Ethnicity: what do you like to be called?

[Frodo]

I told someone today that my ethnicity was Romano-Britannic-American. They acted as if I were something exotic

You mean you're part-Roman?  How does that work?

[StateBoiler]

I am a member of the "White Southerner" race.

My dad's family is Irish and my mom's family is German.

[Person Man]

Human....I think.

[minionofmidas]

Frankfurter.

[Verily]

I told someone today that my ethnicity was Romano-Britannic-American. They acted as if I were something exotic

You mean you're part-Roman?  How does that work?

Although my ancestry is entirely British/Irish, I'm far too dark to be "true British", that is, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic or Brythonic, both in terms of hair color (pure black) and skin tone (very Mediterranean). My best guess is Roman ancestry from ancient Britain, which fits well with the fact that most of my family is from areas that were relatively late outposts of Roman Britain.

[Person Man]

I told someone today that my ethnicity was Romano-Britannic-American. They acted as if I were something exotic

You mean you're part-Roman?  How does that work?

Although my ancestry is entirely British/Irish, I'm far too dark to be "true British", that is, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic or Brythonic, both in terms of hair color (pure black) and skin tone (very Mediterranean). My best guess is Roman ancestry from ancient Britain, which fits well with the fact that most of my family is from areas that were relatively late outposts of Roman Britain.

That's the way my family is and my relatively Northern European (green eyes, brown hair and olive skin) mother is darker than my Italian Father (Black/Brown/Pale a ghost).  Like my, you could just be a  Celtic Pict.

[Colin]

I told someone today that my ethnicity was Romano-Britannic-American. They acted as if I were something exotic

You mean you're part-Roman?  How does that work?

Although my ancestry is entirely British/Irish, I'm far too dark to be "true British", that is, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic or Brythonic, both in terms of hair color (pure black) and skin tone (very Mediterranean). My best guess is Roman ancestry from ancient Britain, which fits well with the fact that most of my family is from areas that were relatively late outposts of Roman Britain.

Actually a lot of Welsh people have features like that, see Catherine Zeta Jones for an example that would be well known. It's not really that odd, and I don't think it comes from Roman/Mediterranean admixture either. My father used to look alot like that, although he's gotten alot lighter in skin tone as he's gotten older. I've seen pictures of him on a Mediterranean cruise in the late 70's and he looks like he could have been an operative for Black September. Dark tan, jet black hair, bushy moustache, yep he looks like a Arab terrorist straight out of a Chuck Norris movie. He happens to take after my grandmother's side of the family, who are Welsh by way of Newfoundland.

So, you're not that special when it comes to Atlantic Islanders who look like they could be from Southern Italy/Spain.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There's not a single person anywhere in Britain who's "pure" anything. Not if you go back far enough. And not always that far either.

[Person Man]

There's not a single person anywhere in Britain who's "pure" anything. Not if you go back far enough. And not always that far either.

Though, what's funny is that you can get genetic tests that can trace your family back 25000 years or more. What's interesting is that Italians are actually closely related to Slavs. Greeks are related to Germans and Vikings and some Tuscans are related to Lebanese people.

[minionofmidas]

No you can't. You can only trace the pure male line and the pure female line.