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Ethnicity?
I'm confused. I'm having friends telling me I'm something..and then I'm not?
So I'm mostly portuguese. Parts of german, irish, etc.
Can you tell me what I fall under?
Middle Eastern
Pacific Islander
Caucasian
Or just OTHER.
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American? I don't know...wherever you live, that's what you are. If I were you, I would put caucasian. I'm irish/german/etc., and that's what I've always put.
The dicitonary definition of caucasian is "Of a major human racial classification traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as very light to brown skin pigmentation and straight to wavy or curly hair, and including peoples indigenous to Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, and India." Note that this isn't scientific, just anthropological.
Anyway, must people call themselves whichever race they idenify most closely with, but for demographic purposes, you are probably caucasian.
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Generally, you are what you choose to identify as. If you were born in another country or area of the world, then generally you can put yourself down as belonging to that grouping - for example, Middle Eastern.
If you were born in America, then you can look at your specific race. Some people find this easy - for example, a black girl with two black parents. If you are of mixed race, then 'other' or 'mixed race' generally might be the right box to tick.
Keep in mind that most people living in America have roots in another country - some were born outside of the country, and some people's great-grandparents were immigrants. The German/Irish in you falls into the 'caucasian' category, but the Portuguese falls into the 'Portuguese' territory!
It's about how you identify, what passport you hold, what culture your family has. Only you can determine how you think of yourself and your culture. While it can be a confusing area, it's definitely worth taking some time to think about who you are and how you feel about it.
Best of luck.
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Human. Always first, human.
Past that, you'd be classified for the purposes of government forms and the like as caucasian. Portugal lies on the western tip of Europe, surrounded by Spain on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.
Now, as an interesting side note, theres a pretty good likelihood that you may have some Basque or Arabic in your background waaaayyy back, as much of the area was once controlled by the Moors, but not enough to count form the purposes of those forms.
Remember that this doesn't actually mean a great deal though. If you look at ethnicity mathematically, you find that at some point in the not too distant past, you claim almost everyone who has ever lived as an ancestor. Think about it for a second - you have 2 parents,
who between them had 4 parents (your grandparents),
who between them had eight parents,
who had 16 parents,
who had 32 parents...and so on.
If you figure each generation at a very generous 20 years, you find that even by the time of the American Revolution you have 2^11 ancestors, or 2048 people who you are directly descended from. Go back to the discovery of America in 1492, roughly 620 years ago, and you have 2^31 ancestors. That is over 2 billion people, and incidentally, probably more than the entire human population at the time (meaning that you probably have the same ancestors multiple times on different lines). My point here is don't take the ancestry thing too seriously, because on certain level we really are all related, and probably not so distantly as most people think.
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Probably caucasion because portugal is part of europe and because of all those all parts of you. Thats just what you what say on forms and stuff but your really just "you".
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Hey
The only way to describe you as would be "white".
Which is pretty much caucasian.
♥ maria ♥
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Caucasian falls under the category white.
So basically your Caucasian /white.
♥ SweetKissez
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middle eastern is from iraq, iran, turkey (thats me) and other countries in the middle east( the middle europe and asia) i dont know what pacific islander is, but caucasian is another way of saying "white". so if you even if your great great grandparents were german and came to america, your white. (you know what i mean).
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