My ethnic group

[WallShadow]

I'm amused by the "Celtic" culture that is promoted by some Irish folk as exclusively Irish (a minority but prominent). I'd hate to point out to them that over the centuries the Celts got shoved progressively westward across Europe into Brittany and thence northward across the channel. Their origin? Where half of my bloodlines come from--Central Europe!

A large chunk of the other half of me derived from Scandinavian traders, the Rus, whose markets extended downriver from the Baltic, again, into the Caucasus.

If my research on my family genealogy is correct, I have a little Teutonic Knight in me.

And to top it all off, as I look at my high cheekbones in the mirror, I am left with a suspicion there had been a Mongol in the woodpile several generations back. (They, uh, toured the area several times, ya see.)

Mutts? Yeah, the most adaptable hodgepodge of genes that ever beat the natural selection dice roll!