JFF: What Is Your Ethnic Background?

100 % fifth generation Texan.
My dad's ancestors came to American from Switzerland in 1732. I think most of my mom's were French Canadian.
Fun question! A couple of comments reminded me of how a Native American friend would answer the question of what kind of "indian" he was. To women, he would say "horny," and to men, "mean!"

Native American... Cherokee and Choctaw

My ancestors have been traced back to the Trail of Tears.

Hi! I am a New Yorker, born and bred in Brooklyn. I bleed Mets blue and orange and consider the view from the top of the Empire State Building the most wonderful place on the planet (and I've seen lots of it). Now, if you want to know about my ancestry... My mom is from Mars, PA and my dad is from a tiny mountaintop village in the south of Italy. My hubby is also a New Yorker. His dad's family is from not quite the Mayflower (the name of the ship escapes me) and still owns the family property in CT. His mom's has some Scottish thing going on that we know nothing about.

100% American! My dad has been able to trace our family back to the 1700s. So we have been here for awhile! Scottish, English and Welsh.

What is cool is my brother was in Scotland and found our family crest and colors. He bought me a beautiful blanket with our colors!

I am German and Italian. My grandparenst came from Italy and the other set came from Germany. Lots of really good food growing up!

I am an American of Sicilian, German, French, and Dutch descent.

I look like the Sicilians, while my sister looks like the Europeans.

Fun stuff.

I'm American. My ancestors were Italian, Canadian French, Parisian, British, Native American (2 different tribes), and First People of Canada (1 particular tribe I'm aware of).

Central / Eastern European Jewish. That's the short story. The long story involves just about every country Central and Eastern Europe have on the map, so I'll keep it short. ;)

Nationality: American

Recent Ancestry: Scotch Irish, Irish, Lenni Lenape (native american)

I'm a mutt. Dad's side is Welsh/Irish, Swedish,and American Indian. Mom's side is French, English, German. The Welsh/Irish and Swedish definately took over my genes, I'm pale pale pale and freckle easily.

Hubby is 100% Polish and very proud of it.

I'm proud to be an American!!!

Other than that I don't know too much. My paternal grandfather was born in Scotland and came to NYC at the age of 10. The rest of my grandparents were born in the USA. I know I have some German in me from my mom's side. But really, I just consider myself an American.

I am half Norwegian (mom's side), and from my dad's side, I'm 1/4 Spanish, 1/8 German and 1/8 Japanese. My husband is 1/2 Italian and 1/2 Pakistani. So the REAL mutts in our family are our kids: 1/4 Italian, 1/4 Pakistani, 1/4 Norwegian, 1/8 Spanish, 1/16 German and 1/16 Japanese. And we all proudly carry American passports.

Do you mean Nationality? or Ethnicity? These are not the same thing.

If living in or born in the USA...then the Nationality of someone, is American.
But their Ethnicity... or Cultural Heritage... is different or may be different.
Nationality, is or may also be, what is on your passport.

I am American.
My Husband is European.
Ethnically... my kids are "Hapa" (as we call it in Hawaii). They are of 2 different ethnicities. But their Nationality, is American.

American for as many generations as I've known. My ancestors were 100% Swedish (both of my grandfathers' families), 100% Polish (maternal grandmother's family), and "Western European Mutt" (my paternal grandmother's family was mostly English and German, but there's more in there, too).

I'm mostly Irish and we don't talk about the rest ;)
My husband likes to say he's half drug dealer and a quarter pimp.

I'm American.
My ancestors were Irish, Scottish, and English.

Both of my parents families trace back to Ireland. They came to Canada in the late 1800's.

I am an American.

My parents are both American.
My grandparents (both sides) American.
Great Grandparents - mom's side - American.
Father's side German and French.
GREAT Great Grandparents - both sides - German and French.

My husband is first generation American. His father is Russian and mother American with roots back to the Mayflower....

Heritage is 50% Norweigan, then a mix of English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish and German.

My kids are also 50% Norweigan

I was born in the U.S. my parents were born in the U.S. Three of my grandparents were born in Poland. My other grandfather was born here, but his parents were born in Austria. I simply think of myself as American. It's where I was born and the culture that I was raised in.

