What is Your Ethnic Background?

[instantbenz]

German and from any searching, my family has found that we're 100%.

 

[Nimzar]

75% German... 25% other stuff (aka the American Melting Pot).

 

[Twilight_guy]

Pick some countries in Europe. I have family from all of them. There is special focus on Germany and Ireland but my family is pretty much mutts.

 

[fisk0]

Mostly Swedish, though the family has moved back and forth between Sweden and the US a couple of times in the last 100 years or so. If we go back another 500 years or so there are also some Walloon and Finnish traces in there.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Mostly Irish, a bit Dutch.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Hmm. Mother Peruvian-Polish, father Peruvian-Italian, I was born in USA, Mexican by heart...so yeah =3

 

[Treblaine]

Ancestors left Africa a couple thousand years ago, after that it all gets a bit vague.

 

[LordLundar]

half German, quarter English, and quarter Russian. I'm always fighting with myself.

 

[irani_che]

Persian and Irish

 

[kickyourass]

My background is quite a mix, I have German and Swedish on my mother's side and on my dad's I have English, Scottish, I think a little bit of Irish, and some Cherokee from his grandmother.

 

[Cliff_m85]

I'm French (French Canadian), Ukranian, and Norse. Norse being my favorite. I have a German last name though, despite having no German ancestry.

*SQUEEEEEEE* Clannad!!!!!

 

[Devil's Due]

American, I was born in America. That was kind of a let down, huh? Before people start claiming "that's not background," of course it is! People say "German" at times when Germany is a much younger nation than America, same with some other nations. It's rather easy, really.

 

[shemoanscazrex3]

African American, Irish, German, and Sioux. Although I just say I'm black since that's what I look and identify with the most

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

I'm not sure about percentages.

I know I'm part Indian (Goan) on my momma's side.
My dad's side of the family is really mixed though. My pops looks white and I ended up taking after him as well. My last name is of Portuguese descent, so we assume that we look weird cuz we have Portuguese blood. My parents have a stronger bond to East Africa though cuz they were born there (dad - Kenya, mom - Tanzania).

 

[A Weary Exile]

Mostly Irish, thanks to my dad's side of the family, mixed in with a bit of Dutch and English from my mother's side of the family.

 

[Treefingers]

Maori and Scottish.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Apart from being Canadian (Canada FTW!!!) I'm Italian...Italia...n soccer team FTW.

 

[Polyg0n]

Purely Finnish. That seems so boring when looking at everyones answers, but as far as I know (at least a few generations back) there has not been a single non-Finnish person in our family. Maybe I should fix that and marry a foreigner so that my kids wouldn't have to give boring answers in internet forum polls

 

[Cap'n Ninja]

Are we talking genetically or as a background?

Genetically, I think I'm the product of a sheaf of paper and some snow, one of which had dark hair, because I'm about as white as either of those.
If you go by those who're my official parents, then I'm Irish-English-Welsh in that order.

 

[mireko]

Norwegian/American. Though, my direct ancestors [small](parents/grandparents/great-grandparents and so on for as far back as I've read)[/small] down to myself were all born in Norway. The American side of my family just moved there at some point.

[sub]Technically that makes me completely Norwegian, but I have both passports.[/sub]