Time to petition to get the thread title renamed. Ethnic diversity of USA Men's forum on bigsoccer... Any of you guys have experience with these DNA tests you can do and what type of data they provide? I am mostly German, then Danish and a bit of French and Spanish as my grandma was from New Orleans. At least as I understand it.
Ok well here goes... I am half Portuguese (from the Azores) and half confused. On the confused half, my grandfather was born in Panama but he is part Spanish and Italian while my grandmother was part English, Irish, French and American Indian (Clatsop tribe) among other things. My Kids are now really confused because they are half Mexican, 1/4 Portuguese and 100% confused!
That HugoPerez cracks me up. It's almost as if he used this thread to blog his lifestory. Cool dude though I'm just Black but my dad apparently has British/Irish ancestry due to "ancestry.com" results But that's to be expected. I believe 70% of Black Americans have a white ancestor. Now whether that's a grandparent or a great great grandparent, who knows.
At least it's been in all clean fun... I monitored it for awhile and decided to jump in because it seemed pretty safe to chime in. If anything, I love discussion on different cultures and civilizations, and love hearing other people's stories.
Mark Chung: "Chung was born in Toronto to Hakka Chinese Jamaican parents. " Luis Robles: "a Puerto Rican father and a Korean mother" "Rimando's father is of Filipino descent and his mother is of Mexican descent" What are the odds, two of the three goalkeepers that played in the last January camp are half-Asian half-Hispanic, both in their 30s, both late bloomers in terms of entering the USMNT picture, both relatively short...
A player with an interesting background is US youth star Nick Taitague, who is currently with Schalke in Germany. I'd argue the vast majority of us absolutely mangle the pronunciation of his last name. He's from the Richmond area, but Taitague is a Guamanian name. Or a version of a Chamorro name. As he advances from the USYNTs, we'll perhaps learn the exact nature of his family tree.
Speaking of players from a Pacific-Islander background, folks always mention Brian Ching and Bobby Wood as players from Hawaii. Of course, there's another player with actual Native Hawaiian ancestry to be capped by the full USMNT................... That is Kamani Helekunihi Hill. His mother is of native Hawaiian ancestry and his father is from Trinidad.
Rimando is 5'9/5'10 while Robles is 6'1. Robles may be on the lower side due to so many 6'4 goalkeepers but I wouldn't call him short. Rimando def is
Part of being on these forums is not just talk about soccer but being part of a community. I enjoy reading about others cultures, more knowledge more power.
Well, here we go. I`m German myself, but I have started to do some research on my family`s past a year ago. In fact I now have a family tree going back to the early 1600s. My heritage is not very mixed (which is probably the norm for most Europeans), it is mainly Bavarian/Austrian and a little bit of Jewish blood. Genealogy is not as popular in Germany as it is in the United States, probably because it was mandatory during the Third Reich. I also did some research into my family`s history during the Nazi era. It was quite interesting. One of my great grandfathers was interned by the American forces after the war, because he was a Nazi activist. Over the last 12 months I visited many old relatives in search for information regarding our family history, old pictures, etc. In particular I spent a lot of time with my great uncle, who is now 91 years old and a former SS soldier, who worked for the US army after the war. You hear a lot of stuff about the war and other little family stories that are valuable to me. One of my ancestors was born in Northern Italy (he belonged to the ethnic German minority in South Tyrolia) - and I think about getting an Italian passport because of him. Having an Italian citizen as one of your ancestors who didn`t voluntarily give up his Italian citizenship should be enough. All in all, genealogy is a lot of fun - even if you don`t find famous or noble people in your family tree.
We know you are both stupid and mentally ill based on your unhinged rants. You would be better served posting on an antifa board than bigsoccer.com
You know, the best thing in the world would be to get the cryptofasicsts like you and the black block antifa folks all out in a pasture to just go all to town on each other, with the promise that whoever's left standing can change the country's government to their belief system. Then, when the winning group is left standing, line them all up and machine gun them so that the rest of us can get back to being "just Americans"
Antifa member advocates for genocide, and no one is surprised ! I'm still waiting for you to make an actual post about soccer around here. [This space reserved for Mr. Warmth's first comment about soccer]
My cousins from Los Angeles are half Salvadorian half Mexican. When they were young they will hang out with their Mexican side of the family so they used to say they were "Mexicans," as they are getting older they are hanging out more with the Salvadorian side so they appreciate El Salvador more now, eventually they will go to college and feel more "Americans." My uncle is a light skin Savadorian who can pass for a Mediterranean, his wife is from Oaxaca, so the children are even more mixed with Aztecs I guess, you want to talk about culturally "confused." I took my cousin to the USA vs Jamaica game in Atlanta for the Gold Cup, is funny how he doesn't pull for Mexico anymore, he used to love the Angels, now he loves the Dodgers and Real Madrid...
I have a Spanish last name, I have fairly dark skin and there are very few Portuguese in the area I grew up in so everyone automatically thought I was Mexican. (most still assume it) At one point I asked my father "dad, we're Mexican aren't we?" That was the first time I found out we weren't Mexican. I have no idea how old I was but probably somewhere around 6-8 or so. It wasn't until I went to college (Chico State in the central valley) that people began to think I was Portuguese. (a lot of Portuguese settled in the central Valley). It's also where I heard my first "Portuguese" joke.
As I was working in a retail store in San Fernando Valley, a light skin girl with black hair walked in one day, I asked her if she spoke Spanish and her answer was very interesting. "You know what, everybody in Los Angeles always ask me if I am from Mexico, I have no connection with Mexico or Spain, I am 100% Italian." I apologized right away, she looked no "insulted" but with a face of "whatever, I guess I look Mexican, I give up." Here is another interesting story. We have 2 towns in El Salvador where silver was found, according to our grandfathers, many "Germans" moved in to work in the mines. The town names are Chalatenango and Santa Rosa, when you go to those towns, a lot of their people are blond hair-blue eyes, now we are no talking about sophisticated city German-Salvadorians, we are talking of farmers with little education that have been in El Salvador for a few centuries, they don't even know where their ancestors came from. When I was younger, I saw a truck driver walking into the store in South Carolina, I started speaking English to him thinking he was a white guy, he spoke with an accent so I asked where he was from, he told me he was from Santa Rosa, El Salvador... we both started laughing, Santa Rosa is about 30 minutes from San Miguel, where I am from. A lot of Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans are migrating to El Salvador because we have the dollar, pretty soon El Salvador will go from being one of the "whites" countries in Central America to one of the more diverse countries in the world as Hondurans are more mixed with Africans and Guatemalans have a higher percentage of Mayans...