So...whats your cultural background?
Me, both my parents are pakistani, but my father is half afgan(persian) and my mother is has some bangali blood in her.
So...whats your nationality and background?
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I'm a real "mongrel"
On my father's side... Swedish
On my mother's side: Grandmother, French, Grandfather German and Polish.
On my mother's side: Grandmother, French, Grandfather German and Polish.
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It's hard to say 
Both sides of my family trace back to the 1630's when they left from England... to New England. I've been told that people on both sides took Indian brides.
Last name is Hathaway. Hathaways can trace back to ~ 1200 in England. Shakespere married Ann Hathaway.
Both sides of my family trace back to the 1630's when they left from England... to New England. I've been told that people on both sides took Indian brides.Last name is Hathaway. Hathaways can trace back to ~ 1200 in England. Shakespere married Ann Hathaway.
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I'm a mut
On my father's side: Grandfather: English via the Norman nobility who followed the Conquerer, Grandmother: Native American, Greatgrandmother: Scottish.
Mother's side: Grandmother: Irish. Grandfather: Scottish, Irish, German, possibly Jewish (big family secret back in the day, for some reason).
Mother's side: Grandmother: Irish. Grandfather: Scottish, Irish, German, possibly Jewish (big family secret back in the day, for some reason).
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Father's side is Irish. In fact, County Cork has a town by the name of Glasheen. Two Glasheens came over during the potato famine. The ship was quarantined in NY harbor due to illness, but these two Glasheen's jumped ship and swam ashore. They met up with other Irish people in the NY area, including McCarthys (my father's mom).
Mother's side is Lithuania. A group of Lithuanians set up shop in Shenandoah, PA, a coal mining town. Lithuanians and Poles were encouraged to come over, because they generally were large and hardy, so did well as laborers in the mines. My great grandfather was the first non-Anglo to own a tavern in the town. They passed a discriminatory law to keep the number of tavern licenses in that town to a fixed number to keep the non-Anglos from owning one. No matters - my great grandfather bought a license from a deceased family. My grandma married and got pregnant by a coal miner who died before my mom was born. My grandmother and her sister then split town to find their fortune in NYC. My grandma had mom, and my great aunt Bonnie became a pre Radio City Hall Rockette.
And of course that left the opportunity for an Irishman to mix genes with a Lithuanian...
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Mother's side is Lithuania. A group of Lithuanians set up shop in Shenandoah, PA, a coal mining town. Lithuanians and Poles were encouraged to come over, because they generally were large and hardy, so did well as laborers in the mines. My great grandfather was the first non-Anglo to own a tavern in the town. They passed a discriminatory law to keep the number of tavern licenses in that town to a fixed number to keep the non-Anglos from owning one. No matters - my great grandfather bought a license from a deceased family. My grandma married and got pregnant by a coal miner who died before my mom was born. My grandmother and her sister then split town to find their fortune in NYC. My grandma had mom, and my great aunt Bonnie became a pre Radio City Hall Rockette.
And of course that left the opportunity for an Irishman to mix genes with a Lithuanian...
- Bill
Mixed Breeding
On my mother's side i'm Scotish and my father's side English. Came over to Canada in around the 1930's
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In all of us is the ability to conform.
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Which will you choose?
Background?
I love ethnic people and food. What a wonderful mix we have, no?
My Dad is Greek and Turk, mostly Greek. All five of us have that olive skin like my Dad and almost black hair....small of stature, athletic, and hot tempered....but I think I have conquered that. I have been told that I look foreign. Must be the strong Greek look Dad gave us. My Dad's family grew up in Vicksburg, MS (although he was born in Birmingham, ALA). They owned and operated a Greek restaurant there.
My mother is French and Spanish on her mother's side, with a little American Indian thrown in, somewhere....very dark people. My Mom's Dad was German and Irish, a taller group. They all hale from Biloxi, MS. Some may be in New Orleans.
My Dad's father and mother came through Ellis Island and, because they could speak no English, lost their Greek name of Vasilios (sp?) and were given the American name of Thomas. Crazy, isn't it.
My Dad didn't even speak English much until he was around 5 or 6. He didn't speak the language once he moved away form home as a young man. Sad, because I would love to have known the language.
One big melting pot, America is! Yep, and I love it that way.
Regards,
Vicki
My Dad is Greek and Turk, mostly Greek. All five of us have that olive skin like my Dad and almost black hair....small of stature, athletic, and hot tempered....but I think I have conquered that. I have been told that I look foreign. Must be the strong Greek look Dad gave us. My Dad's family grew up in Vicksburg, MS (although he was born in Birmingham, ALA). They owned and operated a Greek restaurant there.
My mother is French and Spanish on her mother's side, with a little American Indian thrown in, somewhere....very dark people. My Mom's Dad was German and Irish, a taller group. They all hale from Biloxi, MS. Some may be in New Orleans.
My Dad's father and mother came through Ellis Island and, because they could speak no English, lost their Greek name of Vasilios (sp?) and were given the American name of Thomas. Crazy, isn't it.
My Dad didn't even speak English much until he was around 5 or 6. He didn't speak the language once he moved away form home as a young man. Sad, because I would love to have known the language.
One big melting pot, America is! Yep, and I love it that way.
Regards,
Vicki
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The Conqueror
AAAhmed,
William the Conqueror was the Duke of Normandy, descendent of the Vikings who laid siege to Paris until the French King granted their leader the title and land of Normandy. William got his name, "the Conqueror" by leading the only army in history to ever invade and conqueror England. This happened around the year 1010.
William the Conqueror was the Duke of Normandy, descendent of the Vikings who laid siege to Paris until the French King granted their leader the title and land of Normandy. William got his name, "the Conqueror" by leading the only army in history to ever invade and conqueror England. This happened around the year 1010.
