Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 08, 2010

Myself, I’m 37.5% Italian, 12.5% Irish, and a polyglot of English, Dutch, Jewish, German and who-knows-what that no one has been able to sort out. (One grandfather even brought in genealogists – and they couldn’t!)

So I just say I’m Bantu and leave it at that.

Me too, Gweedo. Trust you to give a ‘centsible’ answer.

I call myself a 50-50 Celtic/Teuton split (mom’s family is German, dad’s family’s English/Scottish). My husband would have an easier time of it: his family (ancestors) has been Han Chinese and lived in the same village for over 1,000 years.

If anyone asks I write down Klingon.

Human but my significant other has her doubts

We are all sons and daughters of Adam and Eve.

How’s that?

Not me.

Good, Librarian. My ancestry is Italian Greek. Not sure if that counts as Byzantine or not, but I like to think of it that way.

Texican works for me.

Good one, Lewreader!

I agree with Gweedo and Marg. It bugs me. I think we should spend less time on labels and maybe we could get along better.

ArtyG said, If anyone asks I write down Klingon.

I gotta remember that one

The right answer is American.

I consider myself Latino or Latin, my family comes from southern Italy…Latino or Latin refers to anyone who comes from a country where a Latin language is spoken, hence Italians, Spaniards, French, Portuguese, Romanians, etc., are all Latinos. But many people think that “Latino” only refers to people from south of our border or from Puerto Rico or Cuba. I’ve even been referred to as Anglo, and had to remind the person that I couldn’t possibly be Anglo. Yeah, ultimately, it’s all absurd because we are all one race, not four races or whatever the government has decided that we are. Race is a myth. Cultural differences are real, though they don’t change the fact that we are one race.

I get bugged too by these labels. My most recently immigrated ancestor came before the Civil War, and the earliest was on the Mayflower. It is one thing if you weren’t born here, otherwise, let’s just all call ourselves Americans. I’d rather look upon my fellow Americans as individual persons, and not try to stick them in some group merely because of their visual characteristics.

i don’t one’s regard ancestry or genealogy as a label. I’m 100% Italian – being Italian or Chinese or whatever mix occurs is not a label: it’s who we are and where we come from. We are all human; many different races comprise humanity. Imo it’s wrong to equate or treat racial traits and background in the same stereotypical way we do for political or philosophical labels.

When ever someone asks me “What are you?”, I say “I’m perfect”

I call myself Mexican-American because that is the easiest way society wants to describe me. There’s also Latino and Hispanic. My 81 year old grandmother was born here in the U.S. The other side of my family is native Texan. I can’t speak Spanish and have never been to Mexico. Why do I still get called Mexican-American? I’m American. White people whose families haven’t been here as long as mine get called Americans. Let’s add a prefix to all of our people. White Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans. There. We’re equal.

Hispanic here. I like a word with “panic” in it. Has anyone ever heard the “mexterminator” skit?

I’m a hybrid.

I’m a fourth-generation Euro-mutt.

I don’t know how many of my forebears came here as the wretched refuse of the Old Countries’ teeming shores, but along the patrilineal line I come from a Prussian draft-dodger (didn’t want to serve in the Kaiser’s wars).

A genealogy fan asked me how far back my family went.

I said, “All the way.”

Latins used to refer to people who lived in north central Italy when Rome was just getting started. Hard to tell if that is based on mythology or actual history since the two get muddled up the further back you go.

I am so proud of myself with my nationalization that my ancestors came from; England, Scotland, Irish and Germany. But my last name is 100% full of Germany. :-)

I object to the term Euro-American. My ancestors fought over 200 years ago to not be European. Their ancestors sought the farthest edges of the British Isles to get as far as possible from the Europeans until they could catch a boat West. Now I have a continent & an ocean in either direction between us & it’s still too close.

Saucy, I prefer the classic response: Heinz 57.

I’ve researched my family on my dad’s side and found:

Scottish, Irish, English, Czechoslovakian, Russian, German, Polish, Blackfoot Indian, and Cherokee Indian. I’m sure there’s more I haven’t found yet.

I haven’t even started on my mom’s side.

Still, we’re all related. We all came from Adam. And Noah, too.

BIG FAMILY HUG TO ALL OF YOU!

NoBrandName - Me neither!

billdi - Are you sure we are all human?

Well, I want to state here that I am not “white”. I am, in fact, alabaster. So, I suppose that makes me an alabaster American with ancestors from Prussia, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.

A friend of mine, when asked what he “is” responds that he is “wholly unorthodox.”

I call myself Mike or Michael, because that’s what my mother named me. My ancestry is European, but that doesn’t have much to do with who I am today, other than what bits of melanin and carotin show up on the parts of me which are not clothed (they show up on the parts which are clothed as well, you just can’t see them unless you ask me nicely).