I wish my math was that simple.Kythas wrote:On my father's side, my grandfather was 100% Irish and my grandmother 100% Polish.barstoolguru wrote:Did you have a blood test to figure that out or are you just guessing?Kythas wrote:I never know what to put.
I'm 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Polish, 1/4 Italian, and 1/4 Korean.
Does that make me Asian? But I'm only 1/4 Asian, so am I White?
Why can't I just be American?
On my mother's side, my grandfather was 100% Italian and my grandmother 100% Korean.
That makes my dad 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Polish, and my mother 1/2 Italian and 1/2 Korean.
That makes me 1/4 of each. No guesswork involved. Just simple math.
That must be the Korean part of me.
My maternal grandmother was Scotch, Irish, and English and as yet we haven't established portions. My maternal grandfather is one of the sticking points, we don't know (for sure) which of several wives of my great-grandfather was his mother, and the most likely just became less likely, and we have no idea of the ethnicity of the new lead candidate. The prior was 1/4 white, 1/4 black, and 1/2 Cherokee.
My paternal lineage is easier to establish thanks to my seventh great grand and his wife and most of their children being wiped out by the Abnaqui July 27, 1694. I am descended from the only male survivor. My paternal grandmother was born in Santa Fe in 1879, which would put her lineage in question except for the fact that her father was career US Army and of English stock.
So the math has a lot of variables.