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    Feb 28, 2013, 01:10 PM
    What is my ethnic group?
    I was born in usa and I am still in the us, my last name is dailey, my mothers ethnicity on her dads side is native american, on her moms is german. On my dads moms side is also german and english. That's about all I know
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    Feb 28, 2013, 01:58 PM
    Basically because your mother is german, and not knowing which part of germany she comes from, your ethnic group would be called 'german diaspora'. There are many websites that break this down into different ethnic names, but you would have to know what part of germany your mother came from.

    You can explore this further by googling 'proper name for ethnic germans'.

    Here is what the term 'disaspora' means:

    A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion")[1] is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland"[2] or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location",[3] or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".[2]

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