What Ethnicity are you?

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Which Ethnicity are you?

Caucasian
55
60%
African-American (or whatever country you live in)
3
3%
Asian
7
8%
Hispanic
5
5%
Indian
0
No votes
Native American
2
2%
A mix of above, or other
14
15%
Member of the Race
3
3%
Straha, mind your own buisness you Jackass
3
3%
 
Total votes: 92

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Norwegian/Finnish

I live in Norway and I speak Norwegian, but I'm more Finnish, my mom's Finnish and my dad has some Finnish in him.
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Irish!!! :D
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Zaia wrote:An American with Polish, Irish, German and French lineage.

My French ancestors were pirates! How cool is that! :D
Well, mine were nobles who may have ruled over an entire village from before 1300 AD to around the time of the Reformation.

Most of them fled France because of their faith, and at least two were executed. One had heavy stones laid upon him until he expired. The other had his head crushed by a hammer.

Is that cool or what? :mrgreen:
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Robert Treder wrote:I guess by these rules I'm "caucasian", though I consider myself "european". I'm Polish, German, and English, with an unfortunate dash of Irish.
Whats unfortunate about being part Irish. YOU ARE BLESSED MAN.
Sorry, but the Irish don't exactly make me proud. They've never really done anything notable (unless they were under the yoke of the English), they have a bad cuisine, a boring culture, they invented Riverdance, and the asskicker? they spend their time fighting each other over Catholocism vs. Protestantism. Count me out of this one.
Read the book "How the Irish Saved Civilization" sometime. :D
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I know that at least part of my father's side of the family came from Germany, but other than that I am completely ignorant of my anscestry.
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Oh... nearly forgot.

I'm Scot/Irish, with a touch of Anglized Dutch. (dont' ask me what that means)

Which means I've got red-blond hair (My cousins were the carrot-tops this generation), extremely pale skin that burns in winter if I'm out too long. I've the Irish temper, and 'babblemouth Dutch' as my dad put it.
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Zaia wrote:An American with Polish, Irish, German and French lineage.

My French ancestors were pirates! How cool is that! :D
That's awesome!
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LadyTevar wrote:Oh... nearly forgot.

I'm Scot/Irish, with a touch of Anglized Dutch. (dont' ask me what that means)

Which means I've got red-blond hair (My cousins were the carrot-tops this generation), extremely pale skin that burns in winter if I'm out too long. I've the Irish temper, and 'babblemouth Dutch' as my dad put it.
Sexy! :D
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LadyTevar wrote:Oh... nearly forgot.

I'm Scot/Irish, with a touch of Anglized Dutch. (dont' ask me what that means)

Which means I've got red-blond hair (My cousins were the carrot-tops this generation), extremely pale skin that burns in winter if I'm out too long. I've the Irish temper, and 'babblemouth Dutch' as my dad put it.
*grin* Ah, yes, the infamous Irish temper. I've got that plus the Scottish temper. I was a hellion as a kid. 7 fights in school in 8 years. Two insulted my mother, three called me fat, one struck me first, and the last one was just an arrogant twit who needed some sense knocked into him. There's just certain things I won't put up with.
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I'm part Jamaican, part Spanish, part Irish and part German(less than the other three), with a mix of american added.
Nationally I'm half English.
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Hispanic. Which usually refers to a mestizo, the blending of Iberic and Native American genetics.

And the reason whites are called Caucasian is because the people living in the Caucasus area seemed to some historians to most nearly exemplify the physical characteristics of the supposed White race--much like the way they named all Asians 'Mongoloid.'

Amusing Family History:
The ancestor of mine who moved to New Spain first, IIRC, was a former mercenary who was forced to retire because he got most of his right hand shot off by a Dutchman and his foot was amputated "just to be safe."

Another of my ancestors was supposedly involved in the storming of the Alamo, and probably was one of the guys who had to go around poking Texan corpses to make sure they were dead. Fun.
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I'm caucasian, with ancestry from Russia, Germany, Wales, Poland, Hungary, Every Eastern European Communist Stepchild Nation, and I'm 1/32cnd Sioux Indian, on my mother's side.

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XaLEv wrote:I know that at least part of my father's side of the family came from Germany, but other than that I am completely ignorant of my anscestry.

Does that ever bother you? :?
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Pablo Sanchez wrote:Hispanic. Which usually refers to a mestizo, the blending of Iberic and Native American genetics.

And the reason whites are called Caucasian is because the people living in the Caucasus area seemed to some historians to most nearly exemplify the physical characteristics of the supposed White race--much like the way they named all Asians 'Mongoloid.'

Amusing Family History:
The ancestor of mine who moved to New Spain first, IIRC, was a former mercenary who was forced to retire because he got most of his right hand shot off by a Dutchman and his foot was amputated "just to be safe."

Another of my ancestors was supposedly involved in the storming of the Alamo, and probably was one of the guys who had to go around poking Texan corpses to make sure they were dead. Fun.
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Let's see. My dad's side of the family is Polish, while my mom's is split Greman and Italian.
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Let's see.

3/8's Italian, 1/8 English/Scottish, and 1/2 white trash (my dad was adopted, product of a Tennessee teenage pregnancy, and raised by an asshole Church of Christ preacher).
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I never realized so many people are from the Caucasus :lol:
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Zaia wrote: Does that ever bother you? :?
Not really.
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Lord Sander wrote:I never realized so many people are from the Caucasus :lol:
You'd be surprised... :wink:
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XaLEv wrote:
Zaia wrote: Does that ever bother you? :?
Not really.

Ok, just thought I'd ask, since I couldn't figure out how I'd feel about that if I was in that position.

Lord Sander wrote:I never realized so many people are from the Caucasus

Hurrah, a n00b!!! *pokitty poke poke POKE!* Hi there, I'm Zaia. Nice to meet you. :D
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Zaia wrote:
Lord Sander wrote:I never realized so many people are from the Caucasus :lol:
Hurrah, a n00b!!! *pokitty poke poke POKE!* Hi there, I'm Zaia. Nice to meet you. :D
N00b? Pffft :P
Hiya, I'm Sander, can I poke back? :D
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100% Cuban.

Maternal Grandpappy fought in then fled the Spanish Civil War and settled in Cuba. So at least on my mom's side we go back to Spain fairly recently. On my dad's side we strongly suspect SOMEONE was French since the family name is Fontaine.
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I'm Finnish, with a twist of German, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Ukranian, Serb, Greek (Byzant), Polish, French, Spanish and possibly also Arab mixed in for the fun. Bloody inbred European royal families - even if you have a distant link to one of them, you're related to them all.

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