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Post by Satyros on Dec 4, 2004 8:13:27 GMT -5
I was wondering about this.
The question is not very precise, as i am mixing ehtnically with racially, but its not supposed to be a very precise measurement after all. Just curious
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Post by MC anunnaki on Dec 4, 2004 8:20:02 GMT -5
I don't know. I think my grand-parents are Lurs but who knows. No one in my family is interested in knowing their ethnic origins. "We are who we are and that's that!" I know of one cousin who looks almost completely Mongoloid, but her parents looks like your average Iranians and she has a 'typical' Iranian sister and a sister who's very Europid in features and colouring (light brown hair, blue eyes, pale skin). I think very few people from the Middle East can consider themselves racially 'pure'.
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Post by jojocircus on Dec 4, 2004 8:37:34 GMT -5
I'm half Italian and half Jewish, but I don't like the idea of being so mixed up that you don't even know who you are anymore. On a subconscious level I think this is why I had kids with another half Italian. My kids can a least identify with being something.
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Post by Italian Stallion on Dec 4, 2004 8:44:11 GMT -5
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Post by It-Alien on Dec 4, 2004 8:58:55 GMT -5
[/img][/quote] So you are Sicilian ? |
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Post by Italian Stallion on Dec 4, 2004 9:04:13 GMT -5
From Basilicata.
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Post by It-Alien on Dec 4, 2004 9:18:12 GMT -5
Still close! ;D You from Melfi ? I believe Basilicata has Norman and longobard types within its population. Same as Nicosia in Sicily.
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Post by deuceswild on Dec 4, 2004 13:12:26 GMT -5
I guess you could say I'm pure...if there really is such a thing.
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Post by cocacola on Dec 4, 2004 22:32:55 GMT -5
Definitely not.
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Post by Faelcind on Dec 5, 2004 0:17:13 GMT -5
I am have variety of backgrounds. Defineatly dominated by the british isles however.
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Post by buddyrydell on Dec 5, 2004 2:53:58 GMT -5
My father's side is all Italian (Sicilian) and my mother's side is "American" lol, mixed with Italian, Irish, English, and German. I consider myself as Italian-American though because it's by far my most dominant ethnicity. I like the idea that I have a main ethnicity because I still feel like I have an identity. Many of my friends are a 1/4 this, 1/8 that, 1/4 this, etc. and don't really know what they are.
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Post by MC anunnaki on Dec 5, 2004 5:23:31 GMT -5
I've never been the one to base my identity on my ethnicity. Maybe it's because I'm ethnically A but culturally B? I don't know, but it doesn't bother me to not know much about my ethnic origins. I just adapt to whatever society I stumble upon.  My daughter however is being raised as a Swede which is quite normal considering she's half-Swedish. I've never felt rootless or homeless or whatever, like many racialists/racists claim that mixed people are rootless (I guess you could call me mixed, a mix between ethnicity and culture, like many adopted people). That's just bullshit. Man is made for adaption, that's why we've become the dominant species on this planet. |
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Post by Springa on Dec 5, 2004 5:26:54 GMT -5
Technically, almost nobody is "racially pure".
And then, there's a subjective factor. If someone is, say, half Norwegian, half Turkish, this person will sure be caucasoid, and in a way, racially "pure", (although "subracially" mixed). On the other hand this person will be viewed as "mixed race" by many people. So, to actually claim to be pure or mixed, one has to know what are the criteria.
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Post by Springa on Dec 5, 2004 5:42:43 GMT -5
Oh, and by the way, I'm mostly Portuguese.
Maternal grandmother, actual Portuguese, but she had a German grandfather and a half French grandmother. Maternal grandfather, mostly Portuguese (in Brazil for centuries, traditional family) but with minor Italian and Lithuanian (or some other baltic country, I forgot) strains.
Paternal grandparents: the people I inherited my last name from were supposed to be what we call "new Christians" (Portuguese Jewish converts, many of whom ran away to Brazil), but there are significant German and Spanish strains too. My paternal granparents are actually first cousins (ok, I know it's freaky, but they're old and were raised on plantations).
There could be minor admixture from centuries ago, but nobody in the family is aware of that.
But anyway, I consider myself ethnically "pure" in a way, as a Brazilian who identifies himself with some sort of European culture and Ethnicity, although I don't see myself as an European. Since I could have minor Indian or black admixture (not perceptible on anyone in my family though), I don't know if I can qualify as "racially pure", but I don't want to anyway, because it's a silly concept anyway.
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Post by Ilmatar on Dec 5, 2004 6:58:11 GMT -5
Oh, and by the way, I'm mostly Portuguese. Maternal grandmother, actual Portuguese, but she had a German grandfather and a half French grandmother. Maternal grandfather, mostly Portuguese (in Brazil for centuries, traditional family) but with minor Italian and Lithuanian (or some other baltic country, I forgot) strains. So, we might share some ancestory, since I'd actually be something like 1/64 or 1/128 Lithuanian.  Anyhow, it would be interesting to know how and when exactly did your Baltic forefather (or foremother) come to Brazil. There hasn't been any mass imigration to the Southern America from these parts, so it might be an interesting story. |
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My daughter however is being raised as a Swede which is quite normal considering she's half-Swedish.
Anyhow, it would be interesting to know how and when exactly did your Baltic forefather (or foremother) come to Brazil. There hasn't been any mass imigration to the Southern America from these parts, so it might be an interesting story.