What's your heritage?

[Phantasmatron]

50% Danish, 25% English, and then a whole bunch of European mutt-ness.

[lonestar]

American...

Prior to that English, French, German, Irish, Cherokee. A mutt.

I bet you even have a cold nose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-ru03J2OQ

[chknptpie]

American...

Prior to that English, French, German, Irish, Cherokee. A mutt.

I bet you even have a cold nose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-ru03J2OQ

  My nose is always the first to get cold!

[PowerSlave]

On my father's side english, french, american indian and irish.

On my mother's side welsh, scottish, jewish, dutch, irish.

All american mutt much like others have mentioned before.

[wkiml]

German and Irish  so I'm a stubborn Drunk

[black_biff_stadler]

American...

Prior to that English, French, German, Irish, Cherokee. A mutt.

Change the Cherokee to Choctaw and we're identical. o/

[PuffyPat]

All Irish, bitch.

[fadetoblackdude7]

50% German
25% Swedish
25% Polish


MOTHERFUCKA!!!!

[yorost]

All Irish bitch.

Commas do wonders.

[Orbert]

[Sketchy]

On my mother's side, there's a lot of Welsh and English (from around Somerset... Well, Wells and Farrington Gurney), and on my father's side, there's some Scottish, Welsh (although he refuses to admit it) and ginger (he really refuses to admit this one). Also, judging by my surname, it's very likely that the paternal line arrived in the norman invasion of 1066 (surname refers to someone way back having been an arming squire, and no, it's not Squire).

I could probably do a pretty detailed breakdown of my family history over the last 100/120 years, but that would be pretty long and unnecessary.

[PuffyPat]

All Irish bitch.

Commas do wonders.

I knew it looked weird when I was typing it...

[Omega]

Mostly Spanish, but there are flairs of Italian, French, Mexican, and Polish.

[SystematicThought]

German, Romanian, there is Native American on my Mom's side in the deep channels of our family history. Fun Fact: My great-great grandfather was the first white baby born here in St. Paul, MN.

Also, just a drop of Irish in our blood which I am thankful for

[Super Dude]

I have my family tree somewhere going back to the 1600s on my Dads side were all British. I know my Mum's great great granddad was British so I assume 100% British

That's pretty damn impressive, not gonna lie.

[Ħ]

Irish and German, pretty much exclusively.  And I might have a touch of African American, whether or not some funny business went down with my ancestors from the 1800s.

[Fluffy Lothario]

I did a lot of research a few years back and as far back as I could go I'm 100% Lithuanian, fairly boring.

I was once drinking in a bar in Frankfurt (was there alone) and these two guys invited me to play pool. They asked me where I was from. At the mention of New Zealand, there was about five minutes of discussion. I asked where they were from. They were from Lithuania.

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so Eastern Europe, huh?"

It was pretty embarrassing. I literally didn't know a single thing about Lithuania.

[Super Dude]

Better that than me, the only things I know about Lithuania involve the Holocaust.

[TempusVox]

1/4 Cherokee Indian...the rest Scottish.

[Ħ]

1/4 Cherokee Indian...the rest Scottish.

Added to my TempusVox folder.

[JRundquist]

I have no idea on the percentages but I'm Irish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish.

[Cyclopssss]

Well, I'm 100% Dutch myself, but I'm sure my mother was at least part either Jewisch or Indonesian. (jet black hair, which I did not inherit, dammit!) I was raided by a Surinam guy from 7th to my 15th year, but that's about all the foreign influence I can boast about...

[Mr. Beale]

AFAIK 50% German, 25% Swedish, and a mix of Norwegian, English, Scottish.

[XJDenton]

100% inbred British.

[adameastment]

According to my late grandfather on my fathers side, his family comes from American Indians (probably the reason my surname is so rare in the UK). And according to my mother, her family come from Italy.

So, my ancestry comes from hot places. I don't get it though, I'm ginger and fair skinned. I know it was like the early 1800 my dads family came to the UK, wouldn't some still show in me? Or not?

[lonestar]

1/4 Cherokee Indian...the rest Scottish.

Added to my TempusVox folder.

[Accelerando]

Wouldn't it really just be African instead of African-American since we don't say Franco-Spanish or Briton-German when referring to other folks whom have contributed to our genetic makeup? I say this because what makes someone African-American is basically having African descent and residing in America. If you (in the general sense of "you", not specifically you) have actual American descent that would either be listed anachronistically as "Indian" or accurately as "Native American."

