Don't Deny It: Your Heritage

[Kurai Ookami]

I'm part Japanese, Phillipina, and Scottish. My father is 100% Scottish and my mother is 1/2 Phillipina, 1/2 Japanese.

I have japanese eyes and asian features, black and brown hair, slightly tanned white skin, and freckles...but for some reason that confuses the hell outa me, random people are always coming up to me asking if I'm Native American. :huh:

My taste in food is kinda weird. I'm proud to say some of the stuff I eat makes my friends hurl. :D :blulaugh: he he he. My father was in the military for a long time so I grew up eating what my mom cooked. :)

I think the only traits I inherited from my father was his white skin, freckles, and the way he's always calm and collected. Unlike my mother, my sister, and practically all my phillipino cousins/relatives, I'm not loud or obnoxious. ( I'm just basing the facts from what I see in my family, I'm not trying to offend anyone.) My relatives on my mom's side and my sister are really loud, have annoying and even louder laughs (I don't think you can call it a laugh...it's more like yelling) , talk [U]way[/U] too much (and way too fast), and have really short fuses.

Don't get me wrong, I love my family. I love them to death. My dad was adopted, so my mom's side is basically all I got (they might as well be two familys put together though...you wouldn't belive how many cousins and aunts and uncles I have :sweat: ). We are very family oriented. I remember growing up in California, we'd always have big get togethers and feists. Very fun! :) :D

I really miss those days...but now I live on the other side of the country so it's hard to visit. My parents are always busy. Sometimes my cousins visit, but I miss everyone. :(

[Doc]

[font=Century Gothic][size=1][color=darkslategray]Well, not much for me to say. I'm conprised of a few different European ethnicities... I'm a large part German. All my family has a monster German heritiage, so... I also have a very decent dose of French in my viens. ^_^ I, now that I think about it, remember having also been comprised of Irish, and just a small amount of Italian ancestory.[/color][/size][/font]
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[font=Century Gothic][size=1][color=darkslategray]Well, I look sort of, and actually act sort of, wierd. My heritage concists of... *sillyness factor* three parts brute, and one part panzy. */sillyness* ^_^[/color][/size][/font]
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[font=Century Gothic][size=1][color=darkslategray]I'm basicly the average kid, except; I'm on the hefty side, I'm very dark, even though I spend a lot of my time inside, >_< I don't get it either, I have dark brown eyes, and very dark brown hair. I like to goof around, and can be serious... (even brutish, when nesassary)[/color][/size][/font]
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[font=Century Gothic][size=1][color=darkslategray]Recap, from greatest to least amount of ethnicity, I'm German, French, Irish, and Italian. Fun ^_^[/color][/size][/font]

[Juu]

[QUOTE=maladjusted][i]I am full-blooded Korean. If you ask me North or South, I'm afraid I'm going to have to slap you with some random large solid vegetable. [And kimchi.][/i]

[color=darkslateblue][size=5]ROCK ON.[/size]

:) Anyways, I'm Korean (obviously) and I'm proud to say...I eat kimchi on a daily basis. :3 It is quite good if you Americans get used to the smell. XD Excuse the discrimination, there.

Hm. Koreans. We are pretty dang cool people. I'm an odd one because most of my friends are white (Koreans in the whole Atlanta area tend to stick together in this massive Korean group), but I still like to hang out with Koreans. Most of us are proud to be asian (You'd laugh at all the people at our high school who want to be Korean, so they ask us the 'dub' them Korean. The initiaiton is to be able to twiddle your pen in a circle with two fingers, LOL) and we're supportive and all that junk.

Some downsides: I tend to dislike the 'FOBS' [Fresh-off-the-Boat], basically Koreans who just moved to America, because most of them have this very irritating America-sucks-Korea-Owns-Everything attitude. Once I heard one of them say she didn't care about the election because 'American wasn't her real country' and I wanted to slap her. A lot.

Another 'bad' thing...I have to go to Korean school every Saturday. I've went there since what, Kindergarten? I'm fluent in Korean [which gives me another cool thing: I'm bilingual!], so basically I just go to Korean school now to learn evil grammar things and read poems and stuff. Fun.

And then there's the racism...bleh. A lot of Koreans my age (and parents) expect all Korean guys/girls to marry other Korean guys/girls...I think I'm the only one in the group of Koreans I hang out with that would marry another race. And a lot of Koreans (in the Atlanta area, as far as I know) tend to not like Japanese people at [i]all[/i]. Or white people... *shrug* It's understandable for me, though.

