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Whats your ethnic background?

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:19 pm
by Turk February
Both your mom and dad

Mine is...

Dad German

Mom French

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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:23 pm
by Odie
my dad was Scottish

and my mom is Canadian.



and welcome to the forum!

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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:13 pm
by Nomad
Human Being.

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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 9:40 pm
by K.Snyder
My father is Scottish, English, and Native American

My mother is Irish, and German

I'd like to add the fact my family history has not been entirely discovered and could thus be related to some sort of dilapidated walrus appearing free loading creep of a scoundrel. :thinking:On the other hand they could possibly be some sort of King and Queen(Probably Dacian or King and Queen of a sort idealizing the virtue of isolationism and a very much outcast Gaulish tribe if I were to venture in guessing) but none the less would be fam!!!!!!!

I've tried to convince as many people as I could possibly manage the suggestion that everyone is related to someone all of the way back to the very first people that existed but have a hard time at that!!!!!!!

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 12:41 am
by beowulf
what a strange first post :confused:

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 1:56 am
by spot
My father's family originated in the Celtic occupation of Great Britain, during which we drove the Picts off the land and into the hills where they turned furtive and mean and covered themselves in woad.

My mother's family originated in the Saxon occupation of Great Britain, during which we drove the Celts off the land and into the hills where they turned furtive and mean and covered themselves in glory by bragging of the good old days when they taught the Picts a lesson or two, while dabbling experimentally in the woad bucket.

We tend to be argumentative but we all agree that at least we're not Scots.

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 4:15 am
by hoppy
My dad is Czech

My mom is German. Somehow, they got along fine.

That makes me a white, Christian, life NRA card carrying, conservative republican American and by God I'll fight to stay that way.:yh_flag

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 4:16 am
by gmc
spot;1311446 wrote: My father's family originated in the Celtic occupation of Great Britain, during which we drove the Picts off the land and into the hills where they turned furtive and mean and covered themselves in woad.

My mother's family originated in the Saxon occupation of Great Britain, during which we drove the Celts off the land and into the hills where they turned furtive and mean and covered themselves in glory by bragging of the good old days when they taught the Picts a lesson or two, while dabbling experimentally in the woad bucket.

We tend to be argumentative but we all agree that at least we're not Scots.


That's because the caledonian picts managed to fend off the romans and fought the saxons to a standstill but were so weakened by warfare that scots from ireland were able to invade and take over. personally I'm celt with probably some viking as well. But everybody is so mixed up anyway who really knows.

posted by K Snyder

I've tried to convince as many people as I could possibly manage the suggestion that everyone is related to someone all of the way back to the very first people that existed but have a hard time at that!!!!!!!


Well if you believe the creation myth we are all related are we not.

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 5:58 am
by Bill Sikes
I'm having difficulty with this subject. Do you mean racial background, national background, or both?

On the whole, I tend to side with Nomad and his answer.

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 7:09 am
by flopstock
I am truly a mutt. I got told once and there were 1/16ths this or that in there. So I quit listening.



I am every man.:thinking:

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 7:12 am
by YZGI
I'm mainly cracker with a little peckerwood thrown in.





Damn that didn't come out right...

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:30 am
by beowulf
jedi




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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:34 am
by spot
gmc;1311458 wrote: Well if you believe the creation myth we are all related are we not.


You know, somewhere back in the mists of time there was a single weaselly ferret-like creature that fathered every dog and man on the entire planet, and you're definitely descended from it.

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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 7:35 pm
by Odie
beowulf;1311548 wrote: jedi






:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 2:46 pm
by K.Snyder
gmc;1311458 wrote: Well if you believe the creation myth we are all related are we not. Actually I can't really say whether I believe in that, but I will admit that it would very eerie in my mind to think that we as humans developed into being practically identical as far as genetics are concerned at the same time being born from a different origin.

I personally see a Giraffe as a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, ugly "human being" among others

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 3:58 pm
by panzermk2
Dad German Catholic 1914 to USA.

Mom German/French Jewish 1943 to USA.

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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 3:57 pm
by along-for-the-ride
Definitions of Ethnic background on the Web:

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or assumed.Smith 1987

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_background

A race or a family's national origin.

www.genzymegenetics.com/hcp/prenatal/re ... s_glos.asp

"Both your mom and dad"

My parents were both born in the United States, therefore American, and are of the Caucasian race.

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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 5:39 pm
by panzermk2
Funny thing is how Caucasian is missed used these days. If you look up the root words and meanings it get interesting. It has almost nothing to do with how it's misused these days.

You can be Chinese and still be Caucasian.

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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 6:12 pm
by spot
People find it difficult these days to say "white", it sticks in their throat.

As a division of humans into three measurably different groupings, Mongoloid Negroid and Caucasoid are so broad as to have little practical use. I suspect they're valid classifications even so. I expect red-haired fair-haired and dark-haired are as well, or blue-eyed grey-eyed and brown-eyed.