NationStates Jolt Archive

Here is a thread devoted to appreciating our heritage:

I am French, Russian, Scottish, Irish, Spanish(Spain) and German.

There is a district in Scotland with the same name as my last name.
My family was one of many who settled a town in Wisconsin.
My grandparents X something were named Valentin and Valentino (lol).

The options on the poll were created after the thread was created. I tried to use some of the most popular responses from posters since I could not list everything. Some options I did not add were Indian, Asian, Swiss, Danish, Lithuanian, and Estonian.

Ach! I be Irish! Very Irish and I'm DAMN proud of it!

I am Russian and Bulgarian. I was raised in Russia and my mother is from Sofiya, Bulgaria. Both are beautiful Slavic countries. Bulgaria was the first of the Slavic kingdoms and was founded in the 600's. I am very proud of my Bulgarian heritage, and very proud to be Russian.

English, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, German, Swedish, and Native American (Cherokee).

Great American Melting Pot in the works.

Irish, French, and a tiny bit of Finnish.

I have Dutch and German blood. Pure 100% master race :p winkysmiley

I'm of Italian descent. My father came from Sicily, my mother from Calabria. I have roots in two great cultures, the Helenic, from my Sicilian roots, and the Roman, I guess from both places. Some of my distant relatives were from the group of people who invented democracy, The rest were from the people who invented the republic and spread the idea accross Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa.

My Dad's Dutch and my Mum's Irish and emmigrated from Africa (Namibia iirc, maybe SA) together. Otherthen that, I know of nothing of anyparticular note my family has done (maybe apocrypha from my Irish side qualifies though).

I'm Cajun, Irish, American Indian, and Sephardic Jew.

Quite proud of the lot. :D

Russian, Polish, Dutch, German, English.

Ashkenazi Jew :)

Puerto Rican with a tad IRISH baby! Just call me the CPR ... Crazy Puerto Rican. I'll loot your money, steal your women, and dance all the way home....even though I have no sense of rhythm. OH and I will beat you in ANY drinking contests ESPECIALLY everclear....i get that from my irish side

Scottish ancestry here and my surname happens to be of one of the major clans. What I do not understand though is my last name, translated from Gaelic into English literally means 'from Britain'. :confused:

I'm Greek, and that's it :). I'm the first generation in the US.

Extremely proud of my heritage:), I plan to move there eventually, once I get everything settled hopefully.

Oh, my great grandfater on my mom's side was a WWI General fighting for Greece, and on my dad's side there's some other not very distant General. And on my mom's side, I currently have a 2nd cousin that's either a colonel or a general.

On my mom's side I'm irish, scottish, welsh, french, german norwegian and finnish. It seems I'm somehow descended from Sir Robert the Bruce (for those who don't know, he led the scottish to independance from England and then became king or Scotland)

On my dad's side I'm irish and eastern european (half the countries don't exist anymore and no one seems to know half of them anyways so I'm not going to bother there)

I am English, Scottish, Swedish, Finnish, Irish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, Polish, Cherokee and Czech.

Scotts/Irish (Clan Buchanan)
British (Chesterton - Robbins)
German (Schmidt)

(Though my Family Name is Austrianized Slav... )

if you want to go really far back then norman...with english, irish and scots in there as well in the majority

I have spanish,Indian (Apache), and Mexican blood in me. I am really proud of that. My last name is Gonzales and there is a town here in Texas named Gonzales and I am sure my ancestors had something to do with that town...but yeah thats my heritage

I'm mostly Irish and German, (that makes for one sexy beast). :p

im really boring. british. oh and a little bit of british. whats more im not even very norman, mostly anglo saxon, but at least the daily mail hordes wont want to deport me.

Puerto Rican with a tad IRISH baby! Just call me the CPR ... Crazy Puerto Rican. I'll loot your money, steal your women, and dance all the way home....even though I have no sense of rhythm. OH and I will beat you in ANY drinking contests ESPECIALLY everclear....i get that from my irish side

That's not funny...a puerto rican really did steal my woman.... :(

I'm Russian, Scottish, and a little bit of Irish. My grandfather flew B-17's in World War 2, and was part of the 100th bomber division. Or something like that. I never got to meet him.

How can one be proud to be some small percentage of a culture you never heard of? "Oh I'm 1/326 Japanese...and proud."

I agree national pride exists, and it can be split seceral ways, if the person is in contact with the culture. Personally, I am full-blood Polish, living in America, and I am proud of both nations.

British, German, French

My ancestors crawled out of the Carboniferous swamps some 350 million years ago :D

English, Irish, Scottish.

75% Polish and 25% Czech, and damn proud of it too! All of my great grandparents came over to the US as kids from the year 1913 to about 1917.

I'm half Italian (including a quarter Sicilian), and half Lebanese.

Scotch-Irish and some English. I'm descended from Scottish nobility! There's a castle, even, though I think it's a ruin. Ogilvie/Findlater, with spelling variations.

I'm a little Irish (I think 1/8), a little Cherokee-Sioux (1/16), and a LOT of unknown (the remaining 13/16). Is there a way to look up about your makeup or test it or anything? I'd like to know more about myself in that respect.

I am 100% Irish, and fiercly proud of it.

im english and irish, im proud to be irish not to be english, becuase we went to war for no reason *nods* however were the only country not to be invaded in a 1000 years nearly arnt we cool

100% Italian (Sicily) on my Dad's side, Northern European on my mom's. I really love being Italian because Italian food is THE BEST FOOD IN THE WORLD. I will no under no circumstance retract that statement. Ever.

