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that's right, what's your heritage?

you're all dying to know about me right? i'm 1/3 Irish, 1/3 German, and 1/3 ...Dutch i think? Maybe Swiss. Anyway, somewhere around there.

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Hi! I'm proud to say that I'm part English, part German, part Indonesian, part Chineese, and part Malaysian!
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Hmm.. I prob have some of the Poles in me blood, some German, some Chech (I believe so..), hell, I really don't know, but I asked my grandma a long long long time ago and that's pretty much what I remember.

Always been told I was polish (at least everyone assumes that for some reason that I still don't get), but I got a gander at some of my family records and it looks more like we Polenskes hail from northeast Germany, so close to Poland that it makes no difference either way.  Then I think the rest is composed of Russian descent.  Oh and there's 1/4 Portugual (sp?) to compensate for all the eastern bloc blood.  Beyond that, I think I'm a lil bit native american (from where I have no clue) and the rest is god knows what.



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i think i have a lot of different ethnicities. but the ones i've been told most is Dutch, French, and a little Italian although it's probably very little since i don't talk or look even the least bit italian.
So yeah, Dutch and French are the two main ones for me

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

Well I'm about...let's see...1/2 Scottish (grandmother born and raised there, then moved here) I assume my grandfather was at least partially Scottish too, since his last name is Cameron. Then there's 1/4 Irish from my other grandmother, and the last 1/4 would be Acadian (french Canadian on the East side of the country.)

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

Half Italian, half French Canadian. I have some Belgian in there, I think.

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My mother was born in Campobasso, Italy. My grandparents on her side are from there, their parents before them and on and on for a long way back, though at some point there's a little bit of Neapolitan. Grandparents came to Canada, like most at the time, to avoid the war and moved back shortly after. Came back with my Mother in the 70's. My father's side is a mix of things. My father was born in Casablanca, Morroco where my grand parents were living at the time. That grandmother was born in Paris, as was most of her family before her. My grandfather and most of his family was born in Córdoba, Spain. Around the time my father was 15, they moved shortly to Israel and then finally to Canada in the 60's.

So, I've got a nice chunk of Europe in my blood, it seems.

This post has been edited by Dragon_Fire on 10th December 2006 06:35

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Scottish, Irish, English, French, and a little Native American.

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I close my mouth now and I scream,
Open the door, there's nothing worth redeeming
I saw your face before in rough,
You should wait around a while, your body's bound to turn up.
So low for how high?
-Matt Good, "Running for Home"

::isn't even going into why his mother tells him he's related to Gypsies...::

Anywho, I got American Indian from 4 directions, Scottish, a drowned out spot of english, and then it all got drowned out my the dominating Irish genes making me a blone white boy.

The end.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Should I tell you what I REALLY am, or what I was made to believe until my grandma died....

Well in real life, i'm about 1/2 polish, 1/8 british, 1/8 swedish, and an 1/8 Chawktaw (sp?) Indian. My grandma wanted me and my sisters to think we were part Irish instead of Native American for some reason.

Most likely because she hated my grandpa, because he just walked out on my mom and her 3 brothers and 2 sisters. We got back into contact with him about 5 years ago, but my mom went down to arizona to visit him and I guess he said a whole bunch of crap, so now we disowned him again. His brother, my great uncle Terry, is really cool though. We went to visit him and my 2 cousins when we went to California. My uncle hates his brother too, and disowned him as well.

So in closing, I found out that I'm actually part Native American instead of Irish complements of my estranged (sp?) grandfather.



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And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

As far we know, half-English and half-canadian french.

I'm a bit of everything European, really.  I have no idea on the percentages.  For forever my dad thought we were really really Irish or something..but then my mom did the geneology and found out that wasn't true..we're more German.

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"So in the end
I will be-what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me"
-Gollum's Song, Emiliana Torrini

Ooh, this is cool.  I'd really like to discover the percentages on these, but as far as I know, I have primarily English blood, and then German, Scottish, and Irish, in that order.  My last name, Gettling, used to be spelled Goettling, but pronounced the same.  It's very German, so my parents got strange looks when they toured Europe earlier in life when World War 2 sentiments were still strong.

