What's your ethnic background? (page 4)

Sunspot

I'm Irish, French, Norwegian and Abenaki........

(waving at Insomniac---Helloooooo Nedoba!!!)

I just discovered the Abenaki heritage a few short years ago.....I had heard we had "Indian" lines but nobody knew when,where or who.....until we got a computer in 1998 and I began to search........

hugs,

Annie

BeautifulGarbage

1/2 Irish 1/4 German 1/4 Russian

Though, I do feel much closer, and reflect, my Southern white trash roots.

1/4 Yaqui Indigenous American, less than 1/4 Spanish, Iroquious, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch....and my mother was adopted, so I dunno what half of my heritage is, but for the most part I look Mexican American, and unfortunetely, I've been treated so my entire life. Which is sad because even though I basically am a white american in culture, I've been discriminated against and treated like trash (by most strangers I encounter in day to day life) all my life. Because of that I have a very difficult time figuring out what I'm most comfortable identifying with, I hate the idea of calling myself white because I've never recieved any white privilidges, and I don't like saying I'm Mexican (even though I'm 1/4 Yaqui, from Sonora MX) because,I don't speak the language, and I have none of that culture (another sad story: my full blooded Yaqui grandmother thinks she's white, and vehemently denies ever knowing Spanish [while none of her parents spoke fluent English], or ever being anything other than white, so she passed on no culture). Alright, enough rambling, hehe, sorry, but I am proud of what I know I am =)

Mulan

I have none of that culture (another sad story: my full blooded Yaqui grandmother thinks she's white, and vehemently denies ever knowing Spanish [while none of her parents spoke fluent English], or ever being anything other than white, so she passed on no culture). Alright, enough rambling, hehe, sorry, but I am proud of what I know I am =)

My closest friend is Mexican (or Spanish) and her husband is Mexican, but denies it. He says they are Spanish, and that their ancestors are from Spain, but they sure look Indian. Their name literally means "he is Mayan", but they ignore that fact. When they cook a big dinner of Enchiladas, Rice and Beans they say it's a "Spanish Meal".

For some reason they seem ashamed of their heritage. Their youngest son is about 33, and tells people he is Italian.

I just think it's neat to have that background. They all speak Spanish, but my friend doesn't speak it well. Her parents only spoke it at home until the kids understood what they said, and then they switched to English. That's sad.

outoftheorg

1/2 Norwegion= father

1/4 German and 1/4 who knows what= mother

Father very analyzing and assessing personality. Never a jw.

Mother very emotional to the point of mild hysteria. A rabid jw.

Me? Confused american EX JW.

Outoftheorg

mrs rocky2

santacruzchick:

I can relate to the discrimination thing. We don't live far from the Res', actually three tribal nations live close by. I am stopped by highway patrol and county cops fairly regularly (although less so now that the same cops have been around for quite a while and know who I am). On one occasion I was driving the company car home from the airport rather late one night, had to drive through town as I live a few miles outside of town in the opposite direction of the airport. The county cop had someone pulled over in town when I went through. He caught up to me about 4 miles out of town, just as I was slowing down to pick up my mail. He had to have gone 100 to catch up to me so quickly. I wasn't speeding, he just wanted to tell me I had a light out (hmmm, maybe, or maybe not). Another time I was driving a car with a cracked windshield. I had passed the local police guy for months with this same cracked windshield (not bad enough to impair vision). There was a new deputy on duty and he had to pull me over to check out the windshield! People are always asuming my racial heritage. We have a dreamcatcher hanging on the wall at work...one of our clients asked if I made it! A previous employer was so worried about political correctness that he bent over backwards to say that I had been hired on merit, not on racial quota. So when I say that I am mixed race I really subconsciously feel that I mean 'mixed up' mentally. I don't let these subtle discriminations get me down. It would be very easy to have a chip on my shoulder. Most people don't mean any harm, they just don't know any better. Being mean and nasty to them doesn't make matters better, only worse. So I do a lot of smiling...makes them wonder!

Sassy

the way you are looking at it flower is a way I never thought about before. I think I understand. But in the same token there are those of us who have had just as many generations of family here in the same US and we still will say we are from Spain or Germany or Holland. It is still where we come from, even if none of us ever set eyes on a family member that came from the country of our origin. I won't begin to think that our past generations when through the atroscities that your descendents so far removed that none of your family knew them did, however, so don't take me wrong.

any way..............me.. I am lily white..........right now but I envy that natural tan that Flower is born with natually.. but my tanning bed budget is low right now............so I'll settle for me au natural I guess........

actually for the record............I don't like being called caucasion.......I want a blank spot on the forms where I can write:

Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian!

Scandanvians Unite!! Woo Hoo!!

Mac

Smurf / Irish

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Thirdson

Anglo-Irish.

I have a French/Norman derived last name but the Normans were Viking descendants. The rest is a mix Celtic Irish, Angles and Saxons, I guess. My son is part Anglo-Irish from me and Anglo-Afro-Caribbean from his mother. His heritage is the product of British colonialism from both Jamaica and Ireland. Part of my Irish ancestry is a result of British soldier (my grandfather) who married an Irish-Catholic (my grandmother) prior to the 1922 Irish free state (actually before WW1).

3rd

What's your ethnic background?

Kenneson