What is your heritage? - Page 3

Opteron_Man · 07-08-2009, 09:06 PM

British, Itallian, Scotish, French

Jaye Jang · 07-09-2009, 01:19 AM

American Melting Pot. My dad's relatives are Czech, Swedish, Danish, Scots and Crow Indian (we traced the family tree). My mom's side is full-blood Cherokee and Irish on the maternal side, and French Canadian and German on the paternal side. (Then there is the extended family. My family is all ex-military, like me, so one sister-in-law is Italian, one is Canadian (Edmonton), one aunt is German (Schwartzwald), one is a New Zealander (Christchurch) and one aunt is an Aleut Eskimo).

Goth Writer · 07-09-2009, 09:15 AM

Italian and English/Irish.

Hypnotica · 07-10-2009, 04:56 AM

Croatian, Russian, Serbian.

LadyMordred · 07-10-2009, 07:03 AM

I know I am mainly English, Scottish, Irish & Welsh. I have also found out I have Norwegian and quite possibly other Scandinavian. I also have German (at the time my family were there it was Prussia), Latvian and other eastern European and some Australian.
I've been told we have vikings, druids, pirates and gypsies in our family history.

Anarasha · 07-10-2009, 02:18 PM

I am danish, but with a bit of German. My great grandfather was part of the German army in World War 2, he was in Denmark as part of the force to keep us at bay. Weird, really. He wasn't a bad man I suppose, seeing as he fell in love with my Great Grandmother. He even made attempts to get permission to stay in Denmark and live here after the war, but he was denied.

Logger · 07-10-2009, 02:27 PM

Polish and German. Stubborn and more stubborn.

Lord Whiskerton · 07-23-2009, 09:23 AM

Mackerel Tabby Cat

Tumor · 07-23-2009, 11:47 AM

German. But I don't find heritage to be very important at all.

vindicatedxjin · 08-14-2009, 10:54 AM

Dad is Japanese and Korean...Mom is French,German,English,Chickasaw and Cherokee Indian. I'm a mutt.

Underwater Ophelia · 08-14-2009, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by vindicatedxjin

Dad is Japanese and Korean...Mom is French,German,English,Chickasaw and Cherokee Indian. I'm a mutt.

I thought you said you're half Japanese.
Do you even know how that works?

vindicatedxjin · 08-14-2009, 11:03 AM

It was like my 5th great gp that was Korean...but they always lived in Japan so I just count my father as Japanese.

DepthsofSpace · 08-14-2009, 11:16 AM

Father's Side (biological, don't remember him and evidence suggest he's dead.)
- French, first generation in the US
Mother's Side
- Her Father:
---- His Father: Dutch (family of outlaws. Woo-hoo)
---- His Mother: Polish
- Her Mother: German-Jew (second generation in the US)

And so, it can be said that my entire racial heritage was fucked over by Nazi Germany.

vindicatedxjin · 08-14-2009, 11:23 AM

^^thats pretty interesting.

DepthsofSpace · 08-14-2009, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by vindicatedxjin

^^thats pretty interesting.

What makes it better is that my mother's great-great grandparents (of Jewish linage) left Germany in the late 1920s. My father's father left France in 1937-39 (never could get the exact date) for the United States and went back in June 1944 as a soldier in the United States Army. He married a French girl and they moved back to the US after the war.

So, it's interesting to see how much that war altered my family's future and resulted in me being born.

vindicatedxjin · 08-14-2009, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DepthsofSpace

What makes it better is that my mother's great-great grandparents (of Jewish linage) left Germany in the late 1920s. My father's father left France in 1937-39 (never could get the exact date) for the United States and went back in June 1944 as a soldier in the United States Army. He married a French girl and they moved back to the US after the war.

So, it's interesting to see how much that war altered my family's future and resulted in me being born.

Wow I always think it's so amazing how one little line of events can totally change the world^_^

Todesengel · 08-17-2009, 05:53 AM

I'm English, Scottish, German and I'm not certain but maybe a little italian.

disorder · 08-22-2009, 10:03 PM

Unicornian.

Ophelia's Snorkel · 08-24-2009, 06:57 AM

My great grandfather was an animal skin filled with air and my great grandmother was a diving bell. However, we recently traced our ancestry back to 3000 BCE, identifying our line as beginning with a hollow reed belonging to a sponge farmer in Crete.

vindicatedxjin · 08-24-2009, 07:16 AM

So my grandma totally got some info in from her cousin in washington about her ancestry. And we found out that my great great grandma had remarried a German guy after my great great grandpa died. And he used to beat her alot...well my great great aunt was trying to defend her one day while her stupid step dad german was beating her mom up...AGAIN..and he got pissed off...grabbed a hammer and destroyed my great great aunts head until she died. He was supposed to be hanged but...somehow he got out of it and we found out he ended up dying in a hospital in tennessee. Dirty germans :P

Amani 愛 · 08-25-2009, 04:02 PM

I am mixed as hell so I’ll give you the races and ethnicities.

Black/African:
My ancestors came to the “new world” as slaves.
Some of my family came from Cape Verde and were mixed with Portuguese.

Polynesian:
Hawaiian

Native American:
Cherokee, Choctaw, and Taino.

Latino:
Puerto Rican

White:
Polish

I really could never pick one race to be .While being mixed can sometimes lead to you being ostracized I am rather grateful to be mixed and I think it has allowed me to see things from more than one cultural and social position. I was raised primarily as Black and Hawaiian. Everywhere I have ever lived has either been predominately Black or Asian/Polynesian and so I was exposed to those things the most. If I’m filling out a form and I can only pick one race I choose Black. I often have to adjust to living in within the different cultures of my various races and I think I’m better for it. It’s what has made me want to be a linguist and given me such a strong interest in anthropology.
I think that knowing your heritage and your culture is important and gives you something to lean on and draw strength from. Plus I really like that most people can never quite figure out what race I am. It gives me a bit of an edge.

SiouxsiePernova · 08-26-2009, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Logger

Polish and German. Stubborn and more stubborn.

Haha. That definitely sounds like me.

Stormtrooper of Death · 08-26-2009, 07:28 AM

Prussian (Or German if you like), Polish, Swedish, English.

Delkaetre · 08-26-2009, 07:45 AM

Mostly Irish. I think there's some Scottish a long way back, and I couldn't swear that my mother's side didn't have a bit of English a couple centuries past, but it's pretty much just Irish.

vae victus · 08-26-2009, 08:06 AM

my dad is completely Filipino, my mom's side of the family is welsh and scottish.