What is your heritage?

[AMindBesideItself]

3/8 German, 1/8 Danish, 1/4 Italian, 1/4 Polish

[Adami]

I never really got why people care so much, especially since most people know next to nothing about the countries they list.


I'm Israeli, the rest doesn't matter much to me.

[XJDenton]

British since at least 1800.

[Chino]

My grandmother's family, the Sandersons, we're apparently the 4th or 5th boat after the Mayflower. After that was nothing but a couple hundred years of whoring. I was eventually born with more nationalities in my blood than I care to know about. I just tell people I'm HomoSapien.

[MetalMike06]

Armenian

I think there was another thread on this ages ago.

[El Barto]

Scotch and Irish, for whatever that's worth.  Might explain my fondness for whiskey, though.  Only ancestor of note was an uncle who helped shoot Bonnie and Clyde a few hundred times.

[Chino]

I absolutely loooathe when people say I'm 100% something or other. Bitch, please. If you go back 10 generations you have 1024 grandparents. I highly doubt you are 100% anything. Odds are a rape or accidental pregnancy with a foreigner happened at some point. It may not be the case for all countries. I imagine their are pure Chinese or Monk people somewhere... But here in 'merica, the only thing you are 100% of is uncertainty.

[Perpetual Change]

Mainly Irish, English, German, also heavy mounts of Polish and Czech and who knows what else.

[Super Dude]

Pretty sure we've had a couple threads like this already, but I'm 50% Polish, 50% Russian, 100% Semitic Stallion.

[Orbert]

I absolutely loooathe when people say I'm 100% something or other. Bitch, please. If you go back 10 generations you have 1024 grandparents. I highly doubt you are 100% anything. Odds are a rape or accidental pregnancy with a foreigner happened at some point. It may not be the case for all countries. I imagine their are pure Chinese or Monk people somewhere... But here in 'merica, the only thing you are 100% of is uncertainty.

I'm 100% Chinese, and 100% sure of it.  All four of my grandparents came from small villages in mainland China, and there's no reason to believe that their grandparents and ther grandparents' grandparents didn't as well, because the only commuting or travel anyone did back then was on foot, and everywhere they could possibly go was still in the middle of China.

[theseoafs]

Well, I'm a bit Mexican, Irish, Dutch, and Native American.  I look very white, though.

But that list is rather misleading, because I don't consider myself to be a part of any of these "heritages".  If the question is "what is your heritage?", I have to say that I'm a mutt - honestly, I'm just American.

[lonestar]

My mother's family is from Spain, but have been in America since the early 1800s. My father's family came over to Nova Scotia from Ireland during the potato famine. During prohibition, they were the top bootleggers into NY city.

Both gene pools are heavily diluted with English, French, Cherokee, and awesome.

[senecadawg2]

I never really got why people care so much, especially since most people know next to nothing about the countries they list.

This. Despite my ancestry, I have been born and raised in the U.S. Therefore, I am American.

[YtseCullen]

Dad was born in Scotland. On my mom's side she's got mostly Irish with Metis. Apparently even some african american in their as well.

[DebraKadabra]

<--- is a mutt

German
Hungarian
Scotch-Irish
English
American Indian

[SystematicThought]

I believe mainly German. Although, Native American, Romanian, and a drop of Irish flow through my veins.

[TioJorge]

I don't know specifics and at this point in my life I don't feel the need to know any more than I do. Mexican from my father's side, and is the side I identify with most and take pride in. When I say Mexican, I mean fucking dirty-stanky-ass Mexican. My mother's side I believe is...Oh I almost forgot I'd chop that woman's body into tiny little pieces if I knew I could get away with it so I don't give a fuck. But just because I love this place so very much I shall say: Coonasses. All of them. I do indeed love cajun food, so...fuckin' wrangler.

[Kosmo]

My family's roots are mainly in Finland, Sweden and Norway but apparently there's some Scottish and Irish in the mix as well.