Well okay, you asked for it:

Generally, the blood from my dad is English and Welsh (or Saxon/Norman/Viking and Celt) and that from my mom is German and English (bit more Saxon there, likely).

My dad's mom apparently is descended directly from King John I of England.

John I's parents were Henry II "Curtmantle" and Eleanor of Aquitaine. That "The Lion In Winter" thing on Showtime starring Jean-Luc Picard? Captain Picard was playing the part of Henry II.

Sheesh... going back from THEM you see people like Clovis, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Hugh Capet "The Great", Egbert (first king of unified England, apparently), Alfred the Great, the first kings of Scotland (or parts of Scotland... "Dalriada" or something like that), Matilda of Scotland, Hengest the Saxon, a whole line of viking kings (including Odin -- Woden), and Priam Podarces.

Not sure about Priam Podarces and Odin. lol

100% Italian (Sicily) on my Dad's side, Northern European on my mom's. I really love being Italian because Italian food is THE BEST FOOD IN THE WORLD. I will no under no circumstance retract that statement. Ever.
Hey, one of my people! Are we the only purebreeds in this kennel of muts? No offense intended to you muts out there.

yeah... Italian food (and Italy, imo) is tops!

I'd like French food a whole lot more if they didn't put mushrooms in everything. hehe

Hey, one of my people! Are we the only purebreeds in this kennel of muts? No offense intended to you muts out there.

We're not offended, we just feel sorry for you poor fragile thoroughbreds.

Me : Russian, Scots (McDougal I think) Irish, Norman, 1/256th Jewish (more or less)
My Wife: Portuguese (arabic) Italian
We live in Brazil, and have no Brazilian blood.

Our son will be looking for a part african, part asian, part native american wife probably.

I am of German and Scottish Decent but I dont care because I think race and ethnicity (sp?) Is meaningless.

How can one be proud to be some small percentage of a culture you never heard of? "Oh I'm 1/326 Japanese...and proud."


I'm pretty sure I've heard of, and grown up actively a part of, all of my proclaimed heritages.

Hey, one of my people! Are we the only purebreeds in this kennel of muts? No offense intended to you muts out there.
I'm purebreed. Not italian though. Irish, though I'll admit you have much better food.

Although born in Canada, my Background is Israeli, Polish, German and Russian.... and possibly Khazar...so maybe i might have some chinese/mongolian blood in me. :D

w00t jewz pwnz 477 ur p4ntz!

100% Italian (Sicily) on my Dad's side

Ah ... so you've got Moorish blood. :D My wife is Sicilian (2nd generation).

However, Cajun food pwns Sicilian food. :p

We're not offended, we just feel sorry for you poor fragile thoroughbreds.

Me : Russian, Scots (McDougal I think) Irish, Norman, 1/256th Jewish (more or less)
My Wife: Portuguese (arabic) Italian
We live in Brazil, and have no Brazilian blood.

Our son will be looking for a part african, part asian, part native american wife probably.

Damn...now I wish I was a 'mutt.'

How did your son decide on something like that?

Personally, I won't marry anybody that is not 1/32 Japanese, 1/8 German, 1/4 Polish, 1/8 Portugese, 3/32 Irish, 3/16 Kenyan and 3/16 Italian.

I'm pretty sure I've heard of, and grown up actively a part of, all of my proclaimed heritages.

Fantastic! Obviously the comment did not pertain to you then.

I am 100% Chinaman although there may be some Jewish ancestor back there somewhere.

Ah ... so you've got Moorish blood. :D My wife is Sicilian (2nd generation).

However, Cajun food pwns Sicilian food. :p
Yeah I'm a whitey Italian.

Cajun? Bleh! :mad:

<--English, German, Dutch, Scottish, a wee bit of Cherokee, and Black Lab.

My mom's mom was the the bitch.

3/8ths each Russian and Ukranian, as well as 2/8 Tatar.
My name comes from the guy who invented the Cyrillic alphabet.

Generally, it annoys me to no end when people say 'I'm...' instead of 'I'm of... heritage.' I'm not one for picking up on political correctness, but meh, this gets on my titties. Personally? I'm of English (two grandparents), Irish (one grandparent of whom I'm very close to and I frequent Ireland - Port Laois... I believe that's how it's spelt?) and Scotland (one grandparent =D Gorbals, Glasgow). Apparently, I have New Zealand and China somewhere in there too.

I'm of Italian, Irish, Scottish, Puerto Rican, Cherokee, English, Sicilian, and Swedish heritage.

I am of Danish, Norwegian, Irish, and German descent.

I think that is a pretty decent combination. :D

Hmmm. Until recently, I thought I was 100% British. But, I found out that I am 1/16 Polish, and 15/16 British.
I was, however, raised in a German home and have a Prussian name from my step-dad.
Live in Canada, and that is yet another distinct culture.

WWJD
Amen.

Well, as far as I know I'm half Deutsch and half English. Although since I have Murphys in my family as well, chances are I have a little bit of Irish or possibly Scotch-Irish.

Ja, Ich spreche Deutsch.

Du sprichts Englisch?

Well, actually I only speak a little German.


And if you subscribe to the theory that we all came from Africa, we're all African!

Pretty much, straight English on both sides. I am related to GW though, cousin 36 times removed or something.

Oh and a little bit of Cherokee, 1/16, my 2x great grandmother was full-blooded.

I'm Irish... 2nd Generation American, so Irish I get the blessed Killian Rian Mulcahy

Um... the largest ethnic division in me is Acadian French (I'm Canadian), at about 1/4th. Add to that some MiqMaq, every European Nation north of Switzerland, and you got my genetic background.

