Ethnicity/Racial Backgrounds of the Trisphites
 

(Oh god I hope this is in the right forum if it's not, feel free to kick me in the right direction)

By default I am sure I am from some place in Africa, my guess is always Northern Africa. My friend and I were discussing it and well it is hard to say because I know for a fact that my moms side has European and Native American in it and my dad at some point was from the Caribbean.

I don't really follow a religion as much as I should, and there aren't that many cultural traditions that I have. That is one thing that I find disheartening. Since I am American through and through we do not have the rich cultural traditions as say some Asian cultures.

i'm German-Irish. German-Irish mother, German father. I was born in Germany but moved to Ireland at the age of 1.5 years and so don't recall a lot about Germany though I do speak the language.
I grew up in Ireland so yes I eat a lot of Irish things like BANGERS AND MASH AND ALL THAT RUBBISH no not really now that I live in america I eat that sort of food a lot less. (I do eat bratwurst =D )
I do have an irish accent and people won't ever shut up about it i don't know what it is.
My biggest influence from my cultural shows itself in the way I speak and the music i listen to. I love Albannach, Celtic Women, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, and other bands that hail from that area or at least sing about it a lot.
if you want to get really technical I'm more German than Irish, but I identify more with Irish culture than German (though I do like Falco)

One stereotype about Irish people that I don't show is that apparently WE ALL LIKE TO GET DRUNK A LOT. I hate being drunk and while i enjoy a beer every now 'n' then now that I'm legal I don't drink a lot of alcohol overall.

and that's me.

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Poggio that's really a fascinating mix - i am sure that you are beautiful to look at
even americans can have a rich culture because it can get so mixed... but you do like asian cultures?

Actually all of our good genes were given to the first born my older sister. She got the hair the skin tone and the eyes which are very ideal for our culture. I got mostly my dads genes which makes for horrible hair xD.

I envy them, and I do love Indians. It is hard to say as a culture that Americans have something so distinct and traditional as a lot of their cultures. For examples Geisha and courtesans. For that matter even certain countries in Europe like Italy.

Edit: xD I always get the Irish and Scottish mixed up for some reason. I know that one is having an on going religious battle and one wears kilts. I am not sure but I thought they were all part of the united kingdom.

american culture can be so fluid based on background.

Indian culture has always been fascinating to be, especially their clothing and instrumentation. their religions are unique as well. I want to take a class studying Hinduism

EDIT: technically yeah. religious battle would be ireland i'm sure, especially the ridiculous lot up in Belfast and that area. kilts would be more scotland's speed, though i have two and wear them a lot.

Let's see, there's white, white, really white, and more white. Aka, Celtic/Northern European background.

I'm Canadian, as are my dad and mom. I'm told that I don't look like a Canadian and I have idea what that means though my mom seems to agree with the assessment. My mom's side has been in Canada since teh American Revolution. There's the hoity toity English wing (the reason we have all the health problems we do) and the Irish farmer wing (the reason we all survive said health problems ;)) some Scot and I hear one Welsh guy.

My dad's parents are English and Danish, his Danish mother arriving in Canada with her family just before WW2, and his English Father arriving after WW2 when his mother re-married a Canadian soldier.

There's a fair bit of stereotype in my family that we've poked fun at over the years. My great-great grandparents were apparently a largeg Scottish woman adn a little Irish man that were the epitome of Scottish stubburness and Irish temper, or so it's said. I love looking up family history and such, and hearing the various stories and anecdotes handed down. Some of the stuff, particularly relating to my mother's mother's side, reads a little like a Jane Austen novel.

irish indian dutch germam XD three light-skined eauropeans and a red-tone darkie, sadly i look like my grandfather who was full irish, i got the auburn and the pale skin and the weight though i did get a bit of freckling from poor blending, my father is rather dark i am not at all to the point where i have to take pills because my skin does not absorb sunlight hardly at all, my indian grandmother was a baptist minister(no not even ask how) though i am not religious in any socially accepted way. i know nothing about my biological mother's side other than her mother was dutch and they are german-dutch. no idea of their religion


lond and short of it though i would give a lot to have gotten my grandmother's skin, she was very pretty i hear

Haha, irish temper is something I do have! Apparently irish persons are also very cagey and people tell me I'm cagey all the time.

I LOVE african heritage, don't know why - i have a friend from Somalia and a few from Ethiopa, as well as some sub-saharan african friends. The modes of dress are wonderful.

