Survey On Our Ethnic Roots

kate_ce1995 · Post by **kate_ce1995** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:24 am

You know, it's interesting to me how many of us are British Isles/Scandinavian blends...My family is for the most part English and Scottish or Irish (there was some lack of clarity in my Grandmother's generation because of American stigmatisms regarding the scotts and the irish) although one of my great grandmothers was full Norwegian. Got a smidge of native american as well, but probably not enough to have saved the gene pool! The other thing in my family that I find interesting is I seem to have gotten every genetic "Problem" going...MC, endometriosis...Scares me a bit because my Mom is also a breast cancer survivor.

Katy

artteacher · Post by **artteacher** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:00 pm

Hi Everyone!

I'm almost 100% Finnish, so I selected Scandinavian. People who live in Finland now are a mix of the original Lapland reindeer-raising Finns from the far north, and Swedes, and of course other nationalities. Finnish language is not related to the other Scandinavian languages, but is in the same family as Japanese. Laplanders have small oriental slanted eyes, (that an be brown, blue or green) olive skin, high cheekbones, and dark hair.

I'd recommend the Jared Diamond book, "Guns, Germs and Steel" to everyone. He also has a new book, and has been doing interviews about it and about Haiti: I heard him on National Public Radio recently.

Pretty fun survey!

barbaranoela · Post by **barbaranoela** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:07 am

POLAND HERE-----

barbara

Delta · Post by **Delta** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:57 pm

my Dad was from Scotland (Kintyre) and my Mom is from Ireland (Cork)

Peggyanns1955 · Post by **Peggyanns1955** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:42 am

No brainer for me. I am Highland Scottish on both sides, Irish on both sides and English on both sides.

peggyanns1955

harma · Post by **harma** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:46 am

I'd recommend the Jared Diamond book, "Guns, Germs and Steel" to everyone. He also has a new book, and has been doing interviews about it and about Haiti: I heard him on National Public Radio recently.

here another fan of his books, I have read guns, germs and steel, great book and also explained some questions I had been wondering about for almost all my life. It sounds all so logical, when you read it. And that's also why it's so clear it make sense.

at the moment I am reading Collapse, also a great book, about the rise and collapse of societies. The great thing about that book is (IMO) that it shows all the things we are doing today polluting the environment, and keep on doing it, even when we know it can cause us major problems in the long term. If you read the stories in collapse, really nothing new, it's what humans have done and have been doing for centuries, the only thing different now is the scale. But why do you think there are no trees on easter island? because men used them to make fire, to make statues, to whatever to make their live easier, until....the last tree was put down and no trees were left. And than or they moved on to another island or they just all died in the end. More of those examples, all BS that humans in the past lived in more balance with their environment and were less selfish, there exactly the same as we are know.

There is one difference, all the misery started, after we settled down and started to become farmers and started to build up real societies.

TooManyHats · Post by **TooManyHats** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:11 am

This doesn't give us the ability to select 2 groups. I am 50% Irish and 50% German.

natythingycolbery · Post by **natythingycolbery** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:18 am

Unless you go back generations (and no one has gone further back than the late 1800's in my family history)

I am 100% British (If you want to divide that up though i'm something like 75% Yorkshire and 25% from Norfolk)

Post by **tex** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:41 am

Arlene,

50% Irish would put you in the highest risk zone for gluten-sensitivity, so I would go with that selection, but it's probably a moot point, because German ancestry carries a relatively high risk of gluten-sensitivity, also.

Tex

TooManyHats · Post by **TooManyHats** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:01 pm

Lucky me! Yes, that was the one I picked.

ant · Post by **ant** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:02 am

Dear Harma

Thanks so much for drawing attention to Prof Diamond's book Collapse. I will go buy the book. I was also inspired by 'Guns, Germs and Steel'.

Best, ant

Kari · Post by **Kari** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:22 pm

100% Norwegian - several generations ............ Kari

Foxnhound8 · Post by **Foxnhound8** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:04 pm

Polish, Italian and Scottish here...since I am 1/2 Polish...I voted Eastern European.

foxnhound

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 2:59 pm

I imagine I'm the first 50% Central American. I'm also 25% Swedish and 25% unknown European (adoption).

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