What's your ethinic background?

[Orthodox Andrew]

Just for fun. Let's see the diversity we have here in TAW.

I'm half Greek, and half English/Swedish.

[repentant]

100% Greek..Athenian

[Kolya]

OK, I'm half USA American and half Afrikaans South African. To the best of my knowledge my ancestors originated in Holland, Ireland and England.
And on top of all that I now attend a Slavic Russian Orthodox Church!

[Emmanuel-A]

My ethnic background is terribly boring.

My ancesters have all been French since the end of 18th century (I did not investigate further). Except one or two italians in the 1900's.

[Monica, child of God]

My mom is mixed Black, Native (North Carolina Cherokee) and White. My dad is mixed, Black, Irish and Welsh (my maiden name is Jones :)).

M.

[Annoula]

am 100% Greek.

father from Asia Minor (specifically from the seashore of Turkey just above Cyprus)
mother from an island in the Aegean.

now that i said "seashore" and "island" ... when will next summer come???? i want to go swimming!!!!!!

splish - splash !

[Emmanuel-A]

... when will next summer come????

:sigh: I have to buy a new coat because it's getting cold here.

[Kolya]

:sigh: I have to buy a new coat because it's getting cold here.

It's time to fly South my friend! How's this? It's 32c (90F) here today. Horray for summer :clap: (Though it's actually still officially Spring)

[Verushka]

... when will next summer come???? i want to go swimming!!!!!!
splish - splash !

Me too but the fact is that I'm 100% Finnish and stuck here waiting for winter to come...

[prodromos]

I'm quarter Swedish and the rest is a mix of Scottish and other stuff from the UK.

[Petronius]

Just for fun. Let's see the diversity we have here in TAW.

I'm half Greek, and half English/Swedish.
I am Romanian since born and will be beyond death.

[The Prokeimenon!]

On my mother's side I'm some sort of white. On my father's side I'm another sort of white. Yipee. I compensate by having a black patron saint and going to a Church full of Greeks, Arabs, and Slavs. :)

Moses

[Ioan cel Nou]

Mongrel. Czech, Slovak, English, French, German, all in the last few generations (there's even a Turk, but she married in and isn't one of my ancestors). It's even worse for my son, he's got all of mine plus the Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian of his mother - he doesn't stand a chance when he gets asked a similar question in future.

James

[Khaleas]

Me too but the fact is that I'm 100% Finnish and stuck here waiting for winter to come...

I know that feeling... no wonder why I moved!! ;) Although we've had some pretty cold winters here in MD lately.
I'm Finnish, Swedish speaking, from Finland mainly but parts of my family is originally from parts of Finland that is now in Russia, as well as Sweden and Germany (but that's about 300-400 years ago).
So now I live in the US and attend a Russian Orthodox Church... ;) and feel right at home!

[Kripost]

My ethnic background is quite plain. I am Chinese, and my ancestors are from southern China. I did receive some curious looks at first when I was following the liturgy (syllabically) in Greek.

[Greg the byzantine]

I am 100% cypriot, meaning both of my parents are from Cyprus.

[xristos.anesti]

My dad's family is Serbian and my mother's were Jews and then forcibly converted to Latins during the WWII. So, what am I?

I am a meat shnitzle... possibly a chicken one. LOL

[HandmaidenOfGod]

I am of Ukrainian, Hungarian, German, English, Welsh, and French descent, but am most familiar with my Ukrainian heritage. I was raised in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and currently attend an OCA parish that is comprised of people from all different ethnic backgrounds.

In XC,

Maureen

[Philip]

I have bloodlines from vitually every Germanic and Slavic group.

[moses916]

I'm 1/3 Syrian, 1/3 Lebanese, 1/3 Armenian. (not a good mixture)

[Akathist]

I am a mix of Irish, Scottish and English.

[Lotar]

My family is from the two armpits of western Europe: Ireland and Sicily. :D

[Michael the Iconographer]

About 2/3-3/4 German, rest English, Irish and Scottish. Oliver and Brittany are 1/2 English and 1/2 American.