Im 50% German, 25% French some Irish and some native canadian.

I'm Mostly of Polish heritage, but I am also part French, Irish, Russian, and Syrian.

I'm proud that I am not English! At all!

Whooooooopie!

But I Am Polish. That's why In my mind, Poland hasn't been forgotten!

Yay Slav's!

*does the happy Slav dance*

I'm from Eastern Europe, from many places. But it would be foul of me not to say that I'm JEWISH, and from there. Otherwise, I'd be on the other side of those pogram-type things, eh?

I'm part french, part english, part polish, part austrian/hungarian and uhh a tiny bit of native canadian stuck in there somewhere. And if this is the saddest thing you've heard, part of my family have been living in Ontario for hundreds of years

by the by does anyone have any information on how to trace your ancestors and heritige and what-not?

by the by does anyone have any information on how to trace your ancestors and heritige and what-not?

Courthouse records generally work pretty well.

25% Lithuanian, 10-25% German (I think?), the rest probably nearly wholly English and Irish. The only thing I really know for sure is the Lithuanian, because apart from my grandfather, my family had been here for several generations.

My surname means "Left" in Lithuanian, which is really quite ironic. :p

Polish, Swedish, English (and I think some Irish, Scottish, and Dutch).

Nice retort to all the "I'm X, Y and Z and the rest of you suck" threads...

I'm of Indian descent, with my ancestors from around Bengal and Uttar Pradesh in India, i.e. the North/North east. My ancestors were taken to South Africa in the mid 1800's as 'indentured labourers.' (*cough*slaves*cough*) They were eventually freed and made lives for themselves.

Originally posted by Flausu
by the by does anyone have any information on how to trace your ancestors and heritige and what-not?

You can go on websites:
www.genealogy.com (http://)
www.ancestry.com (http://)
www.roots.com (http://)
www.lds.org (http://)

In the 90s, there was a huge trend for researching your family history. Now, many people are putting the finishing touches on their family trees. So this will allow you to be able to fine lines a lot easier without having to start from scratch and find connections on your own. I have done my family tree once before, but had computer problems and I lost my account on genealogy. So I suggest you copy all of your information into word. Now I am going to create it once again. I'd be glad to help you. Can I ask, do you have any idea where some of your ancestors may have come from?

90% german, the rest divided between british and scottish. :D :cool: :D

50% Yugoslavian (my mother's side)

25-30% Irish-Welsh Irish(Ulster Strain)

10% German

Welsh English name and a core of English/Welsh ancestry


One of my relatives came in at Jamestown in 1608, half the men in that strain of my family died fighting for South Carolina in the Civil War, the German/Irish segment on another side were fighting for the Union. And I had over 25 distant relatives (same last name) fighting in the British Army in WWI.

I am Italian, Scottish, English and i think Irish.

My mom's side of the family is from Italy, mostly Casino. My grandpa immigrated to Ellis Island in the 50's then went to Canada. My aunt Antoinette went with him, she was going to marry my uncle Charlie, who already lived there. My mom, grandma, and uncle Sal came to Canada in 1962. My aunt Maria and her husband, my uncle Angelo, and their kids, came a few years later.

My dad's side is from England and Scotland and i think Ireland. My dad was born in Richmond, BC and my grandparents were also born in Canada. My grandma's mother, my great-grandma, was born in Stokesley, York, England. My grandma's father, my great-grandfather, was born in Leamington, Ontario. My great-great grandpa was born in Scotland, they think Paisley. My mom said that my grandpa's parents are from England and Ireland, but i don't know where they were born. My last name though does have English and Scottish origins, and for the first two years of my life i had red hair. The Irish could come in there...lol.

That's not funny...a puerto rican really did steal my woman.... :(

I'm Russian, Scottish, and a little bit of Irish. My grandfather flew B-17's in World War 2, and was part of the 100th bomber division. Or something like that. I never got to meet him.

Hey I am sorry, I was kidding I don't steal woman, but I like to brag aboutit as if I did. Anyhow that is cool that your grandfather fought in the second Great War

German, English, Polish and most amusingly, a bit of Swiss as well.

Besides the fact that Switzerland kicks major ass, I'm also somehow related to some Polish gentry, who had to flee after the Russians, Prussians and Austrians carved the country up in the 1790's.

Both my grandfathers fought in the Second World War. My paternal grandfather was in the RCAF (Royal Canadian Airforce) and my maternal grandfather was a messenger in the Italian Army. He was in a concentration camp for the last two years of the war.

The options on the poll were created after the thread was created. I tried to use some of the most popular responses from posters since I could not list everything. Some options I did not add were Indian, Asian, Swiss, Danish, Lithuanian, and Estonian.

I am 100% Jewish--Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, and Israeli. If you want to go REALLY far back, I'm a direct descendant of King David. :p

I have Dutch and German blood. Pure 100% master race :p winkysmiley
Kasefressen! That's not pure.
:eek:
by the by does anyone have any information on how to trace your ancestors and heritige and what-not?
There are tons of websites, most of them cost money. Some that don't are:
rootsweb.com
genealogy.com
My ancestors did a pretty good job keeping all that info up so I wouldn't have to.

I'm Norweigan, German, Irish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Dutch and Swiss.

Someone posted in a thread here months ago who claims lineage back to Adam. Yeah, THAT Adam. He posted to whole lineage. Interesting.