Alyssia, do you have any native american traditions that you adhere to? Like Poggio you also sound like a wonderful blend of heritages. and yeah the she-hulk thing... I have a few black friends who get scary when they get mad, yeah.

Quiet, do you want to share some of those stories or anecdotes? C: (i don't know what a traditional canadian is supposed to look like)

Manda, I'm almost the opposite. i drink often but very moderately - maybe a beer or two. do you cook a lot of puerto rican dishes? One of my friends/roomie is Cuban and she makes great food. (and lol about the frying pan her mother actually hit her with one when she was little. a spanking, like, not abusive)

Choco I am irish and I have the dark black hair! DX a lot of traditional irish looks tend to be either the red hair OR black hair and blue eyes, which is me ( my eyes are actually green though). I've read that red hair is more prevalent in scottish descent but honestly it's so mixed about now that anything can happen.

Choco, seems odd that your skin wouldn't absorb sunlight but I doubt that has to do with colour. Lighter skin absorbs more than dark skin. Evolutionary trait that came up when people moved into colder areas and started covering up. Hence Nordic and celtic folk tend to be pastey white. My dad cetainly is (has his mother's complexion) and neither of us like being in the sun much. We burn like crazy and just plain dont tolerate the heat well.

My family is pretty much all shades of blonde to brown. My brother's father's side has more scot so there are some serious red heads over there. My dad has his mother's strawberry blonde hair which I had too when I was young. It's darker now, but apparently my hair likes to change colour as my roomate often asked me if I had anything done since there were days where it looked more blonde or more red. My mom noticed too. My mother's hair was blonde but went quite dark after she had kids. That's typical though, so I hear.

Not sure what anecdote to share, Scylla. There are a few and some are lengthy. ;). A lot of them have to do with my grandparents on my mother's side. Her mother's parents died when sheh was young, so her elderly aunts came from England to look after her. They were particularly insistent that she act properly and not become too "colonial." They had a summer cabin not far from what her aunts assumed was an orphanage. Said "orphanage" was my grandfather's home. ;). He was one of eight kids and the family farmed potatos. Story is that the patriarch of the family originally came to Canada from Ireland to escape the famine. He would have been my great, great, great, great (I think) grandfather.

ah, well my skin does not absorb and light colors reflect light, but well ok XD

I have a little of everything except Asian in me. I have black cousins, Native American cousins, white of all sorts of descents, I honestly wonder if I'm not a fair example of the whole mixing pot of America. I consider myself mainly Native though. I know almost nothing of the Ojibwe language though. It's a hard language.

Ah. I can see one's skin not being able to absorb sunlight properly. White and black skin are not separate colours though. It's how much melanin one has. Melanin resists sunlight. That's why dark people rarely burn. Less melanin means whiter skin which absorbs more sunlight per inch but is more vulnerable to being burned. Basically when we all lived in Africa and it was was hot, our body was exposed to sunlight all the time and to prevent an overload of of it and to protect from burns our skin used melanin as a pigment (same thing happens with tanning). When we migrated north into Europe, it was colder and we have to wear clothes to keep warm. The remaining exposed skin had to work harder to absorb enough sunlight so we lost the pigment.

Theoretically then, if you take a very dark individual from somewhere hot, and put them somewhere cold where they wear more clothes than normal, and introduce no other bloodlines, that person would eventually (evolutionary time here ;)) turn white. Same goes if you stuck a white person in Africa. They would eventually turn dark overtime with the higher exposure to sunlight.

I'll stop now. :S

I'm Filipino...Yes, another asian and yes, I've been told, "Oh, how smart are you?" It actually got to the point where I would say, "Screw this" and just become completely laid back in my classes just to prove to everyone that not EVERY ASIAN is a genius. ...I still passed those classes with B's and C's. orz

As far as how I keep traditions... I don't, but there's actually a festival during the summer that a city holds in honor of the Filipino community that shows the different folklore dances and stuff. I actually took part in some of the dances myself when I was younger. lol

Thanks for that, Gallagher. :) soul food is good. i like it.

A lot of Asian friends i have get really tired of the "you're an Asian in America, you must be brilliant!" stereotype. it makes me wonder what people here think Asian schools are like.

i really love native american culture because it's so rich and fascinating, but the languages ARE hard to speak i'm sure. the camp sounds neat - are all Native Americans invited, or is it tribe specific, or open to the general public?

