Dudes, help me figure out what I am. Identity crisis.

[tatarin]

I have no clue what I am. I grew up in America and was raised by a (seemingly) Russian mom and a Tatar father. I speak Russian at home and with friends, I'm Russian Orthodox, I go to church on Sundays, and I grew up watching Soviet era movies and still watch them to this day (or let them run in the background, because I like them). It never occurred to me I was *not* a Russian. Until pretty recently, I was 100% certain I was a Slav... Then I looked in the mirror and realized I don't resemble a Ruski at all. Then I dug deeper and came to the totally crazy realization that my last name isn't even Russian; its Tatar (obviously, because dad). I don't know a whole lot about anthropology and how facial structuring works, but my dad looks more like a white, European than my mom does. Dad has light brown hair and green eyes, concave nose, red/pink fair skin. Mom on the other hand (who is of supposed Russian origin) has dark brown hair, brown eyes, and a convex nose, skin is just white, not pink.

I'm tall and skinny, everyone says I look more like my mom, we share some similar traits, the same eye shape/color, brown hair, convex nose, olive skin, among other things. I'm pretty sure I look more like mom than dad, but that would mean I took in more "Russian" traits, but that's not the case since I think I resemble some kind of Jew or Caucasus mountain man. Like if I went to Russia I'd probably get beat by skinheads because I definitely don't resemble anything remotely Slavic. Mom's side of the family came from a little village in modern-day Tatarstan, my grandma and great-grandma both had dark brown hair, people in the village used to call my great-grandma "Rumynka," meaning Romanian. Mom has a ton of Ukrainians in her ancestry as well, Ukrainians tend to be pretty dark so that might have contributed. Carpatho-Rusyns are real dark, too. Dad's side is from southern portion of Crimea so he says there might've been mixing with Greek and Southern European merchants at some point in history. Maybe that will help y'all?

I'm undergoing like some kind of identity crisis or whatever. Help me out friends, what strange, mixed-race situation did I find myself in and what do I do about it? Here are pics of my dumb face:

http://imgur.com/a/CkPbh

Help, friends.

[Dick]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...LASSIFY-MY-ASS

[tatarin]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...LASSIFY-MY-ASS

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[danbr00]

Like if I went to Russia I'd probably get beat by skinheads because I definitely don't resemble anything remotely Slavic.
Help, friends.

lol not for no reason chill

you do look tarter slav the black sea look

[Dick]

lol not for no reason chill

you do look slav but balkan

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[tatarin]

lol not for no reason chill

you do look slav but balkan

Yeah dude I was thinking that too, but idk where I'd get Balkan blood from. I could pass for some Serb whose ancestors got raped by Ottomans a hundred years back, sure. I just never had Serb ancestry. I wanna do a DNA test thing.

I think I have a dinaric facial structure though, yeah.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

You're American.

[tatarin]

You're American.

In a sense.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

In a sense.

I sense your lack of loyalty.

[Kamal900]

I think you need to identify yourself as strictly as an American first and foremost.