Your Ethnicity

Would the mods please add "God.... and het for perfect". BG can't respond to this poll if not.:D

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Originally Posted by Big Gunns

Would the mods please add "God.... and het for perfect". BG can't respond to this poll if not.:D

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'HET' for perfect??? only a 'HET'??

Ouch... I'm biting my tongue so hard right now it really hurts...

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Originally Posted by MarkS

'HET' for perfect??? only a 'HET'??

Ouch... I'm biting my tongue so hard right now it really hurts...

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Visual "het" of course.:D

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Originally Posted by maria1232

is am hispanic =]...well....spanish, colombian, and lebanese =]

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Hey here's someone that shares my Spanish & Lebanese genes:) I don't know too many people who are even part Lebanese. My Grandpa is full Lebanese too.

Spanish from Venezuela.

Although one of my grandpas was European, But Spanish people are just one big mass of mutts :P. I don't look as tan as in my avatar, but I do tan that easy.

Jewish (yeah i heard the earlier opinion about whether or not it's an ethnic group... MHO is that it is)

but i went with multiracial

my dad is from russian/ polish (lithuania) jewish
and my mom is a full blooded sephardic greek jew

but I look pretty standard caucasian (except for the nose...) and people tell me that when i tan i get "swarthy"(what oes that mean?!?!?)

BTW what is caucasian? really... besides the word we apply to white people

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Originally Posted by NightLad

(And if I’m able to disprove my friend’s assertion that “white people are just crazy” that would be great, too! ;))

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i dont think theres any use in trying to prove white people arent crazy! ...its a givin... we all are in some way:)

HUH...i'm half spaniard half Cuban.
My great grandparents were from Spain, my grandfather and grandmother are Spaniards, hence my father is a Spaniard. he married my mother, and she's about 15% Spaniard, 85% Cuban...

It's quite refreshing to live in a country :salute: that doesn't eat snakes. :colbert:
and cats :colbert:...except in chinese joints :) ...

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Originally Posted by GoingPostal

My mom is white, my dad is Brazilian. I have a nice tan going on.

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Nice! Me too :]] I love having natural dark skin, and being outside in the pasture or while I am out horse back riding I get tan very quickly.

Have to be careful so I don't get too dark, or i'll look weird lol :P

Northern Italian here!!

Half Irish and half Ukrainian

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Originally Posted by alexrls

BTW what is Caucasian? really... besides the word we apply to white people

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As per this informal poll, I just meant it to mean 'white' in general. No breakdown of geography or particular 'mix' of otherwise ‘white’ ethnicities. I could have gone nuts with sub-categories for each option, but I wanted to keep it simple.

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Originally Posted by swe3tm0mentz

i don’t think there’s any use in trying to prove white people aren’t crazy! ...its a givin... we all are in some way:)

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Hehe, true that. We all go a little mad sometimes.

PS: since I didn't mention it earlier, my background is 75% Irish, 25% German, and 100% Canadian!

I <3 spanish woman. :gj:

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Originally Posted by alexrls

BTW what is caucasian? really... besides the word we apply to white people

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Caucasian has come to mean white though it's not really a very good or even correct definition, the word caucasian comes from the Caucasius Mountains in Russia which some people consider to be the dividing line between the european continental plate and the asian continental plate. Caucasian or 'Caucasoid' is actually a very broad catagory that refers to physical types found not only in Europe but also the Mediterainian, the Middle East, North Africa and nearby parts of Asia. So it actually covers a LOT of area.

If I wanted to be more accurate about describing my race I'd call myself Nordic and I'd probably call my wife Celtic but we're both fine with white if you'd prefer that. It's really not that big of a deal one way or the other.

My mom was adopted, but she is certainly of western european descent. I'm GUESSING german.

Other than that, I'm very high % british in origin from what records we've been able to dig up about my dad's side of the family. In addition a number of ancesters came from Germany, Finland, and a few other European countries. As far as I can tell, I'm 100% european, at least for something like the last 500-600 years of ancestors.

I've got ancestors in the original Jamestown colony. Two ancesters were brothers fighting on opposite sides of the American Revolution. The one that is a direct greatgreat...great grandfather was a loyalist and fled to Canada with his family to avoid the war. The other brother was a general for the American forces, and even has his own Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Herkimer

mexican/irish!! and yes tequila as well as jameson!!

I'm Cuban.......and I now know I'm surrounded by white people on this forum lol!

Caucasian.

Most people on here don't seem to know what ethnicity is when they say they are German, Irish, English, and whatnot. Makes things confusing because there are different ethnicity's from all of those countries. So even if you are 'English' that does not tell me your ethnicity because you very well could be black.

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

Caucasian.

Most people on here don't seem to know what ethnicity is when they say they are German, Irish, English, and whatnot. Makes things confusing because there are different ethnicity's from all of those countries. So even if you are 'English' that does not tell me your ethnicity because you very well could be black.

