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Do you have any foreign ancestor?
Where are your origins from? Do you consider Half-something even if your percentage of mixture is quite small?
Are there people here who is purely from their own country? I think it is my case but I meet people who are mixed everyday, I don't have too many information about myself anyway. The thread is not only about ethnic mixtures also nationalities even if they are very similar.
On that matter no, I have only ever marked my ancestry as Australian.
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I'm the first generation born in the U.S. Both parents from Trinidad (& Tobago) with heritage across other islands. My ancestry is from Nigeria, India and Venezuela (around the Orinoco Valley). My last name is Indian and not that common. The vast majority of people with my last name are related to me somehow.
On that matter no, I have only ever marked my ancestry as Australian.
How far back does one go anyway? I just find it sort of weird that people of obviously recent European ancestry would mark their ancestry as 'Australian', although it does depend how far back we're talking.
Quite alot of americans have ulster scots ancestry
Quite a lot of Americans who say they are Scots-Irish think that means they have both Scottish and Irish heritage and know nothing about Ulster and what that term means. So I think the numbers on that are highly inflated.
Do you have any foreign ancestor?
Where are your origins from? Do you consider Half-something even if your percentage of mixture is quite small?
I've only ever considered myself to be Australian.
The world that my ancestors were born into no longer even exists: Eire is no longer an occupied land struggling for its independence, the Austro-Hungarian Empire evaporated in 1918, and I don't even know what country Germans from Silesia now find themselves in.
I don't see how psychologically attaching myself to any of that will make me happier, more prosperous or more enlightened.
I'm half British and half Finnish. My father is from Scotland, as are his parents, don't know beyond that. My mother is from Finland (well Lapland to be precise), as are her parents and their parents (although we're not too sure about one great-grandfather as my great-grandmother refused to talk about him, don't even know his name)
It's laughable when people claim to be Irish-American or Scottish-American, etc etc and then when you question them they say their great or great great grandparents came from such and such country.
It's nice to know your roots and I've done a lot of genealogy myself. But as far as I know the last ancestor to come from outside the US was in 1855 from Ireland. I enjoy knowing that but I am in no way an Irish-American.
I'm English with ancestors from Ireland , Scotland and England with a bit of Jewish i class myself as being English.
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