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In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

Yeah, this is cool.  I'm mainly German and Irish, myself.  My last name is German (Grimmer). I don't think the spelling was changed when my ancestors came over to this country though as there are still people over in Germany with the same spelling.

In addition, I also have tiny bit Scottish and French ( ).  <- No offense meant to those of French descent.



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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

well I am 50% Italian, 45% Irish, and 5% American Indian....so basically I can make good food, drink alot of alcohol, and get kicked off my land by the white man  

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War is for the participants a test of character; it makes bad men worse and good men better. - Joshua Chamberlain

U sir R a n00b >:-( - Cactuar

I'll give you all my last name(stalk me if you dare =P) and you can guess what makes me up in the majority. Here goes:

Antobenedetto

Yes, that's right. I'm a good old Italian. My mom's 1/2 Irish so that screws me up a bit. 3/4 is ok I guess. What gets me is how much the damn Irish comes through. I have light brown hair and my skin is pale which burns in the sun.

In short, I hate the Irish part of me. The biggest embarassment is their inability to cook. Boiled dinner sucks! I'm sure most of you agree

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"If it is weak, either kill it or ignore it. Anything else honors it."
-Kaervek

As far as I know, I'm about half French-Canadian from my father's side... the rest is a composition of Scottish, German, Native American, English, and I think there's some South African in there as well...

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AZN Pryde 4 Lyfe!

Uhhh...yeah.  I'm Asian-American.  Born and raised in the states, but hailing from South Korea.  I might be a little of something else, but that's all complicated so I won't dig into that.  Of course we all know you want some of this Asian Temptation.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Romanian-American?
born and raised in cali. my parents, grandparent, etc,
are all romanians...   yay.

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Why do kamakazi pilots wear helmets?

I have to say, I'm not 100% sure of these percentages, but to the best of my knowledge, I'm a quarter Portuguese and three-quarters German. When someone asks, though, my short answer is always Portuguese, as I more closely resemble that nationality.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I'm 100% Filipino and damn proud of it.

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"The Master of Past, Present, and Future has returned."

Ethnically Chinese.  My father makes a big deal about how I'm 1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Taiwanese.  Dad's side of the family has lived in Taiwan for 200 years, making them culturally Taiwanese living under Japanese colonial rule.  And my materal granfather emigrated to Taiwan during WWII, which makes them actually mainland Chinese.  So yeah.. racially, I am Chinese.  Ethnically/culturally, I am Chinese-Taiwanese-Japanese.  And apparently I don't look Chinese, but instead I look Japanese or Korean.  Confusing, yes?

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German, Irish, either Polish or Slavic(I get different answers from different relitives), English, and Italian.

seing as how I'm almost entirely old Immigration, I just call my self American. (or Crackerjack  )

My last name, Wheeler is a standard Colonial name too.

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100% Korean, and proud of it.  Though I may have a little Chinese mixed in, depending on how far back you want to go.

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It depends on which member of my family you ask. But the consencis seems to be: Between 25 and 50 percent Irish; Exactly 25% portugeise; Exactly 25% Swedish; And whatever's left is just plain old American.
    Our name is Brennan, and our heritage is very Irish. So if you ask me, Irish.

Well, I'm mostly German-saaay, about 3/4-and I'm about 1/4 Italian. I've been told I have some Irish in me, but I don't know anyone in my family who looks remotely Irish, so I'd say the number would be about 1/91423519091234756...

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*END TRANSMISSION*

Technically, I'm a lot of things, like Irish, Luxembourgian, and a bunch of other Anglo-Saxon crap. Inside, though, I'm straight outta Africa.

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No! I'm NOT GERMAN! (but germans are cool, they speak dutch )
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Wow I didn't know many whites had mixed heritages.
I'm pure korean, just moved to US. (watch die another day )

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I will be there...

1/2 jewish pole (mom)
dad's side ->
dad's mom, french so 1/4 french
dad's dad = cuban, 1/2 spanish 1/2 afro-cuban

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1/2 polish 1/4 french 1/8 spanish 1/8 african