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It seems like almost everybody in the genealogy section claims to have Native American admixture, yet when the census comes around almost none of you actually check the Native American box in the census forms that they give you because in the last census only 1% of the U.S population identified themselves as Native American.
Most people have roots from Europe and other countries, so saying almost everyone has Native mixture is wrong. I check "mixed race" if listed(or "other" if there's no mixed race box).
I am talking about the genealogy section of city-data, not U.S society in general. Almost everybody in the genealogy section of city-data claims to have some Native American admixture. Hence why there are so many threads about Native Americans in the genealogy section of city-data.
And it's a joke. I know for a fact I'm 1/4 Algonquin. My grandma is a full blooded Algonquin from Ontario.
I'm 1/4 Swedish, that's the only thing I know for sure. Also I have German and French ancestry. I have very dark hair and dark eyes. People find it hard to believe I am Swedish at all, and tend to think I must be somewhat hispanic..!
I've been mistaken for South Asian, Samoan, Hawaiian, various types of Hispanic, Arabic and Caribbean. I'm multiracial, but I'm not mixed with any of those ethnicities (at least not that I know of).
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My daughter & I are mistaken for Hispanic & I'm also mistaken for Greek, Italian, & Jewish. My son is mistaken for part Asian. We all share northern European ancestry but they have a small fraction of Cherokee.
I am a combination of all the usual ethnicities of the British Isles (Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, Welsh, English), plus Swedish and a tiny part Native American.
I have been mistaken for Greek and Mexican. In fact, one time this ignoramus was going to fight me because: "Over my dead body will I allow a white woman and a pink-shirted Messican to go out together". I am so thankful I didn't hear what he said until after my gf and I had left that truck stop and she told me about it 10 miles away, otherwise he'd have been sent to the hospital. Not that there is anything wrong with being Mexican, far from it; but I have Mayflower relatives while he probably is related to someone who came over as an indentured serf.
I'm Hmong but a lot of people has mistaken me as a Korean person. Are you serious? I don't look like one at all.
Those people probably don't know too many Hmong or Korean people.
The few Hmong I have met look less like other Southeast Asians and maybe like Chinese or even Mongolians. From what I gather, didn't the Hmong originate in Mongolia and move south through China into Laos?
What's your background, and what do people take you for usually?
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