What is your national ethnic background?

[Divinus Arma]

Regradless of your current nationality, what are your earliest known roots? Use the flags. (based on Pape's post in the illegal immigrant thread)

Here is me, from greatest proportion to least;

:finland:

:france: :germany:

:ireland:

[Proletariat]

:scotland:
:sweden:
:england:
:portugal:

[discovery1]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/sweden.gif

and either

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/germany.gif

or

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/bohemia.gif

my mom said 'bohemian' which I suppose could be either or.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

:ireland:

:germany:


Not that it matters really. Though I do like saurkraut, my mother makes it like her mother did and so on I suppose.

[Papewaio]

Mine: :wales: :sweden: :england: :northernireland: :scotland: :england: :sweden: :wales:

My Wife's: :taiwan: :taiwan: :taiwan: :china: :taiwan: :taiwan: :taiwan: :china:

Therefore my kid's:

:wales: :taiwan: :sweden: :taiwan: :england: :taiwan: :northernireland: :china: :scotland: :taiwan: :england: :taiwan: :sweden: :taiwan: :wales: :china:

[Justiciar]

:england: (mostly) :wales: :scotland: :france: :norway:

[Redleg]

Oh so many to pick from but the ones that I know that are on the flag list.

:spain: :scotland: :cherokeenation: :england: :ireland: :germany: :czechrepublic: and several that are not on the flag list that is available

Which makes me

:unitedstates:

[Dâriûsh]

:iran:




But who knows? Perhaps there is a bit of:

:saudiarabia: :iraq: :pakistan: :afghanistan: :mongolia:

In my blood. :book:

[Samurai Waki]

My ethnic Background: :wales: :germany: :scotland: :ireland:

Girlfriends Background: :ireland: :germany: :iran:

[Fragony]

http://www.childrenuk.co.uk/chaug/graphics/dutch-flag.jpg

[Tribesman]

mine :ireland: :wales: :england: :unitedstates: :spain:


wife :isleofman: :wales: :england: :india: :scotland: :germany: :turkey:

[Bulawayo]

my background: :sweden: :norway: http://www.fjallen.nu/sapmi/images/small_flag.gif

my wifes: :panama:

[Ja'chyra]

:scotland: vast majority :ireland: :england:

[Kagemusha]

:finland:

[The_Doctor]

Mainly :england: with some :germany: and a bit of :scotland: .

There might be a bit of :northernireland: or :ireland: .

[Quid]

To a very large part :switzerland: with a little bit of :italy: and a very tiny bit of :germany:.

Quid

[InsaneApache]

:gibraltar: Great-grandmother :scotland: great-grandad :england: Grandad :england: Grandma :england: Grandad :england: grandma :england: Mum :england: Dad

Then 1 of my Grandkids has 1/4 :ireland: 2 more are 1/4 :scotland: :2thumbsup:

[Scurvy]

:england: :england:

:england: :marshallislands:

:england: :wales:

[Kralizec]

:netherlands: and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Frisian_flag.jpeg/225px-Frisian_flag.jpeg

Don't shoot me ~D

That accounts for 3 generations back, further on then that I have no idea and don't care much.

[Kanamori]

By far mostly: :germany:

With a touch of: :switzerland: and :france:

Last names would be fun too I guess: Köberle

[Banquo's Ghost]

This is not too easy to answer: I'm guessing from most people's answers that they are counting where an ancestor is born, rather than real ethnicity. On that basis then, given that my direct line goes back over seven hundred years, here's a potted history, going back in time, male first column: ~:)

:ireland: :russia: (Me, my wife)
:ireland: :unitedkingdom: (Irish mother born in Liverpool, capital of Ireland ~D)
:ireland: :ireland:
:ireland: :ireland:
:unitedstates: :ireland: (Born in the States, considered Irish)
:ireland: :france:
:ireland: :france:
:ireland: :ireland:
:ireland: :france:
:france: :france: (Born in France, but considered Irish)
:france: :france: "
:france: :ireland: "

... Before 1758, when we abandoned Ireland for safety in France, mainly :ireland: with the odd useful marriage to :france: and one :scotland: around 1380.

