Whats your ethnicity?

[maveric]

I'm Sicilian/Irish.

on edit: Hey I'm sicilian! Whatsa you problem!

fixed

[SmileyBoy]

1. Half Turkish and half Finnish.

I practice my father's religion, Islam.

[sasquatch]

6. Do you eat pork?

or wear a turbin? Do you smoke a water pipe? if so can I have a hit:evilgrin:

[SmileyBoy]

9. Uh, no I don't wear a turban. And I occasionally eat pork.

The "pork rule" is no longer ab obligation in Islam.

[sasquatch]

16. What about the waterpipe man?

:smoke: me and my brother can meet you up somewhere and smoke it up and cheer on the Vikings sometime. Tobacco only of course:evilgrin:

[SmileyBoy]

24. I think he's FAR, FAR away...

You gotta call him long-distance to get his ass over to the Vikings game tomorrow.:-)

[sasquatch]

38. North Dakota is pretty far away

So I think I'll pass

[SmileyBoy]

25. I think he's FAR, FAR away...

You gotta call him long-distance to get his ass over to the Vikings game tomorrow.:-)

[Kamika]

23. why not?

I thought the mid east muslims didnt eat pork

[SmileyBoy]

28. Progressive western Muslims don't really care.

I don't have any fundamentalist attributes, and I want to keep it that way. The extent of my practice is trying to follow the Five Pillars. And I don't have to follow two of them (Haj, Zakat) until I graduate from college.

[sasquatch]

39. What's Haj and Zakat?

enlighten me please:)

[SmileyBoy]

41. Haj is the pilgimage to Mecca, and Zakat is donation to the poor and needy

A minimum of 2.5 percent (one-fourtieth) of all the money you have.

[patdem]

2. try changing 'Whats you...to Whats your'...being ignorant is not

a pastime on DU

[maveric]

12. A mistake my friend. So SMILE!!

Sorry if I'm too ignorant for DU.

[patdem]

18. OOPS...forgot my smilie!!!

:) :o :* :7 :toast: :smoke: :hi: :pals: sorry :cry:

[maveric]

27. No problem my friend.

:pals:

[HEyHEY]

3. Are you in the Moffia?

Just kiddin

I'm 1/2 Irish 1/4 scottish then british and dutch..

[maveric]

29. Actually both side of my family have a history with the Boston...

mobs. Not any more. All the bad guys are dead.

[muriel_volestrangler]

73. The Scottish are British too! (n/t)

[sasquatch]

4. German

:beer: Got any Braunshwieger to go with the Spaten.

[DemExpat]

5. !/2 Scots/Irish.....1/2 mutt American....

:kick:

DemEx

[xJlM]

52. Mutt?

I'm about 3/4 Scots/Irish, with the other quarter a mixture of German, Dutch, and Shawnee, but my last name is French..?

[DemExpat]

72. mutt (as in non-purebreed) comes from Mom.....

German, French, English........

:hi:
DemEx

[Padraig18]

7. As Irish as Paddy's pig!

I still have some peat around somewhere, I think... :silly:

[qwertyMike]

89. oink

thought i was the only onw

[JohnKleeb]

90. Mike plenty of Irish DUers

lol wanna join what I call the "Irish Brigade" its just some Irish DUers. I am like Delavera as you may or may not of saw, I am only part Irish but I really love my Irish blood. I like my other things too, lol they dont have avatars.

[Kat45]

8. Italian/Sicilian - half each.

[Character Assassin]

10. Scots/Swiss/Norwegian/American Indian

1/2 of me is as tight with a buck as you'll find, the other 1/2 doesn't drink.

[SiobhanClancy]

11. Guess!

:)

[LuLu550]

22. as if we couldn't tell

by the name!

[Padraig18]

46. God love ya, lass!

:)

[2cents]

13. Polish/Irish

But I don't drink much and only bang my head occasionally.