Something I'd like to bring up is the American concept of "bacon" versus the irish concept of "bacon" - american 'bacon' is what i call rashers and irish 'bacon' is what americans call country ham. it's so weird. also pudding XP

I burn and then tan in the sun. don't know what that's about. :cool:

My heritage is -- complicated, and basically unknown lol. I was adopted by my paternal grandparents (bio 'dad's' parents) but HE was from a relationship prior to when my grandparents met, so I know nothing about my bio 'mother' / bio grandmother's heritages, outside of vaguely recalling being told dad got a German woman pregnant when he was in the military, lol. If I had German blood it wouldn't surprise me in the least considering I am quite stocky and big boned. Like, literally BIG BONED, lmao. Thick and sturdy like a tree trunk.

What I do know is that my dad's family line is supposedly English -- did a little research a long time ago and apparently an ancestor came over with the colonists, supposedly on the Mayflower, but who knows if that's true. I look very English too though, so more'n likely it's English and German. I do know they were settlers though, my paternal great-grandmother's family even has a town in Indiana named after them. I come from hardy pioneer stock, woo!

My mom was Native - Apache, though I don't know the specifics of her tribe. Her family settled in the Kentucky mountains back in the 1900s and basically assimilated to survive, so she didn't know anything about her Native history. I know she was really sad about that, I wish I could have helped her find out some stuff. I plan to try to trace it myself someday when I get the time.

Haha I remember being really small and asking her once when my skin was going to turn dark like hers, and she told me it wouldn't, and I actually started crying. xD I just wanted to look like my mama! She had a really hard time of it, trying to be accepted by my dad's ultra fundie Christian family, it's one of the reasons I have nothing to do with them now. >_> Bad blood there.

Some of his family's also from the Appalachia region so there's probably Scottish in me somewhere too, it would seem likely, considering. Cultural wise though, I grew up in a lil rural country town, grew up on a 16 acre farm, lived in a trailer, all the stereotypes lol. Typical Baptist religious upbringing, til I was 12 and told I had the choice as to whether I wanted to attend church or not. Never did again. Half my family's made up of preachers on my dad's side, Southern Baptist elite. Good luck to 'em.

...shit this was long xD

I never used to burn. I do now...such a pain. What used to happen was that I'd tan like hell...and that reeled in the "Little Charcoal" nickname >.>

Uh. Anyways. I'm Taiwanese. I will punch the person who dares call that little country "part of China" in the guts. That's an exception to my usual lack of loyalties.

Yeah, I get the "Oh, Espy, why don't you answer all the questions, and we'll back you up" in groupwork because I'm Asian. And the martial arts thing...I actually don't have any martial arts experience whatsoever. I'm decent and math and all, but...you know. Don't link that to me being Asian. >.> Same with art. -twitch-

Aaaaaactually. Even though I say I'm Taiwanese... On my dad's side, they've pretty much tracked the family history back to hundreds of years ago. The problem with that is, someone might've fudged the facts a few generations ago, especially if they weren't fully Han (uh...google "Han Chinese"; hard to explain) and didn't want to seem like outsiders. And then on my mom's side, I'm pretty sure there's some Dutch influence. My mom has a few traits that really aren't seen in Taiwanese people in general.

...So, I can say that I'm Taiwanese, but...who knows >.>

Nothing special about me really.

I'm German (good chance western), Portuguese, Welch, Dutch, Wales, Tiny amount of Native American (Sioux Indian Tribe to be specific).

My Mom is Everything that I said. My Grandma Was Portuguese and German, and my Grandfather is a little bit of everything.

My Dad is pure German (Great Grandfather got marooned by the German Navy in the early 1900s)

In regard to family history I don't have any cause my psycho grandpa on my dad's side destroyed all of our family memorabilia by the city because he's a hoarder and doesn't value family over his political views. (other than this Maid in Manhattan scenario but I'm not going to put it in this post)

I asked my mom if we have family history on her side and she though and said that there wasn't really much of family history there.

So to me, we came out of nowhere until 80 years ago cause there is no evidence of my family tree or no one can remember/stories about my family.

I'm bland

I'm never sure what to say about cultural background really, I suppose because the notion of "Canadian" culture seems somewhat odd. Not really sure what it would be. I think a lot of people in Canada tend to think of themselves as being whatever their background is outside of Canada, since the country as it is now was largely built around immigration and meetings between the Native populations and European immigrants. My mother is very keen on identifying herself as Canadian though, and considers our family to be traditional Canadians, given our own family history and heritage is tied in with the history of the country.

