I just caught some of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." I have a favorite Greek Restaurant that I've been visiting for about 25 years, so I'm partial to Greeks. I have a good friend who comes from a big Italian family. Her mother taught me how to make capuccino before it was fashionable. Her grandmother didn't speak a word of English when she died at 102 about five years ago. Here's my heartbreak: I'm plain vanilla, white bread Suburbanite. My ethnicity was Welsh and Scotch coming to this country 150-200 years ago, so whatever was distinctive has been eroded. Do any of you have any distinct ethnicity that you and/or your family celebrate: food, drink, dance, family, tradition, etc. I'm jealous. Tell us.....
my dad's side is german-catholic. they like drinkin'. my mom's dad is hispanic-catholic and her mom is from india and half british/half indian-catholic. they like drinkin' too. on my dad's side we have developed an odd tradition of sneaking a can of beer into caskets at funerals. we put different kinds of stuff in there like licorice, deck of cards, cigarettes, pens, but always a can of beer. after the burial we go up the cemetery that night and get properly tanked at the gravesite.
i am a mix between korean and white. there really isn't a distinction in my ethnicity, it really is just a mix between both. i eat rice with everything....whether its with kimchi or a t-bone steak.
I'm 1/4 Native American, my great-grandfather was the chief of the Ottawa nation, but no one in my family, even my full blooded grandfather has ever gotten into the traditions, at least not while I've been alive.
Immediate ancestry is English, but the furthest we trace it back is German. My girlfriend on the other hand is much more diverse; Cuban, Chinese, French, Native American, African... just about everything, so no need for the "does she have any ________ in her? Think she wants some?" jokes.
My family is from the Caribbean Island of Trinidad & Tobago. If you have seen this place in Feburary for Carnival, you know how mauch we "Trini's" like to party. We party for any damn thing....."the weekend's here, let's go crazy!" That should give you a basic idea...
Mine is part Hawaiin, Japanese, Icelandic, Irish, German, and a couple others I'm probably leaving out. It's great, though, isn't it?
my blood: 50% german, 50% Heinze 57 (mostly english, scottish, welsh). but i was born in canada and don't have any european "culture"...just canadianized.
My kids are more interesting than me... part Italian, Latvian Jew, German/Russian Jew, Danish, Irish and Seminole.
On my dad's side I'm 1/2 Swedish and 1/2 German. On my mom's side I'm 1/2 Irish and 1/12 Welsh. I'm just about the whitest white boy you ever did see...
My family has been in America as far as I have ever looked back, but I think originally had some German, Austrian, and Irish. Basically your boring, run-of-the-mill, whiteboy.
Mexican and Spanish. My great great great (something like that) grandparents immigrated to Mexico from Spain.
Mostly Welsh, a bit Irish, and I don't know about the rest.... a few members of the previous generations were adopted.
