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Title: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Techcubi on May 03, 2010, 05:35:44 PM
What the title says. Just say who you're descended, and, maybe we can even talk about it some. Me? I'm Irish, French, English, German, Norse, Swedish, alittle bit of Native American...Yeah.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: VAE on May 03, 2010, 05:54:06 PM
3/4 slovak 1/4 moravian 1/8 jewish if you are so interested
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Sunblink on May 03, 2010, 06:01:55 PM
Mainly Italian on my mother's side, English on my father's.

That's it. :c I'm as white as a pillow case.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Corgatha Taldorthar on May 03, 2010, 06:52:57 PM
Quote from: danman on May 03, 2010, 05:54:06 PM
3/4 slovak 1/4 moravian 1/8 jewish if you are so interested


Pardon me for pointing this out, but I'm coming up with 9/8 of a person there Danman :P
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: VAE on May 03, 2010, 07:00:36 PM
That's right! I am the Uberman!  :mwaha
(subsets CT subsets .... although i was not that clear)
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Lisky on May 03, 2010, 07:02:12 PM
German and Swedish here... I'm a barbarian poster child :D
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Mrs_A_ZeTavia on May 03, 2010, 07:03:10 PM
I'm German, Russian, Irish, Scottish, Czechoslovakian, Austrian and Polish.

Not sure about percentages, but I do know that the three biggest out of that pie chart are German, Scottish and Russian.

There's an inside joke in the family that my Nana married a "Mutt", because she is pure 100% Scottish and my Papa was Russian, Czechoslovakian, Polish and Austrian.  :P




EDIT: I double checked with my mom, no Hungarian. Oh, well good thing I asked!  :mowwink
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 03, 2010, 07:05:48 PM
I'm not so sure about some of you lot, but I'm descended from humans.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: superluser on May 03, 2010, 07:06:51 PM
Quote from: danman on May 03, 2010, 05:54:06 PM3/4 slovak 1/4 moravian 1/8 jewish if you are so interested

Hey, a fellow Slovak!

I'm 1/4 Polish, 1/4 Slovak, 1/4 Anglo, 1/4 Saxon (seriously, I've got English and German heritage).  Fun fact, my grandfather was Slovak, but both of his parents were American.  They both immigrated to the US, not knowing each other, discovered each other and had my grandfather.

Edit: I also have some Scottish in there somewhere.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: VAE on May 03, 2010, 07:08:59 PM
Nazdar , clovece :D
Hmm, it seems there is a lot of czechoslovak blood on Clockwork forums.
We had some family in USA too ,about 30 years ago - they emigrated during the twenties. And we still have some in argentina, same time.
The first republic sucked, apparently.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Mrs_A_ZeTavia on May 03, 2010, 07:10:43 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 03, 2010, 07:05:48 PM
I'm not so sure about some of you lot, but I'm descended from humans.

Are you sure........I thought you were just a box...... :P
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: VAE on May 03, 2010, 07:12:30 PM
It can mean a lot of things - maybe just some person had him on his head or back , and then he descended
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Dannysaysnoo on May 03, 2010, 07:17:39 PM
I'm almost entirely Scottish. Hoots.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Techcubi on May 03, 2010, 07:38:44 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 03, 2010, 07:05:48 PM
I'm not so sure about some of you lot, but I'm descended from humans.

This is an ethnic heritage discussion, not a Species discussion.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Aisha deCabre on May 03, 2010, 07:49:00 PM
According to my parents, I'm nearly four quarters of different: Irish, Scotch/English, German, and French.  Heh, currently a hybrid European born in America.

...Well heck, that's quite a chunk of the population here anyway. :3

Otherwise, as agreed with many here who gave that answer, I am in fact 100% pureblooded Homo Sapien.  With perhaps a mind more sympathetic to other species.  :rolleyes
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Drayco84 on May 03, 2010, 08:10:36 PM
Quote from: Techcubi on May 03, 2010, 07:38:44 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 03, 2010, 07:05:48 PM
I'm not so sure about some of you lot, but I'm descended from humans.

