Who's what on PM?- Please vote.

[brendan1104]

I don't think this has been asked on phatmass before. What are our ethnic backgrounds? When Americans respond to the common question: "What are you," do they respond with "American." While I was born an American, I'm happy to say I'm a European mutt:

25% Sicilian.
25% German.
25% Czech.
25% U.K.- English, Irish, Scottish.

Please vote- and specify/describe your answer with a post. Thanks!

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='God Conquers' post='1024764' date='Jul 14 2006, 06:48 PM']
7/8ths Irish, 1/8th French

What qualifies as American?

4th Gen, 5th, 6th?
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[quote name='brendan1104' post='1024766' date='Jul 14 2006, 06:56 PM']
It's interesting- if an American is asked- in America- "what are you?" they normally don't say American, but rather Greek, Polish, Spanish, etc.
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[quote name='brendan1104' post='1024774' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:04 PM']
Nobody's picked Australian... where's Fr. Cappie? :
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[quote name='Cam42' post='1024782' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:10 PM']
100% Irish.

Father's family are from Co. Kerry

Mom's family were Dubliners
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[quote name='fiat voluntas tua' post='1024783' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:11 PM']
1/2 hungarian

3/8 german

1/8 irish
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[quote name='DAF' post='1024787' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:13 PM']
I'm pretty eclectic, though mostly Russian and Czech.
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[quote name='Church Punk' post='1024794' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:26 PM']
25%German
25%Irish
25%English
25%French
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[quote name='the_rev' post='1024801' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:35 PM']
Croation/Irish
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[quote name='Era Might' post='1024802' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:35 PM']
2nd generation American. Mother from America. Father from Honduras. Not sure where my white peeps descend from. Maybe Newfoundland or Denmark. My last name is a city in a Spain, so I figure some of my brown peeps must have went to Central America to colonize or something a long time, and mixed with the indigenous peeps there.
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[quote name='Seven77' post='1024810' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:46 PM']
Asian American

India! *Street Fighter 2 voice*
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[quote name='crazyc' post='1024815' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:55 PM']
Mom's family--Finnish and Croatian

Dad's family--French and a little Irish
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And me... I'm French, German, English and Swiss.

[Sojourner]

Mostly English
Some Scotch
Some Irish
Some Native American

[memory-singer]

Hi,

Mom is Vietnamese/French
Dad is Jewish/American

Dare is mixed.

(and mixed up too)

[dUSt]

50% German
25% Irish
12.5% Bohemian
12.5% Native American

My kids are:
43.75% African
25% German
12.5% Irish
12.5% Native American
6.25% Bohemian

My dog is:
100% Rodent

[zabbazooey]

1/8th cherokee indian
russian jew
danish
irish
scottish
english
italian
greek
german

and thats it....i'm a heinz 57

Edited July 15, 2006 by zabbazooey

[indescribable]

when do you start calculating in american blood? that always confused me. my friends would say they were 50% italian and 50% german and i would ask if their parents were immigrants from italy and germany, and they would get mad at me!

i personally have a true 1/8 of swedish, 1/8 of german (if you would water it down with time in the good ole US)

otherwise, my paternal family (traced back to a barbaric germanic tribe, also one of the first converts to christianity in germany, also sounds like "god" in german) has been dragged across most of europe. i have german, french, english, irish, italian, and probably some others mixed in. hard to tell.

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

Irish
German
I am told French and Dutch as well. Don't know of anything else. I am not really sure if my last name is the same as it was many years ago, making my geneaology a mystery.

[CrossCuT]

[size=1][color="FF6699"]90% German
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[jiyoung]

Completely Korean. My parents emigrated here the year I was born.

I don't think there's really "American blood" because nobody's actually native here (not even native americans, because they're technically immigrants too--walking over the bering strait or something from asia)

[Fixxxer]

50%mexican
50%american

[desertwoman]

African American

[avemaria40]

English (both sides but not sure how much)
Scottish(dad's side but not sure how much)
1/4 Tuscan Italian (Florentine to be exact, dad's side)
1/8 Austrian Jew (if you're talking about Jewish as ethnicity, also my dad's side)
Spanish(probably a small amount and also on my dad's side)
German (both sides but not exactly sure on percentage)

And I am an American, so I consider myself European American.

Edited July 15, 2006 by avemaria40

[geetarplayer]

1/4 French
1/4 German
3/8 Irish
1/8 English

[journeyman]

11th to 13th generation born within the continental boundaries of North America (depends on which family tree I'm climbing)

predominantly English, with a smattering of Irish, German and Scot

[Lilllabettt]

My father's family came to this country from Romania, in 1953.
My mother's family has been in this country forever. They're plain old Americans I guess.

I think the reason people respond with "I'm German/English/Irish" or whatever, is that when an American is asking another American the question "what are you?" they assume they're asking about ethnicity, as opposed to nationality.

Everyone sort of assumes everyone else is an American.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Rough estimation

25% Black Irish (Irish descended from the Moors)
25% Scotch-Irish (Northern Irish)
25% German
12.5% Polish Jew
12.5% Polish (Straight)

It's a rough estimation because there is a Native American tribe somewhere in the mix.

God willing, my kids will be:

Black Irish, Scotch-Irish, German, Polish Jew, Polish, Portuguese, Cherokee, and Creek

Edited July 16, 2006 by Raphael

[Socrates]

German, Norwegian, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, Irish, English, Cherokee, probably other ethnicities as well.

I don't generally like the idea of "hyphenated-Americans" though.

[quote name='Sojourner' post='1024842' date='Jul 14 2006, 07:43 PM']
Mostly English
Some Scotch
Some Irish
Some Native American
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So you've got some Scotch in you, do you?

It's been a long time since I've had any Scotch in me, as I mostly drink beer.

The only things that are Scotch are whiskey and tape. People are Scottish (except in the prefix of "Scotch-Irish")

Scotch-Irish - Ulster Scots who migrated to Ireland, and many of whom colonized the American rural South and became known as rednecks or hillbillies. (I'm proud of my Arkansas hillbilly ancestry. )

[Maria]

25% Dutch
37.5% Scottish
25% French Canadian
12.5% Irish

Some of the Dutch came from France as Huguenots, and some of the Scottish came from Ireland. There might be some German mixed up with the French Canadian, before it was Canadian.

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

I went to an Irish-American festival today. It was dope.