I'm 50% Hungarian, 25% French, and the remaining 25% is divided someway between Lithuanian and Slovakian. Really though, I'm 100% American, which means I'm a human mutt.

Half Greek (yes Greeks are as crazy as you've seen in movies), somewhere close to 1/3 Irish, and the rest is a complete mush of about 10 other countries in Europe. Oh and Canadian, if you count that.

The poll is totally broken. Let's see.


French
German
Polish
Russian
Italian
African
Australian
English/Scottish/Irish
Arabic
Slavic (Bulgaria, Hungary)


First of all, Hungarian is NOT Slavic. Hungarian is the largest language in the Fenno-Ugric language family, one of the three originally European families: Basque, Fenno-Ugric with Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and Indo-European with the rest of European languages. Hungarians also identify themselves with a different culture than Slavic. Hungarians would be probably very insulted should you suggest it's a Slavic culture.

Problem two is that there are three Slavic entries (Russian, Polish and "Slavic"), while the Romance heritages are represented by two entries (French and Italian, no generic option). German and two options for English are given, but the Scandinavian heritage is ignored completely.

"African" is a good one, as the knowledge of the exact ancestry has been systematically taken away in America. "Arabic" is also less disputable.

A better one would be:
English, Scottish, Irish, other GB
Mediterranean (French, Italian, Spanish, Greek)
Germanic (Swiss, German, Dutch)
Scandavian (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)
Slavic (Russian, Polish, Bulgarian)
African
Native American
Asian (sorry)
?
Other

This, of course, still produces a substantial "Other" input, but that should cover at least North American heritages. Arabic is ignored, because as yet no one has voted for it.

There's one option left. It could be Fennic (Finnish, Estonian), but this would exclude Hungarian; and it could be Fenno-Ugric, but this would make little sense with respect to cultures, as there is no such this as a "Fenno-Ugric culture". Only the languages are related. Can't know about Hungarian, but Finnish cannot be really classified "Nordic", as it'd immediately bring ideas about ABBA and other such Swedish = fairy things into mind.

Scandinavian and German could also be merged, as the distinction between the two isn't all that great. That would allow a better differentiation for the "Asian" option. I can't know how that should be divided up.

Any other ideas for a better poll? Posting it if it's good.

By the way, I'm most probably 100% Finnish. That is, with 1/4 Ingrian Finnish and possibly some Sami relatives. Couldn't be any more pure-bred white =)

ok on my fathers i'm part scottish and irish with a little bit of cherokee indian
on my mothers it's basically eastern european-russian,german,austrian,hungarian,polish-if its in eastern europe,there's most likely a bit of it in me

I'm English, Scottish, Welsh, French, Dutch, Danish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Native American
I have more dutch than anything else but even that isn't 50%

Here is a thread devoted to appreciating our heritage:

I am French, Russian, Scottish, Irish, Spanish(Spain) and German.

There is a district in Scotland with the same name as my last name.
My family was one of many who settled a town in Wisconsin.
My grandparents X something were named Valentin and Valentino (lol).

The options on the poll were created after the thread was created. I tried to use some of the most popular responses from posters since I could not list everything. Some options I did not add were Indian, Asian, Swiss, Danish, Lithuanian, and Estonian.

Where is Chinese, Japanesse, South American Natives, North American Natives, Korean, etc... you missed a bunch of areas and grouped all of Africa together...

Personally I'm English, German, and a tiny bit Polish but I consider myself American, I don't have ties to those countries - well I do with England but that's just because my husband just immigrated from there to here for me.

Yeah.. you missed out alot. Bastart!!:p

I'm Chinese and Thai by heritage.

WHat can I brag about my heritage?.. HHmm.. We have the best looking asian Girls!!!. :D

I'm (at least) 4th generation living in Dresden, Germany (pure German heritage). Otherwise, my family is pretty normal middle class. But I'm happy to live in Germany, although I mostly don't like the politicial system. I am very proud of what our ancestors created, the long and rich history of Germany - despite its short dark time of national socialism. My old ancestors helped destroy the Roman Empire, Germany used to be a cultural and technological world power. We're on our way back to being one :D

The town I live in got its "town rights" in 1206. That's very old and we'll celebrate the 800th birthday of Dresden next year. I'm very proud of that aswell, although I didn't do much for it, I am happy to be part of it :)

I live in the U.S., and have ancestors that I know of from Germany, Scotland, England, the Netherlands, and Denmark. All my dad's ancestors are from Germany.

Almost my whole family on my mom's side were Mormon pioneers ... which makes it easy to research their family history. Her mom is adopted, though, so we have little idea who her ancestors were.

I have ancestors that I know of who served in the U.S. Army in the Civil War and World War 2 (my grandpa, who was born in Germany, was also in B-17s bombing Germany, where he still had cousins living, during that war), and in the German Army in World War 1.

Flemish at least 4 generations back. From there on there might be a little French involved here and there.

My father is Irish, my mother has one scottish and on irish parent!

In a basically descending order- German, English, Irish, Cherokee, Dutch, Scottish, French and Commanche.
German, English, Cherokee, Dutch and French from my dads side.
Irish, English, Cherokee, Scottish and Commanche from my moms side.

Damn all you people with more interesting heritages than me! :mad:

All alive members of my direct family were born in New Zealand. My heritage (fathers fathers father etc) traces back to the isle of skye in scotland. Other parts of the family came from all around GB. I'm not sure where else.

I am 100% Bulgarian.

BTW I support the opinion of Perkeleenmaa, that the poll is totally broken.
It must be change.

100% Italian background though living in Australia. Half is from Rome and the other half is northern italy.

