Me:

Irish, British, French, Scottish, German. Catholic.

I´m from Finland, my biological mother is Lapp and my biological farther is from Norway (And SomFan: I still can´t speak Swedish or Norweigian....)

Irish, English and Native American

Welch---There is a possibility that my ancestors got offered the rope
or the boat (forced emigration to the colonies) before the American revolution.

English---One relative was an English school teacher that also emigrated to Massachusetts before the revolution.

Scots-Irish--- Lowland Scotts that first were sent to Northern Ireland as a buffer between the Irish and the English (or so I have read). I don't no when their emegration to the states occurred but I think it was after the American revolution but before the Irish potato famine.

French---My Grandmother's family were of French heritage. When my Grandmother was about nine, her mother died. Her father was very distraught and did not feel capable of raising his daughter. She was then adopted by some close friends of the family.

There might also be a we bit of German or other northern European cultures. Like Isaac, I'm pretty much a North American mutt.

white male, age 18-49

Hey, Summoner. I remember watching a film about the Lapplanders a long time ago. They seemed almost like a subsistence culture (almost like Scandinavian eskimos) that followed the wild reindeer herds around. They would cull the deer for clothes, meat, and shelter but only used what they needed.

I hope I got at least some of that right. It was fascinating.

Me--a mutt, but mostly Native American and German.

Some devout Catholicism on my mother's side, including a nun, but I am not Catholic, or religous at all.
Mostly I just think of myself as a southern girl.

Norwegian, Mexican, Spanish, Indian and French.

Polish / Irish

Well, when people ask me what I am I tell them I'm a pervert. I also worship boobs and other parts of women's bodies

It sounds like a temple to me! Keep the faith brother...

You know, maybe I can found my own religion. I can worship women's sexy bodies all day AND get a tax break

The Universal Sex Church.

German, Dutch and English.

swedish white male

with a boob fetish

My father was raised in Poland and stayed there until he was 18. My mother's side is english and scotish. My father's mother was french.

mostly German with some native american, scott

Wow I am suprised I thought you were hispanic from the pics your Native american parts must really come out.

But you are pretty damn hot so no complaining from me

I'm half negro, half Jew

i bet you can grow a really sweet afro

But I dont care for dark meat



What to do now?

Do you like pink meat?

Bleach

Pink is good as long as it is hot!!!!!!!!!!!

and moist.............and on my caack

Good thing for you that sheep fit those criteria

I am American

Mothers side - Scots Irish/Indian ( Blackfoot )

Fathers side - German ( Gypsies from the SchwartzWald )/Indian ( Cherokee )

Great Grandmother full blood Cherokee

I am a Scandinavian mutt: My mother is Norwegian from north of Lillehammer.
My father is Swedish/Danish/Finnish. And YES Summoner, I know, I speak real lousy Finnish.

Religion: grew up Lutheran, but now agnostic - although I am somewhat interested in religions from the perspective of anthropology and philosophy.

Part Tahitian and part Italian, catholic (kind of).

A question I have is how different are those 3 little countries tucked away in northern Europe: Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Are the languages really different? Are they culturally really different or are they pretty much the same country just with borders. I know the governments are pretty dissimilar. Do you guys have bitter rivalries with each other or are you one big happy family?

That is all®

They are as different as night and day....especially Finland! The Finnish language is unique and has no known European roots. We should let Summoner expound on this one. (If she cares to).

Evade is right! Northern countries are = Finland, Sweden, Norway, Island and Denmark. With languages ours is very different although Finland has two prime languages, Finnish and Swedish. Finland and Sweden has been fighting ever since Finland separated from Sweden few hundred years ago I think that SomFan knows these things better than me I should have learn more about history in high school...What else...All these five countries are different, even with language. It is not certain that if you can speak Swedish you understand Norweigian or Danish..And our language is from East. Estonian and Finnish are quite the same and same thing with Hungarian. And no, we are not a colony of Russia

Ja se siitä = That is all

Thanks!

Ja se siitä

I was born in America, both of my parents were born in America. And all four of my grandparents were born in America. I think that makes me an American.

I thought it makes you an asshole







haha, just messin closeup ol buddy, you know I love you!

Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language, which means that it is not Indo-European. English is closer to Sanskrit and Farsi and Russian than Swedish is to Finnish.
Finnish and Estonian are closely related. 6000 years of independent development separate Finnish/Estonian from Hungarian.

During the Viking age, there was one more-or-less common Nordic language which was spoken in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and the coastal regions of Finland and Estonia. Those languages are often mutually understandable. But Icelanders still speak pretty much the same language spoken by the Vikings!

And then there is the separate indigenous language spoken by Summoner's birth mother: Saami, Sami, of Lapp. It's origins are ancient and obscure.

On the other hand, from the perspective of outside, there are a lot of cultural similarities between the Nordic countries. I would say that that is generally related to the geography, the Viking past, Lutheranism, and the strength of
organized labor and the social-democratic (labor)parties.

The closest thing to WAR in that region is when Finland and Sweden meet each other in ice hockey!!

It's like if someone told you he was born in Poland, his parents were born in Poland, his grandparents were born in Poland, but he's Mexican. How many generations do you have to be in a country before that's "Where you're from"?

That's exactly what i was looking for! thanks.

irish, welsh, tons of little things, and 1/4 native american

If you are 1/4 indian I can see why Custer lost......
I would like to put a "little scottish" in ya

Yeah, Custer couldn't see over those hills!

I told you that Somfan would know it better than me

Mother was full Romanian and Father was full British.

So I'm the half breed of 2 enemies.

Thanks for YOUR acknowledgement! I feel like I should be contributing something to this wonderful website;I mean I don't really have much in the way of boobs. Otherwise, all I can do is voice my appreciation...

Before the advent of DNA, I think the above would be a valid answer. But now, we can (if we can afford it), trace our exact ethnic lineage. There was a story today about a Florida accountant who was confirmed via DNA to be related to Genghis Khan. I think I would want him representing me if I ever had to be audited by the IRS.

So, Closeup3, the most your parents and grandparents remembered about their distant origins was the American part of it?

The problem with tracing closeup's lineage is you've got to trace back all his sequential families. it gets really confusing when trying to distinguish among his first cousin2, third cousin4, and third cousin twice removed2. And I don't even think it's appropriate to get into what happened between Great Grandma2 and Great Grandpa3. that sure was a fiasco. inlaws2 still hasn't forgiven them till this day!

you can tace your lineage but if you go far enough back, you can be shown to be related to most everybody. Better explained here

And plus Genghis Khan was a genetic jackhammer, didn't he father half of Europe