[Keba]

Mother's side -
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/austria.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/hungary.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/croatia.gif

Father's side -
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/italy.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/slovenia.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/czechrepublic.gif

The question reflecting all of this is: 'How the hell did all those people end up in the same place?'

Also, my national feeling is not particularly strong, with so many natonalities around in my family tree.

[English assassin]

:england:

The clue was in the name...

[Louis VI the Fat]

Within the last few generations: :france: :netherlands: :belgium: (both Flanders and Wallonia)

My mother's family can be traced back to 16th century Westphalia, Germany :germany:
My father's surname apparently is ultimately derived from Norway :norway:

[Sjakihata]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/denmark.gif

+

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/germany.gif

[Viking]

Mostly :norway:, and a little bit of :denmark:

[doc_bean]

:belgium:

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

mostly:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:

and a chunk of
:cornish:

and a little
:ireland:

and a bit
:england:

[Dutch_guy]

Half this ::netherlands:

half :unitedstates:

And a little bit of :hungary:

which makes me : :netherlands: :unitedstates: :hungary:

:balloon2:

[Ironside]

:sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden:

I've heard about :finland: blood on my mothers side and both my parents surnames comes from :germany: though.

[Kralizec]

Half this ::netherlands:

half :unitedstates:

And a little bit of :hungary:

which makes me : :netherlands: :unitedstates: :hungary:

:balloon2:

I guess that means you're a very large person ~;)

[King Henry V]

:germany: + :england: = :germany::germany:

[Dutch_guy]

I guess that means you're a very large person ~;)

you have no idea !:2thumbsup:

:balloon2:

[Brutus]

http://www.drie-provinciencompetitie.nl/informatie/algemeen/plaatjes/vlag_noordbrabant.gif

[Kraxis]

Me: :denmark: :sweden: 50/50 and further out I have :germany: :italy: and I am about 1/16 :israel: (as in Jewish, too far back for the state to even have existed).

GF: :mauritius: :denmark:

[EDIT] Why is the Danish flag smaller than most?

[Duke Malcolm]

My mother's side is entirely :ireland: all the way back to the start of time.

My father's side is mostly :scotland: with a little :england: somewhere along the way.

Thus, I am :ireland: :unitedkingdom: in equal amounts.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Dad: :england: and a little bit of :wales:

Mum: :england: and :scotland:

but I consider myself to be :isleofman: :2thumbsup:

[SwordsMaster]

Well,well. There are mine:

:ukraine: me, granddad
:spain: granddad
:russia: dad, grandmam,
:germany: great granddad, great grandmum
:kazakhstan: mum
:poland: grandmum

[UglyandHasty]

on both side mostly https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/france.gif but a bit of native blood from the gran gran mother of my mother side.

[t1master]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/unitedstates.gif

both my parents were born here, i was born here, so im usa...

there parents were more atuned to the ethnic traditions and prejudices of the day, but for all practical purposes i'm 100 ummerikan...

[drone]

Father's side: :scotland: :england: :ireland: , with a sprinkle of :france: :russia: and others

Mother's side: :germany: :england: :scotland:

Which makes me :unitedstates:

[makkyo]

more https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/france.gif than I'm willing to admit, plus some https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/ireland.gif and https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/germany.gif somewhere down the line. Do I have any national pride towards these places? Nope. Because I'm still 100% https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/unitedstates.gif

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

My family's pretty much all Welsh and English. Mostly Welsh.

[LeftEyeNine]

I'm told that both of my parents' families come from yörüks -the traditional nomadic tribal Turks, that is. I'm proud to be a local of where Ataturk 's paternal lineage used to live. Nobody knows if there are very slight mix-ups but I'm an annoying : :turkey:

BTW, it's interesting to hear that Tribesman 's wife has some Turkish heritage and that in terms of Middle Asian values, SwordsMaster is a far-relative as well. We know Kazaks as a Turkish race.