This is an ethnic heritage discussion, not a Species discussion.
If it was, I'd inform you that I'm advance scout from another race that was sent to monitor your planet and see if there were any redeeming qualities about your species, but UNFORTUNATELY, the report I sent seemed to give the High Command the impression that the planet should be quarantined and they're refusing to send a ship back to pick me up. So thanks... Thanks. A. Whole. Friggin'. Bunch.
(<_<)
(>_>)
(<_<)
(>_>)
*Cough.* Whoops... I mean, that's my char for an RP... Somewhere... Yeah, totally.

Native American (Cherokee, I think, for specifics.) and Irish for the most part. (At least, on my mom's side.) To be brutally honest, I've never really bothered to remember, nor have I really asked. To be blunt, I'm here, and that's all that really matters. Oh, and due to said heritage, I've got a pretty nasty temper. (Normally, it's pretty well contained, though.)
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Kafzeil on May 03, 2010, 08:33:09 PM
I'm a mix of English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Ukrainian. SO yes, I have a big ass family too. :B
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Angel on May 03, 2010, 08:36:51 PM
Mostly Irish, Italian and French, with smatterings of Scottish, English, and Native American (specifically, Huron).
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Liatai on May 03, 2010, 08:40:16 PM
Mostly? Irish, Ukrainian, Polish, and British. I've also got touches of Italian, a dose of Native American (Mohawk, Bear Clan), and a wee bit of Scottish and Welsh mixed in with a bunch of other things. (My family is huge.)

Oh yes, and pirate.

What? Pirate totally counts as an ethnicity. One of my ancestors was a privateer during the American Revolutionary War. Legalized pirate.  :P
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Unsilenced on May 03, 2010, 08:42:58 PM
13th generation American by paternal lineage, (father's father's father's...) so my family name has been in America since before it was America, IIRC.

Other than that, 1/4 or so German, 1/8 Korean/Chinese/Native American (they don't know which), 1/8 British and the rest... well... I have no idea/it's too diluted to be worth mentioning.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Baal Hadad on May 03, 2010, 08:43:18 PM
Mostly Mexican, some Spanish, and at some point I had Jewish ancestors as well.  Don't know what else.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: superluser on May 03, 2010, 09:10:00 PM
Quote from: Liatai on May 03, 2010, 08:40:16 PMWhat? Pirate totally counts as an ethnicity. One of my ancestors was a privateer during the American Revolutionary War. Legalized pirate.  :P

Hey, maybe our ancestors were allies!  My ancestors were arms traders!  Did your ancestors collaborate with Benedict Arnold, too?
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Liatai on May 03, 2010, 09:17:51 PM
Hmm! I don't know; I'd have to consult the family records to know for sure. That's cool, though! c:
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Baal Hadad on May 03, 2010, 09:25:48 PM
Heh, at least one of my ancestors was a priest, and some of my ancestors were first cousins....

If they'd been upstanding citizens I wouldn't exist....
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: VAE on May 03, 2010, 09:29:32 PM
well , the great grandmother of my grandmother and the great grandmother of my grandfather were sisters.
Funnily enough they both were from different villages
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Escher on May 03, 2010, 10:08:16 PM
Let's change this up a bit:

75% Korean, 25% Japanese.

Yep. Full-out East Asian here. I kinda expected more around here, considering the nature of DMFA...
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Unsilenced on May 04, 2010, 12:00:12 AM
Quote from: Escher on May 03, 2010, 10:08:16 PM
Let's change this up a bit:

75% Korean, 25% Japanese.

Yep. Full-out East Asian here. I kinda expected more around here, considering the nature of DMFA...

It *is* the internet you know.

It's like, the law here that any other demographic be grossly outnumbered by overweight white males.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Darkmoon on May 04, 2010, 12:20:50 AM
Quote from: Unsilenced on May 04, 2010, 12:00:12 AM
Quote from: Escher on May 03, 2010, 10:08:16 PM
Let's change this up a bit:

75% Korean, 25% Japanese.

