What's your breed?

Ahnimus

I'm a mutt, as probably everyone is, as far as I can tell, I'm:

1/4 Swiss
1/8 Scottish
1/8 English
1/32 Native American

The rest I don't know, I know those 4 to some degree, but I'm not sure about the fractions really. There is a lot I'm missing.

angelica

1/2 German
1/2 Russian

Ahnimus

angelica wrote:

1/2 German
1/2 Russian

Achso fraulein. Privet kak' dela?

That's a pretty even mix, you sure that's all?

Bu2

I'm mostly German, from both sides of the family tree, but we have our mix of Scot, Irish and French and even some American Indian thrown in somewhere.

I'm supposedly a DAR (Daughter of the American Revolution), but I think my mom has the paperwork on it. Then again, I think my mom likes to exaggerate.

And then again, the American Indian might be in question, too.

So how about I just say: I'm American, and damn proud of it, even though my asshole of a President calls me a 'mer-can and can't say nuclear or terrorist to save his ass.

angelica

Ahnimus wrote:

Achso fraulein. Privet kak' dela?

That's a pretty even mix, you sure that's all?

That's what "they" tell me.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

mostly scot/irish, a quarter native, and i think there was a mexican in there somewhere. or so i've been told...

Ahnimus

I should have mentioned as well. Besides the fact that we are all 100% decendents of africa.

hippiemom

I'm a mutt too.

German, English, Irish, Scottish, French ... in that order, but I'm not sure about the percentages.

Jeanie

Got no percentages for you but family tree goes a little like this.

Parents ~ Australian
Maternal and Paternal Granparents ~ Australian
Great Grandfather ~ Northern Ireland of Scots Irish decent
Great Grandmother ~ 1st generation Australian of Irish decent
Great Grandfather ~ Australian of Irish decent (and possible aboriginal decent)
Great Grandmother ~ Australian of Irish decent
Great Grandfather ~ Australian of Irish and Polish decent
Great Grandmother ~ Australian of Irish and Kiwi decent
Great Grandfather ~ Australian of English decent
Great Grandmother ~ Australian of English and Irish decent

I can go back further but they're all the folk that were alive when I was born.

LikeAnOcean

Ahnimus wrote:

I should have mentioned as well. Besides the fact that we are all 100% decendents of africa.

I'm human and a pale one at that. My family got pale over thousands of years when they left Africa and headed to northern areas were sunlight is minimal.

I read the reason people have white skin, although it burns and can become cancerous in climates near the equator, absorbs more nutrients from the sun were sunlight is minimal in northern areas..

DriftingByTheStorm

Dads Side: German and Russian\Slavic Jew (grandmother is straight german jew - rothschild, grandfathers dad is slavic jew and his mother was german jew)

Moms Side: European immigrants with irish ancestors and some from wales
(my moms side is a bit mysterious, they don't know a lot of the details on where some of the family actualy immigrated from. :( )

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I read the reason people have white skin, although it burns and can become cancerous in climates near the equator, absorbs more nutrients from the sun were sunlight is minimal in northern areas..

Thats one theory.
[one of] The other theory, and the difference is subtle, is that the skin became whiter simply from a lack of necessity. In other words, skin is dark to help protect the body from overexposure to sun. Therefore as the intensity of light decreases with distance to the north, so can the body stop producing as much color to block out the sun. You see how the difference is sublte, but apparently worth argument in scientific circles. One says that we NEEDED nutrients and therefore the skin HAD to get lighter to adapt. The other says that the skin simply did NOT need to be dark, and so therefore began to lighten. The biological advantage that the lightened skinned folks then had caused their numbers to increase in proportion to those northerners that did not have light skin, but their skin did not get lighter because of a need, necessarily. I just find it interesting the way the scientists "argue" these points.


Evolutionary theory is funny. You have the theories that certain traits arose because of some biological necessity or advantage, and then the counter-theories that it was really just a kind've accident that nature then exploited. Not every thing is causal ... sometimes it's just random chance that gains the individual with the mutation an advantage and so the mutation spreads.

prism

hippiemom wrote:

I'm a mutt too.

German, English, Irish, Scottish, French ... in that order, but I'm not sure about the percentages.

we must be related mutts

although not in the same order and switch up the French for Dutch. so I'm more in the order of Irish, English, German, Scottish and Dutch. the only percentage that i'm certain of is being 1/4 Irish

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

i heard that lighter skin absorbs more vitamin D, so i wondered if blacks living in the far north suffered from vitamin D deficiency. turns out some do, but the difference is pretty slight really. getting a few minutes of sunlight a day is enough for anyone.

Austicman

Full blood Nth Irish born in Australia. Go figure!!

catefrances

Austicman wrote:

Full blood Nth Irish born in Australia. Go figure!!

probably not such a rare occurrence. not here in oz.

Austicman

catefrances wrote:

probably not such a rare occurrence. not here in oz.

I know all my brothers and sister are too!!! I crack myself up!!!


But what do I call myself. 1/2 Aussie 1/2 Irish. Irish bred Australia Born I don't know.

catefrances

Austicman wrote:

I know all my brothers and sister are too!!! I crack myself up!!!


But what do I call myself. 1/2 Aussie 1/2 Irish. Irish bred Australia Born I don't know.

well i think after 35 years you're an aussie. especially since you were born here. but yeah i know what you mean. your blood is irish. but everything else about you is australian.

Jeanie

MrSmith wrote:

i heard that lighter skin absorbs more vitamin D, so i wondered if blacks living in the far north suffered from vitamin D deficiency. turns out some do, but the difference is pretty slight really. getting a few minutes of sunlight a day is enough for anyone.

Lot more people here in Oz suffering Vitamin D deficiency since the hole in the ozone layer got bigger over our heads and the incidence of skin cancer rose, making the Slip Slop Slap message much more necessary. There has even been an increase in kids getting rickets which I read somewhere they think is caused by our Slip Slop Slap necessity. I think it also occurs in mothers from cultures where the women are covered up a lot and this is getting passed on to the children.

gue_barium

Dutch-German 1/2 or more
Norwegian 1/4 or more
Irish 1/8 for sure

more or less

soulsinging

Jeanie wrote:

Got no percentages for you but family tree goes a little like this.

Parents ~ Australian
Maternal and Paternal Granparents ~ Australian
Great Grandfather ~ Northern Ireland of Scots Irish decent
Great Grandmother ~ 1st generation Australian of Irish decent
Great Grandfather ~ Australian of Irish decent (and possible aboriginal decent)
Great Grandmother ~ Australian of Irish decent
Great Grandfather ~ Australian of Irish and Polish decent
Great Grandmother ~ Australian of Irish and Kiwi decent
Great Grandfather ~ Australian of English decent
Great Grandmother ~ Australian of English and Irish decent

I can go back further but they're all the folk that were alive when I was born.

i need to work this out for me... im mostly irish i think... about half anyway. also some french and polish as far as i know.

ryan198

it's funny to me that we think in these terms of whole numbers given that our parents were derivatives of something else, and there's of something else, and so on. Yet when we describe our ethnic backgrounds we attribute whole numbers to our ancestry, even though we understand our own as fragmented. I guess my breed is human, with a whole bunch of ancestors that more than likely lead back to Africa since that's pretty much were people came from.