What Is Your Heritage?

[ShamWow]

25% Mexican
25% Native American
25% Colombian
25% Spanish

100% Wildcat

 

[irydion]

my father comes from lands which are 100% polish nowdays, but used to be ukrainian a couple of centuries ago and got polonised, and the city and it surrounding themselves were perhaps found with german settlers.

my mothernal side comes from former polish-romanian borderland, nowdays Ukraine. My grand-grandmother was Armenian according to my family, but my grandpa was always suspected of being Jewish and, as he was from a 70% or so jewish city, that would not be a big suprise. My mother's family does look pretty dark compared to ordinary Poles, so it's either armenian or jewish or armenian and jewish heritage, and perhaps some romanian and ukrainian as well due to the land they come from. But I'd have to check it all up, and I'm too lazy.

 

[Lasosa]

I'm Dutch.

 

[TygreBryte]

Women and girls in my family on both side most likely qualify for membership with the Daughters of American Revolution. While my family lineage have European and Choctaw origins, I would say my heritage is strictly American. 1637 on my father's side and 1648 on my mother's side.

yeah, on both my mom and my dad's side we go back that far. But I would still say it's a european heritage.

mostly british isles (I myself like to focus on the celtic part), and mostly probably what they called "scotch-irish". an injection from sweden three generations back, a fresh injection from ireland 4 generations back, and *possible* American Indian back on dad's mom's side.

I know the "scotch-irish" sort of qualifies me to be a "nativist", but it still seems wrong (intellectually dishonest, to me) to just say "I'm an American."

 

[Ram]

I'm confused by the question.

Quick Question:

Am I the only one who thinks the word "heritage" is used wrongly here?

Shouldn't it be race or ethnicity?

 

[JayHawk]

I am the only gay eskimo

 

[westindianstud]

My mum is 1/3 Brazilian, 1/3Venezuelian and 1/3 Black and my dad is 1/2 Black and 1/2 Indian. So what am I exactly? Hmm, I am lost for words here...

 

[unloadonme]

White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant (WASP).

7/8ths English (mostly Suffolk and Warwickshire) and 1/8th Welsh. Nothing remotely exotic.

 

[chatolandia]

My mother's side is of pure Spanish blood


which means they were mixed with Moors (from Africa), Romans, Visigoths, and maybe some Jewish sprinkled about... And considering that her father's side came from the Canary Islands, some Guanche too..



But they were appalled when my mother married my dad because he was a mutt...

1/4 Taino, 1/4 African and 1/4 French (and only 1/4 Spanish)...


that's my mix

 

[bankside]

Nothing is ever remotely exotic if you find yourself in the right city.

 

[subfer1]

Yes, it does seem like it should have been ethnicity, or ethnical background. Ethnical heritage is accepted among anthropologists so it could have been that too.

 

[bankside]

That which comes from the circumstances of birth; an inherited lot or portion; the condition or state transmitted from ancestors.

From Oxford. It makes sense to me in the sense used here...

 

[kevbo]

I would have used the word "lineage."

 

[Fucker29]

I have absolutely no fucking idea.

 

[davy]

I'm a garden variety mexican (which means lots of yaqui, tarahumara, etc. and a little bit of spanish and spanish gypsy)

But if you ask anyone from south of the border, you'll learn that where you're born is what matters.

So I'm mexican-american.

 

[Hudson402]

Italian and Lithuanian

Great tans in the summer

 

[celtboy]

My maternal grandfather emigrated to Canada from Lowestoft, England in the '20s. My grandmother had an Acadian background.

On dad's side: his father came from Irish stock - county Waterford, and his mother was from the Waloon [French] part of Belguim.

 

[LatinoSTAR]

heritage can mean whatever, race n etnicity too. i meant ethnicity, but you guys knew wat i meant, i dont know why everyone has to be soo politically correct..

 

[GL]

I'm a garden variety mexican (which means lots of yaqui, tarahumara, etc. and a little bit of spanish and spanish gypsy)

But if you ask anyone from south of the border, you'll learn that where you're born is what matters.

So I'm mexican-american.

what if i told you you're my kind of mexican-american?

 

[relaxin13]

Italian/Irish on my father's side. My mom was adopted in the US, so I call the other 50% American.