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My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

I'm Cuban. My parents are immigrants.

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it is. I think people know that my last name ends in a vowel. What can I tell you?

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

My family came from Ecuador.

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

I feel Anglo-American.

My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.