I am 100% Bulgarian.

BTW I support the opinion of Perkeleenmaa, that the poll is totally broken.
It must be change.
It's not a question of if, it's a question of how.

Considering that our sample is an Internet population, the poll should discriminate those options for which it is unlikely that there are any voters, e.g. Arabic, and equally include disproportionately small groups such as Fennic, for which there are more voters. (See the thread "Virallisin suomalainen säie" and count, for example. Yet to see the Arabic thread...)

I'm 7/8 Norwegian and 1/8 Finnish. My family name is a Swedish name that my great-grandfather made up when he escaped from the Finnish Civil War (or something) in connection with that in 1917 or 1918. His original Finnish name is the name of some place in Finland, I think. I don't know very much about him, and I have never been to Finland - have lived in Norway all my life.

What? No Chinese?!!!

If there was, then I could brag about my ancient Chinese Heritage. My Dad's family came from the far noth of China in Xian and my grandpa on my father's side is a famous Chinese writer. My grandpa on my mother's side, who was dead before I was born, was a sargeant in the People's liberation army of China.

Damn all you people with more interesting heritages than me! :mad:

Pfft ... you kiddin'? You're Indian! You're some of the most beautiful and cultured people on the planet. Your people gave the world Hindu, Buddhism, chai, *and* pyjamas. Now that's somethin' to be proud of. :D

Ah the Colonies, brashly declaring their independence while simultaneously refusing to let go of the homeland ;)

I'm sorry! I don't want anyone to feel bad. I'm trying to get Cog to delete the poll (or somebody). :(

Where is the option for if you're welsh? there is none, scottish yes, english yes, irish yes, but welsh...no.where is the welsh option? I'm welsh, not english russian irish or scottish, i want a welsh option.

I'm sorry! I'm trying to get it fixed. Would you help me call the moderators? Cog! Cog!

Whats wrong with the poll?

:fluffle: <- my ancestors

No Cajun option either. Oh, sure, people could argue that Cajuns are just a variation on French, but any Cajun would beg to differ. We're a mix of Arcadian French (the kind who were sick of trapping furs in Canada so they declared independence, put a gold star on the French flag and made it their own, adopted Ave Maria as their national anthem, and moved to the Louisiana bayous) and Opalousa Indian, yielding itself to one hell of a swamp culture, rich and distinct from any possible variety of French.

I speak Cajun, but no Frenchman would ever understand me no matter how slow I spoke to them.

However, I have no need of a Cajun option. I don't need no stinkin' poll to be proud.

Originally posted by Ein Deutscher
Whats wrong with the poll?

Many people are not happy becasue there is not an option for them. I tried to use the best options with only 10 choices. I still want it deleted though.

:fluffle: @ LP

Originally posted by Keruvalia
However, I have no need of a Cajun option. I don't need no stinkin' poll to be proud.

Exactly. I just wanted to see if anyone else was Russiand or French... like me. I'm sorry if I made anyone feel bad. :(

It doesn't make any sense. I mean, it's not even as if you couldn't have just said "Great Britain" because that incoorpates all of them. Or are you showing your American routes, because most American's i have spoken to don't seem to know that Wales exists. And, in fact, believe that Scotland is IN England!! How thick is that????

(Damn thick people that believe Scotland is IN England) :mp5:

Pfft ... you kiddin'? You're Indian! You're some of the most beautiful and cultured people on the planet. Your people gave the world Hindu, Buddhism, chai, *and* pyjamas. Now that's somethin' to be proud of.
Yay! We also gave the world the words: thug, bungalow and verandah. And Jamie Oliver wouldn't be able to say pukka if it wasn't for us Indians. :p

And don't stress Oksana, people are just pedantic. I didn't expect you to sit down for an hour to plan the poll. :p

Edit: We stole chai from the Chinese. We even stole the word... (from cha) But we added the cinammon, ginger and cardomom! :D

Originally posted by Gorganite
It doesn't make any sense. I mean, it's not even as if you couldn't have just said "Great Britain" because that incoorpates all of them. Or are you showing your American routes, because most American's i have spoken to don't seem to know that Wales exists. And, in fact, believe that Scotland is IN England!! How thick is that????

(Damn thick people that believe Scotland is IN England)

No, I don't believe any of that! I could only have 10 options.

I think I'll make a new one because the mods haven't deleted it like I wanted them to. I should I do the options?

Great Britain/ British whatever you want to put like that because that's the better way to do it!

Here is a thread devoted to appreciating our heritage:
The options on the poll were created after the thread was created. I tried to use some of the most popular responses from posters since I could not list everything. Some options I did not add were Indian, Asian, Swiss, Danish, Lithuanian, and Estonian.
My background is about 1/2 Swedish and the rest a mixture of Amerind, German, Scotch, Irish, and lord only knows what all else! :D

Why is there no American? Oh right. They have none

I think I'll make a new one because the mods haven't deleted it like I wanted them to.
Give us more than 10 minutes, for pete's sake. Poll is closed.

Come on, LP. Most of us Americans are muts!

Maybe I should do it according to area. Africa, N.America, S.America, North Europe, Eurasia,...What else?

Why is there no American? Oh right. They have none
True. We Americans just rely on our accomplishments to speak for us rather than resting on our ancestors' laurels. :p

Originally posted by Frisbeeteria
Give us more than 10 minutes, for pete's sake. Poll is closed.

Thank you! Now everyone go on and brag without feeling bad.

