Re: OT Ethnotypes WAS Re: FWD [OT but interesting]....

Eamon Graham wrote:

> So even here in Europe we have a pretty decent mix. My best
> friend is 3/4 Swedish and 1/4 Russian.  I don't know anyone
> who considers their self "pure."
As usual I come out as the boring guy (cf. poll no. 19).

Mom, dad, granddad on both sides, grandma on both sides
and their parents were all Swedish. And I'm pretty sure
that they're all Swedish a couple more generations too.

So, basically, I'm as Swedish as you can get.

Now, fortunately, my aunt (by marriage) is from Guatemala,
and she and my uncle and my cousins live in Switzerland
(no Sweden/Switzerland-confusion jokes please :). So that
makes my cousins both darker-complexioned (if that is a
word), a quarter Maya and multi-lingual (French, Swedish,
Spanish, plus English, German and Italian). Three cool
things there. Quite a party-trick (almost like Kinder
Surprise).

My uncle's (by marriage) relatives are from the Netherlands.
My cousins resulting from that marriage unfortunately never
learned any Dutch, though.

||| daniel, with yet another off-topic post... :)

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