Eh...anyways, I love being Korean. [/color][/QUOTE]

[size=1]Hoi, fobs. They make me laugh at their stupidity. >=] Sadly, our school is 60% Asian (normal school, just in San Francisco), and the amount of fobs you see around here is quiiiite ...yeah. OH, not to mention the amount of people trying to be fobs. That's where the funny part kicks in.

'Azn Pride' drives me nuts, also. It's like "GREAT! You were BORN Asian! Go you! What an accomplishment!" -.- And yet, about 1/5 of my old buddy list has sn-s with 'LiLaZn'...etc. Lame.

Hmph. And I'm not marrying a Korean bloke. The traditional ones are so... so... primitive at times, I swear. But then again, you find that in any race, but I don't know. I just highly doubt it'll happen. Ah well, disappointments happen.

I'm odd, though. I tend not to like Korean culture very much, and my mom also. My dad is very traditional, but eh, still sommat liberal. Very cool man, though. >_>[/size]

[instantramen14]

I am a euro-mutt. I am part Scandinavian (No clue what country exactly), German, French, Irish and English.

I look pretty scandinavian, fair skin, blue-grey eyes and blonde-ish hair.

My family hasn't really educated me much on our family's heritage. Except for St. Patrics day where we cook corned beef, cabbage and potatoes. I wear green and I can proudy say "Kiss me, I'm Irish!" lol.

I also vaguely remember my grandmother knitting hats with traditional scandinavian patterns on them. They were awesome.

[future girl]

[size=1]My grandfather was a Spaniard and my grandmother was an Indigenous Nicaraguan women, they got married and had thirteen babies of which one of them was my mother. My father's parents worked the other way around, she was a Spaniard he was an Indeginous Nicaraguan man and they had sixteen babies. So my parents were born in Nicaragua and they had five babies of which I was the last. I was also the only one born in the United States. I always tell people I was born in Nicaragua though, because I feel more Nicaraguan than American and it's what I was raised as.[/size]

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='maladjusted'] :) Anyways, I'm Korean (obviously) and I'm proud to say...I eat kimchi on a daily basis. :3 It is quite good if you Americans get used to the smell. XD Excuse the discrimination, there. [/color][/quote]

[color=darkviolet]Eh, I actually kind of really like Kimchee. My husband got me hooked on it after he came back from South Korea doing his over seas tour. (He was stationed at Camp Red Cloud in the city of Vi Jong Bu (sp?) ) I'm just trying to find out why the pickled cabbage takes on a strange pink tint. And why so many Chinese resturaunts in Killeen TX have it. Yeah, that's where I first tried kimchee, China Star on Trimeer in Killeen, TX near the Wal*MArt. I also know that I don't want to eat kagoge and there's a slight mispronounciation that could have you eating [spoiler]Dick[/spoiler] and rice instead of vegatables and rice. Oh and Bulgoki is really good too.

PS, I have this big manwa book that's all in Korean..if I scan a part could someone translate?

Anyways, on to my heritage:

According to my background on my adoption certificate I'm Irish Native American. My parents (adoptive) are both IrishGerman.

We don't do too many of the German traditions...actually I don't know any German traditions. But we [i]do[/i] celebrate St. Patrick's day with corned beef, cabbage :twitch: boiled potatoes and beer. Which can lead to :fart: and :sweat: at least at my house. It can also lead to my brother drinking the white vinager meant for the cabbage because he thought it was water...long story.

My hubby and my daughter are hienze 57 people (ie they're Irish, German, English and Native American).

Ok, that's enough.
Chibi horsewoman[/color]

[M.Ali]

[QUOTE=maladjusted][color=darkslateblue]And then there's the racism...bleh. A lot of Koreans my age (and parents) expect all Korean guys/girls to marry other Korean guys/girls...I think I'm the only one in the group of Koreans I hang out with that would marry another race. And a lot of Koreans (in the Atlanta area, as far as I know) tend to not like Japanese people at [i]all[/i]. Or white people... *shrug* It's understandable for me, though.

Eh...anyways, I love being Korean. [/color][/QUOTE]

[color=green][font= trebuchet ms]I live in Atlanta Too!!

