# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/61 "2010-06-10T18:21:34Z")
I’m of Mexican descent, and my first girlfriend was from Kazakhstan (She was 3/4 Kazakh and 1/4 Russian). She later went on to marry another Mexican guy, so their future Mexican-Kazakh children may qualify for the thread title. I’m dating a Chinese girl now, but Mexican/Chinese are pretty common around San Diego and Tijuana. My sister’s boyfriend is half Guatemalan and half Chinese. The dictator of Mexico before the Revolution was named Porfirio Diaz _Mori_, part Japanese. I’m not entirely sure how that happened, since it must have been before Japan opened up to the rest of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/62 "2010-06-10T18:45:30Z")
I remembered a girl who worked in Americorps with me has a Mexican mother and an Afghani father. What is it with all these Mexican mixes, hmm? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/63 "2010-06-12T00:20:38Z")
My great-grandfather was a Korean who married a Czech woman who worked in his restaurant in Chicago – quite an unusual pairing for the time. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/64 "2010-06-12T03:49:29Z")
I’ve met people who were French-Japanese and also Japanese-Icelandic before, but out of people I know well, the most unusual is Samoan-Puerto Rican. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanorrigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@Eleanorrigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanorrigby)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/65 "2013-09-09T16:52:49Z")
I am French (third generation), Moroccan, Brittish and kaskaskian Native American. :). How is that for random? I’m pale white with dark brown eyes and black hair. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/66 "2013-09-09T16:59:33Z")
My parents go to church with an Ethiopian/Polish couple. How the heck did this get resurrected? ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/67 "2013-09-09T18:08:24Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > One bloke I met was Welsh, Native American (can’t remember which tribe), Indian, Bulgarian and Ghanaian. I recken should marry someone who’s half-Maori and half East Asian so that their kids could have most of the world covered. > > I don’t think any combination that includes the European former colonial nations, China or Jewish as an ethnicity can be considered unusual, considering how wide-ranging the diaspora and/or multiculturalism of those countries is. Scottish-Korean certainly isn’t that unusual. Also consider ethnicities that have settled in various countries, especially in communities near each other. For example, consider the combined Mid-Atlantic States and New England megalopolis area and historical settlement patterns there and in areas close by. I would totally not be surprised in finding someone who is French Canadian/Puerto Rican, Italian/Pennsylvania Dutch, Irish/Jewish, or any similar combination. All you need is some French Canadian from Maine moving to NYC for work or school, then they meet this awesome Puerto Rican person, then bam, you have mixed kids. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/68 "2013-09-09T19:04:07Z")
At my church, I know a few Mexican/Vietnamese couples. I originally thought that was an unusual pairing, but I was wrong. A LOT of the so-called “boat people” who fled from Viet Nam in the Seventies settled along Texas’ Gulf coast. Since many Vietnamese refugees were Catholic, many settled in Hispanic neighborhoods and started attending largely Hispanic churches. So, opportunities for Vietnamese/Mexican dating and marriage were ample. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/69 "2013-09-09T19:41:24Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > My parents go to church with an Ethiopian/Polish couple. > > How the heck did this get resurrected? Speaking of resurrected, so, I’m reading this thread, thinking that it’s brand new. Someone told you, Purple, that your parents being Polish/German was not unusual and you shouldn’t necessarily post in this thread. I was going to lash out at the person and say Purple can damn well post whatever and whenever she wants this week!!! Then I looked at the date and saw you posted that 3 years ago… ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/70 "2013-09-09T20:15:23Z")
> [@want2befree](#): > > I was going to lash out at the person and say Purple can damn well post whatever and whenever she wants this week!!! No, she can post any where and any time she pleases. As can anyone else on this board. I have a friend who is Mexican/Italian. He looks Native American. Back in school we used to make fun of him by saying he was adopted. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/71 "2013-09-09T20:20:15Z")
> [@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). You have to figure in some place like London, where there’s both a large Indian and a large Chinese community, it’s not that uncommon. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/72 "2013-09-09T20:23:34Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > No, she can post any where and any time she pleases. As can anyone else on this board. Are you correcting my grammar/word usage? ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/73 "2013-09-09T20:30:22Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Former roommate was half Mexican, half Swedish. He and his siblings called themselves “Swexicans”. My ex-wife was half German and half Mexican. Bad combo there. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/74 "2013-09-09T22:37:18Z")
I’m convinced it was a Jewish Mexican who first put sour cream on a taco. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/75 "2013-09-10T00:44:42Z")
> [@Eleanorrigby](#): > > I am French (third generation), Moroccan, Brittish and kaskaskian Native American. > > :). How is that for random? > > I’m pale white with dark brown eyes and black hair. Hello? Random, indeed. :dubious: 🙂 Definitely not a sock: I’m pale white as well, but reddish-blonde, blue-eyed. Heritage is 99% British: Scots, English, Orange-Irish, Welsh and a few French Huguenots thrown in. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/76 "2013-09-10T01:17:31Z")
Keanu Reeves is a Canadian who was born in Lebanon from an English mother and a Hawaiian father. Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/77 "2013-09-10T01:36:31Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > At my church, I know a few Mexican/Vietnamese couples. > > I originally thought that was an unusual pairing, but I was wrong. A LOT of the so-called “boat people” who fled from Viet Nam in the Seventies settled along Texas’ Gulf coast. Since many Vietnamese refugees were Catholic, many settled in Hispanic neighborhoods and started attending largely Hispanic churches. > > So, opportunities for Vietnamese/Mexican dating and marriage were ample. Fun fact: Vietnam has the second-highest concentration of Catholics in Asia after the Philippines, 8-10% of the population. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Keanu Reeves is a Canadian who was born in Lebanon from an English mother and a Hawaiian father. > > Whoa. _Keanu_ in Hawaiian means “cool breeze over the mountains.” ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/78 "2013-09-10T05:50:38Z")
There was this Jewish cowboy named Bucky Goldstein. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/79 "2013-09-10T06:29:43Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Also consider ethnicities that have settled in various countries, especially in communities near each other. For example, consider the combined Mid-Atlantic States and New England megalopolis area and historical settlement patterns there and in areas close by. I would totally not be surprised in finding someone who is French Canadian/Puerto Rican, Italian/Pennsylvania Dutch, Irish/Jewish, or any similar combination. It’s a scientific fact that Italian/Pennsylvania Dutch men are highly intelligent, handsome, and gifted lovers. Especially if there’s a little Scotch-Irish mixed in there too. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897/80 "2013-09-10T06:53:11Z")
This thread goes on for years, and still no reference to John Cocktoastin? (What was he? Something something Hungarian…) And…any update on the Tonga-Kazakh fieldwork? Good plan, going for the “furthest place from land” X “furthest place from water.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-ethnic-mixes/541897.md?page=5)