What is your Nationality?

I feel so, so boring. I'm simply Italian, and all my ancestors are not only from the same region, but even from the same province where I was born and raised, and where I am still living nowadays.

*yawn*

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Summerlilly
LOL Not so boring to me. :)
Willowmylove said:
I'm American, but my heritage is German and 1/8 Cherokee, so part of my lineage is truly American.

I've never been to Germany, but I want to go. I hear my last name is a LOT more common over there. Over here, we're the only family in the entire US with that name.
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I'm German. So, just out of curiousity: what's your last name?
 
I'm a white US citizen with ancestors from all over Europe (Poland, England, Scotland, Ukraine, Germany, France, Ireland, etc). Some ancestors arrived in what would become the US on the Mayflower, some fled the Russian Empire due to pogroms in the early 1900s to come to the US. At any rate, I'm an American.
 
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Summerlilly
Whatsup East Coast! ha ha
It's awesome to see so many people from all over the world! I am American but much cooler because I grew up in Hawai'i! Hawai'i technically is part of the US but you know...we've got our own more awesome thing goin on being paradise and all. 😉 lol

I think I'm actually 7 ethnicities. Mostly Swedish, then Polish, English, German, Norweigen, Scottish, and Irish. Just found out about the last two. *cool!* In other words, white. Don't know anything about any of my family! So sad because I'm going to Europe soon!
 
I'm half Filipino, half British. However, there is some Portuguese and Scottish in me. I want to be half Irish, half Italian. Half potato, half tomato 😀
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VisionGirl
VisionGirl
Ha-ha, that's my kids, and that's hilarious! :)
Im English, Italian, American....Moms Italian, Dads American but I was born and raised in London before we moved to the USA
 
Nationality: American

Ethnicity: A Little Bit Of Everything 🙂 American, Russian, Polock, Italian, and Cherokee (There's More But I Can't Remember lol)
 
Can I ask a question lads? A lot of people here have stated their nationality and then expanded on their ethnicity. I'm wondering though, how do you identify, if you identify at all, with these other ethnicities? It boggles my mind. I'm Irish and while my grandfather insists there is some Portuguese running through our blood I have no affinity for that country. I certainly would never call myself Portuguese Irish. Do you embrace the cultures or traditions of these other countries?

I'm just curious, I think it's fascinating to have such a diverse background.
 
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mayfever
good question! I always wondered that, too.
Kean said:
Can I ask a question lads? A lot of people here have stated their nationality and then expanded on their ethnicity. I'm wondering though, how do you identify, if you identify at all, with these other ethnicities? It boggles my mind. I'm Irish and while my grandfather insists there is some Portuguese running through our blood I have no affinity for that country. I certainly would never call myself Portuguese Irish. Do you embrace the cultures or traditions of these other countries?

I'm just curious, I think it's fascinating to have such a diverse background.
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I have five or six ethnicities, most of them not very prominent (Like, 10% this, 10% that). I can't say I really care about any of them... I mean, I am Irish, and I Irish Step Dance, but that's more because I enjoy Irish Step Dancing than I enjoy embracing the culture. I'll attend Norwegian Parties, but that's because hey, a party is a party!

So I really only "embrace" my Nationality, in a sense. I'm not so into patriotism.
 
Kean said:
Can I ask a question lads? A lot of people here have stated their nationality and then expanded on their ethnicity. I'm wondering though, how do you identify, if you identify at all, with these other ethnicities? It boggles my mind. I'm Irish and while my grandfather insists there is some Portuguese running through our blood I have no affinity for that country. I certainly would never call myself Portuguese Irish. Do you embrace the cultures or traditions of these other countries?
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For me, it's basically just knowing the background is there. I don't really feel much affinity for my Polish or Dutch ancestry, hardly think about it at all except when threads like these come up (though my family name is very obviously Dutch, even that's not on the forefront of my mind at all). Then again, I don't much identify that much with Germany, either - except for being dang glad I live in a country with a well-functioning social services/welfare system; it always scares me to think what my life would be like without e.g. universal health insurance.

Mostly, my nationality and ethnicity to me are just in the "randomly happened to be this and that" category, like height or eye color. 🙂
 
British. Born and bred in Belfast Northern Ireland.
 
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mayfever
you must under all circumstances make sure that I NEVER hear you speak, because I will track you down and make dirty love to your accent.
Kristine agrees: what is it?
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Because it's so unique to the States, and my first name is very distinguishable, I don't give my last name out on the internet, I'm sorry. I've had problems with stalkers before...

I can tell you it stems from the word Schnauze.
 
Kean said:
Can I ask a question lads? A lot of people here have stated their nationality and then expanded on their ethnicity. I'm wondering though, how do you identify, if you identify at all, with these other ethnicities? It boggles my mind. I'm Irish and while my grandfather insists there is some Portuguese running through our blood I have no affinity for that country. I certainly would never call myself Portuguese Irish. Do you embrace the cultures or traditions of these other countries?

I'm just curious, I think it's fascinating to have such a diverse background.
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For me, being half Russian is a big thing. I speak some Russian (although not as good as I'd like to), and I grew up with Russian food, cartoons and music. In school I even had a pretty Russian circle of friends.
I guess it depends how close you are to the culture. Here in Europe, a lot of us mixed children are only recently appearing. What I mean by that is that we're not as mixed as Americans, but rather still 50/50 or something. So I guess the reason we still associate with the second country (even though we might only grow up in the other country) is because through your parents you have this direct link to the culture.

In America, I imagine, due to all the different nationalities it's different. If you have like 5+ ethnicities, I can't really imagine you really had anyone imprinting you with one specific culture other than American. The only way I think this could be different is when you grew up in a part of town/the country that is predominantly of one ethnicity. Like in Germany you have these parts of town everywhere with a lot of Turkish people with their own supermarkets and everything.

If I hypothetically got married to, say, someone British, I guess my children would already lose the sense of being Russian. It's still important to me, but after all I did grow up in Germany, German is my native language, and I got my basic education in German (which shapes the way one thinks, I believe). So I guess my hypothetical children would, if they grew up in Britain, have the same sense of being German as I have for Russian, and the half Russian part of me would already be lost in the generation after me, althought they do have the ethnicity.

Hope this all makes some sense, I think I pretty much confused myself just right now.

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Willowmylove said:
Because it's so unique to the States, and my first name is very distinguishable, I don't give my last name out on the internet, I'm sorry. I've had problems with stalkers before...

I can tell you it stems from the word Schnauze.
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K, can't imagine what it is, but Schnauze is definitely a German word. Means muzzle (in case you didn't know)
 
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mayfever
Russian karma! My gran is from Novgorod and I speak some Russian myself. Where's your family from?
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