But even though I'm not Asian, I get that a lot. The way people treat you now days is pretty crude, I realized that when I was visiting my daddy and grandaddy in Miami a few years back. My daddy was asking me if I had a girlfriend, when I said yeah, my grandaddy's "best friend" :rolleyes: decided to chime in, she said,[i] " She's Puerto Rican too right?"[/i]...I looked at her with a look of pure, and utter disgust. Knowing my quick temper, my daddy quickly decided that we should go to the beach. But that was in the past, thankfully, I've learned to better control my temper, and I've encountered even more racisim since then, the only thing that can be done is just ignore it.[/color][/font]

[JenniKate]

[quote name='Dagger IX1']when I was little, strangers often assumed that my mother was my babysitter. ~Dagger~[/quote]

I had something like that too!
My mum is English/Scottish and my Dad is Anglo Indian/Scottish/Norwegian/French - I was born in Australia so I'm just a bit of a mix ;)

Anyway, back to the point, my Mum is typically English, white and pasty and I am olive thanks to the Indian. When I was born the nurses hadn't met my father (I'm 27 so this was back in the days before Dad's were in the delivery room). I came out yellowish with a lot of dark hair so they thought I was premature and jaundiced and rushed me off to intensive care.

My dad wanders in and they sheepishly retrieved me realising I was actually 2 weeks overdue and the colour was fine :laugh: I've always loved this story as it really sums up that I'm from a mixed heritage.

[eleanor]

[i]Hmph. And I'm not marrying a Korean bloke. The traditional ones are so... so... primitive at times, I swear. But then again, you find that in any race, but I don't know. I just highly doubt it'll happen. Ah well, disappointments happen. [/i]

[color=darkslateblue] Ugh...yeah. A lot of Korean guys expect us girls to be their little slave-people...it's sad. But for every ten Korean guys like that there's one really cool one. :)[/color]

[i]PS, I have this big manwa book that's all in Korean..if I scan a part could someone translate?[/i]

[color=darkslateblue] Yeah, just PM me. n_n[/color]

[kaisha]

Um... I don't really know. I mean I know I'm part Indian and Irish but as for everything else I don't really know.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[QUOTE=Dagger IX1] when I was little, strangers often assumed that my mother was my babysitter.

The race polls on standardized tests are pretty annoying, especially if they don't let you pick more than one option (or if they include bizarre choices like "multicultural"--since when is that an ethnicity!?).

~Dagger~[/QUOTE]

[color=darkviolet]1.) I had a problem like that too since thanks to the Native American mix in me I'm darker than most people of North European decent (I think that include's Ireland.) Of course in all fairness I [i]am[/i] adopted so I don't look exactly like my parents.

2.) I hated those dumb things too. THey have those on the TArget job applications too, I pick 'chose not to answer.[/color]

[QUOTE=maladjusted[color=darkslatebule] [i]PS, I have this big manwa book that's all in Korean..if I scan a part could someone translate?[/i]

[color=darkslateblue] Yeah, just PM me. n_n[/color][/QUOTE]

[color=darkviolet]Coolness, now all I have to do is dig it out of the dump I call my closet. Thanks.

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[Redemption]

[COLOR=Red][FONT=Trebuchet MS]Well both of my grandfathers' families come from Germany. One of my grandmothers is pure English (she came over to Australia in WWII) and my other grandmother comes from Scotland, so I have a real mix. And I was born, and live, in Australia. So yeah. A bitser!

My dark hair comes from my German decent and my blue eyes English (from grandparents). Lol.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[celestialcharm]

I'm a West Indian-Canadian. My parents were born in the west indies. My mom in Montserrat and my dad in St.Kitts. Since Montserrat is called the Irish Isle(or Emerald Isle) , I'm part irish. Also my mom has East indian in her (i'm like 1/36th). But she's a light skinned black person. I think there's some chinese or some type of asian on her side too! My dad is black too but, my grandmother is half black and half scandinavian so that would make me one-forth scandinavian. I think there's some British on his side too. I think that's all I have I have in me....

