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  • Stinaa91
    Stinaa91 Posts: 199 Member
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    75 % Italian 25 % polish :]
    even though by my skin tone you cannot tell im italian at all. -_-
  • BigCed77024
    BigCed77024 Posts: 1,115 Member
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    My mom is black/American Indian with a lil caucasian thrown in..My dad was black and creole.
  • Phoenix59
    Phoenix59 Posts: 364 Member
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    American-made in the great state of Texas with Mexican parts.:bigsmile:
  • Dwash16
    Dwash16 Posts: 12
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    Black && White ^.^
  • Nailrep
    Nailrep Posts: 966 Member
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    1/2 Italian. 1/2 mutt (German/Irish)
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
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    25%senica
    75% irish
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
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    Has this descended into chaos yet?

    :laugh: :laugh: not yet...
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
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    A simple definition for a mutt: Mixed backgrounds, ex: Mom is Canadian, dad is American.

    You're not a purebreed ex: All Canadian.


    No need for it to be taken offensively.

    I find mutt derogatory. I have explained why. If you don't, that's your business.

    Canadian and American is mixed now? Say wut?

    I didn't say mixed, I said mutt. Meaning two different backgrounds. Just because it's all white or all black, doesn't negate what I said.

    mutt/mət/
    Noun:

    1. A dog, esp. a mongrel.
    2. derogatory. A person regarded as stupid or incompetent.

    ETA;

    And from Urban Dictionary, for good measure;

    ". mutt 258 up, 126 down

    term used to identify someone as multiracial; pretty derogatory word for a multiracial person, at least in the eyes of someone who is multiracial him/herself (because of the word's use in labeling a dog as inferior as a result of impure breeding)
    i think it is obnoxious of you to call me a mutt; i'm not inferior to you because my parents are two different races."

    "3. mutt 35 up, 28 down

    A mutt is a person of a multi-racial background, depending on who you are talking to it can be considered offensive and/or derogatory. In a lot of cases people don't take offense to it(I personally call myself a mutt all the time) Just be careful who you call a mutt, some people won't take it very well."

    oh boy....


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  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
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    And to the OP, sorry if the term Mutt offended you, I believe most people mean no disrespect when they do use it. The world has become such a melting pot of ethnicities that the lines are pretty blurred when it comes to many of us.
    All in all it makes us a bunch of fascinating people :flowerforyou:

    It's okay. We're all different, I guess. I just don't appreciate people trying to convince me why it's not offensive, even when I have both asserted it more than once and explained why ..

    :flowerforyou:
  • jfan175
    jfan175 Posts: 812 Member
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    Libertarian.
  • miranda_mom
    miranda_mom Posts: 873 Member
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    Libertarian.

    :heart:
  • weighlossforbaby
    weighlossforbaby Posts: 847 Member
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    My ancestry is:

    My mom's side-German and British
    My biological father's side-Indian and Irish
  • jporte
    jporte Posts: 164 Member
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    100% Russian or Ukrainian....whatever it's called now.
  • couponfun
    couponfun Posts: 714 Member
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    I'm Puerto Rican...my great-grandmother was French, however, and my great-grandfather was from Spain. On my dad's side they were on the island a bit longer, but Spanish and some Moor blood on that side. His family were long-standing members of the "Casino Espanol/Casa de Espana" in San Juan and my aunt had her wedding and her Quinceanera there. :smile:
  • tumblyweed
    tumblyweed Posts: 416 Member
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    I'm a mutt and I'm happy.

    No one has the right to tell someone what they can identify themselves as. If you do't like it, too bad, no one is calling you anything.

    It's only a word.

    Mutt Power!!! <---- see, I can be ridiculous, too :laugh:
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
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    I'm a mutt and I'm happy.

    No one has the right to tell someone what they can identify themselves as. If you do't like it, too bad, no one is calling you anything.

    It's only a word.

    Mutt Power!!! <---- see, I can be ridiculous, too :laugh:

    I did not tell anyone what to indentify as. I explained why I find it offensive.

    If you wanna refer to yourself as a 'mutt', your business. I couldn't give a crap. Just don't argue with me when I say I find it offensive.
  • dougt333
    dougt333 Posts: 697
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    Tsalagi and Irish. I think there's some Swedish in there somewhere too.
  • GambinoGirl
    GambinoGirl Posts: 139 Member
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    Mexican/Native American
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
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    I'm white. My ancestors were German, Irish and Dutch so I've been told.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
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    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.

    Went back to read all the posts and got this far so I'll repost my answer. I'm a white American. :smile:

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