It is just interesting to see how mixed/inbred we are Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I will start with mine Taiwanese, Hawaiian, Portuguese. People often think I am Hispanic and speak Spanish to me. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Edit to add: I am mostly Polynesian / Asian mix. Almost 50/50 with a Portuguese great grandfather. The funny thing is when I play soccer with Mexicans, they all think I am Mexican. They think I am a terrible human being because I don't speak Spanish like I suppose to. I hope to post pictures someday but I really don't have any pictures. I usually avoid my pictures from being taken.
Well! I am 1/8 American Indian (1/2 Cherokee, 1/2 Delaware), 1/8 Spanish (from Spain), and the rest... English, Welsh, Irish, French, German, etc.... I wasnt going to answer this thread (it being rationally motivated and allPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!) BUT! Its nice to know what the "other person" is and what he is feeling like. Cuz alot of our thoughts and motivations are a reflection on how we are raised. And our race DOES influence our decision making - no matter how much we say otherwise. Take carePlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i am Australian But my background (if you go far enough back) is mainly irish with the rest of Britan thrown in for good measure
5th generation Australian, all English (with no irish/scottish/welsh additives) Hitler woulda LOVED me Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
With my dad's side of the family, mostly English (Gloucestershire county, Oxfordshire county, and Denbighshire county), some Irish (Derry county), and 1/64 Cherokee. With my mom's side of the family, i'm not as familiar with it though i know that some is German and Austrian.
My mother is from France and my grandmother on my father's side is Norwegian. I am born in the Netherlands and now living in the states. Guess I am a mixture of three European countries as far as my near background goes....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
On my finnish side of the family I have a notorious ancestor known as Roju- Elli, she was a sami ( native scandinavian) chief woman.
I'm about 90 % latvian. only my mothers grandmother was Polish and my fathers grandmothers aunt was Jewish. So it's like 90% Latvian, 10% Polish and ok 0.01 % Jewish but I still think tht your nationality is in your heart and not in your documents . I'm pure LatvianPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I have to agree with DR EVYL. I feel no connection to any nationality other than American. Though my mother's side traces back to the Mayflower and my father's side runs the gambit of "Early American" they are just figures of the past. I never met them. I have the same problem here that I had with the racism arguements, especially the black/white issue. Those figures are the past and do not live today. They have made all the impact that they are going to make upon the present. Any further impact is made by the present and not the past. It is what WE make of it.
Interesting What an interesting topic. I mean it. No sarcasm. Japanese-Norwegian. There's a family scandal there but y'all don't get it yet since I don't. Nonetheless, I'm condemned to having no beard whatsoever. What my pictures (1, 2) don't show is that I can't grow a beard--a sad consequence of my lineage. I could wear a goatee or a Van Dyke. My best friend in life would love to see me in a Van Dyke. As an Asian I have a horrible Fu Manchu; my beard has historically been weakened by dead spots on the jaw right off the Fu Manchu. And a Norwegiean fisherman's beard grows out of my cheekbones in the form of ten Japanese hairs on each cheekbone that grow in like pubic hair or spiders' legs, take your pick. My father (white)_encouraged me to not wear a beard as a young man; "You'll have a Mister Miyagi (Karate Kid--Anyone? Anyone?) scrotum on your chin." The highest compliment I have been paid for my ethnicity is twofold°: (1) A fantasy novelist from the Seattle area--it would be undignified to drop names (Nordic heritage)--once (apparently, as is related to me by the most absolutely fucking reliable source I could possibly have--trust me on this, please) asked after my heritage, wondering if I was Romany Gypsy. I cannot tell you how much I learned in the few moments of that short conversation. (2) The other is the amazingly common occurrence of persons of various indigenous American descendancies who approach me and speak to me it some tongue I am utterly unfamiliar with. Thus far, I am recognized by three of the tribes among the Sioux nation, and also by several northwestern US tribes whose culture I am dreadfully ignorant of and can, therefore, tell you nothing about. It should be noted that, proportionately, each of these indigenous American encounters has occurred in a tavern, as also has the white man approaching me and asking me about Tokyo or speaking Japanese. I'm as American as you can get, for fuck's sake. I refuse to learn any non-English language beyond survival needs, and that poorly. I resent my Japanese heritage because I am ridiculously bound to honor and integrity. To the other, I resent my white heritage because I am intrinsically connected to the post-Lutheran, post-WASP method of the Seattlite. (It isn't as recognizable as the New Yorker, but I swear that it's stronger, since former New Yorkers somehow Seattize in a way that I can't explain. Their impatience becomes Seattlite instead of New Yorker, and that's as much as you're getting out of me on that. Nonetheless, I am without a heritage, without a history, and, as it seems, without a nation. So fuck you all. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! thanx much, Tiassa Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ° I have no fucking clue what this footnote was supposed to be. So fuck off.
I think it's the other way around, Tiassa. You have very much heritage and many nations to belong to. It was funny to read nonetheless. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I really laughed about the beard thing, what is a stoner without a beard??? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