It's complex. African Americans don't embrace African culture just like someone who has full Irish heritage would embrace the Irish culture. I see Scottish-Americans wear kilts. I do not see African Americans wear kente cloths.

Also, to term ourselves "African" reinforces a sad implication: that our history is basically slave ships, plantations, and lynching. To say African American means overcoming the struggles of firehouses and sitting in the back of buses.

We've come a long way since then.

I am half black, but whilst people consider me black because of the color of my skin, I don't consider myself black. Nor do i consider myself white. I've embraced that I am bi-racial, or mixed, and that i shall always be.

[chknptpie]

Well, I'm 100% Dutch myself, but I'm sure my mother was at least part either Jewisch or Indonesian.

This confuses me.

[Progmetty]

Where do you guys get these percentages? DNA test?

[black_biff_stadler]

Wouldn't it really just be African instead of African-American since we don't say Franco-Spanish or Briton-German when referring to other folks whom have contributed to our genetic makeup? I say this because what makes someone African-American is basically having African descent and residing in America. If you (in the general sense of "you", not specifically you) have actual American descent that would either be listed anachronistically as "Indian" or accurately as "Native American."

It's complex. African Americans don't embrace African culture just like someone who has full Irish heritage would embrace the Irish culture. I see Scottish-Americans wear kilts. I do not see African Americans wear kente cloths.

Also, to term ourselves "African" reinforces a sad implication: that our history is basically slave ships, plantations, and lynching. To say African American means overcoming the struggles of firehouses and sitting in the back of buses.

We've come a long way since then.

I am half black, but whilst people consider me black because of the color of my skin, I don't consider myself black. Nor do i consider myself white. I've embraced that I am bi-racial, or mixed, and that i shall always be.

I get all of that and definitely understand why you would have those views on it. I just was speaking of the genetic accuracy of it rather than the cultural/historical perspective but obviously it's your own choice of how to represent yourself so I promise I wasn't trying to be some kind of overbearing prick.

[yorost]

Where do you guys get these percentages? DNA test?

Recorded ancestry.

[Accelerando]

Wouldn't it really just be African instead of African-American since we don't say Franco-Spanish or Briton-German when referring to other folks whom have contributed to our genetic makeup? I say this because what makes someone African-American is basically having African descent and residing in America. If you (in the general sense of "you", not specifically you) have actual American descent that would either be listed anachronistically as "Indian" or accurately as "Native American."

It's complex. African Americans don't embrace African culture just like someone who has full Irish heritage would embrace the Irish culture. I see Scottish-Americans wear kilts. I do not see African Americans wear kente cloths.

Also, to term ourselves "African" reinforces a sad implication: that our history is basically slave ships, plantations, and lynching. To say African American means overcoming the struggles of firehouses and sitting in the back of buses.

We've come a long way since then.

I am half black, but whilst people consider me black because of the color of my skin, I don't consider myself black. Nor do i consider myself white. I've embraced that I am bi-racial, or mixed, and that i shall always be.

I get all of that and definitely understand why you would have those views on it. I just was speaking of the genetic accuracy of it rather than the cultural/historical perspective but obviously it's your own choice of how to represent yourself so I promise I wasn't trying to be some kind of overbearing prick.

I didn't think you were at all.... I was just discussing because you asked a question....

[Cyclopssss]

Well, I'm 100% Dutch myself, but I'm sure my mother was at least part either Jewisch or Indonesian.

This confuses me.

You're right, that would mean I wouldn't be 100%...anything. But given the fact that she died in 1968 and there's not much known about her background, I can't be sure.

[Jamesman42]

At least 32% or something Irish, maybe more. My grandma is 100% Irish. One year I woke up on St. Patty's Day and without knowing it, I had a huge craving for potatoes. Love potatoes and booze. Wooooo
I have some Dutch, possibly some Italian.
I have a quarter of Indian in me, dunno what tribe though.
IDK the rest.

[erik16]

My god you people are so international 

I am 87,5 % Estonian and 12,5 % Russian. The Russian blood comes through my mom, her grandfather from her father's side was Russian. My mom's maiden name was Voogre, an Estonianised version of Volkov ( there was a name changning propaganda during the 1930s, her grandparents had their family name changed). My dad's line is Estonian through and through AFAIK. I think a small touch of Russian character is good, makes me somewhat more open and talkative.