[Sigz]

French, german, and british primarily. But from what I've seen most of my ancestors have been in America/Canada for the last 200-400 years (I believe the earliest on my dad's side came to Canada in the early-mid 1600s), so it's pretty irrelevant.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

As far as i know i'm a 100% swedish dude.....except for the tiny little string of danish that i refuse to accept! 

[Nel]

My mom's side - Norwegian. They moved to the U.S. in the late 1800s from a middle-of-nowhere village covered in snow. Sadly, I don't know much about that side of my family.

My dad's side - Irish and Scottish. I'm not sure why they came here. I know my direct ancestor's brother (who looks exactly like my uncle, with a handlebar mustache) managed to piss off the King of Prussia at some point, and we even have the letter in a book somewhere where the king basically said "If you come back here, we'll execute you" and that's why he decided to get the fuck away from that part of the world. I think my ancestor just went along because it was a good excuse to move to the U.S. Funnily enough, one of my great (maybe add another "great" in there, I don't know) grandfather's brothers was an amateur boxer in the 1910s and 1920s, and he looks exactly like my dad... with a handlebar mustache. When I first saw that photo of him, I laughed so hard.

It's not so much just labeling where we came from that I find fascinating, it's who my ancestors were, and what they did individually. Things like receiving death threats from the King of Prussia just seem like gems in my family history that have been lost in time.  Luckily, both of my grandmothers had books full of old photographs and letters. It's all I really have to go on, but I cherish those scrapbooks.

[MykeHavoc]

Mostly Scottish.

[Sketchy]

Mother's side: Welsh and some more welsh with a bit of somerset thrown in. My father's side: scottish (although he keeps that quiet), midlands and south eastern england, but my surname comes from someone way back having been an arming squire, so there's a pretty high chance there's some norman invasion in there somewhere. It is sometimes commented (due to my straight, blondish hair) that I look pretty viking at times, which isn't really surprising as a result of the Scottish and the Normans (seeing as Norman comes from North Man, as the normans originally invaded France from northern europe, although many of the ones in the invasion were probably mercenaries from all over europe).

Amusingly: In the town where my great grandmother (maternal grandmother's mother) was a milliner (she made hats), there was a man who had been engaged to the primary school teacher, but then got an icelandic girl pregnant and ran off with her. It turns out that this was the grandfather and grandmother of one of my aunts (she's married to my father's brother).

She's scary, she is.

[Perpetual Change]

I absolutely loooathe when people say I'm 100% something or other. Bitch, please. If you go back 10 generations you have 1024 grandparents. I highly doubt you are 100% anything. Odds are a rape or accidental pregnancy with a foreigner happened at some point. It may not be the case for all countries. I imagine their are pure Chinese or Monk people somewhere... But here in 'merica, the only thing you are 100% of is uncertainty.

I'm 100% Chinese, and 100% sure of it.  All four of my grandparents came from small villages in mainland China, and there's no reason to believe that their grandparents and ther grandparents' grandparents didn't as well, because the only commuting or travel anyone did back then was on foot, and everywhere they could possibly go was still in the middle of China.

You are now, but the word Zhonghua minzu didn't even exist until like a century ago, so there's a very real chance that generations ago your ancestors considered themselves something different, because they made some ethnic distinctions that aren't made anymore now.

I get what Chino is saying. But, practically speaking, there's no need to be so discerning. I guess we're all African at the end of the day! When people ask about one another's heritage, they're not asking for the complete story; just the last 100-200 years or so.

[Elite]

My mother is British, my father is Dutch, but his mother (my grandmother) and grandparents from that side were from Indonesia.

Therefore I'd say I'm 50% British, 25% Dutch and 25% Indonesian, though you can't really see anything about the latter in my appearance and I know next to nothing about Indonesia. However, if I'd look further back, there is no doubt there would be other ancestries as well at some point in my family's past.

[MetalJunkie]

Human.

[Tick]

Hungarian, Italian, Irish

a bad ass combination! BOOO YAH!

[Pols Voice]

Mostly German and English.

[Chino]

I absolutely loooathe when people say I'm 100% something or other. Bitch, please. If you go back 10 generations you have 1024 grandparents. I highly doubt you are 100% anything. Odds are a rape or accidental pregnancy with a foreigner happened at some point. It may not be the case for all countries. I imagine their are pure Chinese or Monk people somewhere... But here in 'merica, the only thing you are 100% of is uncertainty.

