How intericial or diverse is your family?

[Thespeckledkiwi]

We're the UN...

My mother is German, Polish, French and Indian.
My dad is Austrian and Irish.
My sisters are Korean.
My niece is Irish, English, Korean and European mutt.
My brothers in law are German and African American. The other is Hispanic.
I'm unknown, possibly anything.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

So who's on the security council?

 

[Goliath]

We used to be solidly white, and I mean Danish-Irish-Wonderbread white, until my uncle got married for the fourth time, to a Chinese-Canadian.

This caused a bit of tension at first--not because she's Chinese, but because she's quite a bit younger than he is, and some people thought she might be after his money.

Unfortunately, I also found out that my one remaining grandparent, who is over 90 and just about the sweetest old lady you can imagine, had some unreconstructed early 20th-century atttitudes toward Chinese people. What a drag.

Anyway, my uncle and aunt have since proven very happy together, so the tension has dissipated. Even grandma has mellowed out, especially since she met her new grandchild.

Nice to add a little colour to the team, finally.

 

[Finn]

Bleeding Irish, Scottish, English, German white with a couple drops of Native American from my paternal grandmother's father's line (I'm 1/32....)

 

[Squiggy]

Boy. You moon Holdfast once and you never hear the end of it.

More like you mooned Holdfast once and then the image got quoted a dozen times and even ended up in unrelated threads. Sorry, pal, but you will never live that picture down.

Then it's time for a new mooning! Who should get my wrath this time?

 

[Goliath]

Boy. You moon Holdfast once and you never hear the end of it.

More like you mooned Holdfast once and then the image got quoted a dozen times and even ended up in unrelated threads. Sorry, pal, but you will never live that picture down.

Then it's time for a new mooning! Who should get my wrath this time?

Dude. That's like saying the cure for a hangover is another drinking binge.

 

[Deckerd]

The 'r' word isn't permitted. Didn't you listen to Admiral Adama at the UN?

We are all human beans.

 

[cultcross]

An aunt by marriage is Jewish, that's about as diverse as my immediate family gets! We're spread out all over the globe, but 'ethnically' very White British (although obviously some kids born abroad are White American, etc.)

I don't play semantics past grandparent's generations anyway, it's ridiculous when people claim to be about 50 nationalities because their paternal great-great-grandfather had a cousin who was Irish (I'm closer related than that to Winston Churchill). If your parents and their parents are all, say, White British, you are White British. End of story.

 

[Deckerd]

If your parents and their parents are all, say, White British, you are White British. End of story.

Damn. I was about to wax lyrical on having English grandparents on my maternal side, thus polluting my Celtic purity.

 

[Jadzia]

My ancestors are all native English people as far back as I know, which is a couple of hundred years. Although some scottish blood has recently found it's way in through my wayward cousins, that isn't part of my pedigree.

My earliest known ancestors were all country types who formed closed knit communities for several generations in the middle of nowhere.

Knowing this fact, and also knowing how averted to travel and migration my family members are, I can't imagine my ancestors ever found racial
diversity.

As I think I've said before, many of us have never visited London.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Not really diverse. We are all gorgeous and stylish.

Seriously, Italy is still a very racially homogeneous country (that, however, is changing at an exponential rate in recent years), so I'm virtually white all along.

Culturally, we span the spectrum from almost-medieval right-wing uber-Catholics to weirdo pinko atheists. One of my cousins is gay, albeit closeted (his parents don't want to hear it, but it's virtually an open secret).

Italian with some Sicilian mixed in there on my mother's side.

Err, Sicilian is Italian. Well, at least as Italian as Piedmontese, Friulan, Apulian, Neapolitan, etc...

 

[Kestra]

We're not that diverse. All solidly Indian, and mostly doctors. My sis and I married non-Indians, though, so we're changing that!

 

[Franklin]

On my dad's side, 100% German. On my mom's side, it's almost all German except for a couple of Irish ancestors who somehow got into the family.

My wife is a little more interesting. She knows for a fact is she's 1/8 Cherokee from her dad's side. Beyond that, all she knows her dad's side came over in the very early 1800s and is very ethnically mixed up. Her mom's side was over here just as long, but is known to be mostly English.

 

[Daneel]

My family is a whiter shade of pale... My background is pretty much entirely Western European (Irish, Scottish, and German), but I really only identify as Canadian, since all the relatives I've ever met have been born here (except for my dad's half-brother and his family, who live in the Netherlands). The most recent ancestors to have immigrated here were probably my grandmother's parents, from Germany, and that was before WWI, so everyone in the family is thoroughly Canadian by this point.

No racial diversity... but given the fact that three of my four grandparents are confirmed racists, that's hardly surprising. I doubt they would have approved if any of their kids dated non-white people, but they all ended up with whites anyway.

I guess the closest we've come to diversity is the guy from Russia that my cousin just married, but he's been here awhile, speaks fluent English, and seems to have assimilated into out culture completely, so it probably barely counts.

 

[Dingo]

Relatively diverse:

My paternal grandfather is Filipino.
My maternal grandfather is Filipino and a quarter Spanish
My maternal grandmother is Filipino and a quarter Chinese
My mother is Filipino/Spanish/Chinese
My uncle (by marriage to one of my aunts on my Mom's side) is English
My cousin Brandon is half English/half Filipino/Chinese
My uncle Frank (married to another of my Aunts) is Italian American
My uncle Yves is French (he's married to one of my Dad's sisters).
My cousins on my Dad's side are Filipino/French.

I'd say were rather diverse.

 

[JonathonWally]

Italian with some Sicilian mixed in there on my mother's side.

Err, Sicilian is Italian. Well, at least as Italian as Piedmontese, Friulan, Apulian, Neapolitan, etc...

Yes, it's small joke that runs through my family.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

More like you mooned Holdfast once and then the image got quoted a dozen times and even ended up in unrelated threads. Sorry, pal, but you will never live that picture down.

Then it's time for a new mooning! Who should get my wrath this time?

Dude. That's like saying the cure for a hangover is another drinking binge.

I never thought i'd say this about squiggs but ... Two More Cheeks! Two More Cheeks!

 

[Winged Victory]

My dad is mostly German with a little Russian heritage thrown in on his mom's side. I'm pretty sure no one on his side, besides himself, has married someone who wasn't white. I remember him mentioning that my Grandma wasn't too thrilled when he brought my mom over to meet her. So whiter than white on his side!

My mom is Indian (India-Indian, not Native American), which makes for a little diversity and excellent curry and roti recipes! I'm so happy she is, because I've embraced the mixed race that I am, which was not the case when I was younger. I wanted to fit in with everyone else...anyway...my mom's side is mostly Indian, with one or two of my cousins marrying other races. I love both my parent's heritages; makes for some interesting family reunions.

 

[Count Zero]

I don't play semantics past grandparent's generations anyway, it's ridiculous when people claim to be about 50 nationalities because their paternal great-great-grandfather had a cousin who was Irish (I'm closer related than that to Winston Churchill).

I agree but it seems to be an American pastime.
My family isn't very diverse, which isn't surprising since Germany is a largely white country and most of my family hails from East Germany which was even more homogenuous. Religiously, our background is Lutheran, though half the family is atheist/secular by birth. That said, I have one black niece and some members of my extended family are black, too.

 

[Sephiroth]

my grandfather on my mothers side is irish-catholic all the way back, and married a Japanese woman after the war, I know nothing of my father's side but he was an okie, so pretty much Irish catholic and possibly Native American there, I was married to a Chinese woman, who passed away from cancer thats about it