May 7, 2015, 11:24 AM

@Cirno - I am a huge mutt. I'm white, and my ancestry as far as I know it includes the Irish, the French, English, possibly some Scottish blood, Native American (Cherokee, Blackfoot) and a general smattering of 'European countries'. I don't know if I have any black blood, but it's possible. (Someday I am going to get one of those DNA scans that traces your ethnic origin. My history seems so bland and boring. Nothing exciting like my husband's - he came from Vikings!)

I actually really wish I had some kind of ethnic heritage to claim, other then "Generic Midwestern American". But I wasn't raised around/in the Native cultures I have the bloodline for, and nothing else is so strongly present that I could say "I have an Irish heritage."