Me: German: 50%, Swedish: 25%, French: 12.5%, Irish: 12.5%

My husband: 50% Assyrian, 50% Chaldean

Our kids: Some well mixed genes!

100% WASP. Both sets of grandparents British Canadians.
And the Man is 100% Puerto Rican.
(As you can plainly see by my profile pic!)

:)

(My kids are 50% Irish, 50% British, so if they have identity crises no one wonder why)

100 % American - 3 generation born here on both sides... going back to my Great Granparents (maternal and paternal) then I am an Eastern European Mutt. - Russian, Polish and a bit of German too think.

I'm a white american.

I'm a hot mess mut of Irish, Czech-Slovic, English, American Indian, Mexican and who knows what else - aka, I'm full blooded American!!!!

I'm a typical american mutt. My long ago relatives came from Germany, France, Poland & Sweden.

Maternal Grandfather came over from Poland with his parents when he was 16. (Can you pronounce Holubowicz?) He married a 100% German decendant (Raker and Shaffer) There has always been a rumor in the family that there is also some NAmer. Sioux, but back then no one talked about it and finding someone still alive that knows or will talk is impossible.
Paternal Grandfather - was either Irish or Scottish. We have traced back to the ancester that come over, but his name was changed to N. from either O'N. or MacNeal, but no record exists that we can find to clue us in to which it was. He married a woman who is from a German/British family, but, once again, rumors flew. It is said that she, the 9th child was concieved with a Cherokee man that Greatgrandma met when he was working on the railroad. My grandmother, the resulting child of the affair, was sent back East to be raised by other relatives while the rest of her 8 siblings stayed with their mom and dad. Kind of makes the story believable, but with no birth certificate we will never know for sure.
Family history is so Fun!

My mom is Welsh and French, and my dad is Irish and Scottish. My dad's family were immigrants less than a century ago, and my mom's family has been here since the Mayflower came ashore.

I am half italian and the rest is a mix of irish, german and not so sure...lol!

Both sides of my family are almost entirely of English descent. My ancestors settled in the late 1640s in the then colony of Connecticut!

A lot French and a little German, Irish and Native American.

25% Albanian and 75% Irish. One grandparent emigrated from Albania during WWII. All of the rest of my grandparents were 100% Irish and they were all 2nd or 3rd generation Americans.

I am 100% pure Welsh, as far back as I remember.
I married an American... His mother is Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Native American, English. His father is German, Scottish, Welsh and English.
We have some mutt kids going on.

Why in the world would this question offend? Just curious?

American. My heritage is Sicilian. Perhaps you should understand the proper way to word this question because I have a few friends from other countries that find the way you worded this offensive.

a little bit of everything European!, and a little (very little ) Native American

I'm mostly Norwegian and German with a lot of other stuff mixed in here and there. =)

I'm primarily Czechoslovakian (it was still one country when my family left!) and Swiss (25% each). If you believe the people from my paternal grandmother's family, we're descended from Robert E. Lee, so I'd have some British in there too somewhere.

American Mutt. :) The documentation says Welch, Native Canadian Indian and Scotish. I also have dual citizenship in Germany and the USA.

I'm American:) my mother is 100% Russian, she's a first generation American, and my father was 100% German.

I have no idea, lol! I know I am a caucasion American and that my relatives for many generations were all Americans. I believe I have some English heritage in my family and maybe even some Native American too.

50% German (my father's parents came from Germany), and on my mother's side, an English, Irish, Scots blend, probably.... I know one ancestor came from Ireland, and my M.'s name was Ramsey (her mother was Mulvaney and Smith)....

And.. I have red hair and freckles!

German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, English, Welch, Cherokee. In that order, from most to least.

...no one else Spanish or Portuguese??

1/4 Filipino, then a bunch of German, Norwegian, and Danish.

I'm all ethnic backgrounds, I'm American. Go USA!

German, Irish, English, & Blackfoot Indian.

Me: 50% German, 25% Russian, 25% Hungarian. My Grandparents on one side were immigrants but the others were all born here.

Husband is a mix of English/Scottish ancestry but his family's been American for generations.

Are you doing any demographic data with this? Feel free to share with the class. LOL

I add Czech, Irish, and Scottish to the melting pot.