British born Chinese since that's exactly what I am. That way I don't exactly picking one but rather both.
Escapist! How do you identify yourself?
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Eurasian. (descended from a European and an Asian)
If you want to get into specifics it will take a while, because my fathers side is a big Roman Catholic family who spent several generations getting to New Zealand. My mothers side is easier, Grandmother's family from Peanag, Grandfather's from Singapore. (Or was it the other way around?)
If you want to get into specifics it will take a while, because my fathers side is a big Roman Catholic family who spent several generations getting to New Zealand. My mothers side is easier, Grandmother's family from Peanag, Grandfather's from Singapore. (Or was it the other way around?)
I'm British. Mostly English. To the best of my knowledge, none of the last 1,000 years of my ancestors have been from any further afield than Ireland.
I'm also ridiculously white.
I'm also ridiculously white.
I put down white on forms, but when people ask me what my ethnicity is I tell I'm mostly German/Polish with a bit of Scandinavian.
So in short I'm an attractive male who enjoys his sausage.
So in short I'm an attractive male who enjoys his sausage.
Human, I guess. Nationality-wise I tend to say I'm Scottish despite being technically British (half Scottish, half English, lived in both countries). For all that I'm supposed to have varying nationalities in my blood, I don't see much point in rattling off a whole line of stuff like that.
I'm caucasian.
I rarely explain further because I honestly don't know. Whenever we tried to explore my family tree we could only ever get as far back as my great-great grandparents on my father's side and my great grandparents on my mother's side.
However.
My grandfather had a specific blood type which was apparently Mongolian type A. Now he could only have inherited this from his father, and at the time it was very unlikely that someone with Mongolian blood would 'just happen' to be in Britain.
Added to this was the old family scandal of his name being Black-Reeve. Hyphenations in those days usually meant infidelity, and combined with the unusual blood type...
The joke is that he was really Tsarevich Alexei. Either that or Trotsky. or both.
I rarely explain further because I honestly don't know. Whenever we tried to explore my family tree we could only ever get as far back as my great-great grandparents on my father's side and my great grandparents on my mother's side.
However.
My grandfather had a specific blood type which was apparently Mongolian type A. Now he could only have inherited this from his father, and at the time it was very unlikely that someone with Mongolian blood would 'just happen' to be in Britain.
Added to this was the old family scandal of his name being Black-Reeve. Hyphenations in those days usually meant infidelity, and combined with the unusual blood type...
The joke is that he was really Tsarevich Alexei. Either that or Trotsky. or both.
Anglo-Scottish in blood, but I don't really identify with either culturally. In that regard, I'm a bit of a mess. Above all, I identify most as a witch unfettered by mundane human morals. What does it mean to be "human" anyway, people (talking heads) preach about humanity and whatever but it makes no sense.
I say British, usually, since I'm half English and half Scottish. That's about it, I usually don't specify race (white, in case you were wondering). I like identifying as British, since it means I can sort of sit apart from English/Scottish antagonism. Or indeed, English/Welsh and English/Irish.