Yep. Full-out East Asian here. I kinda expected more around here, considering the nature of DMFA...

It *is* the internet you know.

It's like, the law here that any other demographic be grossly outnumbered by overweight white males.

Speak for yourself. I'm proudly of weight, a proper weight.

Also, kill whitey. *cough* I mean, yay multiculturalism.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Cvstos on May 04, 2010, 12:22:42 AM
25% Greek, the rest a mish-mash of northern Europe.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Amber Williams on May 04, 2010, 12:24:26 AM
I'm so mixed I spent a summer job filling in for the "It's a small world after all" ride while it was under repairs. Just me in a single room singing that over and over again while patrons walked through. :U
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Darkmoon on May 04, 2010, 01:02:28 AM
Quote from: Amber Williams on May 04, 2010, 12:24:26 AM
I'm so mixed I spent a summer job filling in for the "It's a small world after all" ride while it was under repairs. Just me in a single room singing that over and over again while patrons walked through. :U

And thus the reason for her insanity. Also, weirdly, her love of beets. No real explanation for that.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Cogidubnus on May 04, 2010, 02:26:27 AM
Largely unknown. Probably French.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Jairus on May 04, 2010, 02:56:16 AM
German and Austrian on my Dad's side, unknown on my mom's, possibly Irish.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Keleth on May 04, 2010, 09:56:31 AM
Irish, Scottish, and a bit of native american. When my ancestors landed on the North Americas, they really liked the native ladies. Oh tra la.  And some German.

I am not sure what the percentages are, nor does it matter. . . but now that I think of it. My grandfather had one of those extensive family tree searches done, and has a detailed history of our family back several hundred years.

I should go read it sometime :o
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Alondro on May 04, 2010, 10:53:07 AM
Quote from: Darkmoon Firelyte on May 04, 2010, 12:20:50 AM
Also, kill whitey. *cough* I mean, yay multiculturalism.

*Charle kills himself!*  I killed whitey!  That means I'm cool!  :D  *is also dead, thus his coolness was fleeting and pointless*   :grave

The moral of the story:  Doing something to be 'cool' isn't as cool as it sounds!  And knowing is half the battle!  GI JOEEEEEE!!!

Oh, and I'm pretty much as white as the Pilsbury Doughboy:  German, Irish, Fench, Dutch.  Now, there is a bit of Sicilian, which is likely Jewish in ancestry as the last name is Piperno, from the Latin word for the swallow bird  (when the swallows come baaaaack to Captistranoooo!), and it turns out that Jewish families who emmigrated to Sicily took on last names frequently derived from birds' names for some reason. 
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: ShadesFox on May 04, 2010, 10:58:36 AM
Reading those extensive family tree things is annoying.  My grandfather has one.  I've traced it back to find out that I'm from, essentially all of Europe.  Like, the whole thing.  The vast majority seems to be Irish, English, and Greek.  So I'll drink a lot, be loud about it, then take your wallet.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Vidar on May 04, 2010, 12:45:22 PM
Difficult to figure out in my case, because my grandmother got knocked up during her late teens by one of her teachers, who then promptly ran off to Canada with his wife, leaving granny to raise my mom on her own.  'A'
My Dad's side of the family is equally murky, and people who know more don't want to talk about it, but I have a hunch it has to do with the fact that both my grandparents from that side had the same last name. BEFORE they got married.  :< *SQUICK*
So, yeah...
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Suwako on May 04, 2010, 01:02:52 PM
75% Dutch ( germanic, with bits from every near euro country ) 25% White south-african ( germanic... )
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Ryudo Lee on May 04, 2010, 05:00:37 PM
Mostly cajun french on my dad's side, which includes a fair bit of german and probably some italian too.  On my mom's side is the whole melting pot, some irish, a few sprinkles of... something or other (we're not sure entirely sure, they started in Georgia, got into some trouble, and then moved down to Florida), and a little sioux for flavor.  We're complete and total mutts here.  :3
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Brunhidden on May 05, 2010, 12:15:49 AM
almost pureblood bavarian if you are going by country, but if you want to get technical my ethnic makeup is Visigoth.

