled up to Germany and mixed in - it was fascinating to talk to him).

    My husband is Russian, Slovak, German, and Native American so my daughter has a huge mix going on!
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,320 Member
    European. I always thought we were English...till my oldest bro went on Ancestry.com. Come to find out, on my dad's side, we are FRENCH! Seems my great-great-great grandfather emigrated to Canada from France but changed his name to an English one to avoid persecution. So I am French and English, with a little Cherokee indian (my great-great grandmother).
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    I'm confused. Mutt = bi or multi-racial?

    Because Irish, Scottish, Italian etc = caucasian. So if you're a 'mix' of these, you're still caucasian.

    It's like saying you're half Ghanian and half Jamiacan (yes, I know lots of people who claimed this). You're still black.

    I'm not being *kitten*-y, just saying.

    Caucasian/white is a race. You asked for ethnicity, no?

    I am also a mutt (and take NO offense to the use of the word.

    Father is Cuban born but both of his parents came from Spain.
    Mother was born in NY but of Puerto Rican decent which included Taino, Italian, French, Irish, Spanish and African.
    I was born in Puerto Rico but raised in New York.
    I am most definitely a MUTT!

    I guess I meant race. But race is supposed to be 'un-pc', so I said ethnicity.

    Where I'm from, when you mention ethnic groups, it's generally means race. On forms, it asks for ethnicity. It doesn't give countries - it gives race like (paraphrase, I can't remember what exactly the options are);

    Asian []
    Caucasian []
    Black/African Caribbean []
    Black/African []
    Mixed []

    I guess I'm interested in the countries people are from too, but I just don't understand the million and one countries or proclaimations of being a 'mutt'. I was more so asking what race you are and what country your parents are from, but it's my fault for not being clear enough.
  • scapez
    scapez Posts: 2,018 Member
    Irish, Italian, little bit of German, little bit of English.

    I'm glad I got the Italian skin...I tan nicely!
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    I'm confused. Mutt = bi or multi-racial?

    Because Irish, Scottish, Italian etc = caucasian. So if you're a 'mix' of these, you're still caucasian.

    It's like saying you're half Ghanian and half Jamiacan (yes, I know lots of people who claimed this). You're still black.

    I'm not being *kitten*-y, just saying.

    Ok, I'm caucasion. I consider myself a "mutt" because the borders in eastern and western Europe changed often when my grandparents were there and getting ready to leave. For example: My maternal grandfather was technically born in Austria. The border put their town or village in Austria at the time. A couple years later, it was back in Czechoslovakia. I also consider myself a mutt because I'm not all German, or all of any one nationality.

    Oh, right...
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Confirmed... Anglican and Scottish, likely part Irish, rumored to be part French, and possibly (but unconfirmed) Blackfoot Indian. Just your typical all-around Caucasian American mix.
  • darrcn5
    darrcn5 Posts: 495 Member
    White/American. I know I have quite a few German ancestors, some from England, and a smidge of Native American in me.
  • christiangandy
    christiangandy Posts: 48 Member
    italian/irish/english - white
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    I'm homo sapien.

    We'll let god sort out the rest of the details. :laugh:
  • dfborders
    dfborders Posts: 474 Member
    :bigsmile: I'm a mongrel mutt married to a 100% polish Hubby :laugh: :smooched:
  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    Italian American with a few hidden surprises if you shake the family tree hard enough.
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  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    According to wikipedia, "An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other through a common heritage, consisting of a common culture, including a shared language or dialect. The group's ethos or ideology may also stress common ancestry, religion, or race"

    I know. I looked it up.

    I was talking in terms of racial background, but again, I didn't make it clear enough.

    How many people on here really identify with every facet of their 'ethnic group', though?
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    I traced my ex husband's ancestry all the way back to an indentured servant in Virginia, from then back to Yorkshire, England. I thought it would be nice for my son to know where he comes from. Yeah so its far far back...but his last name is kinda unique.

    I love geneaology! But I find that British ancestry seems to be the easiest to trace. I have yet to confirm my Irish roots and fuh-get about tracing American Indian heritage!!
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    If we go back far enough we are all African. :)
  • mayerel
    mayerel Posts: 254 Member
    I'm a little white girl...but as for ethnicity, I generally identify as being Jewish because that's the group I'm most closely aligned and affiliated with. In terms of ancestry, I'm Eastern European/Russian (as someone pointed out earlier, boarders changed a LOT) on my dad's side and French on my mother's side.
  • MissLuana
    MissLuana Posts: 356
    50% African American - dad's side
    25% Spanish - mom's side
    25% Apache Indian - mom's side

    Minority to the 3rd power :drinker:
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
    I traced my ex husband's ancestry all the way back to an indentured servant in Virginia, from then back to Yorkshire, England. I thought it would be nice for my son to know where he comes from. Yeah so its far far back...but his last name is kinda unique.

    I love geneaology! But I find that British ancestry seems to be the easiest to trace. I have yet to confirm my Irish roots and fuh-get about tracing American Indian heritage!!

    Yeah I found it pretty easy. I thought it would be horrendously expensive and it wasn't. I found his ancestors sell receipt or whatever...she hadn't completed her servitude and was passed over to another "owner". Her name was Joanna.
  • SurfinBird1981
    SurfinBird1981 Posts: 517 Member
    White British.
  • bsix3
    bsix3 Posts: 291
    Black American, descendant of African Slaves (plus a litte European and American Indian sprinkled in).

    I'd love to have DNA testing and really see where my people are from. Its on my list :)

    ^^^ what she said!
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    Cuban and Jamaican

    Well, hello there. We share a side.
  • mznisaelaine
    mznisaelaine Posts: 2,262 Member
    African American with a little bit of other stuff
  • PsiChi
    PsiChi Posts: 157
    I am 2nd Generation American with family coming from Germania...

    My Dad is north Austrian and my mom is southern German. I have traced back my heritage all the way to the 1200's and I am white all the way through...Kinda wondering why I am not transparent haha
  • ummlovelovesyou
    ummlovelovesyou Posts: 1,024 Member
    Blaxican.

    (Mexican and Black)
  • lelstar
    lelstar Posts: 374 Member
    I'm 7th generation Australian but heritage wise I'm English Irish Scottish Welsh and German :-), most of that is Irish but German is both side so probably comes in second.

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