Would you, though, if the question's phrased as "family ethnicity"? -- in the sense of "where did you come from" -- with the allowance that you can click as many as possible?
...which, of course, still leaves out those who don't actually know what their (prior to this country) ethnicity is, and of course also is complicated by the fact that major countries (Australia, North/South America) are predominantly populated by people who are not members of indigenous tribes. Europe's indigenous are much much much farther in the past, and thus much harder to tease out, and asking questions slanted to make sure there's no mistaking for current indigenous tribes (Ainu, Lakota, Aborigine, etc) could, possibly, confuse the hell out of anyone living in a country where there's not been an indigenous people for over two millennia, like much of Europe and Great Britain.
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Date: 15 May 2010 06:46 pm (UTC)...which, of course, still leaves out those who don't actually know what their (prior to this country) ethnicity is, and of course also is complicated by the fact that major countries (Australia, North/South America) are predominantly populated by people who are not members of indigenous tribes. Europe's indigenous are much much much farther in the past, and thus much harder to tease out, and asking questions slanted to make sure there's no mistaking for current indigenous tribes (Ainu, Lakota, Aborigine, etc) could, possibly, confuse the hell out of anyone living in a country where there's not been an indigenous people for over two millennia, like much of Europe and Great Britain.
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