Gotta love that melting pot...What's your ethnic heritage?

Dad's side: Irish, English, German, Chinese
Mom's side: German, Irish, Swedish

On my fathers side: German/Jewish
On my mothers side: French/Jewish and Cherokee Indian

Mother's Side: English, Scottish, French, German, Italian, Finnish, Polish, American Indian, Irish
Father's Side: English, Scottish, German, French, American Indian

Although I'm a little of everything, everyone assumes I'm Irish! (red hair and freckles will do that for you!)

Donna - West Indian; born in Trinidad, immigrated to Canada. (Ancestors originally from India.)
George - Chinese, born in Canada. (Ancestors originally from southern China)

By the way, since we live in Canada, we belong to no "melting pot" as in the US.

We're in a "multicultural mosaic."

So there.

I am English, Irish, Polish, and Swedish. I'll have to email my mom and find out which is on which side though!

Dad was Scottish and Irish.

Mom is English and Pennsylvania Dutch.

American -- on the downside...

American, descended from:
Dad - Alsatian
Mom - German, English, French, Irish and Native American

My Mothers side is English, English and more English oh and a bit of Welsh.
My Fathers side is English,English and English.

Which should mean that I love England but my heart is in Australia, even though I am not there now.

I'm a first generation canadian on my dads side and a third on my moms side.
My dads family immigrated in the early 50's from Leeds, England but were really from Wales, so my dad is Welsh and my mom is Swedish and German. Her dad was Swedish his parent immigrated from Swedden in th early 1900's and my grandmothers family immigrated from "White Russia" (If anybody knows where this is/was please let me know, we have no idea) but were really German.

I am German and 1/4 Jewish

3rd generation in Israel and 100% Jewish.

My maternal granparents are from Tunisia. Paternal granparents are from Poland.

I'm 100% adopted Korean, and my mom is 1/4 German and 1/8 Irish and 1/8 Native American...and the rest a mix, and my dad is English but we're all American now.
My husband is born in the United States but his ancestors are from Austria, so that makes my future children 1/2 Austrian and 1/2 Korean
And my 4 furbabies are 400% Cute!!

Mom's side: English, French, Dutch, Scottish and German

Daddy's side: English, Welsh

Aren't I the epitome of a WASP? I got the Jewish last name, by marriage.

My oldest son got some Irish and Finn mixed in , from his father and Mark got Lithuanian, from his. Throw in the grandkids, being 1/2 Hispanic and our family is a real polyglot!

On my mom's side I'm German, Dutch, and Irish.

On my dad's side I'm a regular Heinz 57. I'm German, Danish, Scottish, English, Russian, Greek, Italian, French, Dutch, and Spanish, plus a few more. On his side we can trace our ancestary all the way back to Mary, Queen of Scots; and are related through her to the German, Danish, Scottish, English, Russian, Greek, Italian, French, Dutch, and Spanish royal families, and a few more...there's a lot of imtermarriage among European royalty. (There's also a lot of Jewish ancestary in European royal families, though none of them are practicing Jews). On his side I'm also related to Robert E. Lee and Helen Keller.

My fiance on the other hand is almost full-blooded Native American, except he has 1/4th German in him.

Dad's side - Dutch, specifically Frisian, for anyone out there who knows what that is.

Mom's side - Dutch, English, Irish, German, and French Canadian -- if that counts as an ethnic group. Supposedly also American Indian, but no one has found proof of that yet.

Dad-Mostly Irish via Prince Edward Island, Canada, with a wee bit Scots (MacDonald) and British (Fox).

Mom-Polish and German from her Mom, a total mutt on her Dad's side.

I self-identify as Irish and Polish.

Hey all..

I've been away from compute access for a while.. and I have my summer class in 15 minutes.. but I'll pop in a few words...

I am Hungarian mostly on my father's side, he immigrated from one of the many old hungarian families in Translyvannia and on my mother's side, it is also Hungarian, she is from near Budapest, but further back on her side is Dutch, Slovak and German jewish heritage...

Originally Posted by donnageorge

Donna - West Indian; born in Trinidad, immigrated to Canada. (Ancestors originally from India.)
George - Chinese, born in Canada. (Ancestors originally from southern China)

By the way, since we live in Canada, we belong to no "melting pot" as in the US.

We're in a "multicultural mosaic."

So there.

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Actually, I've always thought the "pizza" analogy was more fitting than the "melting pot", with Western Europeans/Native Americans forming the dough, Africans and Eastern/Southern Europeans the sauce, and everybody else the "toppings".

Originally Posted by jeeperscat

My mum's side - Welsh & English (My Grandad's family were evacuated from London during WW2 and never went back

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My Dad's side - Welsh

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Very interesting! I am Welsh and English on my dad's side. My great-great grandfather went to Wales from England as an engineer to build a tunnel through a mountain and never went back. My grandmother was Welsh.

On my mom's side, I am German.