How diverse is your family?

[Jayson1]

It's become pretty diverse over the years. I guess I should state I am white and my mom,dad and sister's are white. Overtime though there has been changes. I have a step sister who is gay. I have a brother in law who is black another who is indiani(india type not native american) I have a niece and two nephew's who are half white/black and a niece who is half white/indian. I also have two other nieces who are white.

Jason

 

[thestrangequark]

Ethnically, my mother is mostly Indian (Native American type not India ). Ojibwe -- Turtle Mountain Band Chippewa to be exact, and 1/4 Norwegian/Portuguese. Dad's British isles and French white, some American Indian in his line but he has no ties to the culture. Culturally he's part Cajun, New Orleans Catholic. His family tree is well-documented as he has an aunt whose traced it back to 1595. I have a Vietnamese aunt by marriage.
My brother was gay (he passed away a long time ago), one sister identifies as bi, and someone else close to me has recently come out as gay but only to a few people so far.
About half are atheist, half Catholic. A couple are "spiritual". About half are liberal, about half conservative, my half brother and sister are California hippie libertarians, which is as annoying as it sounds.
Me: mix race straight atheist liberal.

 

[Gryffindorian]

My family isn't very diverse. We're all Asian/Pacific Islanders and identify as mostly Christians. My brother has a 20-year-old son with a half-Caucasian, half-Hispanic woman. Based on my DNA analysis, I'm Haplotype M175, and my deep ancestors were originally from Southeast Asia.

 

[T'Bonz]

Extended, very. I have lots of black cousins. No hispanics though as there aren't many in Pittsburgh. Off the top of my head, I have at least 3 or 4 gay female cousins.

Religious wise the family is a bit of everything. Some are devoted believers, others don't believe it all.

 

[auntiehill]

I come from a long line of the whitest people on Earth: English, Scottish, Irish, German, Finnish (as far as I know). I'm so white, I'm transparent.

Mom's family were Catholic & Protestant--but not really big church-goers. Dad's family was/is Texas Baptist John-Birch-Society Redneck Bastard Republicans.

However, my parents raised us to be intellectual, liberal atheists (er...is that redundant?). My idiot sister is a new-age "I'll believe anything" moron. The middle sister was briefly Catholic before she came to her senses.

Hubby and I are atheist as fuck.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

My mom is 100% Polish. Maybe the 2nd generation born in the US on that side.

My dad was a few nationalities, the 8th or 9th generation born in N. America (CT, Canada, Michigan, Illinois - in that order).
This line went from Denmark to Britain in the 7th century. Hard to know which nationalities got mixed in over those 30+ generations before the first one came over here. There was one Welsh mother for sure about 10 generations ago.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Mostly white. My mom thought there was Native American and Melungeon in the mix, but she was mistaken (family legends that turned out to be false). I have one biracial (black/white) second cousin. A couple of distant cousins who are native Hawaiian/Japanese (it's a lonnnnnngggg story and we only recently learned about them).

Mom's side of the family can be traced back to 11th Century England. So on her side I'm mostly English with lots of French and some Irish, Scottish, Welsh and a wee bit of Spanish and Portuguese mixed in. Dad's side can be traced back to Charlemagne. Seriously. So basically German, French, a little Greek and Italian.

 

[Spot's Meow]

There is some Native American blood on my dad's side of the family, I am 1/8 myself. Besides that, we're all pretty white, a big mix of lots of things such as French, German, Irish, Danish, Norwegian, etc. Strangely no one has really married another race as far as I know. We had an extended family reunion a few years ago and the one adopted child of another race stood out very obviously.

Religion is all over the place, most of us seem to be atheist but in general it's very much a "don't talk about it" topic, so I can't be sure. I do know that one of my great-grandmothers was a Christian pastor, an aunt and uncle are Jehovah's Witness, and my parents recently converted to LDS.

