# Most unusual ethnic mixes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 4, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897 "2010-06-04T06:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/1 "2010-06-04T06:49:32Z")
It’s not too hard to find people who’s parents come from very different cultures on opposite sides of the world. For complicated political and historical reasons, some ethnic mixes are more common than others: British and Chinese, for example, could’ve met in Hong Kong. With some others, you might wonder how their parents ever encountered one another! So what’s the most unusual ethnic mixes you’ve ever encountered? I once dated a half-Greek Jewish, half-Chilean guy. Another friend is half-Greek, half-Mexican. Challenge: Does anyone know of any Tongan/Kazakh mixes? Me and a friend were joking that’s gotta be the one combination that’s NEVER happened, but I want to be proven wrong! ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/2 "2010-06-04T08:46:24Z")
I know 3 people (siblings) who are half eastern-european Jew, and half Indian Hindu. (technically the Indian is Jewish now too, but it still makes for a weird cultural mix) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/3 "2010-06-04T11:12:09Z")
I imagine that Ashanti-Bhutani mixes are pretty rare too. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/4 "2010-06-04T11:15:34Z")
Forgot to add: I’ve never bothered asking after ethnic mixes of people I meet. It’s racist and not relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/5 "2010-06-04T11:28:07Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Challenge: Does anyone know of any Tongan/Kazakh mixes? Me and a friend were joking that’s gotta be the one combination that’s NEVER happened, but I want to be proven wrong! Dammit, now I’m going to be constantly on the lookout for Tongans (in Kazakhstan now) - I’ll take a picture if I find any though! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/6 "2010-06-04T12:47:38Z")
How 'bout a !Kung/Bolivian mix? > [@Quartz](#): > > Forgot to add: I’ve never bothered asking after ethnic mixes of people I meet. It’s racist and not relevant. Well, now. Aren’t you more highly evolved than the rest of us? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/7 "2010-06-04T13:14:13Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > How 'bout a !Kung/Bolivian mix?\ I’m confused – do you know someone who’s !Kung/Bolivian or are you just throwing that mix out there as unusual and unlikely? **Quartz** : What if someone volunteers the information, hmm? :rolleyes: A lot of mixed people are very proud of their heritages, and in my experience, are happy to tell you about it unprompted. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/8 "2010-06-04T13:14:56Z")
Indian and Chinese is rare in the West. we don’t have any kids, though. But in the east, well, there are places in NE India where people look Chinese but speak Hindi and it’s so jarring (in a good way). ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/9 "2010-06-04T13:15:08Z")
I am: Italian/Spanish via my mother’s parents. Polish(Jew),Ucranian(Jew),Italian,Spanish via my father’s parents. My son is: Italian/Spanish/Polish(Jew)/Ucranian(Jew)/Native American/Basque via myself and my wife’s parent’s and grand parents 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/10 "2010-06-04T13:19:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Indian and Chinese is rare in the West. we don’t have any kids, though. But in the east, well, there are places in NE India where people look Chinese but speak Hindi and it’s so jarring (in a good way). That reminds me of the Russell Peters’ skit where he says that in 200 years “we’re all gonna be some combination of Indian and Chinese! So you can run from us now – but sooner or later we’re gonna _fuck you_.” ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/11 "2010-06-04T13:41:47Z")
I work with a girl whose mother is Chinese and her father is Jamaican. I think that explains a lot about her. ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/12 "2010-06-04T13:45:19Z")
> [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > I work with a girl whose mother is Chinese and her father is Jamaican. She rolls her spliffs in rice paper 😃 ? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/13 "2010-06-04T13:47:42Z")
No unusual mixes yet, but in my mom’s side of the family we have Polish, German, Korean, Indian, and Pakistani. When two of them have children I will have a Korean-Pakistani nephew (although the Korean cousin was adopted from a young age and so depending on what you define ethnicity as, might not be ethnically Korean.) ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/14 "2010-06-04T13:50:43Z")
Seems like many, many people in New York City, excluding Manhattan, is part Dominican in some way. “Yeah, I’m half Jewish, a quarter Irish, and a quarter Dominican.” Dominican isn’t unusual; it’s just that it’s like those Dominicans get around a lot. 😃 Reminds me of how so many people elsewhere claim to be part Cherokee. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/15 "2010-06-04T13:52:17Z")
I forgot about Cherokee. My half-sister is 1/16 Cherokee. Of course, like you said, who knows if her dad was accurate in his claim. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/16 "2010-06-04T15:22:43Z")
No children yet, but I know an Alaskan native who was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Vanuatu and is now engaged to a Vanuatan. If they have kids, they’ll probably be the only ones their school with that particular background. Three of my cousins are half of Irish descent and half Ashkenazi-Mexicans (their grandparents immigrated to Mexico from Poland). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/17 "2010-06-04T15:27:18Z")
My mom’s Polish and my dad’s German. The ironic part is, in that particular household … Poland wins every argument, every time, and Germany _always_ backs down. They’re re-doing WWII, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/18 "2010-06-04T15:34:38Z")
My brother-in-law is Bosnian/Cuban. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/19 "2010-06-04T15:41:31Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Challenge: Does anyone know of any Tongan/Kazakh mixes? Me and a friend were joking that’s gotta be the one combination that’s NEVER happened, but I want to be proven wrong! I know one couple where the wife is from the Philippines and the husband Nigeria; they met in college in the US, married and made their family and life here. Never met any Tuvan/Nigerian mixes but I would be surprised to meet one. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/20 "2010-06-04T15:51:51Z")
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