Your ethnic composition?

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Norwegian, German, Swiss, Welsh, Polish, Russian with undetermined influences of Native American and African American.  In other words, a mutt.

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The ethnic composition of this forum is a lot like the one I have been inviting people over here from.

Feel free to not do that.

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1/4 Italian (Sicilian)
3/4 Eastern European Jewish (Russian, Latvian, Polish), the latter has a German last name so likely ancestry to Germany but can't confirm.

BTW, how are we distinguishing between ethnicity and ancestry?

Good question.

While my ancestors came from Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, France, Wales, England, and Germany.. the vast majority of my ethnicity could be traced to Scotland and Norway.

There is significant Norwegian blood in the Scottish line and significant Scottish blood in the Irish line (the men came from Scotland and married local Irish women).

I guess it just depends on how far back you want to go.

That is a very interesting topic.  For instance, I have more of a connection and identification with Italian ethnicity than any of my ancestry without having a drop of Italian blood in me.  That's what I see as the difference between ancestry and ethnicity.  That's also why I think it's difficult to assign these kinds of labels.  Another example could be most people from the Caribbean.  They may be of an African nation as far as ancestry goes, but be more ethnically French or Spanish.

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50% German
25% Russian
25% Romanian

So did your ancestors convert? I don't mean to sound racist but being Jewish is an ethnic group. Yes there were gentiles who converted to Judaism and that is why there are Jews with blonde hair but being from Germany does not make one German. Not singling out Jews same goes with Turks and Africans who live there.

No it's not, it's a religion.  My ancestors were Jewish, I'm not.  Being Jewish makes one a Jew, not being born in non-existent Jew-land.