…what the title says, I guess. I don’t recall seeing this here before, so I thought I’d ask the S/D crew just what version of human you are. If there is an earlier thread I missed on this subject, please link to it.
Share if you want, don’t if you don’t care to. We all belong to the great melting pot of humanity (like it or not…) so the breakdown shouldn’t matter much anyway.
Me? Roughly 1/4 each of the following, in alphabetical order:
Dutch
German
Italian
Native American (Indian)
If you want, add whether you feel any strong attachment to a particular subset of your heritage, or whether you’re just you. And if you are “pure” (heh), does that mean anything to you?
Me? I’m just me.
Although I really, really, really LOVE Italian cuisine. Love it. Really…
I’m mostly WASP and German with some Welsh, Scots Irish and NA (Mohawk) mixed in.
I’m often mistaken for any of a number of other ethnicities/nationalities, most commonly Mexican or Italian. When I go to the Mexican grocery by myself I’m greeted by the checkers in Spanish. If I go with my husband (mostly Irish) I’m greeted in both English and Spanish. Never mind that he’s the one that speaks Spanish!
Oh: and in keeping with my 3/8ths German heritage, I’ll be going to Munich for Oktoberfest…uh, sometime. After I’m through with school in a few years. And I think I should get honorary status on the Mexican or Italian, since I venerate the cuisines of both Mexico and Italy hugely, and love the cultures.
My mom is 1/2 Swedish, 1/4 Danish, and 1/4 Norwegian. Dad is more English, though he did come with a Swedish last name. I think there’s some German on his side, too.
Mom’s the genealogist, but if I remember correctly,
3/4 Irish (As I understand it, about half of the branches came from Scotland to Ireland in and around 1600 and started toward the new world in the late 1700s. So I don’t really know if this makes me Irish or Scottish)
1/8 Scottish directly
1/8 Native American (Native Canadian?)
1/4 Irish
1/4 Italian
1/4 British (we’ve been over here since 1624, but the family came from Cranbrook, Kent in England)
1/4 a mishmash of German, British, Cherokee and lord knows what all.
Mostly very pasty. But I inherited from my grandma, who has the Cherokee in her background, a sort of round face with high cheekbones that resembles certain Native American populations. Mostly people tell me I look like an Inuit and I have no profile (a sort of flat, moony face with a short nose where nothing much sticks out.)
My mother and her family arrived in America from Italy when she was a teenager. My grandmother on my father’s side came here from Ireland when she was 7.
My grandfather’s people have been here for generations. They are Swedish, Dutch, and German.
White British all the way - short of being translucent I couldn’t be more white. On my mother’s side there’s Scottish and Welsh ancestry, not so sure about my dad’s side as he was adopted (although apparently one of his birth parents was an American).
I’m mostly descended from Jews from Eastern Europe, which means that most of my DNA probably comes from rapists. If you were to somehow have the ability to trace my lineage back 1500 years or so, and determine every single source of genetic material that contributed to what I am today, you would probably find lots and lots of rapists. Huns, Magyars, Polesians, Ruthenians, Cossacks, Turks, hell, maybe even a Mongolian or two. This is the only explanation, right? I mean, I’m Jewish, but I don’t look like someone from the Middle East. There are people in my family with blond hair, blue eyes, etc - and the Jews didn’t convert other faiths, so it’s not like there were people from European ethnic groups that became Jews and added to the bloodline. From a logical standpoint, the only answer is - rape.
Second-generation Irish on one side. Of Welsh descent on the other, with a long family line in Pembrokeshire, although my father is English in every way except during the Six Nations. So I’ve got a Welsh name, and an Irish passport. And am English in almost every way - I feel at home here, have every English characteristic, but certainly do not in other parts of Britain or in Ireland. Don’t try and put me under ‘British’, though, even if I might call myself a Brit here sometimes
