March 23, 200718 yr Finally, in light of my comments about culture and folkways being more important than ancestry...I am part Chicagoan and part Kentuckian, and don't even get me to give a percentage! ;-)
March 24, 200718 yr Caucasian (White, South African, NON - latino) I hope you are aware that not all South African's are Caucasians. :-D
March 24, 200718 yr If you're 100% European blood, I can see where that sentiment comes from (due to heavy mixing and very little cultural retention within America), but if you have parents from Asia and Europe or Africa and Europe, it's a very different story. Hence exceptions 1 and 3: 1) You possess physical traits and/or a surname that clearly sets you apart from the majority population. ... 3) You are either an immigrant or first generation with naturalized parents.
March 24, 200718 yr Hah, no, I wasn't talking about neighborhoods down here. The neighborhoods are long long gone and the residents long moved to suburbia and are thoroughly assimilated, yet still maintain these various groups and such and throw these festivals, sort it's sort of kabuki ethinicity, very stylized...or, another way to look at it, maybe its just a social thing by now, like the VFW or Legion Hall or the Grange, but as the Czech Club or the German singing society or whatever... I just find it interesting that people still bother, (and am happy that they do, as I like a good Irish band and beer on a hot summer day, during that celtic fest) One word: politics. In the Pol-Am community, for example, The PNA (Polish National Alliance) and PAC (Polish Amercian Congress) still wield a heavy club. I realized this the evening I almost ran over Sen. Carl Levin as he scurried into the local PNA Hall to a roast of a PAC big wig. True story.
March 24, 200718 yr My family traces way back to Italy, and later to Germany and Wales. The Welsh side of my family didn't stay in Wales for more than 100 years when they left for Ireland to aid in the overthrow of a national leader (I think I still have that trait) and became landowners in Kilkenny. We've been in America for 350 years, so I consider myself an American more than anything else. Here's some fun family history... The Prendergasts settled in the Hudson River valley. In the mid 1700s, my great great great grandfather William Prendergast led a farmers revolt against a lord and a British governor in New York City sentenced William to death. His wife pleaded for mercy and saved him. They had to leave the colony, moving to Kentucky. After the Revolutionary War, they returned to New York state, settling on farms along Lake Erie. Their son James Prendergast chose a spot instead at the east end of Chautauqua Lake and founded Jamestown, NY. My father and grandfather are named after him, James Prendergast. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 24, 200718 yr My family traces way back to Italy, and later to Germany and Wales. The Welsh side of my family didn't stay in Wales for more than 100 years when they left for Ireland to aid in the overthrow of a national leader (I think I still have that trait) and became landowners in Kilkenny. We've been in America for 350 years, so I consider myself an American more than anything else. Here's some fun family history... The Prendergasts settled in the Hudson River valley. In the mid 1700s, my great great great grandfather William Prendergast led a farmers revolt against a lord and a British governor in New York City sentenced William to death. His wife pleaded for mercy and saved him. They had to leave the colony, moving to Kentucky. After the Revolutionary War, they returned to New York state, settling on farms along Lake Erie. Their son James Prendergast chose a spot instead at the east end of Chautauqua Lake and founded Jamestown, NY. My father and grandfather are named after him, James Prendergast. GREAT GREAT STORY!!! LOVE IT!!
March 24, 200718 yr I am so bored with my anglosaxoness. Swiss, German, English. yawn edit: ok I can tell a story too. My great grandfather Philip Hurst was a Mormon polygamist. He was driven across the country and then out of Utah by federal marshalls to Mexico where he lived in a compound and fathered 26 children (my grandmother was the youngest)
March 25, 200718 yr 1/2 Polish, 1/4 German, 1/4 Irish. ^My dad is the same way-adamant American and nothing else. As a side note, my 100% Polish father as a younger man, along with his two brothers and with the blessing of my grandmother, decided to Americanize and change their last name to Mitchell from Mscichowski. Only obstacle was my fiercely proud grandfather, who forbade his three sons from dropping the name. Oddly, some years later after gaining some distance from my grandfather and separate from my two uncles, my father changes his name to Mallory (I don't know whatever happened to "Mitchell"). So when asked, I tell people about what I call my father's "maiden name".
