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

 --- Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> wrote: >
Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>
> > Oh, I'm a funny one here.  I'm about 3/8 Cherokee.
> > I'm also Scottish, Irish, Spanish, English,
> French,
> > German, and Dutch.  I have dark brown hair, very
> dark
> > brown almond-shaped eyes, high cheekbones, a long
> > torso, and fair skin.  My brother has dark blond
> hair,
> > hazel eyes, a more European build, and tan skin.
> Now,
> > which of us is taken to be Native American?
>
> For me...
>
> My grandfather came from Trinidad & Tobago, and I
> believe he was
> Afro-Antillian; but he could have had some English
> or Indian mix, who
> knows.
>
> He married my grandmother, a mestizo between
> supossedly Chibcha and
> Spanish bloods, with probably more indian than
> white.
>
> So my father came from that blend.
>
> My mother is mestizo also, Spanish and some indian,
> but I don't think
> Chibcha.  Anyhow she should have more European blood
> than my father's
> mother.
>
> So I am 1/4 Afro-Antillian and 3/4 Mainstream
> Colombian: which means
> uncertain blend between Europeans and
> Native-Americans.
>
> My wife is also mainstream Colombian.  This is as
> far as I can get.
>
> -- Carlos Th
i take it you mean native american when you write
'indian'. to someone from the yUK it sounds like your
talking about Bharat . . .

bn

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