Hey MyCross, <P>How are you doing? Been thinking about U. <P>Well here is the vitals:<BR>W - 100% Okinawan - born in CA, family from Hawaii, lived <BR> there 5 years. <P>H - French, Norweigen (?) + touch of Irish? not sure. <BR> <BR>Cultural differences showed up in our lifestyle. How we interact with others, raise our child and foods. It has not been hard but challenging at times. H's family is diverse all the children have married those from other cultures. The family as a whole is acceptable to other nationalities and makes us feel welcomed. <P>OW - Chinese (her H is a British citizen - I am told he is <BR> cauasian). <P>L.<P>

Me ws 50% Irish, rest anglo mix<P>Wife 100% polish (but born and raised in america)<P>Ow Scottish, english anglo mix pretty much<P>Wife and I raised in same small town outside detroit, went through same schools k-12 (but I really did not know her in school). Me methodist, her catholic, but married in catholic church 23 years ago, go to lutheran one last 10 years now. Same values etc. (work hard, no drugs/booze ever, were both virgins etc.) ...our differences are psychological/emotional incompatibilities not external stuff. <P>

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TeeAreOhYouBeEL.Eee:<BR>[B]just curious as to what people are mostly.<P><BR>Im an American.

Jumping on the band wagon here: <P>me: German, English, Dutch, French Creole (really!!!)<P>H: German, English, French<P>OW: Mongrel with a tad of Irish Setter (couldn't resist!)<P><BR>......and all that <P>------------------<BR><B>Time heals all wounds as long as you DON'T pick at them!</B>

<P>Our roots?<P>ME: Irish/Scottch<P>H: Welsh<P>OW: Slut

Waited to see where this thread was going. <P>Me: Typical Wh. Am. mix. Not raised with any ethnic heritage. Middle class suburb of Det., MI. <P>W: Also typical mix. Raised in small town in middle MI.<P>OM: ??? Small town LA?<P>My parents moved to MI, had family, left. I have no roots in hometown anymore. We still visit W's hometown. We are following my history, though -- moved to Southern city, having family, but I hope we don't ever move afterward. <P>I am envious of people who have an actual heritage and the closeness that comes with that (some of my cousins have that). I think it's something that takes generations to build, so it's not something you can control (except to leave!).<P>I wonder if mobility has something to do with strength of connections to other people, which might have something to do with susceptibility to A's?????<P>--Jeffers<BR>

Here's our mix:<P>H: Norwegian, German, Irish, Cherokee (I think), Welsh .... he looks Norwegian to me - tall, well built, blonde, blue, and that ski jump nose of his ( I call him The Viking sometimes, lol)<P>Me: 50% Irish, 25% Sicillian, 25% Slovak (whatever that is, Russian, I suppose) <P>So that makes our little one a bit of everything - our melting pot.<P>OM both were scottish/irish whateverish. All that matters is that they are 100% gone-ish.<P><BR>

ME: European mixture - 25% Irish, 25% German, 25% Austrian, the rest is Croatian, Czech and Hungarian (2nd and 3rd generation) <P>WH: 100% Croatian<P>OW: not sure, but I think 100% Croatian, too <P>I was raised in Croatia

My parents are German-speaking stock that started speaking English during WWII when it was politically incorrect to do otherwise.<BR>Ditto for her, except that her grandparents emigrated to Canada from Southern Russia and mine came to the Midwest US from Central Europe.<BR>So, we are quite compatible on this score<BR>Our Ethnic religious group has tradition of NO divorce<BR>r

ME 100% Made in America (Scotch-Irish roots and 1/16 Cherokee Indian)<P>W (WS) Same as me except the Cherokee<P>OM - Heinz 57 (part - terrible father, adultrous husband, immoral doctor, lying cheating sinner and other names I fail to mention.)

I have really avoided posting on this tread because i know there is work for me here. so i guess now is as good a time as any to get in to it. Asbestos suit is at the cleaners so i am sure to get burned!<P>first to answer the question,<P>Me: 1/2 sweed, 1/2 norwegian 100% American <P>W: 1/2 sweed, 1/2 irish 1000% american (no thats not a typo)<P>OW: Hispanic, parents imigrated from Mexico<P>now why do i think that i have work to do on this?<P>ive got out my biggest broadest brush and am painting with only my lifes experiance so I know that this just cant be true but from where i sit i just seems to be the truth.<P>white women (american white women) dont know how to treat a man. in my limited life the white women i come in contact with simply have no clue what it means to give selflessly. <P>i have over the last 10-15 years spent a great deal of time in communities saturated primarily with people from other culture, hispanic, african american, asian, recently russian, and one thing constantly jumps out at me over and over again, the way the women react, respond, and treat the men in their lives.<P>maybe its just that my wife is really selfish as people have been so gingerly pointing out, and maybe that is why it seems so obvious to me, i just dont see the same emphasis put on the care and treatment of men in the american white female population that i see in these other communities. <P>so anyway i am really very confused by this and need some straightening out, is it that i just have married a selfish b itch and that she and her friends are not representative of how white women really are?<P>have i really fallen prey to some stereotype because of my personal situation? geez i just dont know. when i am at the mall i pay particular attention to the interation between men and women, and to me it is so obvious the difference between white couples, and almost all other cultures. <P>the respect, and love, the abiltiy to touch and caress, the show of pride (probably not the word i want but cant describe it better) for their spouses both men of women and women of their men. even the proximity of man to woman, and woman to man. They all seem to be there together, and most of the time when i look at the white couples they appear to be there seperatly. <P>alright thats about it in a nutshell, is it the culture thats different, or is it the woman i am with that is?<P>