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Old 01-22-2009, 03:27 PM
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Ethnicity.

What ethnicity are you?




I wanted to get an idea of how diverse the group is on here.....



Me, I am 50% Filipino, and the rest is a mixture of Prussian, Irish, German and some other not significant things.

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Old 01-22-2009, 03:31 PM
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What ethnicity are you?




I wanted to get an idea of how diverse the group is on here.....



Me, I am 50% Filipino, and the rest is a mixture of Prussian, Irish, German and some other not significant things.
Prussian?

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WASP....you gonna make this a poll?
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Yup, this should be a poll. I'd start over.
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Old 01-22-2009, 03:40 PM
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Yup, this should be a poll. I'd start over.
Theres too many to list....



Prussian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
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Old 01-22-2009, 03:48 PM
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Let's see...

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Theres too many to list....



Prussian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
You might be right. I was thinking about race, but ethnicity has way more options.

I'm 100% Czech (and about to become a US citizen).
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Theres too many to list....



Prussian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
I know what Prussia is. I was just wondering why you'd quote it separately from German.

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I'm 100% Czech (and about to become a US citizen).
If you became a citizen of a Commonwealth nation, would you be a Czech mate?
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Old 01-22-2009, 04:06 PM
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I know what Prussia is. I was just wondering why you'd quote it separately from German.

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Because there are German roots in my family that wished to remain separate from the Prussian part of my family.... (Thats what was explained to me)
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Because there are German roots in my family that wished to remain separate from the Prussian part of my family.... (Thats what was explained to me)
I'll bet. "Modern" Germans are happy to pretend Prussia never existed. The irony of that is that absent Prussia, Germany would likely never have unified. And modern history would certainly be very different.

From which German states do your anti-Prussian family members hail?

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German, Hungarian, Native American, Irish. Those are the most significant, the rest is pretty watered down.
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1/4 Polish
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I consider myself more closely connected to Italian side. My grandmother and grandfather came to this country in the early 1900's. My grandfather served in the Italian Army. I still have family in Spilimbergo and outside San Piero Patti in Sicily. I went to visit them in 2000 and can't wait to go back.

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