to those of you not in the know a visigoth is kinda like a central/southern european version of the viking. however instead of having ships they had advanced metalworking technology, invented chainmaile, and sacked rome
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Baal Hadad on May 05, 2010, 01:31:04 AM
Quote from: Brunhidden on May 05, 2010, 12:15:49 AM
almost pureblood bavarian if you are going by country, but if you want to get technical my ethnic makeup is Visigoth.

to those of you not in the know a visigoth is kinda like a central/southern european version of the viking. however instead of having ships they had advanced metalworking technology, invented chainmaile, and sacked rome

Weren't there Visigoths in Spain, too?
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Lysander on May 05, 2010, 11:03:26 PM
Both my parents are descended from Danish decent mostly, but a variety of others are mixed in there too. Also, going way back through the genealogy, I'm also related to at least one king and numerous peasants :P.   :januscat
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Ketchup-Crumbles on May 06, 2010, 04:17:13 AM
German. But I don't know about any mixes that might have happened. I belong to those Germans that lived in the area that's now Poland and then moved to Russia and stayed there for some centuries. I'm told, they stayed in German communities, but who knows ;) Also my granddad firmly believes he is partly Jewish, no proof of that, though.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Passive on May 07, 2010, 03:08:46 AM
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Brunhidden on May 07, 2010, 10:55:45 AM
Quote from: Passive on May 07, 2010, 03:08:46 AM
1/24th Apache Indian.



wheres the rest of you?


reminds me of the somewhat offensive joke 'what do you get when you line up 16 cherokee? one full blooded native american'

Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Techcubi on May 13, 2010, 05:42:22 PM
Huh. I'm apparently also Roman, Hun, and Chinese.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Shachza on May 14, 2010, 07:29:18 PM
German, French, Belgian, Dutch, Danish, English, Scottish, possibly Irish too, Norwegian (and likely Swedish/Finnish).  Just start at Switzerland and place the tip of an equilateral triangle there, and the opposite side somewhere near the north pole.  Every country covered by that has donated to my heritage.  Most of my relatives have been traced back to England, but some notable exceptions include a Great Great Great Grandfather from Norway and the most distant relative we have records of is from Belgium.

My family has been in the United States since the Civil War and earlier, however, so at this point I just consider myself 100% United States Mongrel.


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Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Lostangles on May 20, 2010, 12:52:31 AM
My father and his side of the family is entirely German so far as I know, so that makes up for one half, my mother is technically from eastern Canada, though going back a little further her family is a sort of mash up of Scottish, Irish and Welsh....and somehow skipped jolly old England entirely.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Drakesfyre on August 11, 2010, 12:40:12 PM
Mostly German, 1/8th Irish, 1/8th British.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Darkmoon on August 11, 2010, 01:28:49 PM
Do not revive dead topics. It warns you that a topic is old for a reason.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 11, 2010, 02:39:59 PM
... and if you start doing that shit, we start making it our job to make fun of you.

You really don't want us to start that. Some of us have got pretty good at it, by now...
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Mao on August 11, 2010, 02:48:49 PM
Surely you jest!  The mods, mocking someone?  Never.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Darkmoon on August 11, 2010, 03:38:17 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 11, 2010, 02:39:59 PM
... and if you start doing that shit, we start making it our job to make fun of you.

You really don't want us to start that. Some of us have got pretty good at it, by now...

That's been most of my time online... 13 years so far.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: Tapewolf on August 11, 2010, 04:18:05 PM
I wasn't entirely sure if this had been left unlocked for some obscure reason.
Title: Re: Ethnic heritage discussion
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 11, 2010, 05:46:35 PM
Yeah. Because I haven't done maintenance in a while.

Nothing more significant than that...