[Matrona]

French Huguenots, Scottish, Irish, and a single Native American woman, a Cherokee.

If I had my pick, though, I'd be Klingon. :D

[xenia]

I am a mix of Irish, Scottish and English.

Me too. :thumbsup:

[Akathist]

Me too. :thumbsup:

And my chrismation name is xenia... we are nearly twins! :amen:

[Mary of Bethany]

Scots-Irish and English, with a little German and Dutch thrown in for good measure. Plus both sides of my family settled in Texas in the 1850's, so that makes me 100% Texan Orthodox . . . . in a parish with a lot of Russians & Ukrainians and Bulgarians and Indians and . . . . :D

[CFoxDWH]

Half English, half Scottish, half Irish. (I'm a pretty big guy.)

Har har.

[Eusebios]

Me too. :thumbsup:
That makes at least three of us!

[RobNJ]

Austrian/Swedish
Dad was born in Vienna, Mom was made in Sweden, born in America;)

[NewToLife]

I'm 1/2 English, 1/4 Scottish and 1/4 Irish..... Which I guess makes me British to keep things simple. Culturally I'm English.

[Marjorie]

On my dad's side, 100% Jewish, from various areas in the former Soviet Union. On my mom's side, German/Irish/English/Welsh/etc.

In IC XC,
Marjorie

[Tsarina]

Mother is Egyptian; Father (the nutbar) is half Egyptian and half Afgani. :o

I just consider myself the Civilized Egyptian. lols. :D

[Rilian]

Irish and Swiss-German.

My wife is Anglo-Korean-Cherokee. So my kids have all of that.

[elizabethevangeline]

I'm 1/2 Norwegian, part Scot-Irish, part German-Swiss, plus some French & additional German thrown in for good measure. 100% descended from poor pioneer/immigrant folks...farmers & sea-goers.

[Xpycoctomos]

German.

[autumngirl]

Well, here's mine: Checkoslavakian (not sure about the spelling), Hungarian, and there is some Polish thrown in somewhere.... my mom's family was Carpatho-Russian, and Austrian. What a mix!!!

[ufonium2]

1/4 Turkish (no really, I know I don't look it), 1/4 Polish, and 1/2 Kentuckian :)

[RobNJ]

1/4 Turkish (no really, I know I don't look it), 1/4 Polish, and 1/2 Kentuckian :)

Ahhh, but do you look Kentuckian?

[Khaleas]

And my chrismation name is xenia... we are nearly twins! :amen:

That's my chrismation name too!!!! :hug: Rome or St Petersburg??

[Happy Orthodox]

I'm 200% Russian! Hehe, extra 100% is for the culture! (Well, the excessive Russianness is now being converted to americanness to a small extent, particularly texanness)

Actually, Russia embraces several nationalities which are not slavic. So, my dad is/was slavic, my mom is not. She comes from the ethnicity which was long established as a mixture of turkish, slavic and mongolian blood. But the mixture happened like a thousand years ago, so that now we have a separate ethnicity :) It's called Bashkir, and Bashkirs live in the territory covering South Ural Mountains and a several hundred kilometers to the West from Urals (borders with Kazakhstan).

[xenia]

And my chrismation name is xenia... we are nearly twins! :amen:


:hug:

[Tsarina]

I'm 200% Russian! Hehe, extra 100% is for the culture! (Well, the excessive Russianness is now being converted to americanness to a small extent, particularly texanness)

Actually, Russia embraces several nationalities which are not slavic. So, my dad is/was slavic, my mom is not. She comes from the ethnicity which was long established as a mixture of turkish, slavic and mongolian blood. But the mixture happened like a thousand years ago, so that now we have a separate ethnicity :) It's called Bashkir, and Bashkirs live in the territory covering South Ural Mountains and a several hundred kilometers to the West from Urals (borders with Kazakhstan).

