I have a friend whose mother is Ukranian and whose father is Iraqi. She was born in Germany but spoke nothing but Russian until age four. She identifies herself as German. This is probably the thinking behind the term "American." I don't see why there's need for a question--American is just as valid a label as Croat-Anglo-Irish (me), because if you go back far enoug, ain't nobody what they claim to be.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Mr. Broom - May 20, 2005 11:20:51 am PDT #5876 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Emily - May 20, 2005 11:21:01 am PDT #5877 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
What about people who were adopted and don't have information about their parents' ancestral sources?
Jesse - May 20, 2005 11:21:38 am PDT #5878 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, I think if you summed up all the British Isles groups, they'd be a larger percentage than the Germans.
English (8.7) + Scottish (1.7) + Scotch-Irish (1.5) + Welsh (.6) = 12.5. Would you count Irish in there, too?
-t - May 20, 2005 11:22:19 am PDT #5879 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
A friend of mine has, Emily. I can give him your e-mail address if you want, I'm sure he'd be glad to talk about it.
Gudanov - May 20, 2005 11:22:25 am PDT #5880 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I'm a Czech-French-English-Swedish-German-American.
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 11:24:29 am PDT #5881 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't see why there's need for a question
The diversity of the answers is all the need I have.
You're not going to get anything from me but Jamaican, but that's telling in and of itself, isn't it?
Susan W. - May 20, 2005 11:24:54 am PDT #5882 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Would you count Irish in there, too?
Yeah, though you could call it either way.
And I don't really believe the Scottish or Scotch-Irish percentages are that small. Of course, that may be extrapolating too much from my home corner of the South.
juliana - May 20, 2005 11:25:10 am PDT #5883 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Czech-Irish-German-English-Swiss-Native American here. My grandfather actually came over from Czechslovakia (as a wee child), so that's the one I tend to identify with more.
Jesse - May 20, 2005 11:25:16 am PDT #5884 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jamaican
.3%
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 11:26:59 am PDT #5885 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jamaican
.3%
Jesse! Yardie!
Oh, that's not what you meant, was it?