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I was just curious what everyone's Ethnic origin. I am 1/2 Native American Indian (Cherokee) and the other half is a special blend or mutt mix...lol I believe it is Swedish, Scottish, and German.
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Irish/German as far as I know. I can only find the German half as far back as my great grandfather pre-WW1. Story goes that he and another guy on the merchant ship they were on hit some bars when they were in port here in America, got totally shit faced drunk, and missed the ship back. Instead of securing another way back he said "fuck it" and started over here. He left a wife, kids, family, and everything else in Germany! My great grandfather was apparantly an illegal alien, bigamist, and scumbag!
At least this was the story my grandfather used to tell. He wasn't too fond of him!
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as far as have worked out im 100% english, but that probably means im a bit saxon or norman becasue they invaded and founded england. i dont know what im on about lol
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Talking about origins is a hard subject. If someone is taking into consideration the time and past ancestors then it could surely tell. Since, however, most of the known family trees that we know ends about 2-3 generations in the past, where after this time nobody knows what happened, then I can't tell for sure. However, both my parents were born in Athens Greece for 4 generations up to now... I was born there too.. so it makes me (according to the Ancient Greek laws of hereditary, a Greek citizen) LOL... I m laughing because nowadays as you know, globalisation has started to make every kind of identification and culture disappear.
Anyway, the point is that throughout the whole world one cannot say where his/her origins came from since wars, immigrations, and depictions made all origin matters mixed up. For example, I may be Greek .. but who knows who were my great-great grandfathers since Greece was under the possesion of Turks for 400 years... (you get the meaning? there is no chance to have known my origins.. nor anyone else...) Except that if we are talking 2-3 generations past ... so then my abovementioned statement is sound
quote:Originally posted by LaylaMercedes: I was just curious what everyone's Ethnic origin. I am 1/2 Native American Indian (Cherokee) and the other half is a special blend or mutt mix...lol I believe it is Swedish, Scottish, and German.
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Just a question/remark. Your first half sounds good, nice and creative I actually did a thesis on native American tribes back in Uni. What about the other half... how can it be possbile to have origins from 2 or 3 different nationalities?
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Well my mother side of the family is 100% Cherokee Indian...my father however his mother was swedish and his father was Scottish and German. I have quite extensive family trees for both sides of my family.
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