Nationality and Hair Type?

[contradiction]

My father... I don't know his ancestry but he's just english, white etc.

"English, white, etc.?"
Thanks for being so callous and dismissive towards the heritage and history of hundreds of different nations and people.

[Luna12345]

Although I was born in Canada, I have 100% Iraqi blood. My parents both came from the southern part of Iraq , Basra city. I'm not mixed in anyway at all.
My father has extremely curly hair (probably type 4) and my mom has wavy hair(probably 2 A).....I have very curly hair, I'm not even sure if I have the type correct but you can see it in my profile pic or album pics.
My moms sidde of the family mostly have straight hair, my fathers side mostly curly. 3 of my siblings have curly hair, one wavy, and one straight. All black/dark brown.
I forgot to mention we all have super thick hair which comes from my dads side, My mom has thin hair.

[ericthegreat]

I am a full blooded Chinese American, both my mom and dad were born Chinese citizens. I have the typical textbook Asian hair. Its naturally jet black, almost completely straight (I'm between 1a and 1b when my hair naturally air-dries), very thick, and also its very coarse in texture.
My hair is super strong, its resistant to any kind of heat damage or bleaching damage as you guys are well aware. I do have a love/hate relationship with my hair. I like that its super strong. However if I had a choice, I'd probably have hair that was naturally much lighter in color, say a copper red or a golden blond. I'd also like for it to be a little bit wavier, maybe in the 2b range perhaps.

[KittyLost]

I'm British with Norwegian hertigage.

My hair is 2c, M and i/ii. Its quite curly when short but as it gets longer and heavier it becomes wavier with odd ringlets and spirals dotted around my head. My family all have very short curly hair, I think myself and a handful of girl cousins have grown our hair below our chins. We all have the common factor of light brown hair too though we were all blonde until around 7/8 years of age.

My hair on average grows the 0.5" a month, though I have never noticed my familys growth rate since they all have short hair which they keep cutting to remain their length. I think my growth rate has more to do with where I live rather than genetics however my friend has an average growth rate of 0.25" a month! So it may well be my genetics!

[loralie]

Wow, thanks for the replies, guys!! It's fascinating.

little_cherry, I never knew about Croatians having that distinctive widow's peak and thicker hairline... I'm the opposite, my hairline is fine, baby hairs that come in a lighter color than the rest of my roots.

superficial, from what I've seen (durrr, Canada) Swedish people tend to have such neat silk spun light hair, baby fine. Cotton Candy. Sometimes I wish mine wasn't so freaking heavy but then again, it's only Medium, people have much heavier and coarser hair than I do!

Ivy~Rose, Mmmm Caucasian blend , lol, makes me crave more coffee. Haha. It's neat that you know about the generations of your family- my Grandmother, Mother, and I were all born in Canada but I do know my Grandfather's parents brought him over in the 30s. Interesting stuff!

Sammich! You inspired me. Haha. The bit of caucasian gives you that nice wave! It's crazy to see how your hair turns out, from your heritage. I always wished I had Asian ancestry to have the gorgeous thick poker straight hair but I'm learning to embrace my wierd medium not-quite-straight-mess. Haha.

Thanks you guys!

[Sammich]

Sammich! You inspired me. Haha. The bit of caucasian gives you that nice wave! It's crazy to see how your hair turns out, from your heritage. I always wished I had Asian ancestry to have the gorgeous thick poker straight hair but I'm learning to embrace my wierd medium not-quite-straight-mess. Haha.

Daww, you have given me ego rise! You're the sweet one! I'm glad I inspire you, because I'm gonna keep growing till classic! No trim till January either.

I guess the Caucasian does give me that wave.
I find it very strange though because my hair is not the same colour as either of my parents! My father was born blonde and has a medium mousey brown, my mother has black! I'm just a 'ole ashy dark brown/black. (I'm not fully sure yet, I started dying my hair at 10 years old. )
Yeah, I'm actually really loving my wavies however, because I always thought mine was poker straight! Fingers crossed I'll get more wavier.

[Purdy Bear]

Family Heritage: As far as I can trace back to the 1800s its Cornwall/Devon English, but one side of the family orginates from the Knights who came over with William the Conquerer. There is a Scottish link, also a Native Canadian/American link which both I have yet to find. One of the family names is French, so there may be a link there too.

Hair type: Mine is Brunette almost black with waves and maybe spirals when it gets long (sorry long time since Iv had it, I cant remember).

The rest of the family go from black straight to blonde and wirey.

[loralie]

eric, don't we always want what we can't have!? I'm jealous your hair is so resilient, that's crazy!

Kittylost I do feel somewhat gipped I didn't get the beautiful Norweigan texture... my Hungarian gypsy blood overrode it. haha!

[SpeakingEZ]

I'm actually really glad you started this thread. A girl at work and I were having this discussion (she's Russian, and had the exact same hair I would have if I'd never dyed or hennaed it).

I'm half Polish, half Irish/ Italian (more Irish, but not sure of the exacts). I get my hair from my Polish side. It's usually 1c, M ii, but the wave in it makes it very voluminous with just a bit of humidity. Sometimes if I'm wearing it down, I have to brush it just to make it sit down and not just to get the tangles out (horrible habit, but I'm getting better about wearing it up).

My virgin hair is a light auburn that the sun will bleach with golden highlights. The texture is harder to describe. Each strand is wavy in its own way, so they don't wave together. That causes the poofy-ness. It's very prone to splits and is not very strong in general.

I do love my hair!

[chopandchange]

I am nothing particularly out of the ordinary (British, with a lot of Irish ancestors) but I just wanted to drop by to say I love Indian hair. It's my favourite "nationality-specific" hair.