I consider my heritage to be

[Snoggera]

from a particular country.

What country is that?

(mine is german)

[salin]

1. Norwegian

*said with sing-song inflective* ...

[Endangered Specie]

2. Dutch.

Even though Im made up of many (Italian, Britush, a little German, Irish some others maybe... not sure), Dutch is one of the biggest %.

[Snoggera]

7. That's the type of answer I was hoping for, Thanks!

what do we consider as heritage?

[Endangered Specie]

10. Most of us aren't just one.

But we usually have to answer with one, so, either which one is the most % or the one you like the most.

[Snoggera]

15. That is what makes America Great!

We truly are the world.

I love us all (ask the ex-wives).

yep.

[Endangered Specie]

16. Technically, we should answer American

;)

[Cerridwen]

3. Irish

and several others, Danish, English, French, Native American

You know; Heinz57 variety.

[realisticphish]

4. 1/2 German

25% Hungarian
25% French Protestant living in Belgium, known as "Walloons"

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[flamingyouth]

5. Swedish

[underseasurveyor]

6. Scottish

Aye ;-)

[djeseru]

8. Half & half.

Scottish & German.

[Snoggera]

9. I feel your pain

half of you is drinking and having fun, and the other half is smacking your conscience in the face!

It's a rough life!

[djeseru]

21. *giggle*

Yeah, I'm trying to work on a guilt-free weekend here...but there's a bottle of sake in the kitchen...

[Cheswick2.0]

11. German/ English

can get more WASP than that.

[Endangered Specie]

17. WASP?

[JohnKleeb]

25. White Anglo Saxon Protestant, everything I am not mostly

now for me, I really dont have a clue, I am like a pie, though I guess I consider myself Irish Russian heh, even though theres no proof of russian blood in me.

[berry]

12. Norwegian + Swedish

note to Salin--I always found Swedish to be the really sing-song language, but now that I think of it...

on edit--after reading what was wanted, I still have to admit there is nothing else to choose from for me--the result of recent immigration and fairly tight immigrant community. Of course, if one goes back far enough, it's pretty clear we're all out of Africa.

[salin]

27. I was sorta

kidding about the sing-song tones - don't have that quality, nor does my Norwegian mother (nor my cousins)... at least not to my ear. I was refering to the US stereotype of Minnesotan norwegians speaking English with a very exagerated sing-song lilt.

Sadly I don't hear norwegian spoken very often - will have to listen more closely to try to objectively ask myself... "sing song?" :)

[berry]

38. Ah, now I understand.

It's funny, but I always thought the Minnesotan accent was from Swedish (which really IS sing-song. The "ja" is exactly like the 3rd tone in Mandarin Chinese, which is tonal, of course.). I do know that Norwegians take the brunt of the jokes (maybe because of Prairie Home Companion?), but there are lots of "dumb Swede" jokes out there too. Ah well.

I don't hear Norwegian often myself, as my grandparents are dead and I haven't been to Norway in years. My father was born in Sweden and had an accent all his life, but I only noticed it when other people brought it to my attention. And now that I think about it, it wasn't at all like Minnesotan either. (I'm not from there, but I spent my 4 years of college in MN--enough to find the movie "Fargo" a little grating. They didn't get it quite right.) I'm just blathering now, so I'll stop.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

13. I am SO damn American

my mother did years of genealogical work a while back and we don't get out of America until before the early 1700s. Which means we came here before it was a country, just colonies.

When we did trace back across the pond, we are primarily Welsh, with a little French thrown in for good measure (from Nice).

I am married to a man who is half-German, one-quarter South Dakotan and one-quarter New Jerseyite.

How's THAT for a combo deal???

[dolo amber]

14. I am a Scottish/Hungarian Jew

(Insert appropriate money joke here. :P)

[Endangered Specie]

18. Can I BORROW some $?

;)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

19. Man I bet you NEVER spend money!!!

Kidding. But we do have a strong pennypinching streak in our family and we seriously think it is genetic. It skips every other generation. It hit me. But I am trying to overcome it.

[Piperay]

20. Irish

I am actually half Norwegian and the rest is a combination of Irish, English, French and Native American but I just FEEL more Irish than anything else.

[samplegirl]

22. Polish by Injection

but mostly Irish

[Longhorn79]

23. United Statesan

Born in SC
Raised in OH
Live in TX

Same for my folks

[mvd]

24. Mine

English, Scottish, Italian, French, German, and a little Dutch.

[Placebo]

26. Lithuanian, there was a choice, LIVE FREE OR DIE...

my relatives had a choice when the commies were coming: stay and die, or flee to america.

damn dirty commies, if it wasn't for them i would be filthy rich right now! my family was big on manufacturing and owned multiple factories...*le sigh* but i guess it wasn't meant to be.

then there's the polish in me but who the hell cares about the polish :P

and my mexican relatives just came here for the hell of it i have no clue.

[eyesroll]

28. Russian

I'm also part Polish, but I'm mostly Russian.

Eddie Vedder's ex-wife and I are both decendents of the same guy, Arye Labe Teleshansky (sp?) from Motyl (sp?), several generations back.

[UrbScotty]

29. German and Polish, I guess

I'm more German than Polish, but I look Polish and I'm only a fourth-generation American (dating back to my great-grandparents) on that side of the family. OTOH, the members of my dad's side of the family have been here for at least five generations.

[aquaman]

30. I have done the genealogy stuff so mine includes...

English, Irish, Swedish, Scottish and Russian. I am really, really white.

[MaryBear]

34. Me, too, aquaman.

Really really white, with freckles turning to - yikes! - age spots.

Scottish, Irish, German, French. Long time Murikan family, except one branch is semi-long time from 1800's, & overall we've not been here so long as some others.

[curse10]

31. German

and a little bit o' Irish/British

[RebelYell]

32. Romanian, Slovak & Polish n/t

[JohnKleeb]

33. Irish Slavic in general

I dont really appear German at all, so why say it ;).

[brainshrub]

35. Catholic Belgian

Watch out, I make a mean waffle after church.

[Nikia]

36. American

A minimum of 8 generations from every branch. 8 generations within any other country, provided that they did not marry only or mostly within their original ethnice group, would be consider to have that country's ethnicity. I am not saying that people with fewer generations are not as American as I am. I am just saying why it makes sense for me not to identify with a partculiar ethnice group.

[BluePatriot]

37. Polish, mostly...

but we recently found out my maternal grandmother was adopted...so I could be 1/8th anything!