What are your ethnicities?

LilEva · Post by **LilEva** » Mon May 17, 2004 10:37 am

Vietnamese on both sides.

Parallax · Post by **Parallax** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:51 pm

African-American by birth, Klingon by the grace of Khaless The Unforgettable!!

Sakuya · Post by **Sakuya** » Mon May 17, 2004 3:21 pm

100% Chinese!

DistantMemory · Post by **DistantMemory** » Mon May 17, 2004 3:51 pm

DreamEmpress wrote:Does any one have a parent who dislikes a part of their ethnicity? I'm just wondering if this is normal. My dad has a little bit of Irish in him and yet he seems to have this thing about not liking Ireland very much. Yet, everyday is Scottish pride day. am I missing something here?

Maybe it's my lack of Internet "research", but I think that people seem to have this thing that Irish=bad. Maybe it's the whole drunken bastard stereotype... *hates alcohol of any kind*

LadyFlameSniper · Post by **LadyFlameSniper** » Mon May 17, 2004 4:13 pm

I could never fully understand why someone would hate their ethnicity, especially if it's because of stereotypes. Your ethnicity doesn't determine who you are personality-wise. To answer the question though, no my parents are proud of who they are.

Jamaican (but I dont look it)

I guess you mean you don't look black? The majority of Jamaican people are of African decent but you'll definitely see other kinds of people there.[/quote]

Dinozore · Post by **Dinozore** » Mon May 17, 2004 5:16 pm

I'm Irish, Welsh, Italian, and German.

Anthy · Post by **Anthy** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:31 pm

Well, Dreamempress, my mom hates the Romani (gypsy) bit on my dad's side, which added to her decision to switch to Catholocism when my parents divorced.

Mom's side:
Mostly English and French
One great great great (or so) grandpa Mongolian

Dad's side:
Mostly German and English
Great great great grandmother Romani

The piece of non-European in me is very, very small.

KoiNoVash · Post by **KoiNoVash** » Mon May 17, 2004 9:00 pm

::deep breath:: I'm French, German, English, Scottish, Dutch, and Cherokee indian. My looks are mostly Cherokee and German though because they are the largest portion of my blood.

DreamEmpress · Post by **DreamEmpress** » Mon May 17, 2004 9:13 pm

It's just something I never understood. We've got a small part Irish in us. Possibly a small part in mom too. My dad keeps saying that he doesn't approve of the politics of Ireland, but yet when I pointed out some pretty artwork to him, he liked it until he found out it was Irish. I would have liked to have been more exposed to the culture when I was younger instead of him constantly making negative remarks on it. It's frustrating especially since supposively it's a part of our family's history (somewhere down the line). How can he act like that toward a country that has such an artistic side to it?

Thanks Anthy. I'm glad to know that I'm not alone on this issue.

NameGoesHere · Post by **NameGoesHere** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:21 pm

Mothers Side (in order of dominance):
-Irish. (Yay!)
-Scottish. (Yay, again!)
-English. (I speak it, too.)
-Native American. (I'm 1/8 I think. Mom never said which tribe.)

There are a lot more (I'm a mutt, and I love it), but I'm not clear on all of them. The family history is full of holes, and my mom can't seem to find any good documentation that goes back any farther than her Grandmother.

MonkeyDLuffy · Post by **MonkeyDLuffy** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:37 am

Mom's side:
German
Irish

Dad's side:
Italian
Sicilian
French

ParaKiss_Groupie · Post by **ParaKiss_Groupie** » Tue May 18, 2004 11:42 am

DreamEmpress wrote:My dad keeps saying that he doesn't approve of the politics of Ireland, but yet when I pointed out some pretty artwork to him, he liked it until he found out it was Irish.

I am Irish, and I strongly disapprove of the Irish politics. Until, of course, I found out about their plan to assassinate George Bush. (I'm not kidding, they were seriously planning it. I'll find the link and edit the post.) I was kidding about the now-approval, though. I think The Republic of Ireland has a horrible government. The IRA is part of the government, and by today's standards, they are a terrorist organization (except of course, that they ARE the government, so they're not going against themselves.)

Of course, my family's from Ulster (Northern Ireland), so that might explain my dislike of the IRA.

Akarui Kibuno · Post by **Akarui Kibuno** » Tue May 18, 2004 5:58 pm

Mother : French
Dad: French

Though we're not France-French, we're Reunion Island-French *see Indian Ocean under Madagascar

* . Though the first member of our family came to that island around 1500 and before that... we were French XD... maybe of some Celtic descent, dunno, Huet seems such a common name ^^;; . Mom says she might have some black blood in her family, though her own mom will never admit it *must have been long ago* .

*trying to break the lineage by learning lots of languages

*

FoxFire · Post by **FoxFire** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:02 pm

Mom's side:
German

Dad's side:
German
Irish
French Canadian

jupiter23 · Post by **jupiter23** » Wed May 19, 2004 11:39 am

Mom's side
~German
~Dutch
~Irish

Dad's side
~French (Possibly Cajun)
~rest is unknown

DuoTheShinigami02 · Post by **DuoTheShinigami02** » Fri May 21, 2004 2:02 pm

I am 100% Pure Pinoy (Filipino)!

And the one thing that annoys me when I meet other Filipinos is that they say that I'm not a true Filipino if I never eat dogs!

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri May 21, 2004 5:12 pm

I am 100% Dominican-American. Both my parents are from Dominican Republic, but me and my brothers were born on the greatest city on Earth: New York, New York.

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:51 am

Mom:
French and Scottish (I think)

Dad:
German and French

I'm sure that there's more, but that's all that I know.