Omnia sunt Communia Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 I am quite interested in the vast number of ethnicities in the world. I don't want to sound ignorant, but up until the ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang Region, China, I didn't know that there were different ethnicities of Chinese like Han and Uighur - I just thought there were Chinese. Just goes to show how diverse our world really is! If I go by ethnicity rather than national identity I'd probably say I'm about 1/4 Gaelic and 3/4 Roman, though I wouldn't be able to tell you if that's right or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seachmall Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 I'm about 1/4 Gaelic Irish or Scottish? (Or Manx?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanjeem Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 I am quite interested in the vast number of ethnicities in the world. I don't want to sound ignorant, but up until the ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang Region, China, I didn't know that there were different ethnicities of Chinese like Han and Uighur - I just thought there were Chinese. Just goes to show how diverse our world really is! If I go by ethnicity rather than national identity I'd probably say I'm about 1/4 Gaelic and 3/4 Roman, though I wouldn't be able to tell you if that's right or not. Very true, As you know my father is Burmese, Born in Burma and lived their in Rangoon (Capital) Although his Granfather was English (Pure english, since Britain had control over Myanmar burma at the time). Anyway that made my grandmother Half Burmese Half english. Even though she is still more burmese because she was born their. Then my grandfather, had abit of english in him, but nobody knows how much. So i just decided to call my father 75% burmese and 25% English. He was always very patriotic about being British Also in burma their are lots of ethnic groups, Like the Chins, Karens, Kachins Shans. Karen are made up of Christian, Buddhist and muslim minorities. The Shans i think are Buddhist but they have Laos and chinese blood in them, which doesn't make them proper Burmese. So even in Burma their are lots of different minorities and ethnic groups and religeons. The only think that Britain and USA needs to get in their and help so that Burma can become a better country. The government is one of the reasons my dad chose to leave that nice cultural country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pr0xy_fl00d3r Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 My Northern dialect, In German: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottae Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 lmao, Love it. I'm from Mansfield, near Nottingham. Which is basically in the middle of the country, so we're not north enough to be considered Northern, but not south enough to be southerners. We're basically the boring people in the middle of England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 lmao, Love it. I'm from Mansfield, near Nottingham. Which is basically in the middle of the country, so we're not north enough to be considered Northern, but not south enough to be southerners. We're basically the boring people in the middle of England. You sound Northern to me....well. More northern than London that's for sure. I was born and raised in England however I've got a lot of Irish in me on both sides of the family, I've also got a fair bit of Italian with my Great, great (great?) grandfather having left Genoa at the time of Italy's unification. Beyond that I'm not sure but one day I'd love to spend time and money researching my family history. I'd love to find out that a distant relative was an aristocrat but I've got a horrible feeling it's going to be peasants all the way back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjimino234 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 100% pure Australian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercenary Lady Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I'm from the small country of Brunei. I'm generally Malay- mixed with Chinese blood. I somehow have this feeling that I have more than just Malay-Chinese blood because a lot of people who meet me for the first time confuse me for an European girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanjeem Posted July 11, 2009 Author Share Posted July 11, 2009 I'm from the small country of Brunei. I'm generally Malay- mixed with Chinese blood. I somehow have this feeling that I have more than just Malay-Chinese blood because a lot of people who meet me for the first time confuse me for an European girl. Brunie, That place look really nice, and apparently it's not tourist attraction at all. I wish to go their some day. It is in South East Asea right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guru Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 99% Finnish. The butcher, the baker, time to meet your maker Tell you to your face, you ain't nuttin but a faker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercenary Lady Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I'm from the small country of Brunei. I'm generally Malay- mixed with Chinese blood. I somehow have this feeling that I have more than just Malay-Chinese blood because a lot of people who meet me for the first time confuse me for an European girl. Brunie, That place look really nice, and apparently it's not tourist attraction at all. I wish to go their some day. It is in South East Asea right. Yup, Brunei is in Southeast Asia. Not many GTA fans here. Majority of people here are either Malay, Chinese or Malay-Chinese. You're always welcomed to visit Brunei haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 (edited) What is this, 'Your Family Tree thread'? All my siblings are adopted as well.. Seeing our family lineage was not hugely important. I'd like to know birth mother/father, but I can die without knowing it too, doesn't matter all that much, as long as you have GOOD family. I can see the interest however, based upon people using the flags to determine someone's origin, but even those can be misleading Edited July 11, 2009 by Slamman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macorules94 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Slamman, so your whole family is adopted? