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GardenStateGirlie

08-13-2004 10:14 PM

What are you?

So, I went into the city tonight and there are tons of tourists not just from this country but from out of the country as well. Then, I came home and turned on the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and it got me thinking...what nationality/nationalities are everyone made up of? Me, i'm Italian (dad is 100%, biological grandfather still lives in Italy) as well as Irish, German, Scottish, French (and that's all we've traced...my mom's side is very confusing). What about you?

Merf	08-13-2004 10:39 PM

Dad's side- English 100%

Mom's side- Scotch-Irish 100%

I'm boring. :o

GypsySorcerer

08-13-2004 10:48 PM

I am 50% Italian; the rest is German, English, and Irish, about equal parts.

WelshWitchPMD

08-13-2004 10:49 PM

Italian on my Father's side and my Mom was Irish.

EnchantedSLN

08-13-2004 10:59 PM

Turkish & Cuban on my mother's side. My dad's side gets a bit complicated.

GateandGarden

08-13-2004 11:04 PM

I'm sure there's more to it than what I know, but I know my Mom's side is mostly English, while my Dad's is mostly French and Native American.

Hillary

tuigirl

08-14-2004 12:32 AM

wer'e an interesting bunch aren't we!!
Me...I'm half Kiwi and half Ozzy in equal amounts (with a bit of English thrown in.... waaay back...)

tommer

08-14-2004 01:26 AM

my mom's side is Slovakian and my dad's side is Serbian and Bulgarian.

DownOnRodeo

08-14-2004 02:51 AM

Lots of Italian heritage here at the Ledge. I'm one of the English/Irish types! Although I have a Kiwi grandmother as well (but she sensibly calls herself Australian ;) Hehe sorry Mich :P)

Bryan

08-14-2004 04:44 AM

Seems like everyone here has a bit 'o Irish in 'em! I myself am 100% Irish.

Jason T.

08-14-2004 07:44 AM

100% Mexican on my father's side, and 75% Mexican/25% Native American on my mother's side. :cool:

estranged4life

08-14-2004 08:42 AM

Hmmm...

50% Cherokee/Irish from my Father
50% German/Irish from my Mother

dissention

08-14-2004 09:39 AM

Both my parents are French. ;)

Siri Ruane

08-14-2004 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by estranged4life

50% Cherokee/Irish from my Father
50% German/Irish from my Mother

Same thing here except my mom is the Cherokee and my dad is the German. :p

DeeGeMe

08-14-2004 11:20 AM

Father: Irish, English, and French
Mother: Irish, English, and French

So I guess that makes me 1/3 Irish, 1/3 English, and 1/3 French!

ontheEdgeof17

08-14-2004 12:33 PM

Mom's side: Pure Irish
Dad's side: German

This means I can drink anyone under the table. :wavey:

-Curt

face of glass

08-14-2004 01:09 PM

87,5% Finnish. 12,5% comes from a shady Russian salesman who sometimes crossed the border for the good old "in-and-out" game. This should explain the content of most of my posts. :p

amber

08-14-2004 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

My mom is 1/2 Italian, My dad is 1/2 Italian. My great grandpa on Dad's side was Sicilian, his wife from Northern Italy. Great Grandpa on Mom's side was Sicilian, his wife from Northern Italy.
My dad is also 1/2 English/Irish/Scottish
My mom is also 1/2 French/Native American
I am 1/2 Italian, 1/4 Eng/Irish/Scott, 1/4 French/Native American
:woohoo:
AMber

amber

08-14-2004 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuigirl

wer'e an interesting bunch aren't we!!
Me...I'm half Kiwi and half Ozzy in equal amounts (with a bit of English thrown in.... waaay back...)

Um, unless your Maori, if you're australian, aren't you probably English/Irish/Scottish? I mean, Australia was settled, It didn't have an indiginous white population, right? :confused:
AMber

amber

08-14-2004 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dissention

Both my parents are French. ;)

for real?
AMber

ShamHy89

08-14-2004 02:22 PM

All four of my grandparents are/were from Ireland. :thumbsup: Huge families too.

Shamus :D

Tango

08-14-2004 03:10 PM

I'm an American Mutt, predominately English and Irish if you look back far enough, some native American, along with a few scoundrals. Some of my American ancestors date back prior to colonial times.

sara1998

08-14-2004 04:19 PM

My great grandparents on my dad's side came over from Germany, and I don't know how far back my family on my mom's side came over, but they are German, too. So, I guess I'm an AMERICAN with at little bit of German in me.

Maria

gldstwmn

08-14-2004 04:48 PM

A Democrat. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Lala	08-14-2004 05:03 PM

English, Scottish, and Prussian...a country which no longer exists! :D

golden braid

08-14-2004 08:15 PM

On my dad's side: Russian
On my mom's side: English and Italian

ryan8472

08-14-2004 09:18 PM

I'm Belgian, English, French, and Canadian.

GardenStateGirlie

08-14-2004 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EnchantedSLN

Turkish & Cuban on my mother's side. My dad's side gets a bit complicated.

