What is your ethnic make up? How closely do you identify with it?

[InflatableBuddha]

Part Irish, part English as far as I know.

But really, I'm a white guy, at least 5th generation Canadian.

 

[oogabooga]

Korean myself, a lot of my close friends actually are some mix of asian races yet surprisingly few Koreans, most are chinese/japanese.

My household had a lot of very Korean tendencies growing up, but was still pretty liberal vs conservative value wise.

 

[destrekor]

my ethnic make up is black. I blend into the night whenever I apply my ethnic make up.



but seriously...
50% Polish, 50% French, 25% German and 25% English. Did I mention I was Polish?

but seriously, the only percentage I know for sure is 12.5% Polish, at least confirmed from one side of my family. Everything else, know hows, a sum of the random parts from both sides.
English is just a given, well, given my ancestry that involves a Founding Father.

 

[Soundmanred]

I'm half Nigerian and half Colombian.
I am good at internet scams and pretending I'm smart.
+1 reps to all that have answered.
Thanks kindly.

 

[NetWareHead]

100% Italian ethnicity and first generation born in US. I like hanging out with other Italians, listening to our music, eating our food and general discussion about our culture. I am even a dual citizen of Italy and US although I was born here. That doesn't mean I dismiss other races, elasticities etc... I'm open minded enough to try other foods and talk to other people. I like to travel and experience how other countries live/eat/maintain traditions etc... My gf is Indian and I love to learn her culture. But I am very much in touch with and proud of my culture. As far as identifying with my stereotype, all my buddies joke about my gold chain and crucifix display, top button undone with chest hair showing and my greasy hair and skin. ;-p

 

[SunnyD]

1st gen American from Polish parents, so I'm 100% Polish by blood, 99% "American" by culture. Thing is, my parents were shuffled around as kids thanks to WWII, and ended up spending a good deal of their lives NOT in Poland. They ended up in England after the war, and that's where our family started.

Myself, I consider myself Polish "in name" only. I never had the desire (until well after it was too late) to learn Polish. Polish food is pretty much just another food to me - I love food in general. Polish culture isn't important to me, though I like Polish history. Even that though isn't because of the culture, but more because I love learning about historical cultures in general (I love ancient cultures especially). All in all, I don't go out of my way to be Polish, but I do occasionally wear it as a badge. Much the same way most minorities wear their status as a badge. Unfortunately, being Polish doesn't get any special benefits.

In the end, I'm about as American as they come.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I'm mostly white, but I have enough native american from both sides of my family for it to show a bit. I've also got some irish from my dad's side and whoknowswhatelse from my mom's side. I identify with the white race mainly.

 

[RKS]

100% Indian (used to have a dual British/American citizenship)
Wife is 100% German
our kids are just the awesomest mutts.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I'm damn tired of being the token Norwegian around here.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I'm damn tired of being the token Norwegian around here.

/axetotheface

/rape

/pillage

/lol

 

[Locut0s]

1/2 White 1/2 Chinese. Look 100% White just about.

I cherish my Chinese side, love the food and most of the people (Love my Chinese brothers and sisters!!)! I speak enough Chinese to get by travelling but not enough to hold an actual conversation for very long. I don't read or write Chinese. That being said I would say I identify more as white in my every day life. My mother is Chinese but I don't hand out with other Chinese much, actually I don't really have any friends so this is kind of a moot point. I tend to quickly make good aquaintances with chinese people though so long as they are not the imensly pridefull arogant type that you see not too infrequently.

Thing is since I look white most people treat me as white and things go from there. So basically I'm like 70% white 30% Chinese but wish I was more like 50/50.

 

[Locut0s]

This. My Mom is 100% Swede, my Dad is a mutt (English, Dutch, early colonial NJ roots).

Pics of your mom

 

[lokiju]

On my Mom's side we're Welsh, on my Dad's side we're Hungarian.

Both sides came over when America was being settled and I have no direct link to any relatives over the pond.

So basically I'm white.

 

[Iron Woode]

I am 1/2 Ukrainian and 1/2 French Canadian.

My father's side is Ukrainian and can only be traced back to the early 1920's. The last name was changed when they arrived in Canada and I have no idea what it originally was.

I have never bothered tracing the ancestry of my mother's side of the family.

 

[Locut0s]

1/2 White 1/2 Chinese. Look 100% White just about.

I cherish my Chinese side, love the food and most of the people (Love my Chinese brothers and sisters!!)! I speak enough Chinese to get by travelling but not enough to hold an actual conversation for very long. I don't read or write Chinese. That being said I would say I identify more as white in my every day life. My mother is Chinese but I don't hand out with other Chinese much, actually I don't really have any friends so this is kind of a moot point. I tend to quickly make good aquaintances with chinese people though so long as they are not the imensly pridefull arogant type that you see not too infrequently.

Thing is since I look white most people treat me as white and things go from there. So basically I'm like 70% white 30% Chinese but wish I was more like 50/50.

You guys like to break things down into itty bitty pieces, don't know why as it makes no difference beyond the 40-50% mark for racial identification. At any rate by this I guess I break down as 50% Chinese (Mother was born in Malaysia to 100% Chinese parents from a small farming town in Fujiuan), 25% German/English my grandfathers side, 25% Irish my grandmothers side. May be some scottish and others in there somewhere. While back I did a little work on the family tree but nothing very detailed. I could see that with a lot of work I could easily trace my fathers side of the family back hundreds of years to the Lake distrct in England (my Surname being Lake). My mothers side though I would be lucky to find out who my great grandparents were. After my grandparents died on my mothers side it's unlikely I will ever get much more info as records in small rural Chinese farm communities are not exactly easy to come buy. Might be fun to try some day though.

 

[Kirby]

100% redneck.

I researched as much as I could, but the furthest I got back was in Virginia in the 1600s.

 

[Deeko]

I don't know the exact proportions, but I am part...

-German
-English
-Welsh
-Greek
-Slovak
-Irish

 

[BurnItDwn]

Hmm ... Norwegian, English, German mix here ...
parents and grandparents all born in USA. Parts of the family have been in the USA since it was colonies, parts moved to the USA in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

I think by blood, the English is the biggest portion, I've always felt that I identified the most with Norway. I am very much a "winter" person.

 

[69Mach1]

Generic white, with a little Cherokee for spice. Family originally came over from Wales in the 1640s, but I've forgotten the details. Grandma had done a lot of the geneology, I'm not sure where she got her information, but a lot of the papers she had were very old.

 

[BoomerD]

3/8 Sioux, the rest is a mix of Irish, Russian, and other nationalities...making me a Blanket Ass Mongrel...

 

[TheVrolok]

1/2 German, 1/2 Russian. I'm just another cracker with European grand(great)parents.

 

[Locut0s]

1/2 German, 1/2 Russian. I'm just another cracker with European grand(great)parents.

So both your sides hate the other side

 

[zebano]

I'm a European mutt but most closely resemble Eastern European (Czech). In actuality I can trace my ancestry to each of these places: England, Ireland, Native American (Navajo), Poland, Slovak, Czechoslovakian,

 

[lxskllr]

3/8 Sioux, the rest is a mix of Irish, Russian, and other nationalities...making me a Blanket Ass Mongrel...

I dig the braids :^)

 

[Jeff7]

White and nerdy.