Mixed Ethnicities

[PyroChamber]

I've heard a few times that most ethnicities are actually mixed of other ethnicites. A co-worker of mine who is Puerto Rican said that puetro ricans mixed up of black and spanish (meaning from Spain), and I've also once heard that Hawaiians are part asian.

Has anyone else ever heard of something like this?

 

[SuBe]

We are all brothers

 

[November Rain]

It's quite clear that if you look at some regions of the world, you will find mixtures of potentially others in there...

malaysian people always come mind.

 

[Erzengel]

Filipinos are descended from the Chinese as well as the Spanish, hence why many Filipinos have Spanish last names.

 

[chamber-music]

I saw a documentary about Ethnic make up where they test different people and found that tons of them actully had different ethnic backgrounds than they thought.

For example large amounts of the African American, Afro Caribbean and Afro South American have mixed ancestery of Native American and European as well as black African.

So there are suppposed to be actully not that many African Americans who are pure African descent.

 

[Erzengel]

Which is why I think it's pretty ignorant calling black people, African Americans just because it's politically correct.

 

[SapphirePrima]

African Americans in no way have 100% African in them. We're all mixed with all kinds of things.

 

[Damien Rage]

I'm half Italian half Irish (at least that is what I claim for sake of complications)
My father's family is from Napoli and my mother's is from I want to say Killarny and her father is from Northern Ireland but his tree goes back to Scottland. Then the Black Irish (dark hair and fair skinned) I hear have roots from Spain...so I am kinda mixed =)

AND...I look exactly like my fathers brother...so I wonder sometimes...hmmm

 

[kane9321]

Blacks= we are everywhere

 

[Nirvana]

Mixed ethnicities are pretty interesting. I traced my heritage and I contain traces of American, French, Honduran, Irish, Polish (Hence my last name, Pole), Mexican and German...and I don't look or talk like any of those particular ethnicities.

 

[AndThePickles]

Everyone is mixed to an extent. Hell, I look just stereotypically "white," but in addition to my German and Irish background, I've got a lot of Native American in my family on both sides.

 

[November Rain]

I don't believe everyone is actually mixed. I have no reason to doubt 100% african descent since Me and all my family are from Nigeria.

perhaps there maybe some national differences going back but certainly not ethnic.

 

[AndThePickles]

I don't believe everyone is actually mixed. I have no reason to doubt 100% african descent since Me and all my family are from Nigeria.

perhaps there maybe some national differences going back but certainly not ethnic.

So, it's impossible that centuries ago, one of your ancestors had sex with someone who wasn't African?

 

[Avangarde]

I'm Australian, Irish, Jew- bad combo that

 

[kainedamo]

I've heard a few times that most ethnicities are actually mixed of other ethnicites. A co-worker of mine who is Puerto Rican said that puetro ricans mixed up of black and spanish (meaning from Spain), and I've also once heard that Hawaiians are part asian.

Has anyone else ever heard of something like this?

Thanks for clearing that up

 

[Dkim]

I have a teeny tiny bit of french in me, the grandmother of my grandmother was french.

 

[November Rain]

So, it's impossible that centuries ago, one of your ancestors had sex with someone who wasn't African?

Why would they?

lol

Whose gone to wander all the way into west africa, have sex with my mom/dad and then walk all the way back again....



I'm know the Rains are world reknown loves but that takes the cake...

 

[AndThePickles]

Why would they?

lol

Whose gone to wander all the way into west africa, have sex with my mom/dad and then walk all the way back again....



I'm know the Rains are world reknown loves but that takes the cake...

With all the trade that has gone on in Africa? There could have easily been some mixed lovin' goin on lol.

 

[Zacky]

I did not find out 2 years ago that i have every ethnicities in my family

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

We're a world of mutts.

 

[Handsome Rob]

See, this is why when someone asks me for any more detail than "white," I respond with "mostly Scottish."

 

[The Battousai]

Half-Portuguese

 

[Captain Planet!]

We are all brothers

Man oh man, I love ya'll! We're all family, brothers, like you said!


Hey uh, bro... I was wondering if I could borrow about... 8,650 bucks. I mean, I hate to ask but ya know, bills and stuff.

 

[Warhammer]

I believe that a good sum of people out there are mixed to an extent. However, because that is the case, and only God knows what ethnicities we are throughout our families' specific tree, there should only be focus on our immediate ethnicity. That is the ethnicity of our parents and grandparents. That way is the easiest way to handle things. When you are filling out an application or test that asks for race, are you really going to think "Well, I am sure that my great, great, grandparents were black. That means I am mixed, so I will pick that [other] option." If you really consider breaking it down that way, then asking for race is pointless and we might as well pick the same option.

...that's just me.

With that said, I am half-Asian (Korean/Japanese) and half-Black. I doubt that my great, great grandchildren will have the luxury of that due to racial dilution. My children or grandchildren more than likely will marry someone of "full" ethnicity, so my ethnicity won't matter.

 

[J-Sentius]

I get mistaken for different ethnicities all the time. Most "races" are actually mixed ethnicities.