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June 2015 Moms
What nationalities will your baby be mixed with?
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Re: What nationalities will your baby be mixed with?
My husband is American and Puerto Rico
My baby will be a New Dominirican.
My H is from Colombia, but is almost 100% Spanish decent.
This baby will basically be an American mutt..I am mostly Italian, Scotch-Irish and Swedish and my husband is Romanian, Irish and German -- other things in there too...he has brown eyes, brown hair - I have green eyes, blondish/reddish hair - we'll see...it's a gamble with this little one.
In any case, both of us are American, and we live in the United States, and our baby will be born here, so that's its nationality.
May I snark for a moment? The percentages here really got me intrigued. Like, has everyone done those DNA tests? Okay, I know they're just converting fractions based on parents and so on but it made me chuckle.
My mother's father was black, from Texas, and her mother is of German descent by way of Russia and Canada. My father is way into family history and genealogy and has traced his roots back to English settlers in Virginia in the 1600s, but he says there's Scottish and Irish in there as well. And both sides have some Native American--my maternal grandfather's grandmother was full-blooded Blackfoot and I have Cherokee and Dakota Sioux on my dad's side.
My husband's ancestors are a mix of French, a good deal of German, Dutch, and Scottish. So I guess the bulk of our children's ancestors would be German and Scottish, but I'd love to have it mapped out more specifically.
Coloring-wise, I am the palest tan in my family. When I was born, my uncle chided my mother that "her baby looks Caucasian." My mum encouraged me to find someone Asian or Latino ("something we don't have yet") and may have been slightly, hypocritically, but not seriously disappointed when I married a white boy. He is really white, too, he doesn't tan or anything. We both have curly hair, but mine is light blondeish brown and his is dark brown. My eyes are hazel (could be any color, depending on the day and what I'm wearing) and his are brown with hints of green. My brother is much darker than me or even my mum so there's a chance our baby might be darker as well. Regardless, I can't wait to see what he or she looks like! Except I have to--seven months. Ugh. Oh well.
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I'm Black/West Indian/Cuban with dark curly hair and dark brown eyes
H is 90% Native American (Lumbee) 10% German with green eyes like his dad and his mom has blue eyes.
Our DD has curly light brown hair but light brown eyes and my nose
Hope next one(Team Green) has his eyes!
I'm Mexican American
Italian/French-dad
Just a nit... But I think you meant cultures not nationalities. Unless your child will hold Greek, German, Venezuelan, Chilean, & Spanish passports ;-)
Our baby will have two nationalities, but several racial/cultural identities. Meaning our baby will have both a German and a USA passport (I'm an American citizen and DH is a German citizen, which is it's own special pain I the ass, having different passports).
Getting both for baby is nice because when baby grows up, he/she will legally be able to work anywhere in the USA or the entire European Union without needing a work permit. Dual citizenship is quite handy in this global economy.
Culturally/racially, our baby will be German, French, English, Native American, African (although we aren't sure which region of Africa) and Hawaiian.
I think there is some Irish and English in there somewhere but we are pretty much German. DH's nephew even has a bit of a German accent for some reason. We live in rural Ontario...so...it's not normal for kids to sound German from birth lol