A question to stump the tartan experts.

[Dreadbelly]

Comcast Sucks! been trying to post for 15 minutes!

That said, Dreadbelly, mi Lad. Try Rocky's German-American Tartan. I think that that would go a long way in Honouring alot of your Heritage. All it's vast roots. It's also a very nice tartan. I support your endeavours 100%! Good on yae, Laddie!

Why German American exactly? Colour me uninformed.

My particular gypsy roots I believe begin in Bulgaria. It should also be noted that I seem to have some Cossack ancestry in there as well, from these bloodlines, which is a peculiar coinkidink because just the other day there was some discussion here about Cossacks and clans and an offer to join these clans. Both the Cossacks and the gypsies were free peoples who resisted authority and always sought to self rule. And I know very little about them.

I am absolutely ASTOUNDED as to how racially mixed I am. According to Social Security I am classified as a hispanic native american. Dad was hispanic, mom was native and mixed. Scots roots come from her side, as well as others... Gypsy, creole, there is with out a doubt Asian in there, I can't say for sure, but there is enough circumstancial evidence to support the notion, I believe I can safely say that I have all races tucked away in my bloodline. Mom's dad was mixed native american, Sicilian, and the Bulgarian bloodlines, gypsie and very likely cossack. Mom's mother's side has the Scots lines and all the other really, really mixed stuff.

One day it is a dream to have a little piece of something to honour them all.

[Warlock]

You're right of course Dread, old boy! I wrongly assumed your descent from the Nazi remark. I feel stupid as I know better than to assume anything. How about Rocky's American Heritage tartan? After all, America is the great melting pot. America is the one place where you can be anything and everything! It also, is a nice tartan. It is my humble opinion that if you Honour America, You Honour all who have sought Freedom here. Freedom from tyranny, persecution, terror, hate, oppression. It doesn't matter where you came from, if you don't honour your present situation.

[Warlock]

One more thing. I'm often asked "where are you from?" I always say, Proudly "I am an American!" It matters not that my Mother is Choctaw-Chickawsan-Cherokee nor that my Father is Scots-Irish Descent. I Honour all of my ancestry when I say; I am an American. Putting ANYTHING else before American, i.e. being a Hyphenated-American, is devisive. Just my 2 pesos.