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So gals, what's your ethnicity/ethnicities? What are your countries of origin? Just wondering. I think we should all be proud of our heritage smile Though I feel bad because I'm a bit of a mutt, so I have no one heritage to stick to xD

I'm mostly (in this order) Portuguese, German, Italian, Irish and a little bit of other things that i'm not sure of hahaha..

I usually consider myself Portuguese-Italian because that's where my cultural influence comes in. My mom's side is the German-Irish side which is where I get the blonde hair (I dyed it brown) and paler skin (though I still love my olive undertone) but my dad's side is the side that actually has personality coming through xD On my moms side there's NO sign of any cultural significance, at all. Except for the boys name Otto that's been passed down as a middle name from our German Great-Grandfather i think. Other than that, none xD however if we visit my dad's side in Long Island (Portuguese-Italian) there's definitely some culture showing through there, so I like to consider myself more Portuguese-Italian. Though I've been to Germany and I love it there too, so I'm learning German to take more interest in my roots (along with Italian)

What are your ethnicities???? We should all be proud of our heritage.

(PS- Jersey Shore makes me cringe xD Baaad stereotypes even though my cousins from Long Island fit them perfectly. I'm like...... ouch...... hahaha)

haha your not the only one. i don't feel alone in this thing anymore, cant help who people breed with. i usually call myself a mix breed cuz naturally my parents were born from Poland. but my dad's side of the family is actually from germany and then my mom side is russian, but my great great grandfather married someone japanese so i'm japanese and russian. i have most of the recessive genes. lol.

yay to heritages. i wanna learn more about my family history and make a family tree. it'd be interesting to have.

I'm ethnically Mennonite. Russian Mennonite if you want to be specific about it, which means that my family took Tsarina Catherine the Great's offer to live in Russia, not that I have any Russian heritage. If you go far enough back, my family was most likely Dutch. But we gave up our claims to that heritage when we became Mennonite. My family moved through--and lived in--Prussia for a few generations before settling in Russia.

My father's father's family acted as medics in the Crimean War and part of the colony moved to Crimea after the war was over. It didn't work out quite as well as they had hoped, so a group of them left in the 1860s. They had a falling out on the way, and part of that group went to South America, and the rest of them, including my grandfather's family, went to the US. My great-grandfather then moved his family to Canada to avoid conscription in the World Wars.

The rest of my family stayed in Russia until after the Russian Revolution and ended up coming to Canada as refugees in the 1920s. The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was set up by North American Mennonites to provide aid to their families and fellows in Russia. It has grown to a very well-respected humanitarian and development aid organization that operates world-wide.

My mother's mother's family had been farmers near Omsk, Russia. After the revolution, the Mennonite colonies in the area were attacked and persecuted by all sides of the resulting civil war. The Black army caused the most grief in the area where my family lived. They finally packed up and left in 1926. They landed in Quebec and settled in Manitoba.

I'm very proud of my heritage, and am still a practicing Mennonite. I find a lot of meaning in the pacifist beliefs and great humanitarian tradition of the Mennonite church.

Cultural note: Almost 100 years ago the first woman was ordained in Holland. It was in a Mennonite church.

German / Black.
Not sure where my black ancestors are from, and I'm not really concerned about it, lol.

Haha thats confusing xD I get watcha mean lol

In order I'm
scotts/ irish 1/2
german 1/4
cherokee 1/8
welsh 1/16
english 1/16

these are aproximations but most of my herritage is from the british isles. I also have some stuff I dunno what it is. My dad's mom was adopted in the 50s so all she knows is that she's half Cherokee. My dad's grand dad was a Nazi soldier who fled to America with his family when it came to belief he was plotting the assasination of Hitler. My mom's side of the family came to America during the potatoe famine in Ireland, and Scottland during the 1800. And, my favorate story, in the 1760s a Welsh princess (? not really a princess but daughter to someone in a lower royal position) stowed away in the ship her peasant lover was being shipped to Georgia in(to work off his tax debt he gained for falling in love with royalty). They got married shortly after landing and became revolutionaries. They had 7 kids before he died in the war but she never remarried.

I'm Irish, German, Polish, Dutch and Native American, and maybe French and Austrian. I'm and 8th Native American. I got it from both sides, my mom is an 8th and my dad is a 16th. I'm not sure how it works, but I think I'm an 8th... It shows to, I have high cheeckbones, short stocky stature with a small skeletal frame that is characteristic of my tribe. I don't get sunburned either, I used to when I was little, but my skin just doesn't burn easily. Its a bit darker to, when I get a suntan, its the same color as my ancestors was. Other than that, I look pretty white with my dark blond hair and green eyes! XD Speakng of hair, mine is frizz-proof, thanks again to my Native blood. Seriously, it withstands any wheather without going all crazy! Its really straigt to, even when it gets wet its still sleek. :/ At least I think thats why. We have great hair. My Grandpa isin't bald yet and he's like 60 something! Have you ever seen an entrely bald Native American? biggrin

Hahaha nice! I have pale olive skin so I never get actually pale. I keep a slight golden glow all year and I love it- in the summer I NEVER burn (I've gotten maybe a total of 5 small sunburns in my entire life, mostly just on my nosebridge) and I get a really deep, natural gold tan by just stepping outside. therefore, I love mediterranian skin xD Though I get the extremely thick and wavy hair that's impossible to get a brush through on some days xD ethnic traits are confuzzling.