As for sexual orientation, they all seem to be straight or at least not openly sharing otherwise (and why would they, honestly the topic hasn't come up that I can recall).

In terms of politics it is pretty evenly split, with a few more liberals than conservatives I think.

So I guess my family isn't very diverse at all. However we grew up in a very diverse place and I now work and live in some of the most diverse places in the country.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Immediate - as white as white can be. Of Scottish, English and Irish descent.

Extended - quite a few relatives with Aboriginal blood.

 

[Finn]

My Dad and his brother is adamant that we are descended from an Maine Native American through their father.

I think it's BS. I think its something Gramps' mother's said. I found a bunch of old pictures from Gramps' family from Victorian times. Those folks looked like they were Anasazi Jewish from eastern Europe.

 

[Relayer1]

I'm white. My relatives are white, my family's all white. Straight too, as far as I can tell.

Some of us are redheads. My great grandmother was Irish Catholic, which is as close to ethnic as we get...

 

[thestrangequark]

My Dad and his brother is adamant that we are descended from an Maine Native American through their father.

I think it's BS. I think its something Gramps' mother's said. I found a bunch of old pictures from Gramps' family from Victorian times. Those folks looked like they were Anasazi Jewish from eastern Europe.

Any other reason to believe it's BS? I mean, looks aren't always the best way to judge when it comes to mixed people -- sometimes you get a lot of cream in your coffee.

 

[Finn]

Gramps' grandfather who was supposedly half-Native American, was a very petite man. Theres a picture of him with my grandparents as newlyweds. I believe the native Americans of Maine were very tall, large and well built. I know it's possible but just a feeling esp with those old pictures

 

[thestrangequark]

Gramps' grandfather who was supposedly half-Native American, was a very petite man. Theres a picture of him with my grandparents as newlyweds. I believe the native Americans of Maine were very tall, large and well built. I know it's possible but just a feeling esp with those old pictures

Just sayin' you never can tell with mixed people. I mean, here are pics of me and my big brother, both at age four (white and Native American) :

And these two British girls are twins! (Black mom and white dad.)

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

White, Korean, extended fam is from varying south american countries.

Relgion: buncha right wing christians, buddhists, immediate family is "nothing" with buddhist and christian background.

Sexuality and gender identity, well huge slabs of them wouldn't be able to say see: religion. But otherwise currently straight, trans, the usual fluidity of might be bi, might be.. ? stuff.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Just sayin' you never can tell with mixed people. I mean, here are pics of me and my big brother, both at age four (white and Native American) :


And these two British girls are twins! (Black mom and white dad.)

When I look at this pic I feel like GINGER CONQUERS ALL. I mean it just jumped in there didn't it, and vanquished all the black dad melanin that tried to assert itself.

 

[Finn]

Just sayin' you never can tell with mixed people. I mean, here are pics of me and my big brother, both at age four (white and Native American) :

And these two British girls are twins! (Black mom and white dad.)

Yeah, I know

 

[Tora Ziyal]

However, my parents raised us to be intellectual, liberal atheists (er...is that redundant?).

No, it's not redundant at all. If you look past the noise made by politically conservative evangelical Christians (and their fundamentalist equivalents in other religions), you'll find a lot of religious people who are both intellectual and liberal. And there are non-intellectual atheists.

To answer the original question, my close family is all white, but pretty diverse otherwise. Ethnically: Italian, Russian, and Ashkenazi (East European) Jewish. Religiously: Catholic, Russian Orthodox, a couple denominations of Protestant, Jewish, and a couple question marks (atheist? agnostic? just don't care?). One gay couple.

If we include my extended family, add on: Scandinavian, German, English, Hispanic, biracial (African American / white), Korean, atheist, another variety of Protestant, and at least two more gay and bisexual people.

 

[Relayer1]

GINGER CONQUERS ALL.

Redheaded brothers and sisters gotta stick together

 

[SPCTRE]

my family is all kinds of white, a real melting pot of whiteness