I feel no connection to ethnicity?

Question

I am 1/16 Spanish, 1/16 Italian and 1/4 Native American and I don't even feel connected to these cultures of mine anymore because people tell me that they don't count because I don't have enough blood. Is that right?

Answer 1

Just remember.....It's not the quantity of any particular blood that runs in your veins, it's the quality of it.  YOUR pride in being whatever you choose.

1/4 Native American if it's all one "tribe" would qualify you for membership in that tribe if you can follow your ancestry back to someone on one of the Native Rolls.

Answer 2

I would not worry about what people think should/ should not count, whether it is genealogy or anything else.

Genealogy nuts like me, spend a lot of time with figuring out where our family comes from.  By the time you get back to 1/64th of something, it is way back.  For some people, finding these things out, creates an interest. It isn't true for everyone.

I personally think history is MAJORLY fascinating, and it helps me understand persons today.  To watch a football game is the height of boredom, but others don't feel that. Neither one is right or wrong.

If you do have an interest, cool. I would love that, and happy to help you learn more.  Don't worry about what someone else says, does not "count".

Answer 3

it's how you feel that counts the most, not your background... good luck in searching yourself

Answer 4

Almost everyone on this planet has mixed ethnicity, your own Spanish, Italian and Native American ancestors all had mixed ethnicity, that is a certainty, the amount of mix is not important, it is entirely up to you to decide if you want to honour the memory of ALL or any of your ancestors, you could simply follow whatever your father thinks his lineage is, people who say "you do not have enough blood" don't realise that they themselves have an infinitely mixed ethnicity also.

Answer 5

I DO FEEL. I'M PROUD MACEDONIAN

Answer 6

Don't listen to people who tell you how to feel.Your ancestor's blood no matter how faint do count you wouldn't be here without them. I would bet they would think it counted.Find out through study of your family through genealogy to see how you got here and you may have a connection more than you feel right now. Happy hunting.

Answer 7

You are an American, right? That is your ethnicity.

Imagine you have that 1/4 Native American and you say people from neighbor country, beck in Europe, you come in 14 century in America, you haven't right for your name, that name is only ours. Greeks say us Macedonians: you came on Balkan in 5 century, you haven't right for your name, that name is ours?!

Answer 8

I'm black, was born in the Caribbean, parents born in the Caribbean, Grand Parents born in the Caribbean, Great grand parents were children of slaves from Africa.....I don't I am 1/2 Bahamian, 1/2 Turks and Caicos Islander but I am full African ... so when people ask me where I'm from I skip the story and say Africa ....