Russia is definatley a nation of may nations.
I have never heard about the Baskhir's, very interesting. Learning somthing new each day. :D

Furthermore, i just came back from meeting up with my Priest. He was telling me that when he lived in Moscow, they're were plenty of Muslim families there. I was pretty suprised that it was diverse. Although i shouldn't be suprised since its such a big place, but i was, lols.:P

Godbless.

[katherine2001]

I am mainly English, Scottish, and German, though I also have a little Black Irish, Dutch, and Cherokee Indian in my background. I'm your basic Heinz 57 Variety. If there was an Orthodox jurisdiction for mine, it would be the Heinz 57 Variety Orthodox Church and people of all backgrounds would be welcome, which is how it should be anyway.

[Annabel Lee]

Mostly Irish with a little bit of English. Since I'm a second generation American, we still have cousins ect in Ireland and England that we keep in contact.

[ByzantineDixie]

5/8 German, 1/4 Croatian, 1/8 Cherokee. And EVERYONE was Roman Catholic including my native American Great Grandmother!

[Maximus]

Northern European: mainly German, Dutch, Danish, and English, but there's some other Northern European stuff in there, too, like Irish and French.

[Lotar]

5/8 German, 1/4 Croatian, 1/8 Cherokee. And EVERYONE was Roman Catholic including my native American Great Grandmother!

Same here, until my Grandpa became Lutheran. Now only the extended family is Roman Catholic. :D

I still have my great Grandma Albanese's miraculous medal. I wonder what Father would say if I wore it to DL Sunday... :P ^_^

[Maximus]

Same here, until my Grandpa became Lutheran. Now only the extended family is Roman Catholic. :D

I still have my great Grandma Albanese's miraculous medal. I wonder what Father would say if I wore it to DL Sunday... :P ^_^

My dad's mom (my grandma) and sisters were Roman Catholics, as was my godmother (who was also my cousin).

[Lotar]

My dad's mom (my grandma) and sisters were Roman Catholics, as was my godmother (who was also my cousin).

My other Grandpa was sort of a cultural Catholic. So my Dad, Aunt and Uncles were baptized in the RCC but were raised atheist/agnostic. He got mad when my Dad started going to church with us: "If you're going to believe in God, then you should be Catholic."

After all, if you're Irish, you're supposed to automatically be Catholic. :D

[Rilian]

Most often when I asked I'll say something like "mixed Skraeling and Hittite".

[Maximus]

Most often when I asked I'll say something like "mixed Skraeling and Hittite".

Get any urges to chase Icelanders in your chariot?

[Grand_Duchess-Elizaveta]

Like several others in here, I'm English/Irish/Scottish, but with a fair amount of Cherokee (I think 1/4th).

[Vasya Davidovich]

I'm eightth generation Canadian.

Over the years, I have managed to pick up the following strains in my bloodlines:

English, from Britain.
English, from America ("United Empire Loyalists").
English, from Ireland (Irish Quakers).
Scottish, from Scotland.
Scottish, from Quebec (the trail disappears there).
Scottish, from Ireland.
French, from Quebec (the trail disappears there).
German, from America ("Pennsylvania Dutch").

Usually, I just say 1/4 Anglo-Irish, 1/4 Anglo-German, 1/4 Scottish, and 1/4 French. It's not quite accurate, but it works.

In terms of spiritual heritage, I have Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, Roman Catholics, and maybe Amish in my background. And now I am the first Orthodox in my family's recorded history! Yay!
:clap:

[PaladinValer]

I'm an All-American Mutt/Half-Breed Italian

50% Italian (mainly from Sicily but a little from the mainland)
25% German
20% English
~5% Irish
And the teeniest-tiniest smidgeon of French

...

**woof**

[e=mv^2]

My earliest ancestors were German mercenaries in the revolutionary war. Before that I have no records. Other than German I also have Cherokee and Irish in me.

So basically I am a drunk that can not grow a beard to save his life.

[xenia]

Any other Indian tribes represented here besides the Cherokee?