Anyway, cheers for all from around the world. :medievalcheers:

[Dîn-Heru]

:norway:

[Vladimir]

Damn, I was hoping they'd have a Soviet flag. :shame:

[Lemur]

Mostly https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/wales.gif (in fact my last name is pure https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/wales.gif)

Some https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/england.gif

With a smattering of https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/scotland.gif and https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/ireland.gif

[Scurvy]

jones? :idea2:

i always get confused watching the welsh rugby team, too many "jones's" :D

[Kaiser of Arabia]

:italy: (3/8ths)

Then

:germany: (2/8ths)

Then

:austria: :poland: (1/8th each)

And lastly

:england: :ireland: (1/16th each)


Go Kaiser!

Oh and lets not forget


Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up

[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man

[chorus]

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"

[chorus]

I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00212/born-in-the-usa_212466g.jpg

[doc_bean]

You do know about the sarcastic undertone in 'Born in the USA', don't you ?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

You do know about the sarcastic undertone in 'Born in the USA', don't you ?
Yeah,

BUT!

It's title is Born in the USA (as I was) and it's a great song. So therefore, I can use it in this case. As long as you don't read into the song and attribute it to the meaning of my post :2thumbsup:

Oh, and last names. I have one of the most popular last names in Italy: Piazza.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I only count 7/8ths, Capo. Now you're not hiding 1/8th of your heritage out of shame for us, are you? ~:)

Let's see, which could that last 1/8th be?
:canada: ? :mexico: ? :syria: ? :france: ?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

3/8ths Italian, 2/8ths German, 1/8th Austrian, 1/8th Polish, 1/16th Irish, 1/16th English.

3+2+1+1+.5+.5= 8

[Kraxis]

Oh, and last names. I have one of the most popular last names in Italy: Piazza.
Cool to be named Kaiser Piazza!:2thumbsup:

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Cool to be named Kaiser Piazza!:2thumbsup:
If only my first name was something as cool as Kaiser. ~:)

[SwordsMaster]

BTW, it's interesting to hear that Tribesman 's wife has some Turkish heritage and that in terms of Middle Asian values, SwordsMaster is a far-relative as well. We know Kazaks as a Turkish race.



Actually, my granddad's sister married a Tatar from Crimea. Small world

[LeftEyeNine]

There are so many Tatars in Turkey, most of them from Crimea. Yes, that's a small world.

[Kraxis]

If only my first name was something as cool as Kaiser. ~:)
What?!?!? You have lied to us using that nick? I'm shocked!~:eek: :shame:

[Kanamori]

I love the Frenchies.~:grouphug:

[Xiahou]

:germany:

:ireland:

:italy:

In that order.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

What?!?!? You have lied to us using that nick? I'm shocked!~:eek: :shame:
You rather I use Scott?

[Kralizec]

:germany:

:ireland:

:italy:

In that order.

Deutschland uber alles?

[Marcellus]

:wales: :wales: :wales: :england: :england: :england: :england: :england:

Which all add up to make :unitedkingdom:

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Deutschland uber alles?
No, Deutschland über alles ~D

Quid pro quo.

[Soulforged]

Hard to know, my grandfather never knew his father. But for what I heard, I'm descendent of italians that came here over the many migrations, I don't even know if my surname is the real one of one of the many created to non-spanish speaker inmigrants that received a random one upon arriving. I'm also brazilian because of my mother and uruguayan from the side of my grandmother.
So it will be like this::italy: :brazil: :uruguay:

[Crazed Rabbit]

:ireland:

With a dash of German and Dutch thrown in.

Crazed Rabbit

[Beirut]

:unitedstates: + :unitedstates:

+

:unitedkingdom: + :norway:

led to

:unitedstates: (ma)+ :unitedkingdom: (pa)

and resulted in

:canada:

[Tribesman]

BTW, it's interesting to hear that Tribesman 's wife has some Turkish heritage
Just a little something they picked up from the Sultan , I suppose you could have called her a perk of the job .

[Strike For The South]

:italy: :italy: :italy: :italy: :england: :england: :england: :england: (no welsh...My uncle needs a geogphary globe)

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I'll use calculus to illustrate my heritage:

https://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5220/ethnicity3fg.jpg

However, there is a bit else that would fall under "other."

[Kraxis]

You rather I use Scott?
Awww... kill the joke will you...

