# Ethnicities represented on the SDMB... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748 "2003-10-16T07:15:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/81 "2003-10-19T05:11:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mirror Image egamI rorriM \* > \*\* > Only it isn’t that bad because I have dark brown hair and eyes, which I suppose means I could get fairly tan if I ever wanted to. \*\* Lucky you…strawberry blonde hair, green eyes, and freckles don’t lend themselves very well to the wholel tanning thing :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/82 "2003-10-19T06:44:25Z")
Two-generations? I’m half NewSouthWelshperson and half Victorian. And YES, they ARE totally different ethnicities. If you lived here, you’d understand. Right **TheLoadedDog**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/83 "2003-10-19T07:03:00Z")
From my mother’s side (she was born in Enfield, North London), I could have 1/4 Jewish or 1/4 Irish (depending on who mum’s father really was), while the other side the 1/4 from Yorkshire/Lincolnshire. From my father’s side (born in Auckland, NZ), I have 1/4 Scot (from near Braemar), and 1/4 Anglo-Scots-Irish mix from Ayrshire, Northern Ireland and London. The last 1/4 could have some Spanish mixed in if family trad has it correct. I’d better sum it up as Western European heritage, transplanted to the Antipodes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/84 "2003-10-19T07:30:12Z")
Father’s side: Scottish. My father was born just outside Glasgow and came here when my grandparents decided to move to Canada in the late 1950s. Mother’s side: my grandparents are German Mennonites who were born and grew up in the Ukraine, came to Canada after WWII. Basically, I’m yet another “really, really white” person (I think I can burn if I just think about the sun hard enough) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Blunty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Captain\_Blunty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Blunty)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/85 "2003-10-19T08:14:12Z")
1/2 German American (my dad’s folks full were blooded German but he was born in the USA) 1/2 Thai (My mum met my dad in the late seventies after my mother divorced her first husband, who was an American pilot during the Vietnam war.) It’s a bit of a strange mix. I think the German in me prevents me from being petite and short like my mum (I’m 5"8 and 145 pounds… damn you dad!!) but I am dark with black hair and brown eyes, and very olive skin which tans in an instant! Most people assume that I’m a mix but they have no idea what mix! ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/86 "2003-10-19T08:19:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gouda \* > **My brand new, 3 day old, one-of-only-six-in-the country-yet, most-expensive-thing-I’ve-ever-bought motorcycle needs servicing** Well, I would have rub your nose in it and gone [Nelson] Ha-ha! [/Nelson] but I’m feeling all charitable, so I’ll desist. _pat pat_ Hope your motorbike feels better soon. ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/87 "2003-10-19T09:39:57Z")
My parents were born in Haiti, and I was born a couple years after they arrived here. So I’m definitely riding the Haitian train out here… although thus far I seem to be riding it alone. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/88 "2003-10-19T11:28:47Z")
Mum and Dad are New Zealand born. Going back another generation: 1/4 Irish 3/16 Maori (I think, or maybe 3/32) 1/8 Swedish 1/8 Danish 1/8 Various unknown My surname hails from Norway, so presumeably there’s some Norwegian happening in the background of the Swedish/Danish. People tend not to believe that I have any Maori as I look 100% Scandenavian. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/89 "2003-10-19T12:58:58Z")
My ethnicity? Puertorican (so I’m a mix). My ancestors? Come from Spain, Germany, Italy, Africa (sorry, don’t know the country), and perhaps Taínos (although that’s harder to trace back). But that was generations ago. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/90 "2003-10-19T13:10:43Z")
My dad’s paternal ancestors mainly came over from the Rhineland in the early 1700s and settled in Pennsylvania, which by default made them Pennsylvania Dutch. Other ancestors who came over later were from the Swabische Alb region of southern Germany, and others were from Bavaria. His mother’s ancestors were both Englishmen and the descendants of French Huguenots who settled in Maryland and Virginia in the 1600s. My mom’s ancestry is 100% Irish, and her ancestors came from County Meath, County Waterford, and parts unknown. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![labmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@labmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labmonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/91 "2003-10-19T13:27:23Z")
Paternal Grandparents from Poland(of Lithuanian and Belorussian ancestry), maternal grandparents from Finland…I myself am an American(mutt) who speaks only English. ---
