Mavro
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Do or do not. There is no try. -Yoda
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Post by Mavro on Oct 31, 2005 13:24:18 GMT -5
I always find myself interacting with people from different types of nationalities. Living in NYC, it's difficult not to. I thought it might be interesting if the A5OD members posted their ancestral heritage for all to see. ------------------------ To start, both sides of my family come from the small Greek island of Kassos in the Mediterranean Sea. My father was born there but my mother was born here in the States. I guess that makes me 1.5-generation Greek. I've lived in NY all my life but I speak fluent Greek and follow all of the customs and traditions of my relatives overseas.  |
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Post by Turtle-Prophet of Doom on Oct 31, 2005 13:34:50 GMT -5
Scottish and Irish on both sides of my family...celtic muts, LOL
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Post by Trigga Nometry on Oct 31, 2005 15:30:23 GMT -5
I am half Polish (insert Polish joke here) and half Portuguese (insert Portuguese joke here).
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Post by paintersghost on Oct 31, 2005 15:40:36 GMT -5
French and German = Fat and Drunk all others need not apply... ...PG
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Jackson
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Dewaholic
Shut up with that filthy pig latin.
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Post by Jackson on Oct 31, 2005 15:51:37 GMT -5
50% German
25% Slovak
25% Croatian/Slovenian
I have a lot of funny stories about the Croatian side of the family, moonshiners, sheep farmers, etc. The reason I put Croatian/Slovenian is that we really aren't 100% sure were my ancestors came from. It was around that area. But to throw another wrench into it, my great grandfather, who was Croatian, was named Rudolf Zugel. Not very Croatian, more German sounding. So, his ancestors might have moved to Croatia from Germany some time back. Story about him: he came to America wanting to be a cowboy, hitched a ride out west, the driver was pulled over, the car was actually stolen, and he doesn't speak a word of English. Ends up being a cook in prison for a year or two.
A little about what I'm doing to preserve my heritage:
I'm in a tamburitzan group (South Hills Junior Tamburitzans). We play, sing, and dance songs and dances from Eastern European countries including Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia just off the top of my head. We focus primarily on Croatia I play a traditional Croatian instrument called the Bugaria which is sort of like a guitar in the sense that it plays cords but it is usually just for rythm, mot the melody. Every year there is a festival organized by the Croatian Fraternal Union (CFU) for all the junior tamburitzan groups to get together and perform Croatian songs and dances. I've been to Chicago, Milwakee, downtown Pittsburgh, Toronto, Cincinatti, Kansas City, and a few other cities for this festival.
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TenaciousD
Private
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
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Post by TenaciousD on Oct 31, 2005 15:55:59 GMT -5
50% Croatian
25% English
25% Swedish
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Post by Vashthestampede on Oct 31, 2005 16:21:25 GMT -5
50%Irish
25%German
25%Italian
Lol I am of every nationality that hates the english
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Post by 99GenX on Oct 31, 2005 17:11:35 GMT -5
I am part redneck and um.. Oh wait, you said nationality, not race  Scot-Irish Short, pudgy, pale, redheaded... bet you coulda never guessed... |
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Doc
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Great Lakes Ranger
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Post by Doc on Oct 31, 2005 17:16:32 GMT -5
italian here. It's nice, I have a tan all year round..
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Post by paintersghost on Oct 31, 2005 18:04:53 GMT -5
italian here. It's nice, I have a tan all year round.. Thats a tan ? I thought it was mudd from the swamp at Hell Survivors...LOL...PG |
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Doc
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Great Lakes Ranger
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Post by Doc on Oct 31, 2005 18:22:17 GMT -5
Italian here. It's nice, I have a tan all year round.. Thats a tan ? I thought it was mudd from the swamp at Hell Survivors...LOL...PG very funny, PG. I almost died in that swamp. "help, help, I need some assistance.." |
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Post by RandyA on Nov 1, 2005 1:13:12 GMT -5
German, checkoslovakian (not sure from which side), croatian and Hungarian.
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Post by P8ntballPlayer on Nov 1, 2005 15:56:06 GMT -5
Pretty much full blood Italian here! With about 5% of Polish.
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Post by MerrSonn on Nov 1, 2005 18:34:58 GMT -5
As far as I know I'm Norwegian and Lithuanian, 50-50.
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Post by Double Tap on Nov 1, 2005 20:25:45 GMT -5
My grandmother is full blown English. My mom had me when she was 16, let me go for adoption, and my current parents... well, i dunno their heritage.
However, I am American. And proud of it!
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