What's your background?

[rushing on acid]

both parents greek, came off a plane instead of the traditional boat, i was born in melbourne, if wogs ask me whatt i am i tell em im a skip if the aussies ask me im a wog. at the end of the day im human like everyone else.

[woodsy109]

I'm 2nd gen aussie.

On mum's side her father was lebanese and mother from kythera in greece.
On dad's side he doesn't have a clue cause he is like 4-5th gen aussie, however i think there may be some scottish.

So to break it down I would say i'm 25% greek, 25% lebanese and 50% aussie.

[FordFan86]

Originally Posted by RIPGMH

The second and third words are at odds with the first :hihi:

*slap*
One of my mates is prussian, russian and has jewish ancestors.. we don't know how that happened but there's a constant battle raging inside him hahaha.

[[Tonko]]

some interesting responses here,
mums side- dont care
dads side- see above
100% skip here and damn proud of it!

[ef_classic]

Originally Posted by Quasi

with ancestry back to the battle of hastings in 1066.

That makes two of us.

[Mechan1k]

I was born here in Australia.
Mother's side is from England
Father's side is from Germany/Checezlovakia

[Zedjay]

im a bitsa too..
my dad is half Moari and half French

my mother is 1/4 Aboriginal 1/4 Aussie and 1/2 Scottish

[xurbanx]

I was born here, mum and dad are both from East Timor and they both have Chinese ancestory, which goes back to Maucau and some place near Guangdong (Moiyan?? - According to parents) which would explain why we all speak Hakka.

[JETME]

born in australia, croatian background

[banarcus]

Got a wog name but my great great grandfather on my dad's side was in the light horse charge at Beersheeba in WW1. Mum's side goes back when the Irish only farmed yams and spuds. Used to cop wog taunts at school as a kid but I've got more Australian in me than the Anglo named fella whose parents came here in the 50s.

[Trevor 57]

English, Danish, Indian, Irish, Scottish

And I am real convict stock, Sarah Island and Port Arthur material - proven

[GasoLane]

My backround is this.... Oh sorry, I thought you meant on my monitor

[Falcon_Phill]

Russian + english

So ill crush you! after a cuppa.

[fudge1979]

Another Maltese here. Me born here both parents came here in the late 50s

[normxb]

Originally Posted by qldwagons

kiwi but educated in sydney worked in melbourne and now livin in queensland so 50/50kiwi auzzie mix apprently family used to own woolen mills in victoria (ballarat)?

Could this be a "very funny little flightless bird " that loves having a Biff Up with "Emu's" :hihi: Hi Ya Mate

My History
Fathers side = I'm 5th Gen (my Great Great Great G/father came from Cornwell about 1842)

Mothers side =
Grandmother came from Yorkshire when 17
Grandfather = ancestry English/Spanish/German & Dutch

Norm

[Felony]

French canadian

[mrgo40rd]

i have scottish way back on my dads side on my mum side its kiwi maori thats why im built like a brickshihouse (cook the man some eggs woman) and my wife is a italian background so when we have kids the will be italian kiwi scotts hmmm well realy a australia

[GK]

Originally Posted by GTP006

I would expect that everyone has a background lol.

Me......... Aussie + Aussie = Aussie. Go a little further and one family is Scottish & the other is Pommy.

Aussie, Aussie, Scottish and Pommy!

There you go, you've written yourself a family ditty! LOL!

GK

[blueoval]

I was born in Thailand. Full blooded Thai. Speak australian english only. Was adopted by english people. Have a thick aussie accent.

I wa the youngest of 13 in biological family. My adopted family, I have 2 younger sisters. The youngest sister is biologically from my english parents. The middles sister is actually adopted as well, and is half chinese, half thai.

[GK]

Originally Posted by banarcus

Got a wog name but my great great grandfather on my dad's side was in the light horse charge at Beersheeba in WW1.

That's a proud history you have there. An awesome display that Lighthorse charge!

I was reading up on it late last year. Absolutely awesome! I reckon every Aussie should know about it.

I was reading some of the account of the charge to over 100 secondary students for 20 minutes. You could have heard a pin drop the whole time! Now that is quite rare. So was the charge, the last real calvary charge of modern warfare.

Now back on topic. My background:

Both parents are Greek Cypriot (Greek speaking from the Island Cyprus). There are Turkish Cypriots also, same island different language. As a rule, the Greek speaking are Greek Orthodox in religion, the Turkish speaking are Muslim.

Cyprus is a tiny island in the Med. Marcos Bagdatis, the tennis player is from there. Its flag is the only one in the world with an outline of the county on it!

My folks came here by boat, the SS Rosa in 1962.

I'm Aussie and proud of it. Part of me is Cypriot also, and that part comes out when I least expect it. Usually I'm running in Anglo mode though. LOL!

GK

[I FluXx I]

Originally Posted by Bill_R

English and Scotish. Trace names back and it's all over the place (as most people are). Surname is Germanic reinforced by the Normans.

If you have 1/4 pygmy aboriginie you can get land rights I think.

Dont premote that. Its sad enough that they actually get money then wast it on grog. I say if you want land rights money, go live in the bush. Because if it wernt for the poms you would still be eating grubs.

Sorry. Still a little ****ed off. I got abused and spat on by a drunken aboriginie today for no reason.
:


Dad= Dutch
Mum= Dutch
Basicall all of my family is dutch excepte for my two brothers a sister and a couple of cousins. Im australian. Going back 100 years I have family from Austria. Which is where the "guetlich" surename came from.

[XRated]

I was born here.
Dad was born in England with Irish parents.
Mum was born here in Australia too, as were her parents, and further down I think they were of English/Irish heritage too.

So I've got a pretty strong "Celtic" heritage. It certainly explains my family's taste for drinking!!

[Greenhorn]

German/Welsh

[bob^]

Parents born in Serbia, I was born here.

[MITCHAY]

Mum's side is Hungarian.
Dad's side is bogan so wherever the hell they are bred from.

[FPV8U]

Mum - English/Italian
Biological Dad - Italian

[PHATXR8]

I'm a 5th generation Aussie (from English convict heritage) on dad's side (dad was 1/2 Italian), along with a bit of the Irish.

Mum's side - French and Welsh

[TATT2]

delete wrong thread

[chich]

Originally Posted by merlin

My mums side is Greek Cypriot (although my mum was born in Aus) - My grandparents immigrated from Cyprus with nothing when they were in their early twenties during the Second World War. My grandfather stepped off the boat, joined the Aussie army and went off to fight in Papua.

So 50% Anglo and 50% Greek here I guess.

Good to see another Greek Cypriot amonst the FFA members! My sisters and I were born here, however the parentals immigrated in the late 70's. My grandparents, great grandparents and great great grandparents were all Cypriots.

Havn't bothered tracing back further than that... the family is just too big.

[FRDGAL]

Me ... Lol I'm messed up. I got it all.

Finding it hard to remember things with age LOL but it goes something like this:

Great grandparents born in Spain. They move to Sicily. Grandparents then born in Sicily. They then move to and settle in Dalmacija, Croatia. Dad born in Croatia. He moved to Australia. Dad marries Hungarian (my biological mother) They make me (born here in Carlton) Dad splits and raises me alone as a Croat. But then......

Dad re-marries to a Serb. Her parents (my step-grandparents) Serb. Her brother (my step-uncle) marries a Macedonian. Cousins born & raised Maco.

My grandparents (on my biological mums side) were Russian.

Confused? Yeah me too! LOL.

So my background is quite mixed but I was raised Croat so that's what I am