Just for fun ...

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Guess my ethnicity!

I'll tell you that the hair color comes from a bottle these days, but I was blonde until my 20's when it started to turn mousy "dirty blonde".  The brows have always been dark.  It's "my signature" as Mom says ;-)   That is a fairly recent pic of me up there sans makeup.  I'm sporting a bit of a tan as I'm a day or so into a Mexican vacation.

I'm majority of two nationalities.  And there's no prize for guessing correctly, although who knows, if I ever have anything to give away maybe I'll shoot ya a freebie.  

Comments

Anonymous said…
Russian and Irish
June 21, 2011 at 9:34 PM
Mirrorball said…
English and Italian.
June 21, 2011 at 10:04 PM
AL-209 said…
Inuit and kitavan
June 22, 2011 at 2:22 AM
Layla said…
Irish and Norwegian
June 22, 2011 at 4:02 AM
OnePointFive said…
Swedish and British
June 22, 2011 at 6:16 AM
Anonymous said…
Italian and Dutch.
June 22, 2011 at 8:01 AM
Flavia said…
Slav and Italian
June 22, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Hornet0123 said…
English and Martian ;-)
June 22, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Diana said…
German and Polish.
June 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Helen said…
@ AL-209: LOL!
June 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM
CarbSane said…
Mmmmmmm

Our family tradition of casava dumplings fried in seal oil ;-)
June 22, 2011 at 3:06 PM
Thomas said…
Navajo, Italian and German
June 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM
Flavia said…
japanese? and german??
June 23, 2011 at 9:29 AM
CarbSane said…
No fair Thomas, that's 3 ;)

Gonna let this go for another day before the reveal. It's fun from my perspective to see what some of the guesses are. I'm surprised nobody has guessed (incorrectly) what most people who meet me in real life do. Interesting!
June 23, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Tonus said…
Irish/German is my guess.
June 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Dawn said…
Perhaps your real name is an additional ethnic clue for people in RL? (I'm not hinting, BTW, just making an observation.)
June 24, 2011 at 8:48 AM
CarbSane said…
Nope ... it's a married name. I share no ethnicity with my husband. My maiden name would argue against what most guess in RL as well!
June 24, 2011 at 9:58 AM
Layla said…
come on, reveal it already!
June 25, 2011 at 4:55 AM
CarbSane said…
And the winner is .....

Nobody guessed both, but ...

I'm majority German (yay Diana, Thomas and Tonus ... and mention to Flavia on her second guess ;) ) with a speckling (1/8th) Swedish (yay OnePointFive with honorable mention to Layla for the Norwegian guess as the spelling of my true maiden name would indicate that lineage is via Norway somewhere's back).

Perhaps it's the bod that does it in real life, but the most common guess is that I'm Spanish (as in from Spain, not Hispanic as we consider that here in the US) so I was surprised nobody guessed that.

Anywho ... this has been some light hearted fun for me! If anyone wants to clue me in on all the Irish guesses I'm all ears. That surprised me!
June 25, 2011 at 4:39 PM
Layla said…
Because a lot of Americans have Irish blood ;) It's just so common, you can almost not miss.

I am European and I am always amazed Americans are so interested in their genetic backgrounds. I'm half Italian, half Dutch, but no one gives a d*mn haha!
It's probably THE reason I could easily see you had some Germanic going on, but no Mediterranean genes ;)
June 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Mirrorball said…
You look a lot like an Italian friend of mine though, except the nose. BTW I'm 25% Italian, 25% Hungarian, 25% Portuguese and 25% Spanish. You don't look Spanish to me. I look Spanish. :)
June 25, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Tonus said…
The only thing to go on was the photo, so my educated guess was long on "guess" and short on "educated."

And for fun: I was born in the USA, my parents and grandparents were born in Puerto Rico, and my great-grandparents were born in Spain. So I *am* Spanish, but most people guess that I am Italian or Jewish. :)
June 27, 2011 at 9:32 AM
CarbSane said…
Many immigrant communities are live and well preserving their cultural heritage here in the US. My husband's Ukrainian community comes to mind. All those "Little ..." in big cities and all that. Both of my parents speak German but they never seemed to want us to learn - rather they spoke it to each other when they didn't want us kids to understand ;) OTOH, hubby speaks fluent Uke. Perhaps it was b/c after WWII obody wanted to be a German in the US for fear of being associated with the Nazis. But then again, my father in law worked in the defense industry back when the Soviet Union still existed, so it seems rather cool to me their dedication to preserving traditions.
June 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM

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