[Kamika]

14. korean

yey me

[Deja Q]

15. I am human with the following ancestry of nationalities:

Scottish
British
Danish
Norweigan
French

On the days when I suffer from dementia with delusions of grandeur, I also like to think I'm a Time Lord. But nobody's perfect... :evilgrin: (You do realize that this paragraph is a joke, I hope!!!!!)

[maveric]

36. My kids are a "mixture". Heinz 57.

Sicilian
Irish
Mexican
Dutch
Danish
German

[SingSong]

17. I'm an American, and by that I mean

I have genes taken from peoples of various ethnicities from all over the planet. It's fun to remember your family roots and gain a sense of pride/respect for what they went through, but their lives were nothing like mine. I speak and read English, but live with a hispanic woman who speaks English and Spanish. I drive a foreign car and live in a house made with materials likely imported from halfway around the world. All of my clothes seem to be made in Malaysia or China. Even the vegetables I eat are mostly imported from Mexico.
I am an American by birth and choice. That means I have many differing viewpoints to consider and many choices to make that other nationalities don't have to.

[MaineDem]

19. Irish ancestry also

My 4 grandparents were "right off the boat".

[LuLu550]

20. Scilian???

not Italian?????? I'm 100% Italian by ancestry...but breaking it down by region, I'm Roman, Sardinian, Neopolitan and Moulisi...
I love ethnic festivals of all kinds. They make me see that while our customs may differ, the people of every country on earth have the same love of life, family, joy and celebration! :bounce:

[sistersofmercy]

21. English/Irish

Most ppl think I'm only Irish b/c of my hair and complexion. Also, some ppl these days are saying American English instead just English, I suppose it makes sense.

[Nikia]

26. American

My ancestors have lived here for a minimum of six generations. Wouldn't that make me an ethnic national in most countries? Let's see, I am in no particuliar order: English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, German (Jewish and getile), Swiss, Austrian, Native American, Russian, Swedish, and probably some others that I am forgetting.

[fishnfla]

30. Bohemian

for real. My family tree goes back to the Chods of ancient Bohemia.

Although all a Bohunk is, is a Polack with $5 in his pocket

[never cry wolf]

31. murican

but i had ancestors from sweeden, norway, holland and germany.

[Kellanved]

32. Polish/Dutch

With German citizenship. And some more if you go back a few generations more.

[trof]

33. white trash

Your standard southern Scots-Irish-English.
Maybe a little French and German waaaaay back there.

[kayleybeth]

34. I'm a hybrid

Scotch, Irish, German, and Native American

[patdem]

35. Let's see...grandfather named Napoleon Bonaparte ************

his son Napoleon Jr---we called him uncle Bonney....so maybe French? My mother DEFINITELY Irish...ghost stories to prove it!!! Very Catholic...except my granmother was of the Walton family...and very Baptist from the hills of Virginia. It was a 'happy' family life!

[Cheswick2.0]

37. German, English, Scottish, little Irish and even less Native american

German and English mostly.

[scarlet_owl]

40. Mexican, Irish, French on my mother's side

German and English on my father's.

[kathee]

42. English_Irish_Choctaw

Born blonde, freckled, and brown eyed.

I personally love the darker variety skins..I guess opposites attract. My DH is German and Norwegian. Mmm, nice and dark, he is...

[Piperay]

43. Half Norwegian the other half

is Irish, English and Native American. The half Norwegian is the least dominate, I have the coloring of a Native American and an Irish temperment. :shrug:

[populistmom]

44. Swedish, English and a touch of German. nt

[mitchum]

45. Half of my ancestors introduced the other half to lung cancer...

Native American and French

[frylock]

47. 1/2 white + 1/2 bread

[StaggerLee]

48. Mom is Mexican +(Mexican, Irish and Cherokee on dad's side)

= Staggerlee

[renegade000]

49. half chinese/ half caucasian

caucasian in my case being a mix of scottish, english, dutch

[fortyfeetunder]

50. I'm a Mongrel

The package says African descent, but digging a little deeper, there is English, Irish and Native American. Lord knows I don't want to find out what else I've got in the gene pool.