Very cool though. Do you still have family elsewhere?

GardenStateGirlie

08-14-2004 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dissention

Both my parents are French. ;)

Ahh so that explains it ;) :xoxo:

sara1998

08-14-2004 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

A Democrat. :lol: :lol: :lol:

No ****? I woulda never guessed..... :laugh:

Maria

tuigirl

08-15-2004 02:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lux

The Maori's are the native New Zealanders. Actually that's a lie, there're not the natives but they were the ones living there when it was settled. They're the scary, ones, the ones who put up the best fight to the settlers. Well they were fearsome warrior cannibals who I was lead to believe were dangerous to me......but then my mother is unintentionally racist and we came from a staunchly British/Scottish part of NZ. Anyway, the Maoriori's were the native New Zealanders but unfortunately the Maori's killed all them off. I don't think any still exist today. Ah ha, see the Brits aren't always the ones to blame.

Well that was a patronising post. Your poorly equipped teacher shall not be returning.

oh good grief this is getting far too technical for me!!
I take it your'e from Christchurch then Lux?
To set the record straight, I'm a white kiwi, my mum is an Aussie and both grannies came from the Uk ( how mixed up British they were, I have no idea!)
oh and DOR, thanks,I class myself as a kiwi..haha
:wavey:

amber

08-15-2004 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lux

Actually the native Australians are the Aboriginals. Australia was settled by the Brits who brought over Irish convicts to dump here. Although that crap about Australia being full of criminals is nonsense because firstly they weren't really criminals, secondly we're mostly British and on another point, the resultant concept isn't that different from those who fled to America due to an incapacity to follow British law.

The Maori's are the native New Zealanders. Actually that's a lie, there're not the natives but they were the ones living there when it was settled. They're the scary, ones, the ones who put up the best fight to the settlers. Well they were fearsome warrior cannibals who I was lead to believe were dangerous to me......but then my mother is unintentionally racist and we came from a staunchly British/Scottish part of NZ. Anyway, the Maoriori's were the native New Zealanders but unfortunately the Maori's killed all them off. I don't think any still exist today. Ah ha, see the Brits aren't always the ones to blame.

Well that was a patronising post. Your poorly equipped teacher shall not be returning.

That's what i thought - you notice the Americans mainly say they are Italian, or German, or Irish, or whatever...I thought the Aussies and New Zealanders would do the same thing, since it is a settled country in the same way. Unless, of course, they said "I'm native australian" Like i am native american...see?
AMber

tuigirl

08-15-2004 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lux

Did I tell you this already, or could you just guess by the description? Yes I am from Christchurch. Oh and I want to clarify that I don't dislike Maori's at all, I just brought up to be weary of them because of some misguided belief.

Heheeee..I know a bit of NZ geography and history... :)

celestenadia

08-15-2004 07:39 PM

1/2 Germanic stock
1/2 Galician(it's like a mixture of Polish/Ukrainian),White Russian ancestry
AND I'm 1/64 Sicilian - don't laugh, a doctor told me I have a gene that's only found in Greeks, Sicilians and Blacks and after interrogating my mother and father I found out from my father that one of my great-grandmother's great-grandmothers fled Siracusa Sicily during the Napoleonic Wars and settled in the Ukraine because the farming was good. I did my math and challenged him on how it could be great-granny's great-grandmother and he reminded me that back then, women had babies when they were like 15 years old and that was it. Another interesting tidbit, one of my great-grandfathers was Belgium's ambassador to Ceylon/Sri Lanka.

macmar71

08-15-2004 09:51 PM

Mom's side: Scottish-English-Mexican

Dad's side: Italian

diamondsnake

08-15-2004 09:53 PM

Half Irish
Half German
With a little bit of French mixed in for good measure

DrummerDeanna

08-15-2004 10:56 PM

I don't know the percentages but from what I've been told by my grandparents and mom - I'm part Spanish, Native American (no clue what tribe) and Mexican...

Patti

08-16-2004 08:41 AM

My mother: Italian

My father: 1/2 Polish, 1/2 Russian

Me: 1/2 Italian, 1/4 Polish, 1/4 Russian

skcin

08-16-2004 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tommer

my mom's side is Slovakian and my dad's side is Serbian and Bulgarian.

Dober den, Tommer! (Sp?) :wavey:

My dad's 100% Bulgarian He escaped from communist Bulgaria to Greece in 1963, arrived in the US the day President Kennedy was killed.

My mom was born here, but she is half Croatian & half Polish.

Paula

Jessica Leigh

08-16-2004 02:00 PM

mostly german....

my dad is 100% german (and he's 3rd generation too, kind of hard to be 100% after that many generations in the U.S. but my family seeks them out for breeding purposes or something... all the women are blond haired, blue eyed, short, and fat... and can make a good strudel and drink a lot of beer- and the men are all tall basketball players)

my mother is french and dutch, a bit of german and a bit of irish and english. good grief with her hot headed frenchman temper, and irish temper.... watch out!

so, I'm more than half german, equal parts french of dutch, and some irish and english.

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