what is your ethnic background?

I'm about half Irish and about half Native American (Blackfoot tribe). It's funny because both sides come from both sides of my family, it's not that one side of the family is one and the other is the other. =p I was lucky to have direct contact with members of my family who were still really involved in our heritage, in the form of my great-grandparents. I learned a lot about my Irish heritage from my great-grandmother, and my Native American heritage from my great-grandfather, as well as a couple other older relatives. It was really amazing to be able to know so much about my dual heritages, especially in a society where so many people don't get that chance. Religiously I took a far more Irish/Celtic path later on, but early on I learned both, which was really great for me. I still really respect my Native American roots as well. =)

I am a South African!!!lol!!but my paternal Grandparents were imigrants from India,so my Dad is Indian.My maternal Grandmother is German and my maternal Grandfather is half Indonesion and half Ausrailian,because of this my Mum might be called "colored" here in South Africa but is actually classified "mixed" on her birth certificate.And me???I am classified as Indian or Asiatic but I am really mixed.My siblings and I were picked upon endlessly by the local Indian community while growing up,we had names like mixed breed,half and half,and bushman people.God must have loved my parents very much to have brought them together.I count myself very lucky to have different races in me.Oh, and We are far better looking than our insulting "friends"ever were.!!!!LOL.

Well I am half British/half Russian. My Dad is pure English and can trace his family right back to the 11th century!! My Mother was born in Belarussia, but her family are actually from Moscow, so the blood is actually Russian not Belarussian. I was born here in England, - but I have lived in many parts of the world, and my partner is from Argentina (but he is half Italian!), so I feel quite a citizen of the world - LOL!

My family is so much mixed :) My grandmother is a Tatar, My grandfather is half Bulgarian. These are from my mother side. My father is Turkish.But Turkey is Anatolia so I am sure my father is a mixture too. So my background is way confusing :)

ur right about most not knowing so great ur looking tho! im also a mutt.. little bit of everything but.. from both sides of my family its Irish and German ( NO WONDER I HAVE A temper at times) lol lol Hubby hes Greek and Italian!! with a dash of Irish in there ( NO wonder hes such a good cook!) :)XX

I think there are two ways to look at ethnicity. When most people in America talk about "ethnic background," they are talking about genetic makeup, where their ancestors came from. But in many other parts of the world, ethnic background has more to do with culture than actual genetic lineage, because what makes someone "french" or "german" when you are actually living in Europe. Its boundaries, language and culture - not where your parents came from. I have a few nations and cultures in my lineage, but I really associate with traditions from my grandmother's family. We grew up eating the recipes and keeping different holiday traditions, etc., but if you look at my family tree, I am mostly percentage-wise something else. I think that its false that "americans have no culture", my great grandparents adopted their new culture here. Despite the fact that there are people who say america is shallow and materialistic, if you look there are some great similarities, traditions, etc, that have come about through the melding of cultures creating a distinctly american one. Because of the frontier life, etc people regard America in general with a pioneering spirit. Oh and when the Moscow circus came to the US for the first time, they loved it because it is acceptable in our culture to applaud and cheer and make goofs out of ourselves when we appreciate a performance where in other countries it is not proper. Different performers from China felt the same way.

Hi there. My ethnic background is "Maori" native people of New Zealand/Aotearoa... People of my culture continuously hold family reunions to reunite families and keep them informed of there roots/whakapapa, not only for our generation, but more so for the younger generations and the ones that dont know much about there roots... We have Family reunions which are run for 3 days to 1 week, depending on that family, here we have sports, cultural pastime and games, story telling and dance otherwise known as "kapa Haka", visiting historical family sites, alot goes on at these gatherings and its so awsome to see and catch up with long lost cousins, aunties, uncles and many more... This is how my people keep intouch with family geneology, I dont know one single maori person/family that has'nt or does'nt do the family reunions... Speaking of my own family, I can go back three - four generations on both my parents sides, I will in turn teach my children as they get older, so our family lines will never be lost...

Celtic through and through. Scottish-primarily, plus Irish, English, and French. Haven't gotten too much into geneology yet but I'm curious to see what I might find.

I am working on my family tree now. On my mother's side my grandmother was a Blanchard (French origin) and my grandfather was a Bates (English origin). On my father's side my grandfather was a Montigny (French) and my grandmother was an Ainslie (Scotland). When you start looking into family history you can find out some interesting things. I found out my great-great grandfather George Ainslie married Eliza Jane Lincoln. Who was a third cousin once removed to Abe Lincoln.

my background is scottish, but i have french hugonauts from the 17th century and irish from my mothers side! so god help my future wife!!!

OK - you want a mutt...:) On my mom's side I am Irish, German, English, and Scot. On my dad's side I am Aztec, Vivinian Indian (spelling?), Spanish, Portugese, and French. Talk about a tossed salad! LOL My aunt is a geneologist and it is very interesting to see where your family tree goes. We had so many lines on my mom's side that there were books put out by my aunt for each line that she researched. Pretty cool stuff!