What is your ethnicity?

[EastCoastTropics]

Re: Ethnicity that you identify with...

I get Pake, Flip, Spic and Tita...For census and survey forms, I go for mostly Asian, then Pacific Islander. Up here I soemtimes get mistaken for being FOB from Vietnam or Thailand.

[Kalani]

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It's sad to say. But I haven't really been able to put my finger on which I identify with.

Identity is one thing. Ancestry/genealogy/ethnicity is another. Then you have cultural affiliation. Culturally, definitely Visayan (Filipino) and Hawaiian as well as Japanese influenced. I am not culturally Portuguese nor Chinese, but I can speak Portuguese. Ethnically I am all those mentioned with the exception of Japanese.

What's the original mix of a Hawaiian?

Polynesian. They were known as "kanaka". Ta'ata in Tahiti, Enata in Marquesas, Tangata in Aotearoa (N. Zealand) and who knows what other Polynesians used.

[kimo55]

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I am still waiting for
Kanaka Maole
as an option.

Kanaka Maoli is another option, too.

[Sherry]

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I'm Indian, though I'm often mistaken for other ethnicities...Mexican, Hawaiian, Greek, Iranian to name a few...

I can relate to that. People think I am Mexican, Greek, Samoan, Hawaiin, Indian, Iranian, Spanish. But I actually was born in Pakistan.

[ili_g]

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i am hawaiian haole-piño (visayan). use your library!

[Nohealani]

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What defines me? My cultural composition is Hawaiian, Samoan, Chinese, German, Irish, English, Apachee, Chickasaw and Cherokee. I identify with them all equally...I just happen to practice one more than the others because I live Hawai'i...

[akrauth]

What is your ethnicity?

I am half German and half British English.

And all of you?

[achow]

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I am full blooded chinese... You might get thrown off my first name cause it is in hawaiian.

[Glen Miyashiro]

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[blueyecicle]

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100% MUTT, german,indian,scandanavian,french, you name it.

[achow]

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I am a full-blooded Chinese and I am proud of it, but I am into Hawaiian culture and the language!

[WindwardOahuRN]

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Depends. You wanna buy me a green beer?

[*pinao*]

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Im a mut... 4 dif kinda heinz 57's in me.. lol
Puerto rican, hawaiian(my granny is a real local and I take pride in that), irish and greek.. but I mostly flow with greek, hawaiian and latina.. I speak spanish and greek and some hawaiian.. so I go with those.. I dunno why I never really mention the irish... if people ask me where the freckles come from... I say Ireland.. but thats it really.. Ive never been there.. so I dont really have the culture in me.. we have latin, and greek and of course hawaiian traditions in our house.. no irish ones really..

[Mike_Lowery]

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Filipino, since that's all I got in me. Outside of CA and NJ, I'm mistaken for Hispanic or Black a lot, since I'm about 6'1".

"Wow, someone actually tall enough to use the wooden fork and spoon hanging from their kitchen wall." Best one I've heard yet

[MadAzza]

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I'm Cherokee, Swedish, Scotch, and all American. Anyway, haven't you heard? "White people have no culture." (Actual quote from a Hawaii teacher to a student of Scottish-English ancestry.)