[Pumpkin]

[QUOTE=ChibiHorsewoman][color=darkviolet]Eh, I actually kind of really like Kimchee. My husband got me hooked on it after he came back from South Korea doing his over seas tour. (He was stationed at Camp Red Cloud in the city of Vi Jong Bu (sp?) ) I'm just trying to find out why the pickled cabbage takes on a strange pink tint. And why so many Chinese resturaunts in Killeen TX have it. Yeah, that's where I first tried kimchee, China Star on Trimeer in Killeen, TX near the Wal*MArt. I also know that I don't want to eat kagoge and there's a slight mispronounciation that could have you eating [spoiler]Dick[/spoiler] and rice instead of vegatables and rice. Oh and Bulgoki is really good too.

PS, I have this big manwa book that's all in Korean..if I scan a part could someone translate?

Anyways, on to my heritage:

According to my background on my adoption certificate I'm Irish Native American. My parents (adoptive) are both IrishGerman.

We don't do too many of the German traditions...actually I don't know any German traditions. But we [i]do[/i] celebrate St. Patrick's day with corned beef, cabbage :twitch: boiled potatoes and beer. Which can lead to :fart: and :sweat: at least at my house. It can also lead to my brother drinking the white vinager meant for the cabbage because he thought it was water...long story.

My hubby and my daughter are hienze 57 people (ie they're Irish, German, English and Native American).

Ok, that's enough.
Chibi horsewoman[/color][/QUOTE]

lmao wait cabbage? white vinegar? your poor brother :p

Anyways back on topic now, I've read alot of interesting heritages. Mine, not so impressive. I actually know somewhat alot about my family history because we had to do a project on it at school. I'm half American (My dad's family lived in America since the gold rush so you know) and half Hungarian. Only thing that suprises me is I have european in me. Do I act it? No. Am I proud of it? Not really.

If you look up on the little country, mostly all there is is folk dancing, eating sasuages, a complicated language that sounds a cross between russian and dutch and skinny-dipping! whoo. how exciting. not to mention they probably yodel or something. My grandmother came to America when my mother was like 4, and has been here ever since. She still has her accent, its very deep and I have to translate it to people cause they can't understand her. Not to mention where she gets her freaky dancing from (hungarians are big flirts :rolleyes: ).

Boys over there are even more perverted then Americans, is that possible? so I've heard. Maybe from all that skinny-dipping getting to their head. I guess I'm not as "wild" as I'm suppose to be. Most people at my school are either mexican or white. That's the majority. And yes I look white, its not as if someone points and says "Are you hungarian?" which actually would be kinda cool.

[Sara]

[color=#ff6600]Much like the Ramenator, I'm a European mutt. My dad's side of the family are Russian-Germans (or [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German]Volga Germans[/url], people of German ethnicity who emigrated to Russia) who then ended up settling in Minnesota some time ago. I'm not sure about the specifics on my mom's sidde of the family, although I know I have a chunk of Irish in there, somewhere. I should ask her again.

I'm a bit over five and a half feet tall, I have thick brown hair, and brown eyes. Some people say I look just like my mom, and others can't get over how much I resemble my dad.

CAUTION: [SIZE=1]HARD HAT AREA[/SIZE],
Sara[/color]

[Guest Alchemist]

Dont say mutt say Heinz57, mutt is so deragatory. plz ok

[Gravy Train]

Ich bin größtenteils deutsch sondern auch mit etwas irischem und polnischem Erbe. Keime machen gute Heinzelmännchen, aber ich kann nicht sagen, dass ich mit den Moden der Kleidung übereinstimme, die sie tragen. Oder ist dass der ganze sterotyping von Comics und Fernsehen? Irgendwie wünsche ich, dass ich kräftiger Irländer war, so dass ich Magie leprauchan Mächte haben konnte! Und das Polnisch... Ich habe keine Idee, aber meine deutsche Seite mag meine polnische Seite nicht. (Und zu irgendjemandem, der das etwas lesen kann, entschuldigen Sie meine Deutschen, wie meine sentece Struktur absolut schrecklich ist)

[Delta]

[COLOR=#B33D79][SIZE=1]^ Whoa. German characters...

(I think my first post was a bit lacking. Can be a bit more descriptive about my Heinz57-ness, can't I?)
Both my dad and my mom have a considerable percentage of Spanish blood in their veins (especially my mom. Both her granddads and her paternal grandma are Spanish). That's like 75% Spanish. Add my dad (a fourth Spanish) to the gene pool and you've got a half-Filipino/half-Spanish mix.

