Are you 'American' or 'Irish'?

[Riddick]

ancenstry is half finnish 1/4 german 1/4 english

i consider myself American

[TiltMonkey]

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I don't understand all the percentages, like "I'm 50% Irish, 25% Swedish, and 25% German. But my family has lived here for 200 years." So what the [censored] percentage American are you?

My dad was born and raised in South Wales to Welsh parents and Anglo-Welsh grandparents. My mom was born and raised in Manitoba, and her grandparents were Irish and Scottish immigrants. I was born in California and have lived in Texas since I was less than a year old.

I'm American. When I was a kid, I used to consider myself "British" because it made me different, and that was cool. As an adult, I understand that my life is defined by America, not the place that my parents came from. I suppose I could say I was "raised British" in the sense that my family has something of a unique culture compared to those of my other Dallas-suburbanite friends growing up, but I'm definitely American. When I'm in Wales, no one considers me Welsh because my dad's Welsh and I've spent summers there. When I lived in Poland, no one cared that my father was Welsh and my mother Canadian.

I'm 100% American.

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[Shajen]

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Diebitter,

I am of Irish, Welsh, and English descent.

Mostly Irish, though. I call myself American though, mainly because I'm tired of all the PC [censored].

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That's funny, I always thought you were asian

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Nah bro, I'm as white-bread as they come.

Here is a pic of me:

[The Truth]

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I'm Native American. That's right, I'm a god damn indian.

edit- with a touch of German.

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Word?

blake

[ChipWrecked]

Irish, Swedish, English, German, White Croat.

I've recently learned about the WC part. Those are the Croats who stayed behind in Central Europe and did not move to the Balkans. John Paul II's mother was White Croat. My surname translates to 'Croat'. And, that ancestor migrated from Austria.

My English ancestor landed at Charles Town, Massachusetts in 1633. My mom is in the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution, i.e. 'blue blood pedigree') through this line and we are cranking up membership for my daughter as well.

Americans can get deeply into this kind of stuff.

Oh yeah. Your question. If an American asks you, it's pretty dumb to answer 'American'. He wants to know what your ancestry abroad is. My answer usually is 'Swedish-Irish'.

[diebitter]

I feel it reasonable, since I OPed, to tell about myself too:

Great grandparents:

1 was Welsh
1 was Romany Gypsy
1 was Irish
1 was Jewish
4 were English

All based in London for most of their lives.

(I suspect some 'pirate' in there somewhere - at least I hope so)


I get a feeling you Americans feel us old Worlders are somehow more 'purebreed'. This is of course bollocks.

[Tony_P]

OK, here's my question,

An Italian moves to the US, he is Italian-American
A Frenchman moves to the US, he is French-American

An Italian moves to Canada, he is Italian-Canadian
A Frenchman moves to Canada, he is French-Canadian

A Canadian born in Quebec is French-Canadian, though, so Is someone who is French and moves to Quebec not French-French-Canadian, and if they move to toronto are they French-Non-French-Canadian?

If this makes no sense, I appologize, as I am tired and tipsey.

[ChipWrecked]

All I can tell you is once he makes it to Louisiana, (ala JofA), he becomes

[manpower]

Posting blind:

I'm generally associate myself with my swedish blood, but after going back and spending some time in europe I was constantly confronted by people who were confused at this idea of ancestry. See, most europeans have been in their country for a heck of a lot more generations than you or I have been in America. So to walk up to some kid whose family goes back to year 1000 and burning and pillaging the norman coast and all that stuff, and you say you're Swedish too, you get a funny look. Even after trying to explain it to people, it never seemed to be understood in the way we talk about it in the states.

Anyway, guess what I'm trying to say is that I find that this whole question of where your blood is from is a strictly North American intersest.

[WDC]

BOth my grandfathers came to the US from Ireland. One of my grandmothers French, the other British. Even though coming from Ireland, my grandfather stated that we were not really Irish because my ancestors liked to whore it up with " any boat that ever landed on the Northern Shore".

I consider myself an American and a North Atlantic mutt.