What Nationality are you? - Page 3

And he was a prisoner. It's OK Matt, just accept it.

Little Jan? Boy is that you?

My last name is Wesley, you pretty much can't get more English then that! As for my mother, her last name was Smith...No way in hell can I trace that family background

Well, I mean... you could. But we'd have to bring you all your meals, and explain to your boss why you hadn't been to work in a year.

So, Cuban?

No, you fool that makes him Thai.

100% Owlbear on my mother's side.

Rep Rep Rep!

100% Polish..its seems that Grandpa may have been born in Austria ..but given that Poland was the first stop on any Wold Conquest Tour. When all the etch a sketch rebordering was done, in the end he was a Pole.

May I add, that some of those Polish jokes are based on fact ..and yes.. some family members

My dad's side is Austrian-American and my mom's side is German-American.

Purebred hungarian, without the attitude. I guess I can say that I'm a quarter jewish due to my grandfather on my mom's side though. My last name (Kovacs), the most common surname ever, is basically Smith in hungarian.

Funny you mention Hungarian, Kovacs. I knew a guy over here in LA whose last name is Andrassy. I hear that's got some serious connections over there.

Irish/Mexican here.

A friend of mine once tried to create a drink based on my background. She called it The Irish Sombrero - it was basically an Irish carbomb, but with tequila instead of Jameson/Baileys. I don't recommend it...

I'm English, with a little Irish, on my father's side. Mother's side is English and German.

Count Andrassy was a popular statesman who had a major hand in industrializing and modernising Budapest in the 19th century, but he wasn't the only one with the name. Fact is, there are a bunch of people who carry the names of aristocrats without having any family connection to the people who made these names famous. Mihály Munkácsy is maybe Hungary's most well known painter; last year when my parents were asking around for prices to paint the house, they got an offer from someone whose name was the same, but that didn't mean he had anything to do with the painter. Furthermore, I had a classmate who was actually the descendant of one of the biggest literary minds Hungary had in the former century, and he was living in a 2 bedroom apartment with his 5 member family.

Having the name of a famous historical person might raise an eyebrow or two, but it doesn't open doors to a VIP section of society. (I'm not trying to be a prick, just saying that the only people that have any connections based on their names are members of the hungarian political elite and maybe maffia godfathers, and ironically enough, they mostly carry very common surnames.)

I didn't expect special treatment I just thought it was something worth noting.

I also heard that the Czechs and Hungarians don't look too well at each other. Any truth to that?

Swiss-German and 1/16 Cherokee. After 1/8, it means nothing, but I still say it to look cool.

I had an ancestor who was a general in the Civil War(wrong side), and a Duke in Switzerland named Leohnard Zolikofer, my namesake.

Oh, and I have a castle. Yup.

Not many Asians on CHUD. I'm 100% Korean as far as I know. I'm sure it depends on how far back you take it. It's just easier to say I'm Korean, though I've been mistaken for being a Chinese Mainlander.

Man, Asians get mistaken for other Asians ALL the time. Everybody always goes to Chinese if you look remotely Asian. I hate it.

And what's with people asking "Where are you from?" Everytime someone asks me that, I always say either "Uh...America" or I say the state I was born in. You know, as if because I'm not white I was never born here or something. One girl asked what nationality I was and I told her "I'm Parapalegic".

She replies "Ohhh where's that from?"
"Parapalegia"
"I've never heard of it"
"Yeah, we have alot of wheelchairs where I'm from"

This was actually a Chinese person who spoke to me in Chinese. I can assimilate myself within them! Perhaps I can find someway to profit off this...

It was actually when I told another Chinese friend about this that they told me I looked mainland Chinese.

I still don't know what that means. What characteristics make me look specifically mainland?

"just"


Portugal invented Brazil, I'll have you know. Thank us later for Adriana Lima.
Or don't, because we also invented slavery 2.0

I'm Swedish, but my grandmother on my father's side was half German (German father, Swedish mother). She and her sisters came here after her father was imprisoned by the Nazis in the '30s for being a union rep (=commie), I think.

I have some English heritage on my mother's side but I don't really know the specifics of that. It's pretty far back, though.

I don't know, man. I just know it's some difference between skin color and eye slant. But even that's unreliable. Japanese usually have no tan. Koreans have a slight tan that may be darker, Chinese go all over the place..I can't remember, Thailand/Laos/Nam all have a darker tan. Though for some reason if you're Thai/Laos or whatever, you get mistaken for Phillipino as often as Chinese.

German.
My mother's family came from eastern prussia, what's now basically Poland, they fled during the last days of WWII. Funny story: My grandmother almost boarded the "Wilhelm Gustloff" when they fled, glad she took the last ship after that one.
My father's family came from the town where Martin Luther became famous and they had to flee too (during the 50s in the GDR).
Funny story too: My father's family had to flee, cause the STASI wanted my grandfather arrested for tweaking radios so they could tune into western stations, he had done the same thing during the Nazi-era with BBC. Rebellous little man.

None of the bordering post-socialist countries like us very much, except Poland, with whom we actually have a signed BFF contract. It has to do with us looking down on them, because parts of old Czechoslovakia, Croatia, and Romania were part of 'Large-Hungary' that got broken up in Trianon after the first WW. Hungary basically became one-third of it's former size, and about 2 million hungarians had to stay in the countries mentioned and thought they wouldn't have to eventually adapt to the situation and instead opted to bitch and moan about it. That's still continuing, with 'hungarians outside of the border' still being an important point in politics, almost a hundred years after the fact. So, being a hungarian that sees the potential my country has, but being let down time and time again by a narrow-sighted population and corrupt politicians from all ends, in my opinion these states have it more or less right.

Aside from the above rant, I've actually only encountered semi-hostile behaviour in Slovakia, and that was just some guy on the highway who clearly had an issue with hungarian drivers. But sometimes, there are some news snippets of people being assaulted or harrassed in said countries because of their nationality or the fact that they were speaking hungarian.

-Sorry for the extensive answer, I guess a simple 'Yeah, sometimes' would have answered your question.

No, that was very good actually. It was very informative.