I'm 100% Chinese, and 100% sure of it.  All four of my grandparents came from small villages in mainland China, and there's no reason to believe that their grandparents and ther grandparents' grandparents didn't as well, because the only commuting or travel anyone did back then was on foot, and everywhere they could possibly go was still in the middle of China.

You are now, but the word Zhonghua minzu didn't even exist until like a century ago, so there's a very real chance that generations ago your ancestors considered themselves something different, because they made some ethnic distinctions that aren't made anymore now.

I get what Chino is saying. But, practically speaking, there's no need to be so discerning. I guess we're all African at the end of the day! When people ask about one another's heritage, they're not asking for the complete story; just the last 100-200 years or so.

I guess I just have my buttons pushed a little more than other people because of where I live. We have indescribable amounts of Albanian and Italian pride in my town. It makes me sick. When Italy wins a fucking soccer game and people come marching through my store with Italian flags waving while chanting "IT-A-LY! IT-A-LY! etc". Shut up assholes. You live in America. Cheer for Italy if you wish, but don't act like your better because a country that you've never been to can kick a ball better than another country you've never been to. The same goes for all the Puerto Ricans in the neighboring city who drive around with their flag draped over their hood or painted on the side of your car. If your homeland is so fucking great, go back home and stop bringing down the property values around my town. Thanks.

[Phoenix87x]

Mostly German and Italian, but also a little bit Ukrainian and Irish as well.

[jonny108]

100% British dating back to the 17th century.

[King Postwhore]

Lebanese
Irish
French

So I'm mostly a terrorist.

[Orbert]

I absolutely loooathe when people say I'm 100% something or other. Bitch, please. If you go back 10 generations you have 1024 grandparents. I highly doubt you are 100% anything. Odds are a rape or accidental pregnancy with a foreigner happened at some point. It may not be the case for all countries. I imagine their are pure Chinese or Monk people somewhere... But here in 'merica, the only thing you are 100% of is uncertainty.

I'm 100% Chinese, and 100% sure of it.  All four of my grandparents came from small villages in mainland China, and there's no reason to believe that their grandparents and ther grandparents' grandparents didn't as well, because the only commuting or travel anyone did back then was on foot, and everywhere they could possibly go was still in the middle of China.

You are now, but the word Zhonghua minzu didn't even exist until like a century ago, so there's a very real chance that generations ago your ancestors considered themselves something different, because they made some ethnic distinctions that aren't made anymore now.

I get what Chino is saying. But, practically speaking, there's no need to be so discerning. I guess we're all African at the end of the day! When people ask about one another's heritage, they're not asking for the complete story; just the last 100-200 years or so.

I guess I just have my buttons pushed a little more than other people because of where I live. We have indescribable amounts of Albanian and Italian pride in my town. It makes me sick. When Italy wins a fucking soccer game and people come marching through my store with Italian flags waving while chanting "IT-A-LY! IT-A-LY! etc". Shut up assholes. You live in America. Cheer for Italy if you wish, but don't act like your better because a country that you've never been to can kick a ball better than another country you've never been to. The same goes for all the Puerto Ricans in the neighboring city who drive around with their flag draped over their hood or painted on the side of your car. If your homeland is so fucking great, go back home and stop bringing down the property values around my town. Thanks.

Some people take great pride in their heritage, others do not.  Also, for a lot of people it's natural to want to associate themselves with something.  When you're watching a game, and one of the teams is from your home town, or state, or your school or whatever, you feel a connection to them and somehow you want them to beat the other team (who is obviously full of losers that you don't care about).

I can see how it'd get on your nerves, but there's nothing wrong with celebrating something you have in common with other people.

[erik16]

Lebanese
Irish
French

So I'm mostly a terrorist.

Also a frog-eater and (in spare time) protester!

[Sketchy]

I find it more of an interesting look at how people have moved around over the centuries. Insignificant things like that really interest me.