Whats your Cultural background?
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100% Scouse
Well, I'm actually 1/8th Scotish, but I don't really like to admit that.
Well, I'm actually 1/8th Scotish, but I don't really like to admit that.
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- GTP_sneakyboy62
100% Japanese and born as a local child, and my cultural background has been mostly Asian based backgrounds since I was little as well. May be strange to say, there are far less people who are descended from another tribe originated from another country, formally described as "mongrel" or "quarter" in Japan...
Rather they are often liable to be regarded as "freaks" being picked on at school in their childhood. Racial differences being more common in Western countries especially in the U.S., they are basically unacceptable here in contrast.
Rather they are often liable to be regarded as "freaks" being picked on at school in their childhood. Racial differences being more common in Western countries especially in the U.S., they are basically unacceptable here in contrast.
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- Lisboa
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Hey, now I notice that there is an "Hispanic" cultural background. 
If I had noticed it before I would have hesitated (I picked "Western European"), since HISPANIA was the roman name for all the Iberian Peninsula and Portugal is the west of it ... but it's also in the (most) western part of Europe ...
I think this hispanic background is a "USA-only category, referring to spanish-speaking immigrants and their descendance, but if hispanic background includes brazilians, than it should include me also ... or am I seeing wrong here?
If I had noticed it before I would have hesitated (I picked "Western European"), since HISPANIA was the roman name for all the Iberian Peninsula and Portugal is the west of it ... but it's also in the (most) western part of Europe ...
I think this hispanic background is a "USA-only category, referring to spanish-speaking immigrants and their descendance, but if hispanic background includes brazilians, than it should include me also ... or am I seeing wrong here?
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- Kent, UK
- GTP_Jondot
Pretty much 100% British, as far as I could gather from Ancestry.com.
The entirety of my dad's side is from a combination of the North East and Yorkshire as far as the early 1800s, and 50% of my mother's side is from the South East from what I can tell, with the rest from Northern Ireland.
The entirety of my dad's side is from a combination of the North East and Yorkshire as far as the early 1800s, and 50% of my mother's side is from the South East from what I can tell, with the rest from Northern Ireland.
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- tyrrell_
Why?
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I think I need the Monty Python to explain what Mrs. Cubicle means
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PS - Milford Cubicle isn't a correct anagram for Eric Idle, no matter the dress colour. But if you consider "Flormic Cub Idle" is a valid result, you'll see there's a distant relation to be found there
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Hey, now I notice that there is an "Hispanic" cultural background.
If I had noticed it before I would have hesitated (I picked "Western European"), since HISPANIA was the roman name for all the Iberian Peninsula and Portugal is the west of it ... but it's also in the (most) western part of Europe ...
I think this hispanic background is a "USA-only category, referring to spanish-speaking immigrants and their descendance, but if hispanic background includes brazilians, than it should include me also ... or am I seeing wrong here?
Yea, your right about that one. Hispanics are Latino Americans of Spanish descents.
Brazilians on the other hand wasn't colonized by Spain, & doesn't share the same Spanish language as, let's say most of South America, the Dominican Republic, Spain, etc.
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- Betelgeuse
- Beeblebrox_237
Half American, Half Pakistani. My mother (American) is descended from early British settlers of North America. My father was born in Pakistan but grew up in England and is a UK citizen, with a US permanent residency.
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- Vancouver, BC
- GTP_Grand_Prix
Mish-mash of cultures here.
Father's side moved to Nova Scotia from France in the 1790s. Father's side has French (Normandy, so possibly some Scandinavian stuff in there too), English, Irish, and who knows what else was added to it over the centuries. Mother's side is mostly Slavic, with a large chunk of Ukrainian, Russian, and a bit of Austrian. Although apparently the mother's family has roots going back to Mongolia in medieval times.
And none of it matters.
Father's side moved to Nova Scotia from France in the 1790s. Father's side has French (Normandy, so possibly some Scandinavian stuff in there too), English, Irish, and who knows what else was added to it over the centuries. Mother's side is mostly Slavic, with a large chunk of Ukrainian, Russian, and a bit of Austrian. Although apparently the mother's family has roots going back to Mongolia in medieval times.
And none of it matters.
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- Indiana
- camaroyenko
- No....just no.
I think I'm just completely American, how would one find out for sure?
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- wyvern_89
Ask your parents. That's what I did.
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- Indiana
- camaroyenko
- No....just no.
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- Indiana
- camaroyenko
- No....just no.
I can't figure out why so many people don't like saying if they're part whatever.
I know this guy who's Canadian, he lives in Ohio. He cannot stand being called Canadian.
Canadians are cool, eh. đź‘Ť
I know this guy who's Canadian, he lives in Ohio. He cannot stand being called Canadian.
Canadians are cool, eh. đź‘Ť
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- Phoenix, AZ
I'm pretty much your plain old American guy. I do have British descendants, but that was some 9 or so generations back, when my ancestors migrated to America in the 1680's, back when it was just a colony. I think I'm 1/32 or 1/64 Native American, because my grandmother's grandmother was Native American. I think my mother's mother was born in Scotland, but I don't know for sure. But that's about as diverse as it gets in my family.
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W.European; I'm welsh, and both of my parents are welsh.
You have to go 6 generations back before it starts becoming diluted, where there is a large portion of irish and some thin slices of german and one singaporean grandparent thrown in there. The singaporean is the thing that would stand out most, but that was sheer years ago (like I said, 6 generations) and you just can't tell. I'm as white as a piece of gypsum.
You have to go 6 generations back before it starts becoming diluted, where there is a large portion of irish and some thin slices of german and one singaporean grandparent thrown in there. The singaporean is the thing that would stand out most, but that was sheer years ago (like I said, 6 generations) and you just can't tell. I'm as white as a piece of gypsum.
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You're native American?
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Being born in America doesn't make you American (unless you're of the Native variety as Prosthetic has already mentioned), especially coupled with the whole melting pot business. Or salad bowl if you want to be more PC (apparently) but I for one can't take anything ending in bowl overly seriously.
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- Toronto
- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
I believe so, since I've got nearly that much too:
25% Italian
12.5% Ukrainian
12.5% Polish
...and the rest, mostly some indeterminate British/Scottish/Irish ratios (and apparently, some mysterious small amount of Jewish blood about 4 generations ago). The solid numbers are as far back as I can trace my mother's family tree, while my dad's is much harder to pin down. I do know I'm a fifth generation Canadian though!
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100% Dutch
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