Your Ethnicity

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.