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[Mika Casey]

I just did some calculations, and I came to a realization.
If I have kids with my boyfriend, they'll be

37.5% Chinese, 37.5% unknown white, 12.5% Italian, and 12.5% Sicilian. (:

What's the craziest gene combinations you've heard of? (:

[~Nadezhda]

What exactly do you mean by Sicilian?

[Mika Casey]

As in from Sicily, the island just of Italy's boot. Some Sicilians are offended to be called Italian, so I just refer to is as a different ethnicity. (:

[~Nadezhda]

Well, I've never heard of any people from Sicily [I know some] who consider themselves of a different ethnicity. If anything, they, as all the people from southern Italy [me included], fight hard to be rightfully identified as Italians

[JocelynM]

Well, I don't know the exact percentages, but here are the ethnicities that makes up the mutt of me:

Mom's side:
Great grandmother1: Dutch
Great grandfather1: Half English and Half Irish
Great grandmother2: Welsh and Scandinavian
Great grandfather2: Scottish

Dad's side:
Great grandmother: Swedish and Scottish
Grandfather: German

Other ethnicities on this side: Danish and Scandinavian....


And, Nadia, au contraire . My husband is Sicilian....and don't ever call him Italian. Never call a Sicilian a Southern Italian, no way, no how. I've been to both places and they are vastly different people even if they don't seem so to foreigners at first.

[~Nadezhda]

Oh, well. Maybe that's mostly with Sicilian people who live abroad? I don't know, I live in Southern Italy, and I know many Sicilians, but I've never seen this kind of "reaction"

[ReadeAlexandra]

My grandparents:

Maternal:
Grandfather: 100% Irish
Grandmother: English, Irish, and Welsh

Paternal:
Grandfather: 100% Swedish
Grandmother: English, Scottish, French, and Danish

[Katie-Nana]

Oh, well. Maybe that's mostly with Sicilian people who live abroad? I don't know, I live in Southern Italy, and I know many Sicilians, but I've never seen this kind of "reaction"

That is probably true...Those that emigrated long ago would have considered themselves "Sicilian" because of an antimosity between Italy and Sicily after Sicily became a part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1860. The Sicilian who were promised a republic and equality got neither which led to mass emigration and are more than likely the ancestors of many foreign "Sicilians" today.

Where as the people of today who still live in Sicily and Southern Italy are more unified and would be proud to be called Italians.