What is your ethnic makeup?

[D_N Flay Table]

I thought this would be fun.

Here is a list of what makes DJG.

1/4 Hawaiian
1/4 Azn
1/2 Scotts.

 

[ronin001]

African,Tuscarora native American and Irish

My people settled in coastal North Carolina, I can only confirm 2 generations before the civil war with a possibility of a 3rd. As a people we have primarily remained in the same area since then, so my recorded history either written or verbal is factual .

 

[Betty_Cocker]

My maternal great grandparents were both half black and half white. No further details are known, mostly because Bajans of that era will absolutely NOT discuss their blackness with you. At all. I have inherited photo albums full of white people who clearly resemble my cousins, but no one is alive to tell me who these people were, or how they are related. One photo is labeled. The handwriting looks like my grandmother's, and the label is Aunt Ada. Who's aunt is she? Not my grandmother's. My great-grandmother did not have any sisters, and they almost certainly would have been more obviously of mixed heritage if she (or her husband, for that matter) had any. Then again, my grandmother's cousin Bernard is blue-eyed and pink-skinned. Looks like a typical white dude. Gotta be part black though, he's kin by blood. Anyway, the Bajans came here in the early 1900's, and that side of the family has mostly married darker and darker, and my generation does not look white at all. Personally, to the best of my ability to calculate, I am 1/8 white. And that includes white folks on my father's side.

My father's people came here on slave ships. We can go back to his grandmother's mother. She was black, as far as we know. Her daughters either never told my grandmother, or my grandmother just never told me otherwise. My grandmother says her grandmother and her grand-aunt had their mother sold out from them when the younger was a suckling infant. Their father owned them. We do not know his name. Every once in a while, as a kid, I would find a strand of red hair in my dark brown curls in the summer. Those were his legacy. His daughters had long, wavy, red hair. They sold it in wig shops to make ends meet after they fled the plantation.

Runaways on my paternal grandfather's side found refuge among the Cherokee. That story is unclear, and I never met grandpa, but I'm told there is some lineage through there. My very best calculation puts me at 1/32 Cherokee.

No one knows anything about my maternal grandfather's people, but they come from South Carolina and are dark-skinned, like I am, and darker. My parents both had skin darker than mine, but I do tend to wear sunblock and avoid excessive sun-exposure. When I was a lifeguard, I was much, much darker, for years. So, it is hard to say whether their coloring was just ethnicity or partially sun exposure. I'm guessing the latter, because the other women in my mother's family (my grandmother, most of my second and third cousins, and my aunt) are about my complexion or lighter.

At any rate, I'm very nearly all black on both sides, and I identify as black. I plan to get pregnant with my dude, who is white. I wonder how our children will choose to identify. They will be more white than anything else, but I assume they will look multi-ethnic, like my grandmothers and great-grandparents.

If your children take after you at all they will be stunningly beautiful.

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

I am Cherokee, Creek and Shawnee with English, Scottish, Spanish, Polish and French.

Tsalagi tsiwoniha:
Ayv giga Aniyvwiya, Anigusa, ale Anitsawani gvtodi Anisgotsi, Anisquani, Anidatsi ale Anigalvtsi.

 

[pepinogrande]

All North German -- even after 200 years in America !

 

[Rugbypup]

Half English dating to 1066, half Slavik, Russian, Polish descent

 

[hugenick]

Half Sicilian and half French...

 

[bwcurved]

50% African, and then the other half is a mix....English, Irish, Sweedish as far as we know.

And culturally I'm an island boy from the caribbean, born and raised!

 

[Smooth88]

1/4 Panamanian
1/8 Bajan

The rest African-American and Native American with other stuff mixed in probably.

 

[Chrysippus]

I wish I had something interesting in the mix: all Northern European (German and Irish). I always wished for something more interesting, like Athabasca Indian or Mixtec.
Where I grew up, I got soooooo tired of hearing people say they were part Cherokee--that Cherokee must have had a big cock and a fast horse....

 

[Betty_Cocker]

I call myself a "Creekakee" (part Creek and part Cherokee) other filters of Irish, English and Dutch. But primarily American Indian.

 

[Chrysippus]

I call myself a "Creekakee" (part Creek and part Cherokee) other filters of Irish, English and Dutch. But primarily American Indian.

Wow, Betty, I am curious: do you still live in the part of the country where the Cherokee and Creek used to live--like in or around the state of Georgia? Do you claim tribal affiliation and consider yourself/are considered an American Indian? Can you speak either or one of those languages? I ask because I grew up in part of the country where I had (still do have) some full Lakota and mixed Lakota friends.
One of them had a saying I love--'it is hard to be an eagle among crows.'

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

I wish you had provided a translation--the purpose of a post is to share, not exclude.

I did provide the translation. The Cherokee post is the translation of the post in English

 

[798686]

If I'm in the mood for make-up - I tend to slap on whichever ethnicity takes my fancy.

 

[temptotalk]

A little bit of eye liners and a dash of lipstick.

 

[AlteredEgo]

My maternal great grandparents were both half black and half white. No further details are known, mostly because Bajans of that era will absolutely NOT discuss their blackness with you. At all. I have inherited photo albums full of white people who clearly resemble my cousins, but no one is alive to tell me who these people were, or how they are related. One photo is labeled. The handwriting looks like my grandmother's, and the label is Aunt Ada. Who's aunt is she? Not my grandmother's. My great-grandmother did not have any sisters, and they almost certainly would have been more obviously of mixed heritage if she (or her husband, for that matter) had any. Then again, my grandmother's cousin Bernard is blue-eyed and pink-skinned. Looks like a typical white dude. Gotta be part black though, he's kin by blood. Anyway, the Bajans came here in the early 1900's, and that side of the family has mostly married darker and darker, and my generation does not look white at all. Personally, to the best of my ability to calculate, I am 1/8 white. And that includes white folks on my father's side.

My father's people came here on slave ships. We can go back to his grandmother's mother. She was black, as far as we know. Her daughters either never told my grandmother, or my grandmother just never told me otherwise. My grandmother says her grandmother and her grand-aunt had their mother sold out from them when the younger was a suckling infant. Their father owned them. We do not know his name. Every once in a while, as a kid, I would find a strand of red hair in my dark brown curls in the summer. Those were his legacy. His daughters had long, wavy, red hair. They sold it in wig shops to make ends meet after they fled the plantation.

Runaways on my paternal grandfather's side found refuge among the Cherokee. That story is unclear, and I never met grandpa, but I'm told there is some lineage through there. My very best calculation puts me at 1/32 Cherokee.

No one knows anything about my maternal grandfather's people, but they come from South Carolina and are dark-skinned, like I am, and darker. My parents both had skin darker than mine, but I do tend to wear sunblock and avoid excessive sun-exposure. When I was a lifeguard, I was much, much darker, for years. So, it is hard to say whether their coloring was just ethnicity or partially sun exposure. I'm guessing the latter, because the other women in my mother's family (my grandmother, most of my second and third cousins, and my aunt) are about my complexion or lighter.

At any rate, I'm very nearly all black on both sides, and I identify as black. I plan to get pregnant with my dude, who is white. I wonder how our children will choose to identify. They will be more white than anything else, but I assume they will look multi-ethnic, like my grandmothers and great-grandparents.

 

[Shelby]

1/4 Finn
1/4 Northern Italian
1/2 cracker
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[burns1de]

French-Canadian, so mostly French ancestry, but also some German, Irish and Scottish (not much, though).

I'm the whitest guy ever.

 

[arktrucker]

1/2 Portugues-Azores
1/4 Scotts
1/4 English

 

[rawbone8]

SPF 30 Full Spectrum