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ethnicity [(eth-nis-uh-tee)]

Identity with or membership in a particular racial, national, or cultural group and observance of that group's customs, beliefs, and language.


eth·nic
   /ˈɛθnɪk/ Show Spelled[eth-nik] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

So when someone says that their ethnicity is "Irish", or even better "Scandinavian", you don't understand what they mean?

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

Caucasian.

Most people on here don't seem to know what ethnicity is when they say they are German, Irish, English, and whatnot. Makes things confusing because there are different ethnicity's from all of those countries. So even if you are 'English' that does not tell me your ethnicity because you very well could be black.

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umm beige.

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Originally Posted by BPelizabeth

Northern Italian here!!

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In Italy that's referred to as German.

I came in second place! :taz:

I'm just about everything there is, but mostly Italian and German, but I consider myself white. I don't have any family from Caucasia :P My granny was born and raised in Italy. The rest of my family has been in the States for 3+ generations.

One thing I thought was funny, my fiance says he's white, but he's 1/2 Mexican. I told him we were in an interracial relationship the other day and he says, no we aren't, I'm white! It took me about 20 minutes but I finally got him to understand that even if he were a 1/4 black he would still be black. :rolleyes: He finally admitted to being part Hispanic after I pretty much made him! :rofl:

Dam we Spanic's are a big minority on bp.net or in the hobby in general.:O

well my grandparents are from hungry in this little almost all jewish town haha so i guess im 1 quarter European?

American!

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Originally Posted by Emilio

Dam we Spanic's are a big minority on bp.net or in the hobby in general.:O

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No offense but how do you figure? I mean your 2nd overall?

I'd say the big minorities would be those we have 0 off :P

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Originally Posted by Seru1

No offense but how do you figure? I mean your 2nd overall?

I'd say the big minorities would be those we have 0 off :P

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If you take a walk around south Florida you would understand... LOL :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Danounet

If you take a walk around south Florida you would understand... LOL :rofl:

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lol I am sure it would become more clear.

The farthest south I have been in florida was daytona. I always wanted to go farther down though I love cuban food.

I chose "Caucasian" even though I am not really sure how accurate that is. I mean I have white skin, and my grandmother is from Germany.. But "Caucasian" is only certain parts of Europe and even some parts of Africa. So I really don't know what "ethnicity" would be the most accurate. To be honest I don't think anyone really knows for sure 100% what ethnicity they are.

This is an interesting poll though. And how is there not 1 asian? I figured there would be a few at least.

EDIT - Oh nevermind I didn't see the numbers right.

My Dad is Puerto Rican and my Mum is Native American with some hints "caucasian". Yet oddly my dad doesn't know spanish and my mum was raised on Spanish food... Yeah I once tried figuring that one out along time ago, and I failed.:P

I'm a little disappointed at the just asian category without the pacific islander :P

I'm so white I can't tan. I go from white to red to super red to white. And it's painful.

For specifics my mom is German, specifically south/west Germany so definitely some Celtic blood in there (from the invasions when they pushed east) which explains the red hair and there's also evidence of some Viking blood in there as well. My dad is French Canadian with a long Canadian lineage, so there's probably some Irish and native in there somewhere too.

I'm just a good ole white boy with German and Irish blood runnin through me.

I guess we're just crazy!!:D

What happened to the european option?!
My mother is from Siberia, my father is from Minsk, Belarus
And I was born in Minsk

Race =/= Ethnicity

Don't confuse them.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/eur...al/Flagbig.GIF

I dont see color I see people....

My ethnicity is American. They are the people I identify with and the culture I know and love. I have a common heritage with all of them.

Im 100% Norwegian, with Blue eyes and blond hair. So im as white as i gets.

white. born in Poland, 9years-- present, raised in Chicago!!

Caucasian.


I don't actually know where we are from, just that we're mostly european and that my great great aunt was native american but I don't think that ties into my blood at all haha.

I'm Trinidadian

Located in the West Indies AKA the Caribbean

I guess some people from African dropped me off there..

Then I got mixed with some native Indian people..

:O:D;)

Im half Puerto Rican and half Mexican from Chicago but I was raised as Puerto Rican.

i started a pole like this a couple of years back.

im 100% Mexican and proud!!

and probably the only one too....

i was born and raised here in cali. here in SoCal it's FULL of hispanics, primarily Mexicans.

I guess I'll share. 50/50 - Puerto Rican & Italian

If it matters, I'm a first generation Chinese American, born and raised in the states. I really don't know, but I don't think snakes or reptiles are popular pets out in the east. Hell, I'm pretty sure a snake is more likely to be sold for soup than as a pet.

Im Japanese, and these smileys are the greatest thing ever lol :matrixfig:pee::headbang::carouse::fork::hump::sabduel::bolt:

Any other Japs here? I'm lonely here in ATL (T.T)

Well apparently I'm Swedish and Portuguese.