[muse.]

Actually I'm not lol. But who else thinks its silly when people list themselves as a bunch of different ethnicities even if the only (insert ethnicity here) blood they have in them is like from their great great great great great great grandfather or something. It's like they're trying too hard to be ~exotic~. It's not a big deal, but it's just kind of funny seeing that on people's myspaces/profiles. What do you guys think?

And now, for the sake of a funner thread, I'm going to totally contradict myself and adddddd:
List all of the different ethnicities you are! Trace back as far as you can ahaha.

Both my parents are Vietnamese. My grandma on my mom's side is Laos (Laotian? IDK), and my grandma on my dad's side is Cambodian.
So as far as I know, I'm 50% Viet, 25% Laos, and 25% Cambodian.

[Irony.]

I'm 100% viet ... but people say I don't look viet haha

[The_Username]

Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, and 15% Spanish

And in my face it looks like i'm all 4, but I always tell folks i'm Filipino, they're going to have to ask if they want to know why I don't look Filipino which people usually do then I tell them the rest of what's in my blood.

But I consider myself culturally Filipino~American because I was raised in that type of environment. I don't know a thing about Chinese, Spanish, or Japanese culture, so I usually answer "Filipino."

[hanulnabi]

My parents are Korean, my grandparents on both sides were Korean, and their mas and pas and their mas and pas were Korean. And it continues ad boredom. Now if I really go back, I've been told, with pride, that our clan-seat founder was a renowned general in our peninsular kingdom. He apparently was Hotstuff of his era but from a painting I've seen, I don't see how he could have tickled any lady's fancy. Perhaps he was naturalized! Origin: Tibet! Mongolia! Siberia? China? Persia? C'mon, give me something so I can squeeze in a little something else.

I'm Korean by ethnicity, American by nationality, and a Zombie by night. As exotic as I can get. *yaaawn*

[RYUUSEi]

Yeah, I kind of agree on the part that people can come off as trying veeeeeery hard to be EXOTIC.

I'm 100% Chinese. On my mother's side, Shanghai and Malaysia. On my father's side, Hong Kong.

[mousse91]

well, i'm 50% Japanese from my father and 50% French from my mother and i was born in England O.o
and i don't look Japanese or French........... XD

[luv_panda]

ahahah lol yeah its cool where people list their heritage from!! Wish I was a bit more mixed...

from what I know...i think I'm 100% Chinese...Mum and Dad are both Chinese and their parents too..

Funny story though..i totally look chinese, like the REALLY REALLY BLACK HAIR (its annoying..can't colour it without bleach) but anways.. the round face etc..and I had a person who is asian don't know where..come up to me and asked if I was mixed...i was like huh....O_O,

[vivientww]

My great grandma's thai, my mum's pure chinese.
So I'm like 80% chinese, 20% thai?

[jaeka]

Lmao that's true.
I'm South American/Irish.

Grandaddy is South American, Grannma is Irish. :)
My mum is mixed obviously.
Dad is like... irish/italian or something... but that's too much detail as said XD

[bb51]

Hahaha, yeah... i totally agree with you.
Umm... Far as i know - Chinese, Russian and Indian.

[Curly]

ah totally agree. >_>;;

for me i'm 75% German and 25% Czech LOL well I always say I'm German though. ^^

[NPB-XK]

Let me copy paste something I've found from a friend of my friend's facebook profile...
"I am 1/8th English, 1/12th Malaysian, 1/16th Singaporian,
1/37th Dutch and 1/53rd Italian (b/c my cousin married an Italian) lol
Let me make this clear, NO, I AM NOT WEST INDIAN!!!"

The dude is Indian and he's serious about those descriptions in his facebook... Saaaaad...
How does he get a few amount of "Italian" just because his cousin is married to an Italian?... Hmmm...
If so, I'm even more Italian than him since I eat a lot of Italian foods, I speak a little bit of Italian and my sis is married to an Italian...

Anyway I'm not gonna calculate like him but as far as I know I'm mixed Lao, Chinese and Japanese... I have Lao pride over all of them.