[MrsMatt]

51. 1/2 Swedish and 1/2 German-Austrian

but am the only one with brown hair and eyes (everyone else is blonde hair and blue-eyed). I took my husband's name (French-Canadian) when we married and now people think I look like I'm of French ancestry!

[JohnKleeb]

53. interesting me

I am
Irish/German/Slovak/Slovene/
I crossed off Russian because I am positive I am not.
FYI Slovakia is next to Czech Republic and Slovenia is near Croatia and Serbia in the balkans, it is one IIRC the only former Yugoslav republic not to get involved in what happened in the early 90's war and stuff.

[devilgrrl]

54. Italian/English

n/t

[MaryBear]

55. Euro-mixture

Except for Germans, family has been on this continent since before the revolution and in California since 1800's. Gringo lineage. 1/2 German and English American. 1/2 Scottish and Irish American with maybe some Welsh and French.

I'm a white, middle aged, middle class do-gooder.

[rppper]

56. .5 irish and .5 scottish...blond haired, green eyes, red beard...

my mothers side can trace her roots in america back to the jamestown colonies, where they were indentured servants for some years, and into the highlands prior to that...the original name being brookshaw, which was changed to brookshire after the birth of their first son. if you live in east texas, you probably recognize that name, as they own a line of grocery stores all over the area there. they have always, since their first years here in the mid 1600's, been grociers.

dads family came from ireland in the late 1800's, dropped the "o" prefix from their name, and settled in the dakotas and california.
my last name in gaelic means "of the vally of lin"

i have been to scotland during my stint in the navy, and i am planning a trip to ireland next year if the money is there.

[Jack Rabbit]

57. If it's North of the Alps and West of the Rhine, I've got a piece of it

English
Scottish
Irish
Welsh
French Jew
German (through that Pennsylvania Dutch)
Dutch
Belgian
Danish

Or so I've been told.

Much of the family was in North American by the early eighteenth century. I am descended of the Boones of Kentucky.

[laconicsax]

58. I'm cool

50% Hispanic (Mexican if you want the most likely country)
25% Russian
25% Eastern European mix (Germany, Austria, Poland, etc)

[JohnKleeb]

61. What do you umm look like

Germany and Austria really arent Eastern European, more so central but I guess.

[laconicsax]

74. I realized that as I was typing,

but was too lazy to change it to central/eastern.

Basically, my maternal grandmother's family came from every Germanic and Slavic-Jewish area and my maternal grandfather's family's background is Russian-Jewish.

Although Judaism is a religion, the fact that because of the forced isolation of European Jews beginning in the middle ages, it became somewhat of an ethnicity in central and eastern Europe--it's what happens when you isolate a community of several thousand for about a thousand years--marriage stays within the community, and when it grows to millions over time, you basically have an ethnicity.

All things considered, I consider myself to be quarter Germanic, quarter Russian, and half Mexican.

As far as what I look like, here are a couple larger pictures of me.

Me in fall of 2001, before I decided to grow my hair out. (Senior picture by Yuen Lui)
click

Me in fall of 2002, modeling my overly ridiculous college marching band uniform. This is closer to what I look like now.
click

[JohnKleeb]

86. Poles arent Germanic they are Slavs

You look Eastern yet you look Hispanic as well. I look Eastern soory no picture.

[hussar]

59. Bit of Hungarian, dollop of Swiss

made in England.....confused ? so am I

[phaseolus]

60. Pomeranian

I'm not kidding...

Actually there's some ancestry from Mecklenburg and Saxony in there, too (he said, in a lame attempt at some sort of diversity.) So I guess I'm not *totally* inbred.

I wish I had some genes from some other place besides a relatively small corner of North Central Europe. I'd probably be better looking...

[SOteric]

62. Italian.

[LWolf]

63. German/English/NativeAmerican/ScotchIrish

Mutt
:hippie:

Oh yeah...and a sicilian surname (no ancestry).

