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? (:
A Revelation. (:
Started by
Mika Casey
, Aug 14 2010 12:56 AM
7 replies to this topic
#1
Posted 14 August 2010 - 12:56 AM
#2
Posted 14 August 2010 - 05:02 AM
What exactly do you mean by Sicilian?
#3
Posted 14 August 2010 - 10:37 PM
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. (:
#4
Posted 15 August 2010 - 07:12 AM
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
#5
Posted 15 August 2010 - 03:27 PM
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.
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.
#6
Posted 15 August 2010 - 03:57 PM
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"
#7
Posted 15 August 2010 - 05:41 PM
My grandparents:
Maternal:
Grandfather: 100% Irish
Grandmother: English, Irish, and Welsh
Paternal:
Grandfather: 100% Swedish
Grandmother: English, Scottish, French, and Danish
Maternal:
Grandfather: 100% Irish
Grandmother: English, Irish, and Welsh
Paternal:
Grandfather: 100% Swedish
Grandmother: English, Scottish, French, and Danish
#8
Posted 16 August 2010 - 08:58 AM
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.
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