German, Ukranian, Polish, Danish, South African Dutch, English, and Cree

I'm such a mongrel :(

@Eutrusca: :p

@Oksana: :fluffle: And I don't think there is any proper way to do it. There'll always be exceptions

no really, when did this happen????? :gundge:

German, Ukranian, Polish, Danish, South African Dutch, English, and Cree

I'm such a mongrel :(
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Thank you, LP. The whole idea of the pollmwas stupid though. :fluffle: @ LP.

what accomplishments are these seriously? bombing the hell out of everyone for a laff? yeah big accomplishments.

We can spell laugh correctly.

Dad's side: Italian as far back all the records we've dug up have gone

Mum's side: Mainly Irish, with German a bit further back, with some Scottish and Welsh mixed in for good measure.

I can never decide if my love of arguing comes from the Italian or the Irish...

Must be both ^.^

i am 100% irish, because i live in ireland, was born in ireland, go to college in ireland, and plan on staying in ireland. and my parents and grandparents are irish, just like me.
i really don't understand how people can claim to be from 7 different countries, eg, your born in france you are french, your born in turkey you are turkish, you are born in America, you are an american.
fine if you have dual/split citizenship of more than one country, then you can claim to be (irish) or (swedish) or (malaysian).....
please excuse the terrible spelling and stuff, too tired to bother with it properly!

Because when you're American you don't really have "heritage".

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i am 100% irish, because i live in ireland, was born in ireland, go to college in ireland, and plan on staying in ireland. and my parents and grandparents are irish, just like me.
i really don't understand how people can claim to be from 7 different countries, eg, your born in france you are french, your born in turkey you are turkish, you are born in America, you are an american.
fine if you have dual/split citizenship of more than one country, then you can claim to be (irish) or (swedish) or (malaysian).....
please excuse the terrible spelling and stuff, too tired to bother with it properly!
You and I might consider you Irish but more than likley there is some Scots or English in there, and of course there is always a chance of some Spanish, Dutch or French as well. But I get your point, Your parents considered themselves Irish you were born and raised in Ireland, live there so how can you be anything else? I think this is an American thing quoting all possible blood lines.

Because when you're American you don't really have "heritage".
Yep. You have to rely on what you and your immediate family have been able to accomplish, not what your great-great-great-grandfather on your mother's side did to earn some noble title back in the 12th Century. :)

Originally posted by Eutrusca
Yep. You have to rely on what you and your immediate family have been able to accomplish, not what your great-great-great-grandfather on your mother's side did to earn some noble title back in the 12th Century.

Agreed. I think saying you French cuz your ancestors were from France or Ireland or Denmark... whatever it is, just a way to make us Americans feel better about ourselves. :)

Where I come from 'Laff' is simply a word meaning fun 'to have fun' it is in a lot of dictionaries. Don't get me on to American spellings please. I've had a lifetime trying to get people to spell correctly because of crap american spellings. Color for instance...the correct spelling is 'colour' but americans call it English just to spite us Brits. What about specialize, again correct spelling is 'specialise' but americans again insist on the 'z'. why? because they are too lazy to learn how to spell. Just personal opinion. :fluffle:

Agreed. I think saying you French cuz your ancestors were from France or Ireland or Denmark... whatever it is, just a way to make us Americans feel better about ourselves. :)
Nahh. We only do that to give our European friends a break when they're trying to figure out where we fit into their archaic scheme of things. ;)

I am Canadian, with half my family being french Canadian, and the other half being from Nova Scotia on the East Coast. I have Irish and Scottish heritage, also, I have a distant relative who was native canadian, so I also have a bit of native ancestry. But I am also adopted and have never met my biological family, so I have no idea what my true heritage is.

Notice, I said I am Canadian, not Irish or Scottish.

Originally posted by Eutrusca
Nahh. We only do that to give our European friends a break when they're trying to figure out where we fit into their archaic scheme of things.

I don't care what Gorganite says. Maybe we are lazy. I still love this country, Eutrusca. ;)

Agreed. I think saying you French cuz your ancestors were from France or Ireland or Denmark... whatever it is, just a way to make us Americans feel better about ourselves. :)
'There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for thoise who are American and nothing else.'
T Roosevelt

I mean, most of what America as a whole seems to have achieved is merely capital based. Where is the true soul of what the whatchamacallem fathers supossedly left britain to do? Yes, fine, you've freed iraq from dictatorship, but what about the countless thousands that died? not just iraqis but british soldiers who wouldn't have died needlessly if there had been no war, and how about the american soldiers. why did no one stop and think. there are better ways than war. one team of sas agents would have infultrated and got rid of saddam in half the time, killing a lot less people. and so would negotiation. did no one think?
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Originally posted by NianNOrth
'There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for thoise who are American and nothing else.'
T Roosevelt

That doesn't mean you don't love America, aren't patriotic, nationalist, or don't want to be American. It's just to make you feel better that we're a spinoff of everybody else.

i am 100% irish, because i live in ireland, was born in ireland, go to college in ireland, and plan on staying in ireland. and my parents and grandparents are irish, just like me.
i really don't understand how people can claim to be from 7 different countries, eg, your born in france you are french, your born in turkey you are turkish, you are born in America, you are an american.
fine if you have dual/split citizenship of more than one country, then you can claim to be (irish) or (swedish) or (malaysian).....
please excuse the terrible spelling and stuff, too tired to bother with it properly!

I totally agree, if your parents were born in Iran for example and they moved to Canada and you were born in Canada then you are Canadian, not Iranian, you are Canadian with Iranian heritage.

Slavic (mainly).