[bb51]

Let me copy paste something I've found from a friend of my friend's facebook profile...
"I am 1/8th English, 1/12th Malaysian, 1/16th Singaporian,
1/37th Dutch and 1/53rd Italian (b/c my cousin married an Italian) lol
Let me make this clear, NO, I AM NOT WEST INDIAN!!!"

The dude is Indian and he's serious about those descriptions in his facebook... Saaaaad...
How does he get a few amount of "Italian" just because his cousin is married to an Italian?... Hmmm...
If so, I'm even more Italian than him since I eat a lot of Italian foods, I speak a little bit of Italian and my sis is married to an Italian...

Anyway I'm not gonna calculate like him but as far as I know I'm mixed Lao, Chinese and Japanese... I have Lao pride over all of them.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I'd love to know how he came up with those numbers! He somehow became 1/53th Italian because his cousin married one?! LOLLLL What a doofus...

[NPB-XK]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I'd love to know how he came up with those numbers! He somehow became 1/53th Italian because his cousin married one?! LOLLLL What a doofus...

I don't know how he came up with all that... You can only go with numbers like 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64 and so on... It's like as if someone in his family split himself in 1/3 before giving birth...
Or he just doesn't know math anymore after 1/16...? But he's an university football player and at this point, he should know those numbers hahaha!

Maybe he counted his other cousin's marriage... but then the Irish part doesn't get 1/53 HAHA! Random lottery numbers he just picked there...

I'm sure if his mom had a blood transfusion from a korean guy who donated his blood before giving birth to him, he would add "I'm 1/3 korean (because my mom had blood transfusion from a korean guy before giving birth to me) lol".

[oohdi]

Both my parents are Vietnamese. My grandma on my mom's side is Laos (Laotian? IDK), and my grandma on my dad's side is Cambodian.
So as far as I know, I'm 50% Viet, 25% Laos, and 25% Cambodian.

Laos is actually the country and Lao is what we refer to the people. Just like Japan is the country and Japanese are the people.

I agree with your thread. It's kind of ridiculous to add the tiny %. Just say what the majority of you are. I think most people aren't going to be full blooded anyways. Who knows what happened in history?

[haruo]

personally, yeah... i think people try too hard when they do that. one girl i knew from middle school had on her myspace page once...

i'm filipino, white, spanish, chinese, japanese, korean, and black! you know what was funny though? she added a new ethnicity to her list everyday. o_o so it was weird LOL! there was another girl, who listed on her profile that she was filipino, spanish, and chinese... and her sister commented her saying, "oh... i didn't know we were chinese. :B"

but for mee, i trace my origins back to the philippines. however, i am part caucasian thanks to my great grandfather. and on my mother's side of the family, we have roots leading back to spain b/c apparently my great grandmother on that side was the child of a spaniard and filipina. i think it's interesting to look back upon, but i consider myself american. i'm filipino by ethnicity (but i do state that i have white in me, since my last name is a scottish one) and american by nationality ~

[pepprmint]

ahh, i am 100% chinese, loll, my dad is apparently VERY proud of that fact and never fails to remind me.

although some chinese will include which province or village in china theyre from as their identity, which in that case im 50& siuhing, 25% namhoi, and 25% toisan, lolll. a 100% chinese mutt.

[sushie-chan]

I'm 90% cambodian, 5% vietnamese and 2.5� ta�h and 2.5% chinese. XD
But i only talk cambodian :x.

[oㅅo]

Ah... the wonders I know this girl who seriously thinks she is 1% Japanese, 99% white. Haha. My great great great great great great GREAT GREAT ~x100~ grandma was Japanese~ So i am japanesee!!~~ n___n;;<3 1% is hardly anything, girlfriend.

[converse1918]

Well, I do think it's annoying when people say it to sound exotic.
But I am a lot of things myself, like directly from my parents, not tracing back to ancestors.
I am Canadian, Filipino, Scottish, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese D :
It's alot I know : P
And if I trace back, I'm probably a gajillion other things xD