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gypsyfreak · Coach

RE: what's your heritage?

ejc423 · Coach

Scotch-Irish. Except my grandmother's parents (on my dad's side). Her mom was French-Cajun and her dad was Cherokee.

Sandy · Kate Spade

I'm 1/2 Italian (my dad) and the other half is mostly Irish with a little bit of French mixed in somewhere (my mom). People always sound shocked when I tell them I'm Irish because of my last name (it's vey Italian); it's like they forget that people have mothers

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

One grandmother immigrated from Panama, the other immigrated from Scotland, one grandfather was almost pure Dutch and the other is an unknown quantity - possibly Jewish from England, but no one knows for sure (family tradition of disappearing fathers has left some holes in the history). So, since my maternal grandmother is the relative I know the most about, I tell people I'm Latin.

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

I'm adopted so I am the only one in both my adopted and biological family to have my particular 'mix'.

I'm 50% native american and 50% german. Born and raised in germany.

My son is 25% native american, 25% german and then 50% MUTT! His father's side of the family is Scotch, Irish, English, German, Polish...etc...

To top all of this off....I look Native American but identify as German.

rosey · Dooney & Bourke

Stephanie wrote:

I'm 1/2 Italian (my dad) and the other half is mostly Irish with a little bit of French mixed in somewhere (my mom). People always sound shocked when I tell them I'm Irish because of my last name (it's vey Italian); it's like they forget that people have mothers

Stephanie, how funny! The same thing always happens to me- I have a very, very Italian name and I'm blonde with blue eyes and lived in Ireland. People are always like, "why the interest in Ireland and where does your lightness come from?" Forgetting about all the light people in Italy, I'm like, "hello! I have a mother too!"

laken1 · Hermes

Czechoslovakian/German one side side, french on the other (we call it coon-ass in the south) - the mix makes for one mean chick! or so I'm told....

-- Edited by laken1 at 16:28, 2006-01-15

Elle · Hermes

50% German, 25% Romanian, and 25% other/unknown Asian decent (my biological father was not involved in my life, so I've only been able to quell so much from my research).

I think it's too funny the assumptions people make about ethnicity based on last names! I have my (technically) adoptive father's last name, which therefore has zero to do with my ethnic background, and though I look fairly similar to my biological mother feature-wise, our coloring could not be more different (she's fair/blonde/blue eyes and looks very German, I'm olive/brunett/hazel eyes and look very Romanian) and people who don't know us rarely assume that we're related at all .

This is a really interesting thread !

sfclinevandy · Coach

Mom's side- English and Dutch

Dad's side- English and German

Maddie · Coach

Mostly Irish with a little bit of Scottish and English. I'm VERY white.

On my Mom's side the family hasn't been here that long, but I have relatives that fought in the revolutionary war on my Dad's side. Also, William Henry Seward is a relative (secretary of state under Lincoln, bought Alaska for the US).

Lilykind · Hermes

gypsyfreak wrote:

Funny thing is people often assume I'm Filipino. Go figure.

Heheh...this happens to me too. I think it's because I'm more tanned and have larger eyes than most Asians but after that...

JoceyBaby23 · Gucci

50% Slovak..

50% - English, Irish and Welsh.

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

German, there is other stuff mixed in, both of my families originate from Germany.

mikacat · Coach

Scotch Irish--

blue eye and pale skin

Luv2Shop · Kate Spade

I am mostly German and Polish. I guess my great great grandmother on my moms side only spoke polish, I would have loved to have met her. I am also little bits of French, Dutch and Sweedish.

erin · Chanel

oh man, i am a mutt. i am adopted, so i don't truly know my heritage. however i have a blood disorder that is common in lebanon, turkey and greece.

when people ask, i usually tell them i am ambiguously white. (but who knows, really!)

Hedvig · Coach

This thread is so fascinating! I'm not American so my heritage couldn't be more boring. I'm Finnish.

cat · Marc Jacobs

On my mom's side half Czechoslovakian and half German.

On my dad's side all German

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

aclassicbeauty wrote:

Irish, English, and Polish

me too! And Lynnie, my Irish grandfather was a Fitzgerald...

scarlett · Marc Jacobs

rosey wrote:

Stephanie wrote:
I'm 1/2 Italian (my dad) and the other half is mostly Irish with a little bit of French mixed in somewhere (my mom). People always sound shocked when I tell them I'm Irish because of my last name (it's vey Italian); it's like they forget that people have mothers

Stephanie, how funny! The same thing always happens to me- I have a very, very Italian name and I'm blonde with blue eyes and lived in Ireland. People are always like, "why the interest in Ireland and where does your lightness come from?" Forgetting about all the light people in Italy, I'm like, "hello! I have a mother too!"

This is a very interesting thread! I've had a similar thing happen to me too. On my mom's side I'm almost 100% Italian, although there is a little French and Spanish in there. Her family is from a region in northern Italy that changed hands between countries a few times. They're blond and blue-eyed, so people never guess that my mom is Italian. On my dad's side I'm Scotch-Irish, and I have an Irish last name, but people often think my dad is the Italian one because he has dark hair. Go figure! And to make things even more confusing, for most of my life people have asked if I was part Asian. Once someone asked my mother if I'd been adopted from China.