March 26, 200718 yr GREAT GREAT STORY!!! LOVE IT!! Thanks. If you care, you can read more about it here.... http://members.aol.com/Lynnash911/mehitablewing.html http://books.google.com/books?id=lI7Uv4197cQC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=william+mehitable+prendergast&source=web&ots=ML5XRzeDVO&sig=SpYiNEg9t9IvvEVZnxU3DFTz5AY#PPA13,M1 http://www.rays-place.com/history/ny/chau-jamestown.htm http://post-journal.com/pluggedin/articles.asp?articleID=13493 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 26, 200718 yr dads side irish-danish..... mom's side irish, slovenian, bohemian, cherokee indian
March 26, 200718 yr Caucasian mainly (50%) Italian (afterall, I am a citizen of San Marino), with bits and pieces of German, English, French, Polish, Irish.........etc. (my maternal side is all mixed up :) )
March 27, 200718 yr Nigerian, Egyptian, and Ethiopian. Meaning, black. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 6, 200717 yr My dad was born in London...so definitely British and some German on his side..my mom's side uhh...mostly polish and austrian so yeah...im sort of a euro mutt...Kind of a mix of eastern european jew with White Anglo-Saxon Protestant...haha
August 7, 200717 yr My father was the son of Swiss immigrants, one of whom was 1/2 Czech. My mother was the daughter of a German immigrant Father, and an American mother, who was 1/2 Alsatian and 1/2 German. Her family did not speak any English at home, and my mom didn't learn English until high school. My immediate family is totally Americanized, but retain many German traditions, which have become pretty watered down with each passing generation. Only one of my nieces and one nephew are interested in the old traditions, which includes speaking German. The others could care less, and I see their point. It is too far removed from their daily lives to be of relevance. I just consider myself American, but have a very very German last name.
August 7, 200717 yr Black. But in my history, we have Caucasian and American Indian (Mom says from somewhere in Upstate NY)
August 7, 200717 yr Nigerian, Egyptian, and Ethiopian. Meaning, black. Might as well be a whitey though.
August 7, 200717 yr Thank you, Jim Crow. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 7, 200717 yr Thank you, Jim Crow. lol, who in the hell is Jim Crow? ... Wow! lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
August 7, 200717 yr If I'm "whitey," then Cincy-Rise must be transparent. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 7, 200717 yr No, Casper is too black for him. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 8, 200717 yr No, Casper is too black for him. You're crazy beocth, I'm more black than you... See, check out this self portrait I took for photography class:
August 8, 200717 yr ...and it was that night on urbanohio that Cincy-Rise completely lost his mind...
August 8, 200717 yr Starring Uncle-Rando as "Drifter" ... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2031995689
August 8, 200717 yr From L to R: thomasbw, Uncle-Rando, David ... as the "Icy Hot Stuntaz". Straight Ballin in the 2G+7.
August 8, 200717 yr Peace, up - A-town, down!! Dude, that old lady's arthritis is so bad, her "V" looks like a "K".
August 8, 200717 yr Geez, where did all of that come from?! I think my wife logged into my account and posted all of this mess?
August 8, 200717 yr Geez, where did all of that come from?! I think my wife logged into my account and posted all of this mess? :?
August 9, 200717 yr I highly doubt she did. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 7, 200817 yr What race are you American Indian 1 (1.3%) Asian (Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Filipino, and Indonesian) 2 (2.5%) Black (black American, Carribean, african, NON-latino) 7 (8.9%) Caucasian (White, South African, NON - latino) 66 (83.5%) Latino (Hispanic, Non black, Non White) 0 (0%) Middle Eastern 1 (1.3%) Pacific Islander (Hawiian, Samoan, Polynesian, Non Asian) 0 (0%) Mix (please indicate) 2 (2.5%) Total Voters: 79
June 14, 200817 yr The best part about being White is our unique ability to get a farmer's tan. If you have one, post it up! How do we as white people get rid of these? Apply sunblock to the darker areas then tan to even it out? Maybe that is common white knowledge but I dunno.
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