Kyn
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Post by Kyn on Apr 16, 2018 8:43:45 GMT -5
Just something I wondered reading the Apu thread, when someone asked for the opinion of board members who identify as Indian. It made me wonder what kind of cross-section of people we have here.
I'm not really sure of the correct way to phrase the question, but how do you identify ethnically/culturally/nationally?
I'll start the ball rolling with a fairly dull answer; I'm Caucasian (European Australian is the technical term I think), primarily of British descent but with a few other countries thrown in, and some Aboriginals in the family tree.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 16, 2018 8:49:38 GMT -5
I generally identify as a human being, but I’m a black guy from the United States.
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Johnny B. Decent
Patti Mayonnaise
Had one once
Everybody's Favorite Arizonian.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Apr 16, 2018 8:53:08 GMT -5
I'm a honky from Arizona.
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Fauxnaki
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Post by Fauxnaki on Apr 16, 2018 9:01:21 GMT -5
White, English I guess
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thecrusherwi
El Dandy
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Brawl For All
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Post by thecrusherwi on Apr 16, 2018 9:07:32 GMT -5
My mom's family emigrated from Great Britain to Massachusetts colony in the 1630s and my dad's family emmgrated from Prussia in the 1870s. I've heard I have Irish, Native American, Dutch, and other backgrounds on my family tree.
I'm a mutt like most white-ish Americans. I don't identify as anything. I'm just a man.
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jagilki
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Nobody notices him; No, we noticed him
f*** Cancer
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Post by jagilki on Apr 16, 2018 9:21:50 GMT -5
loser.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 16, 2018 9:56:58 GMT -5
 Seriously though, I don't think about it much but I'm majority Polish descent. Later in life my grandma said we weren't actually Polish, but Ukranian. It was the first my dad heard of it. Haven't found confirmation of that, though one ancestor did have the name Sobczynski written alternatively with what I think was a Ukrainian suffix, but it was a handwritten census report and those are often hard to read and spellings are all over the place. My grandma also claimed that our name was changed from "Ruff" to our current Polish sounding last name, because they were only hiring Polish workers at the Detroit auto plants. I have sadly not found any confirmation of this in my genealogical research. I want to believe. 23 and Me results European 100% Eastern European 80.5% Balkan 4.2% French & German 2.3% Broadly Northwestern European 4.8% Broadly European 4.6% Broadly Southern European 3.6% |
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Savage Gambino
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Post by Savage Gambino on Apr 16, 2018 10:10:31 GMT -5
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 16, 2018 10:15:56 GMT -5
Wacky hermit living in the woods and streams in a very strange pocket of Iowa that nobody knows about.
I'm a mutt. If you forced my hand to declare something my highest % is German. And it appears to be of the Wacky German variety.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Apr 16, 2018 10:20:08 GMT -5
Almost translucent blue eyed devil.
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Brood Lone Wolf Funker
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Got fined anyway.
Possibly a Moose
James Franco is the white Donald Glover
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Apr 16, 2018 10:32:26 GMT -5
Half native American and half German
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 10:33:09 GMT -5
i have no idea, but it sure as heck isn't finnish.
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Square
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Post by Square on Apr 16, 2018 10:34:33 GMT -5
I'm 1/331th martian
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Apr 16, 2018 10:54:01 GMT -5
My family history has been pretty well documented over time but I did the ancestry DNA test and it confirmed everything I guess with great precision.
English
Irish
Scottish
French
Indigenous American
I'm basically a predominantly white guy from America.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 11:10:42 GMT -5
Sexy.
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The Unconquered Sun
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He has no pants! What a heathen!
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Apr 16, 2018 11:18:59 GMT -5
Dad was a German Australian mix ( ja, you vill put a shrimp on das Barbie! He would say) mom is Welsh.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Apr 16, 2018 11:24:27 GMT -5
From what I can tell from the ancestry free trial I did, I could have things back to England on my dad's side and Germany on my mom's side, via Pennsylvania and hillbilly Kentucky.
Can you really "identify" as a different ethnicity than you actually are? My guess would be no (see Rachel Dolezal).
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 16, 2018 11:28:43 GMT -5
From what I can tell from the ancestry free trial I did, I could have things back to England on my dad's side and Germany on my mom's side, via Pennsylvania and hillbilly Kentucky. Can you really "identify" as a different ethnicity than you actually are? My guess would be no (see Rachel Dolezal). I like the Ancestry DNA commercials. It makes it seem like if you thought you were Irish but it turns out you are German, it gives you an obligation to start wearing lederhosen. |
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Apr 16, 2018 11:29:48 GMT -5
From what I can tell from the ancestry free trial I did, I could have things back to England on my dad's side and Germany on my mom's side, via Pennsylvania and hillbilly Kentucky. Can you really "identify" as a different ethnicity than you actually are? My guess would be no (see Rachel Dolezal). I like the Ancestry DNA commercials. It makes it seem like if you thought you were Irish but it turns out you are German, it gives you an obligation to start wearing lederhosen. I never thought about that! I'm totally celebrating Oktoberfest this year! |
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 16, 2018 11:31:15 GMT -5
There's a long chain of random Eastern European nationalities, but thanks to my surname I just say Russian.
Also weird fact: My mother's parents fled Hungary to the UK in the 1956 Uprising, my father's family escaped Soviet Russia in 1991 during the August Coup.
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