Ethnicity at Generation 4

Our National and Ethnic heritage is beginning to appear.  The question of national heritage is different than that of ethnic heritage.  National Heritage is where we were born.  Ethnic origin is subjective.  For instance, how many generations does a family need to be in America before they are considered American?  If a person is born in Nairobi, to US parents who are themselves a mixture of ethnicity, then what is the child, African, American, or the combination of distant relative's national origins?  Culturally that person is American, their National Origin is Kenyan, and their Ethnic Origin is whatever the parents (and eventually the child) consider themselves.

Even "old world" nations have similar uncertainty.  How reliable is it to say, for instance, that someone is Spanish?  The Spanish people are a result of waves of different peoples such as Iberians, Celts, Moors, Aryans, and numerous others who came to the Iberian Peninsula at various times.  The short answer is that modern day Spain shares a common culture and recent history that binds its people together, therefore it is perfectly fine to call oneself Spanish if one shares that culture.

Rhetoric aside, we are all American but we still want to know....

"Where we come from"

So taking all that into consideration our Ethnicity is:


Myself and my siblings are (at Generation 4): 1/2 Lithuanian and 1/2 American

My Wife and her siblings are (at Generation 4): 1/2 American, 1/4 Welsh, 1/8 Irish, and 1/8 Scotch

And our children are: 1/2 American, 1/4 Lithuanian, 1/8 Welsh, 1/16 Irish, and 1/16th Scotch

I'll check back after Generation 5.