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyphoonJames Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Born in London, England and pure English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownBear Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 (edited) 1/2 irish 1/2 turkish but born in england in a small town in the south turns out my best freinds dad is his brother allah everbody is irish we breed like catholic bunnies going back im part albanian part arab but quite far back and most turks are ethnicellay not turkish becaus of the ottoman empire but my dad counts himself as fully turkish i had a grand daddy in the turkish mafia Edited July 11, 2009 by brownbear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuro-neko Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 100% pure Australian Your an aboriginal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panz Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I'm revising mine. I actually found out the other day that I'm 50% German (25% from each side), 25% Irish from my mom's side, and 25% English from my dad's. I also have the little crap that doesn't amount to much of anything in me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephan90 Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 as far as I can look back 100% German and proud of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatsPoppin Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 American Born and Raised 1/2 African American 1/2 Filipino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D- Ice Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 (edited) Iraqi Arab with a tiny bit of Assyrian ancestry from like just one great grandfather or something like that.My origins are from Diyala and Baghdad, but then last summer I discovered the Diyala half of my ancestry also came from the Baghdad area, immigrating there after some dumb pointless feud within the family about 250 years ago... So pretty much an Iraqi Arab with all my ancestry originally from the Baghdad area. @ Sanjeem: I'm feeling an identity crises, especially since you previously used to flaunt your Afghan identity, which you are now hiding by your confusion of racial and national backgrounds. But since you're the OP, which one are you exactly referring to? If it's national identity with fractions based on time periods, I am 1/2 Iraqi, 1/4 American, 1/8 Libyan/Nigerian and 1/8 British. I do i have Afghan Backround, I'm not a muslim although some of my very very, old familly were, and my Italian genes, were traced far back to come from afghanistan, Not aure where. At one point i was very proud of it, i still am but it is only a tiny tiny bit of me, Nothing to get all serriouse about. Anything down to a quater for me is enough, anything below that, for me i don't mension. But yes i do have afghan traces in my backround aswell, Just very little. because i have asked and looked up my backround, All i know is that i am part italian and part Burmese, Born in england and also have english in me. Then my Italian genes originally came from afghanistan, as probably italy has lots of arab connections. Their was one point that i was so interested in the Islamic religeon i was on the beggining to becoming one. But then i thought to myself, be happy for what you are, and to me now all religeons are the same. Wow, that is actually a lot more mixed and interesting than I first thought. Also, remember ethnicities and religion should never be mixed, though today unfortunately politics gets them to be so. Also, remember faith and religion are a personal choice and lifestyle, and must not be something inhereted like ethnic origins. Just to let you know my mother is a very religous Muslim who prays five times a day and fasts most Ramadan, but I am an athiest and always make fun and joke about her faith whenever I see her. She in turn is a different religion to some of her ancestors, and was brought up in another religion's boarding school for most of her childhood. So religion/faith/athiesm are personal choices based on your own mentality, and I am very glad you didn't go ahead with Islam just because your ancestors might have been Muslims. @ brownbear: Lol your best friend's Allah and his brother is his father? Kinda reminds me of "My mother's my sister" guy from GTA 3. Just came back from a holiday to Turkey - awsome place for a great holiday - especially if your a student, though most people kept thinking I was Turkish too and speaking to me in Turkish, though I am Arab. Edited July 14, 2009 by D- Ice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riquenunes Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 100% Brazilian, and currently living in Brazil Bad luck, bad luck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgtafan Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Well I'm mainly African-American but I do have some Irish and Native American ( I don't know what tribes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seachmall Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Anyone else getting the Scientology banner on the top of the page? F*cking weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubbs Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Well I'm 25% Irish (apparently from Connacht, or so I'm told), I'm gonna say another 50% just plain Anglo-Saxon white, and like 25% Dutch. Then there's some Native American, German, and French Canadian in there that I really don't feel like putting into percentages. So if you ever wondered "Hey, this Tubbs guy, what's his deal?", which I'm sure you all do, now you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Anyone else getting the Scientology banner on the top of the page? F*cking weird. I actually got Muslim But very weird indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seddo Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 99% Finnish. Don't give up you're nearly there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flesh-n-Bone Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Too many backgrounds to name them all, 5% of 25 different countries. But mainly Middle Eastern. funny, i know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riquenunes Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Anyone else getting the Scientology banner on the top of the page? F*cking weird. I'm getting it too Weird... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopskin Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 (edited) I don't even know. my family's death records (at least, the copy i have) start in the mid 1800s, and the internet is of little-to-no help. all i know is my dad seems to be irish and my aunt (on my dad's side) says we immigrated from germany. Edited July 17, 2009 by poopskin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxidizer Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 My granddad was half Greek, so on my Dad's side I've probably got a bit of that in me, though it definitely doesn't show on a physical level (unless you include my tendency to smash things [not plates and on non-ceremonial occasions]). Why couldn't it have been Egyptian or Persian?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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