what am i?????

Question

my mom is italian and my dad is irish, i see myself as just italian but because i do people don't like me for not saying i'm what my dad is. the thing is that i look exactly like my mom, my dad does not look anything like me - he is really white and my mom and i are really tanned, everyone says to me you look exactly like your mother. i don't live with my dad and i don't know his family. the way i see it is, i am a female and my mother had me not my dad, i am my moms egg because the sperm usually fertilizes the egg for males not females, i have researched alot and it looks to me that maternal DNA is stronger and its unfair that all men do is have sex with your mom whilst ur mom has to have periods all her life to have you, and pregnancy, morning sickness, birth, shes the one that brings you into the world. he does nothing. even research this on google "egg fertilized without sperm" a baby can be born without sperm, that proves that the egg is actually the baby, basically most cells can fertilize a egg, everyone in the world has a mother but not everyone has a dad...

is it okay if i tell people that i am just italian or is this not fair, because i try to see myself as half irish but i can't, i don't know anything about irish people and i don't know anyone irish?

i was born in italy and grew up with my mom and grandmother then i moved to new york, usa when i was 10, i can speak fluent italian, i have a really strong relationship with my mothers family and grew up with them, i see them everyday. i have an american accent now though, so i guess i'm american of italian decent. i am really really proud italian and my mom prefers me to just consider myself as just italian but some people such as my mom's friends get offended when i don't say that i'm italian-irish. i've never even been to ireland though, it confuses me when people say that i am half, and kind of upsets me because i feel like i don't know who or what i am!

Answer 1

You are someone with WAY too much time on their hands!

Answer 2

YOU ARE REALLY CONFUSED! A woman's DNA isn't stronger. Whether you like it or not, you are half Irish and half Italian. You look more Italian because darker hair and brown eyes and darker hair are more dominating genes. You should be proud of being both even if you are closer to your Mom! And your Mom's friends are very old-fashioned by saying you aren't a "Purebred Italian". They are just old school. Haven't you seen gangster movies where unless someone isn't 100% Sicilian, they cannot be truly part of the gang like in Goodfellas. It sounds like you think Italians are cooler are something? The Irish have quite a dramatic history even more so than Italians in recent years. Haven't you read about the IRA? A lot of BIG singers come from Ireland, how many come from Italy except for opera stars? And not all Irish are deathly pale with red hair! You need to open up and be proud of yourself no matter what you are. I was adopted so I don't even know what my background is! I love my looks and I think I'm a mixture of some wonderful backgrounds. I'm lucky to be a natural blond with blue eyes and skin that tans easily. I also am on the taller side but curvy.

Answer 3

Sorry, but the birth from unfertilized eggs?...someone's pulling your leg. Otherwise lesbians everywhere wouldn't need donors and would be having kids without the men. So many untruths on the internet.

As for "what are you" ...you are half Irish and half Italian by your parents ancestry. The bottom line is you're human. If you want to put labels on yourself, just say what you are. You stated that you "have an American accent" but are you a citizen of the USA? If so say "I'm an American citizen born in Italy and my dad is Italian and my mom is Irish." Plain and simple.

Answer 4

Go ahead and say your Italian. Being born and spending the first 10 years of your life in Italy should be enough reason.

Your statements about fertilization are disturbingly inaccurate. Almost everyone, male and female, are the result of a sperm-fertilized egg. Although it is possible for an unfertilized egg to develop into a fetus, it is extremely rare. Your DNA is most likely half your mother's and half your father's. Most likely your received mostly dominant genes from your mother and recessive ones from your father, which is why you appear so much like your mother.

By the way, I am deeply offended by your trivialization of men as parents. You show a lot of ignorance about how fertilization occurs. Please keep your sexist bigotry to yourself.

Answer 5

You've got some of the biology wrong... you do need a sperm cell to fertilize an egg. They have done it with mice where they fertilized an egg with the contents of another egg, but that's nowhere near ready to be tried on humans, and impossible in nature.
You are half-italian, half-irish. Face it. Though I'd just call myself an American now, since that's your legal nationality.
I have almost the same thing: my mother is Zimbabwean and my father is Dutch. I live in the Netherlands so I call myself Dutch, even though I'm as alike as anything with my mother. If I moved to another country and adopted that nationality, I'd call myself by that one. No need to make such a big deal out of it...

Answer 6

ur completly uniformed no egg can grow into a child without sperm
the sperm contains half of the chromosomes needed to make humans
and the sperm is what detemines the sex of a human
sperm comes in male and female the egg is the x chromosome and the sperm is x or y
if two x's then female
if xy then male
so obviously you did crappy research
and no ur not italian ur half italian half irish
simple as that

Answer 7

You're an Italian-American with Irish ancestors.

Answer 8

Well you can call yourself whatever you want but I think its best to be honest and feel pride for being Irish...Im my case I'm mexican but my boyfriend is Guatemalan...These two countries hate eachother so I hope when we have our kids they can show pride for both countries...even if my boyfriend left me you gotta know where your from. You can state that your Italian with a touch of Irish!! Sounds soo cute.

Answer 9

Your Italian-Irish obv.

Answer 10

The honest truth is that you are Half Italian & Half Irish :) Good heritage :) I'm partail Irish & my husband is Half Italian :)

Answer 11

I imagine you are a transgendered Irish/Italian.