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I'm mixed with Nigerian & Irish. my dad is Nigerian, my mom is Irish.
Shared more elsewhere on the issue..but in regards to my background, my Great-Grandfather is Caucasian (possibly with some Jewish...as others with Jewish in them have said they sensed it somehow..but it's not a definate as in any DNA tests showing anything were done since it was mainly speculation based on what has occurred with cultural diffusion/crypto-Jews hiding identity---and the Jews who told me it was a possibility of having some Jewish in my Great-Grandfather mainly said such due to what they said they sensed spiritually in me). My great-grandfather's dad was a Scotish Sailor who moved to Barbados/fell in love with a Bajan Woman and had my Great-Grand Father.
From there, my Great-Grandfather moved to Jamaica/met my great-grandmother....and then they moved to Panama during the building of the Panama Canal....producing all those on the Hispanic side of my gene-pool....and hence, why I have white, hispanic, west indian in me. My mother's father---married to my grandmother (who was one of my Great Grandfather's kids)---was a Black Hispanic, who's father was Chineese. And my biological Father has Black Foot Indian on his mother's side of the family.
Complicated, I know...part of being a Mutt (and some of this I've shared before elsewhere, seen here and here ). Had it happen once where I brought my Great-Grandparents to my highschool graduation--seeing how often specific others would mock whenever they'd ask me to share my background...not believing people could really be diverse--and when my Great-Grandfather was sitting on one of the benches, no one ever suspected he was related to me due to how he looked. Got a bit frustrated considering how others seemed to be ignorant on the ways cultures can be multi-faceted.....but you learn to live with it/be thankful for the diversity, as I'm glad to be a Gentile with multi-cultural roots
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