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I am from New Jersey. I lived in NJ from the time I was born, and haven't strayed far from it since (CT 2017-2021, Philly 2021-Now). My town is predominantly white, so something was not "quite white" about me. The easiest explanation is that my mother is Italian, and my father is Puerto Rican. Half-Italian, Half Puerto Rican, right?

It isn't that simple of course. However, both of my parents were born in NJ and are still there. So, I am from NJ, right?

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I'm from the US - and people in the US assume I'm from the US, probably when they see that I am white or hear how I talk. I also say that I am from Chicago - but I'm really from the suburbs of Chicago, maybe even the last suburb hanging on to the other suburbs for dear life part of Chicago, and I think this can obscure where I am from. As I go deeper, and transition from where am I from to do my ancestors come from, I get stories of people coming over from 7 different European countries. It's fascinating thinking about how mom's side, from western/northern Europe coming over earlier in the 18th/19th century, and dad's side, coming from the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe in the early 20th century, almost capture different trends in US history

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I am from Northern Virginia (emphasis on the "Northern" because the rest of the state embarrasses me a lot more). My mom is from Vietnam and escaped during the war but she is also Chinese ethnically. My dad was born in Brazil but lived in the Netherlands as well. His parents were originally from Romania and the Czech Republic got displaced because they ended up in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

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I am a cultural mess, so to answer this question I think about my front porch in Allentown, PA. My mom's family is "from" Oklahoma, a tangled mess of working class farmers and oil men with unknown euro and Creek Nation background - no tribal ID cards though, so that's complicated. My dad is half Uzbek...

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I'd say I'm from Suburbs Philly, family is generally from around there (or North Jersey), and both sides have pretty Irish backgrounds

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I have always understood myself to be half-Israeli. I was born in Jerusalem. My mother's side lived in Palestine since the 1800s (I'm the 8th generation born in Jerusalem). But my dad was born in Europe and fled to Brooklyn after WWII. I feel more culturally connected to his particular Jewish experience. All that said, I was raised in NJ and lived in NYC for a decade. I definitely have said to many people "I'm from the East coast"

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My family always told me that they immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1980s from Jamaica. I consider myself to be Jamaican-American and just often characterize it as the Caribbean. I was born in South Jersey specifically Camden, NJ. I lived in Camden until I was about 5/6. I moved to Pennsauken, NJ in the first grade and if you ask me, I would say this is where I've grown up my whole life. Anyway you dice it, I may say I'm from Jersey first and then take a deep dive further.

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If you asked me where I was from outside of San Francisco I would say SF. If you asked me where I was from in San Francisco I would say the Richmond District. I could tell you about Ireland or Scotland or something, but my identity is someone who grew up in "the city."

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I am originally from North Philly. I moved to Roxborough right before kindergarten. One of my parents was born and raised in North Philly, so I grew up with a large family in a Puerto Rican community. My other parent lived in Indiana until moving to Philadelphia after graduate school. I do have some memories associated with the Midwest, but definitely feel more connected to Philly.

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Both of my parents were born in and grew up in small-town Pennsylvania. Now, they live in the suburbs of Philadelphia where I grew up. When people ask me where I'm from, I usually say Pennsylvania, because it seems to cover both my parents' backgrounds and my own.

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I've always thought about where I'm from. I think a lot of this stems from things my parents told me when I was growing up. From birth, or nearly, my parents told me I was "half-Filipino and half-Cuban." This was a core part of my identity. Yet, at the same time, I grew up in towns that were decidedly neither of those things culturally. In fact, both of the towns where I grew-up were, would aptly be described as, "American," or people that to me seemed like they had come to this country long before my family. While I lived in those places I would never say that I was "from" there, since those places didn't really connect with who I am or even who I wanted to become. At the same time, I still consider myself a Californian (and a New Yorker!). I know that many people would see this as a contradiction. It probably is.

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I was born in Philly, but since my family moved away when I was 8 I don't really consider myself a "Philly person" - if someone asks me where I'm from I say "I grew up in the Bay Area" (or San Carlos if they know the area). If we get into more of a conversation about it, I usually mention that my mom is from Israel and I still have a lot of family there but that really depends on the specific conversation we're having.

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When someone asks me where I am from my default answer is "a suburb outside of Chicago." That is where I grew up and I do associate parts of who I am with having grown up in that part of the country and in a suburb. I don't tend to think to describe my nationality when someone asks me that question unless they specifically ask. I'm not particularly connected to my nationalities so it doesn't come to mind as an important part of my story to tell people.

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Parith, France.
I always respond with this statement and it surprises people. Non-French people are usually in shock, and say 'wow you don't have an accent though.' The French usually respond, 'but your name is Malcolm...' In any-case, I love the confusion and bask in the perplexity.

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I definitely consider myself American because I, my parents, and some of my grandparents have lived here all of our lives. I have a lot of family in the suburbs outside Philly so that's always a solid answer. My family is very Irish, too, so I feel a connection to that. I've always loved learning about Ireland and its history. And I'm going there this summer!

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I am from Philadelphia. My family landed here after immigrating from Poland in the 1880s, but it wasn't Poland then (it was Russia) and we weren't Polish, we were Ashkenazi. I have never thought about myself as being from Poland or Russia or Romania or Ukraine because we were never anything but Jews. My family did a DNA test a few years back and turns out I'm 98% Ashkenazi and 2% Neanderthal, so that's about it.

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For as long as I really know, my family has been from Wisconsin by way of Europe around the late 1800s/early 1900s. My Jewish side left Europe to escape pogroms, my Christian side left because of famine. I really just say I'm from Wisconsin, and if people care to specify, I say Verona, which is a smaller town near Madison. I love being from Wisconsin!