My grandsons were visiting their cousins in FLA a few years ago. They were sitting around talking. They didn't realize their mothers, my DD, neice, etc. were listening. The cousins asked what their mix was. The older grandson responded, "We're half Mexican, 1/4 Japanese and the rest is a bunch of white people. We call ourselves Japicans".
How funny is that?
I'm 1/2 German and the rest is Irish and Scottish.
I'm half Danish and the other half has been in the US so long no one knows. My mother swears there is a Native American princess somewhere in the background.
My poor daughter is 1/4 Danish, 1/4 Norwegian (her dad is 1/2 Norwegian, some German and some who knows, like me) and the rest ??? When she was in 3rd grade they were supposed to dress in their heritage costume. With her BLONDE hair and blue eyes (she says she's terminally white) I wondered if she could get away with a Native American costume per my mother's claim!
For simplicity sake, I am mexican american. It is my cultural background being raised by my half mexican half spanish/native american mother also my mexican stepfather. I grew up in a mostly mexican neighborhood and went to schools with a large mexican population and was surrounded by my mexican extended family
Biologically, it is a mix of spanish, mexican, native american on my mother's side and irish, english, french, native american on my father's side.
I am proud of my mexican heritage (although my spanish sucks) and that is what I will say if you ask me
Edit - Oh yeah, forgot to add, I'm from California, that is important
I am Texan. That's enough ethnicity for me. When it comes to ancestors, I am mostly German (my father's father was the son of immigrants/an immigrant perhaps himself and married a half Irish/half Blackfoot woman). I also have the typical Scots/Irish/English pastiche through my mother's family, but they are mostly German as well.
I'm 3/4 German and 1/4 British Canadian. My daughter is half Italian, which the Italian is half Sicilian. She's mad because she got her father's Sicilian curly/nappy hair and my inability to get a tan. I blame the British Canadian genes for lack of pigment.
I had to laugh when I worked with a Native American woman at Kodak that would refer to herself as a Mohawk and added in a few more tribes, making her gene pool seem very exotic and cool...then she'd refer to me as white man. And I'd say, "Excuse me, but that's German British Canadian Woman, thanks..." I mean, if she got to be Onieda Mohawk this that and the other, why do I get to have such a bland title?
hm... dad is mostly "black" Swedish - meaning dark hair/ eyes. My mom was adopted so we're not entirely sure but we know her mom was Irish. Wow. That's totally boring. However since we're not sure who my mother's father is.. I guess there is a mystery in there.
I'm like Finn - 100% Irish although my ancestors moved here in 1851 and 1898! Somehow they managed to "marry Irish" ever since. I guess I'm an IriCan. A Canrish?
Japicans - What's your mix?
That's enough ethnicity for me. When it comes to ancestors, I am mostly German (my father's father was the son of immigrants/an immigrant perhaps himself and married a half Irish/half Blackfoot woman). I also have the typical Scots/Irish/English pastiche through my mother's family, but they are mostly German as well.
A Canrish?