**Author:** ![labmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@labmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labmonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/92 "2003-10-19T13:34:10Z")
Slight hijack, sorry, tsarina, there have always been family rumours that my paternal great-grandmother was (at least part)Jewish…I don’t know what her last name was, but her first was Pelagia, was this a common East European Jewish name for a girl? ---
**Author:** ![flonks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ab097/32.png) [@flonks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flonks)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/93 "2003-10-20T07:37:23Z")
My mom is 100% is Austrian, both parents of my father were German Czechs, they “emigrated” to Austria in 1945 (=“Sudetendeutsche”). But I live in France. Can anybody tell me why the word German is supposed to be red in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/94 "2003-10-20T08:08:30Z")
1/2 English, 3/8 German and 1/8 Irish. The first of the Germans on my Mom’s side got to Canada in 1810. Actually, his brother’s got here a few years before that. I’m seventh generation Canadian on her side. On my Dad’s side, I’m only second. His Dad came over as a “Home Child” (Barnardo’s) in 1894. I don’t know when his Mom got here, but they married in Canada. Mr zoogirl is English, Scottish, French and Native - our boys could just about have their own World War III! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/95 "2003-10-20T08:28:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gouda \* > \*\*[hijack] > My brand new, 3 day old, one-of-only-six-in-the country-yet, most-expensive-thing-I’ve-ever-bought motorcycle needs servicing… some idiot banged into it, cracked the windscreen and made plenty of scratches on the fairing ☹ > \*\* I’m _not_ feeling charitable, so ha-ha! 🙂 > [@](#): > > **Also, I’ve never heard of _undhiyu_. I’ll ask my Kutchhi boss this evening > [/hijack]** Your Kutchhi boss may not have heard of it, there’s a fair bit of difference between Kutchhi and Gujerati food. > [@](#): > > \*\*Punjabi food rocks. 'Nuff said 😃 \*\* :dubious: Nah, you’ve just never had proper Gujerati or Kutcchi food that’s all, you poor thing. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by asana_\*\* > Err…Gujjus can’t code, but we can cook, dammit!\*\* Too right we can! _prays that none of the BritDopers enter this thread and ask for proof of this assertion_ ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/96 "2003-10-20T09:18:31Z")
One generation back: American (although my father was born in the US during a two-year sojurn by my grandparents). Two generations back: 50% American (mom’s side), 50% Belarus (dad’s). Take it three - 100% Eastern European. 100% Jewish. 100% Israeli. But with blazing orange hair and hazel eyes - I’ve been taken for a native in Scotland (until I opened my mouth, that is :() ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/97 "2003-10-20T10:04:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flonks \* > \*\*My mom is 100% is Austrian, both parents of my father were German Czechs, they “emigrated” to Austria in 1945 (=“Sudetendeutsche”). But I live in France. > > Can anybody tell me why the word German is supposed to be red in this thread? \*\* Did you searched for this thread using the word German? When you search for a word in a thread, it will always appear highlighted (in the thread) in red. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/98 "2003-10-20T17:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGrenze \* > \*\*My ethnicity? Puertorican (so I’m a mix). > > \*\* _¡Oh! Esta es la linda tierra que busco yo. Es Borinquén la hija, la hija del mar y el sol!_ Puerto Rico is where my maternal grandparents met and where my mother was born. Though I’m definitly a Nueyorican. Not too many Boriquas on the board. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/99 "2003-10-20T17:58:19Z")
I’m half Mexican and half Italian–paternal great-grandparents are from a town called Castelvetrano, in the Trapani region of Sicily. One of my great grandfathers bought a shoe store smack in downtown San Francisco and saved money until he could send for my great grandmother. At some point he sold the shoe store, which bums me out to this day because it would be nice to have a prime piece of downtown SF real estate in the family 😃 ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748/100 "2003-10-21T00:55:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Finnie the Pooh \* > \*\*Finnish, although my father was from Karelia and thus had a Russian last name. Could also be that I’m part Russian. Only a Finn could appreciate that pain! \*\* Finn here (but born in Californ-i-yay). Mom is a Karjalainen too, **Finnie** , born near Viipuri in 1918. Dad’s family is from western Finland. Although he was born in the States, he had to learn English in order to go to school. With all these finnish-speaking folks around us, you’d think my sibs and I would have learned more than a few good swear words. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethnicities-represented-on-the-sdmb/207748.md?page=4)