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If they settled in Downstate NY, you get quite a few people in the Hudson valley with Dutch and French ancestry, with the French ancestry coming from Huguenots(Protestants/Calvinists).
There also seems to be a connection between the Netherlands and the Cape Verde Islands, which are just off the west coast of Africa. So, who knows?
Northern NJ, close enough?
We think the French-surnamed ones were probably Huguenots, as many fled France to Belgium and The Netherlands at the time that the French Catholics were chopping off the heads of Protestants.
Interesting about Cape Verde--Cape Verde's heyday was during the slave trade, and the Dutch were involved in that business from the shipping end, so it's very likely they were there. The Dutch also went to South Africa, of course. Afrikkaaners is a Dutch dialect.
The Dutch actually traveled pretty far around the world, shipping being a big part of their business over the centuries. Tea, spices, people...
We think the French-surnamed ones were probably Huguenots, as many fled France to Belgium and The Netherlands at the time that the French Catholics were chopping off the heads of Protestants.
Interesting about Cape Verde--Cape Verde's heyday was during the slave trade, and the Dutch were involved in that business from the shipping end, so it's very likely they were there. The Dutch also went to South Africa, of course. Afrikkaaners is a Dutch dialect.
The Dutch actually traveled pretty far around the world, shipping being a big part of their business over the centuries. Tea, spices, people...
It's pretty mcuh a continuation of that area and has a similar history.
We think the French-surnamed ones were probably Huguenots, as many fled France to Belgium and The Netherlands at the time that the French Catholics were chopping off the heads of Protestants.
Interesting about Cape Verde--Cape Verde's heyday was during the slave trade, and the Dutch were involved in that business from the shipping end, so it's very likely they were there. The Dutch also went to South Africa, of course. Afrikkaaners is a Dutch dialect.
The Dutch actually traveled pretty far around the world, shipping being a big part of their business over the centuries. Tea, spices, people...
Got all the way to the Moluccas in Indonesia. There are also some cape Verdeans in The Netherlands.
There was also some Jewish settlement in Cape Verde(as well as the Azores):The Jews Of Cape Verde and of The Azores (http://www.saudades.org/cverde.htm - broken link)
Well I'm Native American, French, Irish, Palestinian, German and Canadian :P
From Louisiana
My mother is from Louisiana as well. She is an African-American woman who has Irish, French(Louisiana Creole), German, and Native American in her. I have all of that in me too.
Lacey Chabert(from Mean Girls) has French(Cajun specifically) and Native American ancestry.
My wife is West Indian, East Indian, and Hispanic. She is from Belize and is classified as a 'Coolie'. Some people make take offense to the term 'Coolie', but in Belize it is not offensive and people take pride in it. There's even a musical group from Punta Gorda called the Coolie Rebels. I am Swiss, German, and Native American.
Yeah. Blasian seems to be rare, especially a Black woman and an Asian man.
According to a webpage that seems to be quite reliable, the percentage of US-raised _____ men who married US-raised Black women is:
Korean: 2.1%
Vietnamese: 1.3%
Philippine: 1.3%
Japanese: 0.7%
Asian Indian: 0.8%
Chinese: 0.5%
I don't know what year the data are based on though.
Also from the webpage, according to the US Census 2000, only 1% of unmarried Asian men lived with Black women, as opposed to 5.5% with Latino women, 26.5% with White women, and 63.4% with Asian women.
On the other hand, 5% of unmarried Asian women lived with Black men, 5.8% with Latino men, 39.7% with White men, and 45.2% with Asian men.
The page doesn't provide any data for homoseksual couples.
depending on who you know blasian isn't all that rare. Its common in the Caribbean.
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