At least here in the capital, rarely can one meet a full-blooded Filipino. The rest are hybrids (not that it's a bad thing).
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[Sara]

[quote name='Sepiroth']Dont say mutt say Heinz57, mutt is so deragatory. plz ok[/quote][color=#ff6600]I'm sorry you feel that way. I am only referring to myself, however, and no hard is meant by my statement. I dont' find "mutt" to be derogatory, and I've never known anyone else to feel that way.

And honestly, I had no idea what you meant by Heinz 57, as I've always associated that rather strongly with a line of condiments, and not so much with mixed heritage.

I <3 NY,
Sara[/color]

[Guest Alchemist]

my best friend gets called mutt at school by stupid nazis kids. I am not pissed but you should remove it from your vocabulary.
Anyway this is a very intersting topic. It is cool to find out what people ethnicities.

[Japan]

[COLOR=Navy]I am half English, quarter German, and the rest are Norwegian, and Swedish.

I got to see where my ancestors from England came from. Also, they used to own most of Pennslyvania during the colony days, but alas, they had to sell it. -_-

I'm proud to be part Norseman though. The vikings have such an interesting history. All four also have really delicious food, and fun traditions...like leaving our shoes out to get filled with candy some day before Chirstmas. As well as opening presents on the night of Christmas Eve instead of opening presents on the morning of Christmas day.[/COLOR]

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Okay.... Let's see... I'm half Mexican, a 1/8 Indian (Cherokee) , 1/8 German, 1/8 Swedish, and 1/8 Jewish.... Before my 2nd grade year, I had no clue I actually had so much heritage. :)

When I first found out I was half mexican, I was floored. At age 8, those things surprise you... I denied my heritage and went to bed that night angry at the fact that I was Mexican, lol. In hindsight, I have no clue why I reacted that way... I never grew up with a racist family... it was more of just a shock I guess... but I really don't know anything about my heritage. I wish I did, but I'm not. And it bugs the hell out of me when people want me to "prove" I'm mexican since I don't look Mexican, nor do I know anything about my own heritage... but I got the cutest grandmother :laugh: She speaks Spanish whenever she gets angry with my dad, and watching that is probably the most fun a person could ever have :D

[ukoku]

whoa, can one be that many races???Well,I'm full Chinese, that I know...

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[QUOTE=Japan_86][COLOR=Navy] I got to see where my ancestors from England came from. Also, they used to own most of Pennslyvania during the colony days, but alas, they had to sell it. -_-
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[color=darkviolet]My ancestors used to own a lot of land too....then my other ancestors came along and one side started hating on the other and it got really icky.

Ok...well, my great-great paternal grandparents on my grandmother's side came from Alsace Lorraine back in 1860 and settled in Western New York. Then a year and a half later my great great grandfather joined up for the NYS reservists and fought in the Civil War...for the North dur, this left his wife with 1 baby and working on the farm...obviously he came back.

One of my other great great's on the maternal side worked in the kitchens at Buckingham palace prior to leaving for the US.

My mom's grandma on her maternal side was struck by lightning twice while ironing on two separate occasions. Ok, so that's not very news worthy, but hey how many people get struck by lightning twice?

And my paternal grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed and was reported dead. Obviously he wasn't.[/color]

[ukoku]

[QUOTE=ChibiHorsewoman][color=darkviolet]My ancestors used to own a lot of land too....then my other ancestors came along and one side started hating on the other and it got really icky.

Ok...well, my great-great paternal grandparents on my grandmother's side came from Alsace Lorraine back in 1860 and settled in Western New York. Then a year and a half later my great great grandfather joined up for the NYS reservists and fought in the Civil War...for the North dur, this left his wife with 1 baby and working on the farm...obviously he came back.

One of my other great great's on the maternal side worked in the kitchens at Buckingham palace prior to leaving for the US.

My mom's grandma on her maternal side was struck by lightning twice while ironing on two separate occasions. Ok, so that's not very news worthy, but hey how many people get struck by lightning twice?

And my paternal grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed and was reported dead. Obviously he wasn't.[/color][/QUOTE]
Intresting^_^ I don't know much about my family, except that my maternal grandfather saw all his relatives die in an earthquake and both parental and maternal grandparents fled from china during WW2

Mouu~~~My mum was adopted, don't know much about her real parents, never met them before(my Dad said they were crazy and accused my parents of stealing a ring on their wedding day)I don't know much about my parental grandparents either, grandfather died before I was born and grandmther died when I was 3