What are you?

hyelakingsfan · Post by **hyelakingsfan** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:05 pm

I was wondering this. What "race/ethnicity/whatever you call it" is everyone?
I put a poll of some that just struck my head, im sorry if i left some out.

Dont just vote...post it!!!!!

Im Armenian.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:06 pm

This is " ".

Shampoo · Post by **Shampoo** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:09 pm

Im an 'other'

Both my parents are from Spain.

Olé! lol

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:11 pm

American. (the boring answer)

jcaliff · Post by **jcaliff** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:17 pm

I didn't know "American" was an ethnicity.

Drakonia · Post by **Drakonia** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:19 pm

Heh. I'm pretty much "other" on your list.

I've been mistaken for many different cultures, but I come from a Native American background, specifically Navajo, with a pince of German American.

The family tree is very interesting.

GuyvarIII · Post by **GuyvarIII** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:20 pm

My nationality is American.
Ethnically, I’m a mix of Italian, German, and God knows what.

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:22 pm

I am kinda confused.... why there are item for Asin and Chinese

I guess since I am a Japanese so I should categorize asian...... ????

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:29 pm

Um...

I'm American, but so are lots of people whose ethnicity is Chinese, African, what have you. So I picked "other." Because I'm also a wise-ass (I know perfectly well what you meant by "American.")

You askin' if I'm Caucasian? Because they don't come much whiter than me. Wonder Bread. Slug White and the Seven Dwarfs. Fightin' Whities.

Dull as dust.

Ok, seriously now, my antecedents were primarily from England, but there's a little bit of French (my dad was the result of a youthful indiscretion with an exotic Frenchman, or so the story goes... everyone else is English). There's also some German tossed in if you go back far enough. More recently, say 3 generations back, the folks came from Prince Edward Island, Canada and from the Berlin, New Hampshire area. And about 7 generations back I have a common ancestor with (are you ready for it?

wait...

you won't believe this... )

George Bush.

(P.S. harry... China IS part of Asia

) We do such a fine job teaching geography in this country...

hyelakingsfan · Post by **hyelakingsfan** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:33 pm

YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!! lol
i feel stupid now.......

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:34 pm

jcaliff wrote:I didn't know "American" was an ethnicity.

Only Native Americans.

And that includes Central America and South America.

What's even better is: America isn't even the name of the country, much less an ethnicity. But that's a story for another day. We're the United States. OF America (the north American continent)

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:35 pm

Baakay wrote: Because they don't come much whiter than me. Wonder Bread. Slug White and the Seven Dwarfs. Fightin' Whities.

Baakay and I are so white that we can scare ghosts!

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:36 pm

My mom is Japanese. Her parents came from Japan to Hawaii I think in the ?early 1930's. My dad is 3/4 Okinawan and 1/4 Chinese. My dad's grandparents came over to Hawaii from Okinawa in the 1920's bringing over 10 of their 11 kids with them. The oldest stayed in Okinawa with her child. One of my dad's grandfathers was Chinese. He was 5 foot 11 inches tall back around the turn of the century which was pretty tall for someone like that back then. Unfortunately none of the rest of us came out that tall (5ft 10 inches is our tallest male relative).

So that makes me 1/2 Japanese, 3/8 Okinawan and 1/8 Chinese.

My mom and dad were born in Hawaii. My mom grew up in Oahu, but hardly knows Japanese. Her parents spoke 90 percent pidgeon English and 10 percent Japanese when they were alive. My dad grew up on Maui, but moved to Oahu in the early 1950's. My dad went to a Japanese school when he was about seven years old. He was starting to learn Japanese when the war started. Then they closed down all the Japanese schools so to this day he knows very little Japanese.

This Japanese guy at work who moved over from Japan eight years ago when he was eleven likes to rag on my Japanese-American friend for not knowing Japanese, but hey...there's not much you can do about that when there's no one to talk to with it and when your grandparents were the ones that were the immigrants. By the time it gets down to my generation level there's not much Japanese language knowledge left to spread around.

dude_moose · Post by **dude_moose** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:38 pm

I'm not sure I agree with using "American" as an ethnicity....

but that's what I put

I'm about:
2/3 Irish (w00t)
1/4 Polish
1/10 English

::edit:: That makes me friggin pale

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:38 pm

Could you ever be certain? I'm glad we agree. You and your using American as an ethnicity.

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