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Awww... kill the joke will you...
*holds smoking gun*

[Papewaio]

I'll use calculus to illustrate my heritage:

https://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5220/ethnicity3fg.jpg

However, there is a bit else that would fall under "other."

Shouldn't it be a derivative rather then an intergral?

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, English, Bohemian.

In that order, I think. But I may be more Irish than Scottish, or at least that is what my mom told me a little while ago...

I don't care I consider myself Irish.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Pape - I wasn't sure which would be more correct. I'm too tired to try to figure out what made me use an integral, other than that I like integrals more. :help:

[Atilius]

3/8 :germany:
1/4 :finland:
1/8 :netherlands:
1/8 :sweden:
1/8 :scotland:

I'm an alumnus of a small college founded by Norwegian immigrants and toured Norge with the college orchestra, so I also consider myself slightly :norway:.

[Incongruous]

Well I'm am not entirley sure on my Hungarian side.

My Great Grandfather was killed by the Gestapo, his son my Grandfather entered the german ran Hungarian secret police until the Russians took over.
He then fought for a free democratic Hungarian parliment. This is when he met my Grandmother, three months after they were engaged she was captured by the Communist secret police and tortured for three days (her father had been anti-communist before he was executed, she had also been tortured by the Commies as a thirteen year old girl). After this my Grandfather decided to flee Hungary for Britain with a few friends, most of them were gunned down a border guardpost (luckily my grandparents escaped). After this I believe the Comies burnt loads of family records and such. Thus I have no Idea about our complete ancestry but Szabo is a Magyar name.

On my fathers side I am all Saxon

so I guess

:england:+ :hungary: =:unitedkingdom: :2thumbsup:

[Avicenna]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/china.gif

[Paul Peru]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/norway.gif
I know of no fresh foreign meat in my family whatsoever.
(May adopt some later)

[KukriKhan]

Typical US mongrel here. Everything from indigenous Ohio Valley eastward thru GB and western Europe to about modern-day Ukraine. The Kukri family has yet to conquer/assimilate asia, africa, or the middle-east... but I have high hopes in my 2 grandsons.

The current family "look" seems to be a blend of stereotypical Irish (ruddy cheeked, dark-haired, light-eyed) and French (dark-browed, barrel-chested, full-lipped). Hey... I said they were just stereotypes.

[Slyspy]

:england: almost entirely, but with a hint of :malta:

My surname has its roots in :norway:

[Byzantine Prince]

100% Byzantine.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

BTW, it's interesting to hear that Tribesman 's wife has some Turkish heritage
Just a little something they picked up from the Sultan

sounds like Boris Johnson, please tell me you're his brother in law.

[caravel]

1/2 :ireland:
1/4 :england:
1/8 :italy:
1/8 :spain: and Other

[yesdachi]

I’m a total mutt. I look like a stereotypical Irish or Scottish guy, which I have some of each but I am also Spanish (not Mexican) Austrian (or maybe German but my grandpa won’t ever tell) plus a few other odds and ends that I cant confirm and the largest pure portion (1/4) is Native American, which I don’t look like at all, go figure.

[Bar Kochba]

:israel:

[scotchedpommes]

Paternal:

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/ssneoperestroika/6fe9adc2.png
[Union of South Africa. Some roots
possibly in Scotland. :scotland: Emigrated
back there, before South Africa
became a Republic.]

More roots in Germany. :germany:



Maternal:

:england:

Roots in Ireland on paternal side. :ireland:

[Going further back on one side of the maternal,
the roots are mainly Scandinavian, with some
roots in Latvia, :latvia: I think.]

[ShadesWolf]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/smilies/flags/england.gif

Quite simple

Mother, Father, Grand parents all

[master of the puppets]

:unitedkingdom: a knights honor
:italy: a romans pride
:ireland: a celts fury
:poland: a husaria's force

[DemonArchangel]

Mom: :china:
Dad: :china:
Which somehow makes me: :unitedstates:

Although there are some people I know who have VERY strange ancestries.

