Do most americans see themselves as British decent?

Question

Or European?

Do you know where your family originated from?

Just wondering...

Thanks.

Answer 1

I have a tiny bit of British ancestry, but most of my family is from various other places in Europe and here in North America.

I think that most people know in general where their families are from, at least a few generations back.  Most of us who were born here just think of ourselves as "American," I think.

Answer 2

You mean English descent an american cannot be british as that wouldnt make sense he has to have citizenship in one or the other, anyways yes lots of white and black americans have some dgree of english,irish,welsh,scottish blood in them also other european nationalities as every american who is not a native american is in fact an immigrant. or descendent of an immigrant....=/

Answer 3

i generally consider myself of scotch-irish decent.

Answer 4

can't answer about most americans - but i suspect not: given the minorities of non-caucasian people, if added up, i suspect they would outnumber caucasian british-heritage peoples in the us at this point.

i personally have white skin, flaming red hair, blue eyes and have scottish, welsh, irish, german, russian, french, native american blood in me.

Answer 5

i have no british (scottish, irish, english, welsh i think thats all of them) in me. the european blood in my body is polish, jewish, french-canadian. and alot of the white ppl over here have irish ancestory like 30 million ppl in america more than english, welsh, scottish. i think because of the potato famine? ironically i have a irish last name "mcdonald" this is from my dad who is black american aswell as other things. his decendants slave owner or "master"  must have been of irish decent.lol.

Answer 6

I am so many that I lose count.  What can I say, I am a mutt.  

Answer 7

My husband considers himself of German ancestry as his parents are immigrants from Germany - he is first generation American.

Myself, I am 3/4 Native American and 1/4 Scot. I consider myself Creek rather than biracial, my grandmother was a Scottish war bride during WWII - according to our tribal council, when she married my grandfather, she became Creek and was accepted as such (but only by the tribe - not by the US government who still considered her Causasian).

My other 3 grandparents were of total Creek decendants, and on the Dawes list, so in that respect, I am considered completely Native American - Muskogee Creek by the US government.

Answer 8

Yes, my family (the surname at least) came from Warwick, the first one in 1758, he was accused of poaching on the king's land and came to escape the sheriff.

Answer 9

No. I'm an African American, with some Native ancestors....I know which groups of Native people my ancestors were from, but I have no knowledge of my ancestors past my great grands, I'd have to do a DNA trace to see where my other ancestors are from, which I assume, is somewhere in western Africa and somewhere in Europe...one of the screwed up things about being a descendant of enslaved human beings....