Ethnic background

[Yoshi155]

What’s your ethnic background? If you’re more than one, what are they? I’ve said it before, so I’m sure some people know, but I’m 100% Nigerian. I was born in America, but both of my parents are from Nigeria, and their parents were also born there.

Edit: I’m aware that there’s already a thread like this for race, but race and ethnicity are two different things, so I don’t think that should matter

 

[QueenCobra]

My father's grandparents immigrated here from Belgium during World War I. So, I have some Flemish Belgian ancestry.

When I got my Ancestry DNA done, it said I was 36% Scottish, followed by British, Icelandic (?), Germanic Europe (so the Belgian checks out), Irish, and Danish. I am also 2% Portuguese and 2% Ashkenazi Jewish.

 

[VernalLapin]

My ancestry is German, Dutch, British, and Irish mainly.

 

[Psydye]

From what I've been told, I'm mostly Polish and French, w/ a bit of Irish, Scottish, Swedish and Blackfoot Native American. I really should go on Ancestry sometime though, just to see for certain.

 

[nightglow]

German, Irish, English, Wales, Scottish, and Cherokee are the only ones I am aware of.
There are rumors of some French on one side, but I haven't seen evidence in the family of there being a connection. But that doesn't always mean none is there.
Some of my family still speaks German fluently. I never got to learn or was taught.
I do suspect other tribes of Native American in the family, but the only physical evidence I found in the family was Cherokee. However that evidence wasn't on my grandma's side and that side of the family dealt with racism and harassment from skin tone in the state they came from. I haven't dealt with having slurs shouted at me, but have dealt with racist dentists and hiring managers over body structure.
I haven't done the DNA test thing. I would like to out of curiosity, but haven't due to expense, and well, rumors about some of those entities with data. At the end of the day, I am just me and I am ok with just knowing that :3

 

[Beanz]

both my parents are american but my grandma from my mom’s side is chilean and my grandpa was chinese. my dad’s great grandparents were irish and norwegian.

so i’m white, asian, and hispanic although i mainly look white.

 

[michealsmells]

My dad and his family are from the American South (specifically Alabama and Florida) while my Mom and her family are a bit more confusing? I think my grandpa's side is Midwest maybe and my Grandma grew up in California, that I know. I know that we have Scottish and Irish on my moms side. We are definitely more familiar with stuff on my Dad's side cause he really cares about that.

My parents have both done ancestry tests but i forgor, that's our main stuff tho that I know of.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Mom is Japanese, Dad is French, Spanish, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, and Native American (I don't know which). When asked I just say I'm mixed or hapa because I look obviously mixed.

 

[Snek]

I am 100% reptile. I know, its newsss to me too

 

[lasagne_of_death]

I'm entirely Irish, both sides of the family. I was born in Ireland and am currently living there

 

[SunnyAC]

I am half Hmong and half Filipino. My mom is Hmong and my dad is Filipino. Basically, I am Asian American.

 

[Roxxy]

Both parents were born in Scotland but my grandparents were Irish.

 

[pottercrossing]

My mom’s from America and my dad’s from Canada, and we’re all currently living in Canada. I have quite a bit of Irish in me, as well as some Scottish, British, Czech, Swedish, and maybe something else that I’m forgetting.

 

[Neb]

My family has lived in America since the 1860s, but I have German, Swiss, British, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. I don't talk about it anymore since people from those countries online got mad at me for claiming it, even though I've been told those things since I was a child.

 

[MadisonBristol]

I'm into genealogy, and I'm roughly 50% Ashkenazi Jewish, 25% English, 12.5% Scottish, and 12.5% German. My family originally arrived in the US on the Mayflower but then that side ended up moving to Canada during the Revolutionary War, and came back during the late 1800s or early 1900s. My most recent ancestors who weren't born here were three great-grandparents. Two from Ukraine, one from Russia.

 

[Ravenkitty22]

I’m a melting pot of a bunch of different flavors of European with a side of Latin America lol. One of my grandmas immigrated to the US from Colombia, so I know I’m 25% Colombian. I don’t know the percentages for anything else, but I’m also Polish, Italian, French, and Irish.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

My mom's side of the family is Indigenous (specifically Inuit) and my dad's side is French Canadian, so I guess I'm both. Both my parents raised me English, though.

 

[Aniko]

French Canadian from both sides, mostly of french origins but also Native and German.

 

[KittenNoir]

Both of my parents are Italian and both their ethnic backgrounds are Italian