[kskiska]

64. 1/2 Hungarian; 1/4 Armenian; 1/8 Irish; 1/8 German

and wish I could really feel I'm part of one of these groups. I guess Hungarian is the group I've had the most contact with. The Armenian part is lost, since my grandfather died long before I was born.

[Spider Jerusalem]

65. Anglo-Irish...

Which means, if you go back further, Norman French, Anglo-Saxon, perhaps Roman, Viking, and, going WAY back, Indo-Aryan (the Celts were the original Aryans, who moved westward from what is now India through Europe). I could keep going with this, but I think you get the idea..."ethnicity" as something fixed and determined is a rather silly concept.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

66. Sicilian-Italian/Irish/Scottish

:D

[JohnKleeb]

68. before most of the people our age at DU came along

I was the only non Italian :cry: but lol my complexion could make you think I am Italian, I doubt it though. lol

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

69. my complexion you can tell...

You can definitely tell I got most of the Italian.

[JohnKleeb]

84. yea youre pretty tan

Ive gotten tanner since that photo you saw of me. I dont know what I could pass for, someone told me Hungarian :), no Romanian.

[ButterflyBlood]

67. half Swedish/half German

n/t

[gyopsy]

70. 1/2 Italian, 1/2 German

n/t

[REP]

71. Welsh/Lithuanian

Beat that for odd!

[Swede]

75. Swedish/french/scottish/aboriginal american

[Syn_Dem]

76. Thai/Chinese

n/t

[spinkbottle]

77. Cuban

Most of my ancestors were from Spain (Canary Islands), but given the island's genetic make-up, there's probably more than a little Taino and African in me.


I'm a mutt!:hippie:

[eauclaireliberal]

78. RE: Whats your ethnicity?

Same here. Except the Irish part. When you consider all the differing races of people that have settled in or conquered Sicily, you have to determine that Italy is only the owner of the land. You and I have the bloodlines of every race in the Med.: Italian, Greek, Moor, Turks-you name it.

[bleedingheart]

79. Lithuanian and Croatian

[JohnKleeb]

85. dont you have miner blood too

Miners and south slav power :)
Wanna join the Balkans club :)

[FloridaJudy]

80. Russian/Scots-Irish

What am I doing in tropical Florida?

I should be squatting in a igloo somewhere!

[FlashHarry]

81. Scottish/Manx/Geordie

Though, I was born just south o' the border in Newcastle.

[curse10]

82. Honkie

;-)

[HawkerHurricane]

83. Mix and Match

1/2 Irish, 1/4 Scottish, 1/4 English.

My wife is 1/2 Norwegian, 1/2 Venezualan

Which makes my kids...
1/4 Irish, 1/4 Norwegian, 1/4 Venezualan, 1/8 Scottish and 1/8 English...

Or, as I prefer, we're 'Americans'.

[mlawson]

87. English, Scots, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Norman, Dutch & Portuguese.

And maybe Hungarian; one pedigree I've seen suggests that one of my ancestors was Attila the Hun!! :D

[qwertyMike]

88. Irish

Just Irish, nothing else . . . . born there . . . .ancestors born there way back to the 1600's
boring
sorry

[VOX]

91. Mostly Scottish, wi' a wee bit 'o French thrown in...

Via Huguenot settlers in South Carolina.

[44g]

92. read on and you tell me what ethnicity I am

Father is Pilipino/Irish (grandma was conceived in Derry, half catholic half protestant and born in New York, grandpa was Spanish, Chinese and Igorot), Mother is Milanese Italian, Spanish, Shumash Indian (great great grandmother was born in the Santa Barbara Mission, Scotch/Irish wagon train emigrant (great grand father was Beasley/Strybling who came west from Missouri in the 1870's to California).

What determines my ethnicity more than national origin is where and how my parents were born and raised. In South and East Stockton in the forties and fifties Pilipinoes, Mexicans, Irish, Germans, Italians, Sikhs, and Pakistanis were neighbors and co workers, their kids went to school together and intermarried. I go to family functions now and see blood relatives from blonde to mahogany claiming to be Pilipino or Italian or Irish or Mexican.