What's your heritage?

[peachykate]

50% Irish
25% Polish
25% German/French/Austrian

[mamasaurus]

Sept 4, 2012 16:29:47 GMT -5 lemondrop said:

About 75% Irish and German. The other 25% is Polish, Scottish, French-Alsatian (they consider it different) and Native American (or something).

No royalty, but my mother's Irish side is one of the most literary families in Ireland's history.

Oh, they are THOSE kind of Alsatians!

I kid, I kid. My French professor was from Alcace-Lorraine and liked to make fun of the people from there who made a big deal about being culturally different from the rest of France. In his case, though, they grew up speaking French, German, and a local dialect, so there were some pretty big differences.

[broc]

mom's side is Irish/Welsh, but emigrated to the US before it was the US. Dad's side is ridiculously German. My great-grandmother came over during the Weimar era and was a Nazi-esque bigot til the day she died. They still force us to eat the worst cookies in existence every Christmas. barf.

[rex]

The only interesting thing is that I'm 50% Native American.

[Deleted]

How do we only have 1.75 Asians here?

That's not even fully two.

[textbookcase]

German/Polish on my mom's side, Scottish/British/Mexican on my dad's.

[annyong]

I'm half Cuban, half Ukrainian.

Eta: sorry miso!

[macmars45]

Canadian, English, Italian, French & German I believe.

[Mrs.Beagle]

Jew.

Orrr 50% Polish, 50% some country that was either part of what is now the Ukraine, Russia, or a country that ends in -stan.

Jokes abound!

[dowagercountess]

Austrian and Polynesian.

[horseoutside]

I'm an Irish national so Irish as far back as can be on both sides.

[LauraMoser]

On my dad's side its pretty much 100% German. On my mom's side, we are traced back to the PA Dutch, or more accurately, PA German, but I haven't dug back further than that yet. Probably darn near 100% German there too though.

I'm proud of my German/PA Dutch heritage!

[ProfessorArtNerd]

My mom is mostly Irish and a little German. My dad is half Irish, along with German and Dutch. Though we don't really know if it's PA Dutch or actual freaky-deaky Dutch.

[fuckyourcouch]

Russians who emigrated to Germany and then to the US.

[emsumm]

Jewish/European

[LLL]

100% Ivorian. My family moved to the US when I was 4

[bonquiqui]

Seriously though, I am some Euro mix. I have a few great grandparents from Germany, and one from a place called Prussia, which doesn't exist anymore. I think I have a tad of Irish too, and probably a lot of other things.

[lilafowler]

Mostly Irish and Portuguese (my mom is 75% Irish, 25% Italian and my dad is 50% Portuguese) with some Italian, German, Scottish and English thrown in (my dad's dad was a WASP mutt).

[hisno1girl]

Mom: Mexican/Nahuatl Indian
Dad: Mexican/French/Spanish

[CurlyQ284]

British and Scottish. I have a West Highland terrier and an English bulldog and I want to take them to our mutual motherlands.

[Lauren88]

I'm Irish, Polish and German. Quite the mutt! lol

[ohiowan]

Biologically French/English maternally, Blackfoot NA paternally. Parents are 2nd Gen Polish, 3th Gen German, Irish, and English though -- that's what i've always thought of myself as.

[omeomi]

Swiss Italian.

Which basically means the northernmost part of Italy, but also includes some of the southern areas of Switzerland. There are still small communities in those areas that speak a different mix of a language, which my great uncle spoke fluently even after being in the States his whole life *family pride, I haz it*

[magpie]

Sept 4, 2012 19:55:45 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

How do we only have 1.75 Asians here?

That's not even fully two.

I'm a lurker, but I'll play to represent and get your numbers slightly over 2

I'm half Chinese.

One quarter Scottish, one quarter English mutt.

[Deleted]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But still.

Why is there so little Asian-ness here?

[Deleted]

Cuban, both parents born there. I'm first generation American, speak a little Spanish, but make a mean chicken with yellow rice.

[pinkplasticdoll]

I am 50% Polish and mexican with some french thrown in. My mom is 75% mexican and 25% french, I can't do math tonight so i am just throwing it out there.

[bonquiqui]

Sept 4, 2012 21:13:41 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But still.

Why is there so little Asian-ness here?

I can be Asian if you want, but I am a 6'1" tall blonde. Clearly I am mistaken about my European Ancestry. I bet I am Asian....

[Deleted]

Russian and I don't know what's going on on my birth dads side.

[murdock]

Less than a 1/4 goes back to the second Jamestown. I'm not good with lineage fractions. My dads paternal line goes there.

But, my dads mother was Norwegian, so was my grandmother.

Everyone else is Norwegian, including mother being born there.