What is your race/ethnicity?

[Peter1469]

Both sides?

85%. The rest is Scot-Irish.

[Mister D]

85%. The rest is Scot-Irish.

Ah, the traditional southern stock.

[Guerilla]

Mexican, Puerto Rican, Native American, Irish, and Israeli.

[Agravan]

Tejano

[Captain Obvious]

For the record, my dad was Polish (mostly I believe) and my mom was mostly Russian and a small part Jewish though she was raised an Orthodox Catholic.

[Mister D]

For the record, my dad was Polish (mostly I believe) and my mom was mostly Russian and a small part Jewish though she was raised an Orthodox Catholic.

You mean Eastern Orthodox? They aren't Catholics. I'm from a Catholic milieu but I like Orthodox imagery. I have an icon of Tsar Nicolas II on my desk.

[Captain Obvious]

You mean Eastern Orthodox? They aren't Catholics. I'm from a Catholic milieu but I like Orthodox imagery. I have an icon of Tsar Nicolas II on my desk.

Probably. I was raised Roman Catholic and never delved into the Orthodox stuff.

I just remember those odd crosses with the slashes through them at my maternal grandparents house.

[Mister D]

Probably. I was raised Roman Catholic and never delved into the Orthodox stuff.

I just remember those odd crosses with the slashes through them at my maternal grandparents house.

Gotcha. That's Eastern Orthodox. It's an ancient branch of our faith. Poles are fiercely Catholic. No wonder you were raised that way.

[Captain Obvious]

Yeah, my mom was never really religious but my dad and his parents... look out.

My paternal grandparents house was like a small shrine. Every room had holy pictures in it, last supper portraits with decades of palms hanging on and behind them and a bathtub statue of the Virgin Mary in the courtyard. Mass cards everywhere, candles, pope portraits... No wonder I'm as $#@!ed up as I am.

My dad sort of did that a bit but didn't get carried away with it.

[Mister D]

Yeah, my mom was never really religious but my dad and his parents... look out.

My paternal grandparents house was like a small shrine. Every room had holy pictures in it, last supper portraits with decades of palms hanging on and behind them and a bathtub statue of the Virgin Mary in the courtyard. Mass cards everywhere, candles, pope portraits... No wonder I'm as $#@!ed up as I am.

My dad sort of did that a bit but didn't get carried away with it.

You know, sometimes it doesn't even matter if people are churchgoers or not. It becomes so wrapped up in ethnic identity that the tenets of the faith become secondary. I remember my mom commenting on her childhood in Jersey City saying something like "of course you were Catholic...I don't think I knew anyone that wasn't".