How much of a "mutt" are you-in terms of your ancestry?

[hunter]

92. My ancestors were mostly hot-tempered religious heretics.

They didn't come to the U.S.A. for the opportunity, they tended to be escaping bad situations in Ireland, Britain, or Northern Europe. They jumped off the boat and hit the ground running for the Wild West.

There's berserker in my genes. That's why I must be a pacifist and avoid the sun. I don't tan, I burn.

One of my favorite nineteenth century ancestors was a Scandinavian mail order bride to Salt Lake City. She didn't like sharing a husband so she ran off with a U.S. government surveyor and they homesteaded in a wild place that's still a few hundred miles from the nearest Wal-Mart. My mom's cowboy cousin raises cattle there.

My wife is Mexican-Irish-Native_American so maybe our kids are "mutts." Thank goodness they inherited her finer intelligence and not so much my berserker brains.

One of my grandfathers didn't approve of our marriage. People in Old White California were not supposed to marry (in his words) "Mexican girls." He did not attend our wedding. But he got past that. Aside from this ugly, he really did have friends who were black, brown, Jewish, and gay... back when this was as Hollywood-Radical as a white person could get and still find professional work in apartheid white America.

My parents and my wife's parents were the groundbreaking generations. My siblings, and my wife's siblings, we could bring any date to "meet the parents" for dinner, no matter their "ethnicity" or sexual orientation.