Would you marry a person of mixed-race ancestry?

[Äike]

Hm no i dont want to marry a man of a mixed race ancestry or a foreign ancestry!! I am Baltic and Germanic mixed ( a grandfather is a German ) and it means that i prefer a Latvian man or a Germanic man ---- of the Germanic a German man in the first line because i am 25% German and it is a part of me to a little bit already. You know i want to stay at the bloodline of what is already in me.

I am not of a mixed race but only mixed North European ethnicity. That is a big difference!!:nod

You're 75% Latvian, thus Germans are foreign to you. Your post is hypocrisy and an oxymoron. First you say that you don't want foreign men and after that you say that you want German(ic) men.

[Brynhild]

It depends on what constitutes racial mixing. There's no doubt that I'm a Heinz variety, but at least it's European. I would not have a relationship with anyone who isn't European descent.

[Inese]

You're 75% Latvian, thus Germans are foreign to you. Your post is hypocrisy and an oxymoron. First you say that you don't want foreign men and after that you say that you want German(ic) men.

No i say Latvian men or German men. But Germanic people are not foreign to me --- i am to 25% German and a part of my distant family is German!! And Germans are not of a mixed race ancestry and they are full European like we Balts. My opinion is that Germanic are good friends of us Balts and when it happen that a German man wins my heart then i say okay why not!! But Latvian men are my first focus for marriage!! I want to return to Latvia later in my life. Hm and please understand we are talking about marriage and not about boyfriends here you know?

Ok i ask you a question: My current boyfriend is a German --- do you think i am race mixing?? I can not mix with a ethnicity when i am a quarter of that ethnicity already!!

[Äike]

No i say Latvian men or German men. But Germanic people are not foreign to me --- i am to 25% German and a part of my distant family is German!! And Germans are not of a mixed race ancestry and they are full European like we Balts. My opinion is that Germanic are good friends of us Balts and when it happen that a German man wins my heart then i say okay why not!! But Latvian men are my first focus for marriage!! I want to return to Latvia later in my life. Hm and please understand we are talking about marriage and not about boyfriends here you know?

Just because I have some distant Swedish ancestors, doesn't mean that I should mix with Swedes.

It's good that you want to return to Latvia. up I wouldn't want to be an immigrant too.

Hm i ask you a question: My current boyfriend is a German --- do you think i am race mixing?? I can not mix with a ethnicity when i am a quarter of that ethnicity already!!

If you would be 1/2 German and 1/2 Latvian, then you actually would have a point to mix with Germans. But you're 3/4 Latvian, thus you're a mixer, but luckily not a race mixer.

Germans aren't very close to Latvians, genetically. If there would be more people like you, then there wouldn't be any different European ethnicities in 100 years.

[Svarog]

Ines,

Nationality and a Race are two different things

Also, Germanic people are not a race for themselves

Nor are Balts, Slavs, Ugro-Fins etc

[Osweo]

Beckinsale? A hard one. I mean, look at that fine Lancastrian surname!

Bekan's Howe!
A certain Beccán (‘the little one’) was buried in a haugr or burial mound, and this Bekaneshou is now Becconsall on the map of Lancashire.

Beccan is an Irish name, and haugr is a Norse word. The man was clearly a hybrid Norse-Gael type, as expelled from Dublin in the early 10th Century. And he came to Lancashire.

What a story! What a heritage to add to my own history of Irish-Lancastrian relations!

And yet 1/8 Burmese... Hmm. What does that mean? A great grandparent? I only discovered my own great gran was named Jenny Walton a few weeks ago. Imagine she'd been Jung Wu Tang!

I'd be more worried at the idea of the lover having hidden this from me. I also suspect that in many cases, we wouldn't really share much of a world outlook, what with them having had to accommodate their own ideas with their ancestry down the years. All in all, I might be able to overlook it, if they didn't use it as the excuse for being a multiculturalist and it didn't show. That's fair enough, no?

[Thorum]

I am perhaps the only one who can answer this question practically rather than theoretically. I am but one week away from proposing to a girl who is entirely Russian and mixing it with my Norman French bloodlines.

As far as I am conerned, redheaded European is redheaded European. They are all my close cultural and ethnic kith and kin.

Well, black, Asian, South American, Arabian, etc......no chance. European ancestry only. Obviously, people here are going to have different definitions of "mixed-race". In my case, Russian is European. So, Angantyr, we must think the same as my wife is Russian (with a bit of Ukrainian, Latvian and Polish too). Lawspeaker has called me Euromutt due to my big mix of European ancestry. Can you imagine my 2 kids = English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, German, French, Russian, Polish, Latvian and Ukrainian....(Yes, my family is big into geneology. My sister even works at the U.S. National Archives.)

[Goidelic]

Let's see... I have an Gaelic Irish surname which counts for my national identity and children. A good 1/2 of my heritage is of Gaelic Irish & Ulster-Scots ancestry with the rest English, with some more distant Dutch, Hessian German roots. I'd preferably prefer someone who was of a Celtic British Isles background - Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic Irish, Highland Scottish. I'm not too much into the ethnic similarity to breed with as long as they are Northern European - Germanic, Celtic, Baltic & Finnic really.

However, if I end up with an Old Stock woman or just a regular Central European such as a German, I'd guess I'd be fine with that. I wouldn't want to marry a Balkan woman, although a Finnish woman would be nice. I like the Finnish culture. They also produce excellent music. I actually once met a Finnish girl traveling abroad in Austria once. It never worked out, but if it did I wouldn't mind bringing my children under the Finnish identity with of course a Gaelic surname & British Isles ancestry. The child would be rather an extra-British Isles Finn, but nevertheless Finnish, just not an average Finn.

[Rhobot]

Kate Beckinsale is part Asian, but only 1/8 and it's not at all visible in her phenotype.
I would never have guessed at such ancestry, and it's hard to imagine even the most hardcore racialist saying no in the extremely unlikely event he had a chance with her.

[Barreldriver]

Well- at least it is pure European.
But yes... the Americans are a race of their own.

Amurikanz r00l! ;D

Personally I wouldn't see myself marrying someone who wasn't of mostly British Isle's descent since that is what I myself am, mostly of British Isle's ancestry. That German component was lost when my grandfather ditched the family, the Scandinavian blood absorbed into my English ancestry in the 1600's so by the time they came to America they were "English" enough.

The ideal British Isle's ancestral group I would seek out would be from Yr Hen Ogledd as that is the greatest bulk of my ancestry and the source of my main lineage.