Your ethnicity.

[KichigaiNeko]

Scottish mainly, some irish from a great grandparent.

I do have a wee bit of an accent, australian people ask me how long I've been here. The answer: My whole life.

Ya never loose the accent...don't know why mate but ya don't. Get the same questions and I'm 10th Generation Aussie ?? go figure?hock:

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Finn or Swede?
Which one?

Oh dear, here we go.. *clears throat*

Right, so, I belong to a minority in Finland called the Finland-Swedes (finlandssvenskar in Swedish, suomenruotsalaisia in Finnish). We are most definitely Finns, but our ancestors are of a different descent than that of the Finnish speaking population. Finland-Swedes can/should be able to trace their lineage back to the vikings and the Finnish speaking population comes from a nomadic people in the east of Europe, sharing some traits with e.g. Hungarians and Estonians. During the course of time these genes mixed and nowadays there isn't much of a difference, only the language we speak as our mother tongues and some cultural aspects set us apart. But don't ever dare to call us Swedish, most of us (with the exception for Åland Islands, and who's asking them?!) take it as a deadly insult, we are Finns and darn proud of it!

Some people have no idea of how culture and ancestry play such an important role in identity. Especially if it has been mixed long ago in the past.