Most Canadians I know, while they wouldn't call themselves North American, do accept that they are. It would be odd not to, I'd think.

I have no chopstick fu.

Just as well. Way things are going this week you'd probably poke your eye out.

Canadians would identify themselves as American?

North American, they could.

Ask one and see what happens. It's like calling a Scot an Englishman. The reaction is kinda visceral.

Yes, but they're talking about U.S. Americans of (likely English speaking) Canadian ancestry of sufficient generations, that the family no longer claimed to be Scottish, etc. when talking about their ancestry, or ticking off a box about ethnicity on a form.

Anglo-Irish-Scottish-German-Swiss-French, but all of those are so long ago that that's only a small portion of my ancestors that I know the heritage on.

is almost me (substitute "Dutch" for "Swiss" and you've got it).

And ChiKat is me if you tack on a little bit of Navajo.

Though, this really cool author just sent me a copy of my Irish-Mafia G.Grandfather's death certificate, and turns out his Dad was born in England and his Mom here, so I have to look even further back to try to figure out who actually "came over" from Ireland.

I am german/French (through canada) on my mother's side and Italian on my fathers. I was raised entirely by my mother's side of the family. My mother grew up as one of the only two or three non-Italian or Black families in her neighborhood. So despite not having been raised by the Iralian American side of the family, I still identify Italian American.

I suspect a bit, however, that my father may also have been Jewish, just because so many people think I am Jewish when they see me. And I have recurring holocaust dreams. But it may just be the mixture of German and Italian. Since I have never met a single person in my father's family, I really have no way of finding out.

Hey, what number is the ancestory discussion?

First generation US, roughly 50/50 Scottish/English (if one discounts the Mi'kmaq claims), 3/4s of the grandparents either 1st gen Canadian or immigrents, both parents have Scottish last names, my legal last name is only 5 letters, yet always gets the spelling messed up.

Paul's side has more variety. French, Scottish, Irish, German, various Native American.

I got German, zEnglish, French, Scots, Irish and some unidentified Native American, probably Sac or Fox.

Hey, what number is the ancestory discussion?

I don't know, but it always makes me feel like I should know more than I do. I know that each grandparent was 1/4 or more Irish and that 3 of them had a good percentage of Native American, of which I am only certain of Pawnee.

DH's family is one hundred percent Irish, or so I'm told.

My family is pretty strictly British, Scottish, and Irish. I think my maternal grandmother had a bit of German and Italian in there from somewhere, but I'm not sure.

And my paternal grandmother had some ancestry search done to prove that we're related to Daniel Boone. I have shunned coonskin, though.

Most Canadians I know, while they wouldn't call themselves North American, do accept that they are. It would be odd not to, I'd think.

No argument there, but in practice, it is the sort of thing one refers to as often as "western hemispherian".