I have some german relative (my fathers side) waaaaaaaaay back. So I discard that, because it's so far back that it probably doesn't matter (and for the fact that I couldn't care less). Uh.. some russian blood on my mothers side, also waaaay back so discard that one too...

Hmm,.. well, just 100% Serb then. Not a good mix, if you count in german, during WW2. Serbs with Jerry blood were hunted and executed in Serbia during WW2 so my family had to make sure that it wasn't revealed to the local partisans.

Something interesting?

Well... My father and I are the first ones in our family history who have not been in or experienced a war. My grandfather (fathers side) fought for both, yes both, the serb Cetniks (pronounciation: Chetnik) and Tito's partisans. After WW2 those who had fought for the Cetniks were mostly executed or sentenced to work in labour camps but my grandfather managed to aquire a partisan hat and convince them that he had fought for the partisans and not the Cetniks. He had planned to escape to the English/American/French lines after Berlin was captured (he participated in the attack with the Red Army) but no such chance occured so he had to return to Yugoslavia (serbia).

All my relatives (during the Ottoman occupation) have fought against the turks in some way.

Eh, not so interesting but hey.

Originally posted by Gorganite
I mean, most of what America as a whole seems to have achieved is merely capital based. Where is the true soul of what the whatchamacallem fathers supossedly left britain to do? Yes, fine, you've freed iraq from dictatorship, but what about the countless thousands that died? not just iraqis but british soldiers who wouldn't have died needlessly if there had been no war, and how about the american soldiers. why did no one stop and think. there are better ways than war. one team of sas agents would have infultrated and got rid of saddam in half the time, killing a lot less people. and so would negotiation. did no one think?

Yes, I agree with you America doesn't have anything of their own. You're forgetting though that those are the actions of the US governemnt. And, no, no one did think because Bush doesn't know how to think.

I don't care what Gorganite says. Maybe we are lazy. I still love this country, Eutrusca. ;)
Without seeking to offend, I totally agree. Regardless of what the naysayers, whiners, fearful, and lame say, America is still the best hope for the future of the world. If we are lazy, it's become a positive trait because we always look for a less strenuous way of getting things done, and almost always find it.

I suspect that one reason so many Europeans don't want to make the effort to understand America is that most of us are descended from the castoffs Europe didn't want ... the disinherited, the poor, those who had no "heritage." Personally ... I LOVE bein' a mutt! :D

but the us government (if the us is indeed, as it claims, a democracy) does represent the views of the people (which in theory, though admittedly not in practice 100% is what a democracy is). so therefore it DOES fit in with this thread etc.

Without seeking to offend, I totally agree. Regardless of what the naysayers, whiners, fearful, and lame say, America is still the best hope for the future of the world. If we are lazy, it's become a positive trait because we always look for a less strenuous way of getting things done, and almost always find it... :D


How is laziness a positive state? doesn't make any sense.

I don't care. I think a lot of Americans agree the government doesn't listen to us. That's okay though. We can still complain. If we couldn't complain, it wouldn't be America.

Originally posted by Gorganite
How is laziness a positive state? doesn't make any sense.

It doe smake sense. When people were too laxy to walk or use horse-and-buggy. Ford came out with the Model T. People got sick of using candles so Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity.

macintosh was already around to pick up the ruins of microsoft (we hope). but no. laziness was not what brought these things forward, logic was. Though admittedly no single American government has been logical, but the single people on their own have been. America is NOT the way for the world to go, it is the way for the world to avoid.

That's too bad. If it weren't for people not wanting to do all the work of bookkeeping and researching at the library, having to set up a board game... nobody wuold have bought a computer. ;)

Laziness can be very useful. My dad originally work at a concrete plant. Then he boxed professionally. He decided those were way too much pain and work, so he went into electronics. He's got several electronics patents, and freely admits it was laziness that got him in the field. He did it because he didn't like hard work. :D

No Asians on the poll? :confused: :) :D

macintosh was already around to pick up the ruins of microsoft (we hope). but no. laziness was not what brought these things forward, logic was. Though admittedly no single American government has been logical, but the single people on their own have been. America is NOT the way for the world to go, it is the way for the world to avoid.
How sad to be so cynical and bitter at such an early age.

you think that's laziness? that's what we call in this part of the world, wanting to save time so we can actually do more stuff that's fun/ work/whatever, computers were invented to save time, it's only now have they become a thing to use out of laziness. mainly because of microsoft. but now they're making it harder to do anything, and wasting time, so people are exhausted after using them so they get lazy after doing the work. Macintosh is the way to go, i'm constantly working on mine because a: it's easier and b: it's origins are NOT american.

How sad to be so cynical and bitter at such an early age.
I'm not cynical or bitter, i just completely disagree with the american government!

Originally posted by Gorganite
you think that's laziness? that's what we call in this part of the world, wanting to save time so we can actually do more stuff that's fun/ work/whatever, computers were invented to save time, it's only now have they become a thing to use out of laziness. mainly because of microsoft. but now they're making it harder to do anything, and wasting time, so people are exhausted after using them so they get lazy after doing the work. Macintosh is the way to go, i'm constantly working on mine because a: it's easier and b: it's origins are NOT american.

It didn't say its origin was American. I was making a point. I don't know much about computers but I'm going to say Linux is the better choice just to piss you off.

I am French, American, British Egyptian, Norwegian, and Swedish.

but mainly because i haven't used linux so i don't know. as long as it's not microsoft i don't care.

Im Fully Finnish

Deutsch and damn proud of it!!

He should at least have 'other' in the poll.

