See, way too many letters and modifiers, and I have similarly diverse background that begins to read like a strand of DNA when you stretch it out far enough.Dadtodabone wrote:Using the press' formula Mr. Obama would be a Black-Caucasian. Paternal racial characteristics first, Mr. Zimmerman's father is white, so we have a White-Hispanic. I've heard that Mr. Zimmerman's maternal grandfather was of Native American and Black ancestry, so we potentially have a,jimlongley wrote:And doesn't all of this racial classification that the press and others are using make obama a "white black"?
White-Hispanic-Black-Native American.
I am also of mixed ancestry and could identify as a Pole-Czech-Rus-Slovakian(Slavic white guy). While my children wind up as P-C-R-S-Celt-Schwaben. My first granddaughter is P-C-R-S-C-Sc-Cymric-Dane.
Of course there are controversies in some of this mix. My maternal great-great grandmother was the bride of a member of the Kuban Host, is referred to in family history as the "Beauty of the East" and was probably part of the spoils distributed during the campaigns of Caucasus Line Host against the remnants of Ottoman power around the Black Sea. So there is a pretty good chance that I could add Turkic ancestry.
There is also some name confusion during the "melting pot" of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Polish and Lithuanian scripts were used and some of the hand written records(family bibles and Księgi metrykalne) are muddled or nonexistent. So the possibility of Baltai influence is also present.
And how many generations does one's family have to have been here in order to be considered "native American"?