As a non indigenous European gened person living in the Great South Land, which is currently unlawfully occupied by the Australia Corporation, my cultural heritage is mixed and rather disappointing to be associated with.

Going way back post Neolithic, I probably had a Celtic culture, and maybe Pict culture, which was variously modified and destroyed by invading Vikings, Romans, and Normans, and influenced by English and French royal controls, and by many other cultures via trade, skirmish, war, alliance, and friendships.

The age of 'discovery' and its impetus to own and control everything in the world gave rise to 'modern' weapons, biological warfare, and colonists devoted to wholesale genocide, land theft, cultural and religious genocide, cover up, and denial, which continues to this day. Science and archaeology is uncovering the truth more frequently these days.

My culture and privileged life comes on the back of murder and theft by English European criminals and good god fearing zealots, who classed first nations humans as fauna and savages, in order to kill them in good conscience. No colonists were charged with bestiality. Who were the real savages ?

I would rather my birthright culture be from enlightened peace loving peoples, but what can you do ?

Many of you share similar historical cultures to me. What do you think ?

Well you sure beat me, I was just a skinny white kid from the city.

And me. I'm just a farm kid that learned how to work at an early age.

I suppose that I have some sort of heritage. Makes no difference, because I'm living in the now, and no one gives me money for who my relatives were.

I only know mine back to the early 1800s.

Part of my family fled Czechoslovakia in the late 1800s to flee the revolution of that time.

The rest is English and Scottish.

We are what we are. History cannot be erased, nor should it, or be forgotten in order to keep the same from repeating itself.

I'm mestizo

Ancestors from West Africa, West Indies, Scotland and native america

My ancestors are from Earth. Specifically, the human species.

We are:

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mamallia
Order: Primate
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: Sapiens

Our location is:

Universe > Virgo Galactic Supercluster > Virgo Galactic Sub-cluster > Local Galactic Group > Milky Way Galaxy > Orion Arm Galactic Spur > The Sol System > Third Planet from Sol > Northern Equatorial Hemisphere > American Hemisphere > North American Continent > United States of America Country > North Eastern United States > North Western Pennsylvania <

German 75%
Czech
Irish
British

Born and bred in the land of cheeseburgers, hot dogs, the NFL, MLB, and a gun under every pillow.

I guess you could say I am Swedish. My great grandfather came over from Sweden in the late 1800's.

"Manifest Destiny" was an evil thing.

That being said..
I am Scots-Irish and French on my dad's side (have been able to go back as far the 1500's)

My mom's people are from Germany, with one exception..their mom's mom (my great grandmother) was Russian.

American...

I was born here in the U.S.,so I am a native American.

100% German

I am Dutch, and bloody proud and happy of it, especially to be (Western) European.
I haven't a clue where my ancestors came from. I know there's some German blood involved from my mother's side of the family, but I'm sure I got rid of most of the after-effects of that, lol. It goes back to my great-grand father, so it's pretty thinned out. And that tiny li'l bit got mixed with my dad's blood & genes too, so I think I can dismiss it as non-existent.

Other than that, not a clue.
I hope there's some Celtic and/or Scottish blood. But then it gets difficult cos do I feel so drawn to that because of physical ancestry or past lives? Or both?

The question was about ancestry..where your relatives came from..
So then...I am assuming you are Native American on both side of your family....as far back and can be researched?

You really don't look full-blood Native American, but...whatever.

According to DNA analysis, and the archaeological record, I am ultimately African, as we all are. Ironically, that means that no matter who you are today, somewhere in your distant heritage, one batch of your relatives decided to do horrible things to another batch of your relatives.

Detailed records don't exist for me to personally detail everyone who may have contributed to my physiology since that distant time, but I can say for sure that the most recent (last few centuries) time, everyone was from what is now called France or Germany, or Norway.

The way that heritage works, is complicated. As a basic American, I am philosophically opposed to declaring a descendent to be entirely responsible for the "sins" of their forefathers. Even more to the point, since my political allegiance is to Solutionism, I am insistent on accepting ALL pertinent facts, and applying logic to them, in order to decide on whatever course of action or inaction I will take in a given situation.

Those facts do include the actions that my forebears participated in, willingly or not. And the ongoing results of those actions, are ENTIRELY my responsibility to accept and deal with.

By the way, CrystalFairy, Dutch is a West Germanic language, and your overall heritage as Dutch, makes you more "germanic" than anything else. No offense, I am a mix of primarily German and French heritage most recently. But saying one is Dutch and not German, is like saying one is Austrian and not German. It's nationalistically true, but from a heritage point of view, it isn't factual.

I have a mixed heritage. German, Dutch Irish, Blackfeet Indian, born in Connecticut. Explain THAT crap. Lol.

English, Irish, Finnish

I'll let you know when it's your business.