I'd like to see more of the county, particularly out East since I haven't been there yet. My mother's family came from the Maritimes, specifically New Brunswick where her parents settled. My Dad from the prairies, his parents meeting in Calgary and him growing up in rural towns in Alberta and BC. My sister and I were born here on the West Coast. Geographically speaking we cover most of the country, though the bulk of my family has now made it over to BC. My great grandfather was an Anglican minister in New Brunswick and he is still remembered over there. My aunt went to visit and the community where he had lived held a welcome for her. I'd like to go see it myself one of these days.

I've been sorting through old books of my mothers, and it's been interesting to see the stuff that has come out of it. I've discovered books beloning to a man previously known only as "Bill" who turned out to be the soldier my great grandmother has married and my grandfather's stepfather. My mom had met him as well and he left some stamps for myself and my sister when we were very young. I also found a Danish copy of the Book of Common Prayer which I assumed had been my Danish grandmother's, but it actually was a gift to my mom's mother, as her father (the minister) worked with a community that was made up of Danish immigrants, the area called "New Denmark." I also found a book of children's stories of my dad's and uncle's that they got from their grandmother. Their Danish grandmother used to make pastries and tell them stories about 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus" that they loved to hear. (Their English grandmother used to insist they come down for breakfast every morning dressed in corduroys and bow ties. After breakfast they could get changed in jeans and go play).

German & British on my dad's side and Dutch & Cherokee on my mom's side.

; u;

Puerto Rico! Represent!

I'm Korean.
Parents were both born in Korea
I was born in the US

I don't fit the Asian stereotype
At all. But I don't care much.

Annndd that's pretty much it for me
._.

does Aussie count as an ethnicity?

I think that's more nationality since people usually quote their Irish or British roots.

I'm a Sino-Thai Australian with Middle Eastern and German upbringings. I'm not a rich bitch nor am I a money hungry prostitute, they're huge stereotypes among my ethnic background and it's not an unfounded reputation.I have a stronger than usual Aussie accent compared to a lot of Asians born here too.

It's actually hard to tell what I am since I come from a small ethnic group in the south of China. I end up looking Asian without the typical Asian features and most people think I'm from Malaysia where they're a mix of everything.

I guess "Aussie" would technically be Indigenous Australians :P

Hmm....well, predominantly British and Cherokee, but I also have some bits of German and Irish as well.

Born and raised in America with most of my time in the South.

Ummmmm Cherokee, Irish, Scottish (Not Scotch Irish completely different), German, Dutch, English, Italian and probably Hopi as well but that isn't conclusive.

But I am American, born and raised in the South. My Dad's mother's family has been in this town for over 200 years. And part of my Mom's family has a seat on the Cherokee council.

My ethnicity is not really special I'm German, Portuguese, Welch, Dutch, and less than 1 percent Native american.

I was born in Brookhaven Long Island NY raised in the ghettos of New york (not the city). My family aren't really special when it comes to class other than my family is one of the only people in the whole district that have jobs. oTL

then when I was 13 we moved to Colorado, for me being the "fattest" one in the school.

I don't know any family history passed my grandparents because they never told great stories as well as on my dad side. My psycho grandpa is a hoarder and his hoards are newspapers and when the city called him to get rid of it and he wouldn't the city called a dumpster and a cleaning crew threw EVERYTHING AWAY even our family memorabilia. and Second he wasn't the type to tale about family, it's all about politics on him.

and that is why I have never seen him before in my life.

Sorry for my family rant. I have to put something half special to replace the plain race/ethnicity.

I'm half German. The other half is: 1/4 African(?), 1/8 Choctaw and 1/8 misc Caucasian. I look like I am Greek or maybe middle eastern. No real culture associated with this mixture, just California basic.

Italian (50 %), irish, native american, english, and german.

In order of how much I am. But I usually just say I am italian.

Irish, Scotch, Dutch, German, and a little bit of Indian (Cherokee). My father is either quarter or half indian, I can't remember which. I don't know a whole lot about my family's origin to be honest. I am just going by what I have been told.

I've lived around the same area in the United States my whole life thus far, though I think it would be amazing to explore the country on my own.

All I can really say for sure is "white." I'm mostly French, a little German, some English, a smidgen of Finnish but not even enough that it really counts...

I'm not on good terms with half of my family tree so we'll never really know for sure, but it doesn't bother me very much. I am interested in learning more about those countries but not even because it's my heritage. I just like learning. :3

most likely nationality unless you're tracing aboriginal roots - but it's still fun to talk about. go ahead :)

Mmm, German? I'm mostly German, my dad's pretty much full German, and my mom's like half. But my Grandma (on mom's side) is part Dutch, I think, and my Grandpa (also mom's side) is part Romanian.