180 replies to this topic

[adrianna]

Well, since Daisy asked. The chamorus are a group of people who belong to an ancient culture that has been around for nearly 4000 years. Not the oldest but certainly not the youngest. My ancestors were, considered by archeologist, one, if not the best, of the greatest seafares of the ancient world. My people originated from southeast asia. Modern Chamoru is actually a mix of ancient chamoru, spanish, tagalog(filipino), american english, japanese, with little influence of other asian languages, chinese, austronesian, and hawaiian. Ancient chamoru society was mostly "maternal avuncuclan", which it sorta is still today. maternal avuncuclan in other words mean that the women are in charge. Oh man, that means Daisy makes all the decisions now. Another note is that we had been occupied by several foreign countries throughout the centuary. There, happy now. Thats the basics of makes the chamorus THE CHAMORUS. If you would like to know more here's a nice info site for you. http://www.answers.com/topic/chamorros

Wow, I've never heard of that before. So it's the women in charge, huh? interesting . . . .

So uhm, well I'm of Chinese-Burma (also known as Myanmar) descent, but I was born in America, so I clicked American.

[MonkeysTotallyRock]

that's... incredible!
man i'd love to be a chamorus!!!
i'd be like totally kick-@$$!!! XD that's right! i'm a seafarer!
take that! and that! that's so cool.

[Pepilia]

100% Colombian...(with european blood thanks to Spain) so I guess south america, but I live in the U.S.

[FullmetalNinja25]

I'm 75% German and 25% Irish.

[Lid]

I live in the states, but I am like 95% German.

[MBKon]

33,3,1% Croatian, 33,3,31% Brazilian and 33,3,1% Italian, and proud of it!

But I'm a Croat by birth, so... yar.

[GoNeKr@zY]

Like i stated in the other thread im 100% Indian! Though considering the fact i'm from Goa i love football (soccer) over cricket any day
(its like a sin for an Indian to not like cricket much.... But Goans have always loved football (soccer) more than other sports )

Wow.... We Asians are definately dominating this poll

[MBKon]

Like i stated in the other thread im 100% Indian! Though considering the fact i'm from Goa i love football (soccer) over cricket any day
(its like a sin for an Indian to not like cricket much.... But Goans have always loved football (soccer) more than other sports )

Wow.... We Asians are definately dominating this poll

You are my hero!

[Tobi_Uchiha]

1/2 Spaniard, 1/4 Italian...and the rest mexican.

[Snowfall]

Indian Malayalee, from India, not the Native American thing... -__-

[Lightside]

Im a pure bred mutt!

[narutooversasuke]

I'm african american white, indian

[SakuNaruLover]

I am pure dutch

[ForgottenBushido]

You know technically, american isnt really a nationality...since we're all from England or some other place so...I put European.

Spanish, German, English and Irish.

[Choji]

My roots hail mostly from Ireland, but fragments of my family hail from Scotland, England, and Poland.
One of my great great aunts had a blood relation with the Royalty in England, which is kinda cool.

[Toa]

Asian here! I'm from the Philippines! TCHYEA! XDDD

[Certifiably Insane for NaruSaku]

I live in america.

I'm 50% hungarian, 25% jewish, and the rest of me is a mix of several european cultures.

[Jwolf0]

Did this thread get merged? Thought I'd voted in here once before....

Eh well, Filipino na ako. ("I'm Filipino." There's my obligatory Tagalog; since I don't remember too much else I guess that'll do. That's what spending most of your life in the States will do to you.)

And of course I get mistaken for Chinese, Korean, Laotian, Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodian, and/or Puerto Rican (?!).

[ciardha]

American. My ancestry is 3/4 Scottish on both sides of my family (not unusual for my state- Kentucky. We have the largest percentage of people with Scottish ancestry of all US states) With all that Scottish it's no surprise that I have multiple lines of descent from the Scottish royal families (Alpin, Bruce, Stewart with a lot of Douglas in there too, I have both Campbells and McDonald in there too) I also have some Native American ancestry, one I know for sure on my mom's side. There's another on that side I'm trying to track down, and one on my dad's father's side that's been even harder to track down.

I looked "Ameriasian" as a child, so much so that in fourth grade some kids called me "little Jap girl" But I was already sort of quietly facinated by Asian cultures so what was intended as an insult felt like a compliment to me. Even now, with my decidely Scottish "Moredock nose", when I wear my hair in two braids I have people come up to me and ask if I am Native American. I'll answer truthfully- "partly". I'm trying to get in touch with that part of my ancestry spiritually now too. (they would have been all tribes of Virgina, probably extinct a long time ago, as both on my mom's side were in the 1600's, and likely the same for the one on my dad's side, as most the intermarrying amongst colonists from Great Britian and native tribes happened in the 1600's. Most of those small tribes in Virginia were wiped out by the colonists either by disease (smallpox especially) or warfare long before the American Revolution.

[Kalluri Vaanil]

Well, since Daisy asked. The chamorus are a group of people who belong to an ancient culture that has been around for nearly 4000 years. Not the oldest but certainly not the youngest. My ancestors were, considered by archeologist, one, if not the best, of the greatest seafares of the ancient world. My people originated from southeast asia. Modern Chamoru is actually a mix of ancient chamoru, spanish, tagalog(filipino), american english, japanese, with little influence of other asian languages, chinese, austronesian, and hawaiian. Ancient chamoru society was mostly "maternal avuncuclan", which it sorta is still today. maternal avuncuclan in other words mean that the women are in charge. Oh man, that means Daisy makes all the decisions now. Another note is that we had been occupied by several foreign countries throughout the centuary. There, happy now. Thats the basics of makes the chamorus THE CHAMORUS. If you would like to know more here's a nice info site for you. http://www.answers.com/topic/chamorros

That's really interesting. How did you find out about that part of your ancestry?

American isn't a race, it's a nationality. *stating the obvious* However, I just think that when people say they're American and nothing else, that they're forgetting that the only true Americans were Native Americans. White Americans would be descendants of Northern Europeans, like German, Polish, Irish, ect. It's a given that you're going to have German ancestry or something of the sort. *just wanted to say*

Me? I'm Greek/American... (German and who knows what the hell else from my dad's side, lots of Greek from my mother's side). Yeah, and I do speak Greek too. I speak Italian mostly though as a second language, though I'm not Italian. I just lived there for most of my life. And I understand quite a bit of Spanish since it being a Latin-based language, is very similar to Italian.

I'd like to learn Japanese though. And if my school offers it next year as a course (which it may) I'd kill to learn Mandarin (Chinese).