Good to see so many Irish out there.

Our master plan is working! Soon the world will be ours!

Mwhahahahahahahahahhahahahha!

I am 1/16 Cherokee, 1/16 Mexican, and 7/8 WHITE TRASH.

Good to see so many Irish out there.

Our master plan is working! Soon the world will be ours!

Mwhahahahahahahahahhahahahha!
if only you guys were smart and sober enough to be in charge............ :p

I am 100% Jewish--Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, and Israeli. If you want to go REALLY far back, I'm a direct descendant of King David. :p

Then you're also a descendant of Jesus Christ. Congratulations!

He should at least have 'other' in the poll.

He should at least read the entire thread before posting that :rolleyes:

Then you're also a descendant of Jesus Christ. Congratulations!

He could be the anti-christ!

Where I come from 'Laff' is simply a word meaning fun 'to have fun' it is in a lot of dictionaries. Don't get me on to American spellings please. I've had a lifetime trying to get people to spell correctly because of crap american spellings. Color for instance...the correct spelling is 'colour' but americans call it English just to spite us Brits. What about specialize, again correct spelling is 'specialise' but americans again insist on the 'z'. why? because they are too lazy to learn how to spell. Just personal opinion. :fluffle:

Yep, we do it just to bother the Brits. Or more precisely, you. Did you get buggered by a bunch of Americans? Because you certainly seem to have something about Americans up your ass.

i know exactly where i came from.
my mother is 50% pure reservation cherokee, and 50% black (if you could call it that. her dad is half romanian! and half black) and my dad is 100% northern italian. but most people on here know this, because of the guess my race from my pic game we played last month.

He could be the anti-christ!

lol... Jesus didn't have any kids though. oops.

I'm Puerto Rican with a little bit of Italian in me on my mother's side. I think that people just see us as Americans though... :(

Yep, we do it just to bother the Brits. Or more precisely, you. Did you get buggered by a bunch of Americans? Because you certainly seem to have something about Americans up your ass.

hehe

nice manoeuvre

My great grandmother on my dad's side was Irish. She met a British Army officer stationed there, who became my Great Grandfather, where my great grandfather was posted to British ruled India, to an area now known as part of Pakistan. This was where my grandmother was born from their relationship. She and her parents then moved to the UK.

My grandmother grew up, met my grandfather who was in the Army, married, before my Grandfather became an anti aircraft gunner in Coventry in WW2, then as part of REME, being sent to France. His brother was at El Alamein. I have the pictures he took of the carnage. Panzers, aircraft, dead Germans and dead British...

My great grandparents on my mum's side was Scottish, they moved to England, and had my other grandmother, who met an English man (my other grandfather) who went off to fight in Italy in WW2, and possibly N Africa?

My grandparents had my parents, born and raised in London, who had me!

So, I have Irish, Scottish and English bloodline, as well and heritage, as well as Pakistani heritage from my Nan being born there.

My Nan could be termed as British Asian, although she is white. That should rile the racist bastards out there.

Yep, we do it just to bother the Brits. Or more precisely, you. Did you get buggered by a bunch of Americans? Because you certainly seem to have something about Americans up your ass.

No, I just don't like the way the world's going, supporting Bush in the massacre of the war on Iraq originally reasoned to catch Osama Bin Ladin. Hmm where is he now? Yankees seem to have forgotten about him wouldn't ya say? Which is rather suspicious considering he was what prompted the war on Iraq in the first place - oh yeah...and he DID kill hundreds of American's and Brits and other various country's inhabitants on the 11th of September 2001 - has that been forgotten? It seems it. No, I have nothing against Americans, it's their country I have something against, and everything it seems to stand for - 'freedom' my arse, America stands for one thing...Itself. :headbang:

I really don't know mine

I am told by my mom that I am german/english/irish but she couldn't tell me why and gave me the sense that it really doesn't matter. Therefore I never really felt that it did.

Should I care?

lol... Jesus didn't have any kids though. oops.

OR...did he? Mary Magdalene was pretty close to him...

What would the tabloids say?

Born in Madrid, with mainly Polish blood but maybe some Lithuanian somewhere....

Ach! I be Irish! Very Irish and I'm DAMN proud of it!
Yes, I noticed the problem when I was there. It suddenly dawned on me then where the Americans must have gotten their arrogance from.

I'm about 80% Irish, 16% Scottish, 3% German, and 1% French.

I've got a sturdy, mesomorphic build, extremely thick, blonde hair, am pretty tall (although not quite to manchild proportions), and I love to argue with people... Well, when they're being assholes, anyway. I fiery debate with two or more people is always good fun.

And I really like Potatoes. Potato Soup, French Fries, Tots, Potatoes Au Gratin, you name it. If it has potatoes in it, I'll eat it.

OR...did he? Mary Magdalene was pretty close to him...

What would the tabloids say?

Instead of the tabloids have a go at

Jose Saramago - The gospel according to Jesus Christ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%E9_Saramago
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1860466842/104-3965122-2618363?v=glance

Dad's side, I'm part Scotch-Irish, part French Hugenot. Mom's side, I'm part Nigerian, part Cherokee.

In reality I look like a North African. Except that my hair has greek curls in it and I'm graying like a mofo.

Needless to say, I don't go for many airplane rides these days (even when I want to ;) )

I'm English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Haitian, Chinese, and Native American. Those are the ones we know about.

I'm American, or currently, a laowai in China. Laowai overrides all of that stuff.


It's all good.

Ge-Ren

75% german and 25% polish - proud of neither but fucking glad i'm not purely german.