Like: :china::israel:

Or maybe: :afghanistan::egyptflag:

Or Maybe: :southkorea::unitedkingdom::ireland:

[Ice]

:unitedstates: :balloon2:

:italy: :wales: :unitedkingdom: :germany:

[Pindar]

Me: Father's side: :norway: :germany: Mother's side: :england: :scotland:

My Lovely Bride: Father's side :japan: Mother's side: :japan:

[Don Corleone]

Me: :unitedstates:


Paternal ancestors: :italy: :germany:

Maternal ancestors: :ireland:

Wife: :unitedstates:

Wife's family: https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/jolly-roger.gif

No kidding. Her family is really into geneology. They can trace their ancestry all the way back to the Carolina shoreline in the late 1600's, then nothing... John Edwards, Jack Smith and the rest of the ancestors just appear out of nowhere.... Bluebeard's retired crew perhaps? :skull:

[Reenk Roink]

Errm...Where the hell is the Bartixian flag?! :furious3:

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Mostly:

:germany: (1000+ years on both sides, direct ancestry)

With possibly some:

:kyrgyzstan:
:ireland:
:england:
:russia:


Hey, you never know.


EDIT: Also like to add that I am a direct ancestor of this guy:

http://www.findcity.de/16766a/hohenbruch.htm

Sorry, in German. Third and fourth paragraphs. Put it into a translator here:

http://freetranslation.paralink.com/

If you must.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

:india:

Half this and...

...half these

:finland: :unitedkingdom: :italy: :germany: :netherlands: :unitedstates: :france: :ireland: :wales:

[Strike For The South]

:india:

Half this and...

...half these

:finland: :unitedkingdom: :italy: :germany: :netherlands: :unitedstates: :france: :ireland: :wales:

Agh. so thats the fourmla for "ugly"

[Cha]

:ethiopia:
eastern Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago
.
.
.

:russia:
eastern Siberia tens of thousands of years ago
.
.
.

:china:
Manchuria, China thousands of years ago
.
.
.

:southkorea:
my great grandparents

:southkorea:
my grandparents

:southkorea:
my parents

:unitedstates:
me



(Just wanted to add as many flags as possible).

[Samurai Waki]

In the evolutionary sense technically my origins start somewhere around here: :southafrica:

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Agh. so thats the fourmla for "ugly"

That's not what my girlfriend says...:idea2:

EDIT: Oh and I've seen your picture, so let's not go to that subject...:laugh4:

[AntiochusIII]

Imperial, otherwise known as Cyrodiilic.

I'm not gonna bother to edit the graphics out to get the symbol.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I still think, I have the wierdest mix :2thumbsup:

:laugh4:

[Kaiser of Arabia]

That's not what my girlfriend says...:idea2:

EDIT: Oh and I've seen your picture, so let's not go to that subject...:laugh4:
You both lose and Kaiser Capo I von Palermo wins! :dizzy2:

[Ianofsmeg16]

No other Manxmen here?

GAH! it sucks to be unique

[Viking]

"Always remember that you`re unique. Just like everyone else."

:thinking:

[Alexanderofmacedon]

"Always remember that you`re unique. Just like everyone else."

:thinking:
It's true if you think about it...

[The_Doctor]

Why is this in the backroom?

[BelgradeWar]

Serbian from both branches, no other nationalities in the family tree as long as the data spans.

[BigTex]

https://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e331/Thammure/38a.jpg

The only nationality I recognize as my own, family has lived here for generations. Any national link to any other country is to old to be relavent. I am a United States of American citizen, stating I am some how related to britains would be a lie. God bless Texas and long live the Great United States of America.

[BigTex]

Imperial, otherwise known as Cyrodiilic.

I'm not gonna bother to edit the graphics out to get the symbol.

Massively off topic, but Bretons pwn Imperials hands down. Oblivion is amazing, greatest game i've played in a long time.

[ajaxfetish]

:wales:
:england:
:denmark:

Born in :germany:

But basically :unitedstates:

Ajax

[Sigurd]

Mothers's side: :norway: :norway:, Father's side: :norway: :norway:

Grandfather's parents on my father's side: :sweden: :norway:.
On my mother's side there is a a drop of noble blue from :scotland: (1600's)

The rest is :norway: as far as it is possible to trace them (1100's). The Swedish and Scottish trail is a dead-end.