What percentage of ethnicity do people consider insignificant?

Question:

What percentage of ethnicity do people consider insignificant?

For example, if a person is 1/4 Irish, would they consider themselves Irish and feel a connection with their irish heritage? What about 1/8? When do the percentages become so small that people ignore them? Also, what if you have no cultural connection with that heritage? For example, if your father was irish but abandoned you when you were 2 years old, would you consider yourself part Irish?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If you have positive feelings about an ethnicity, then even the tiniest drop is a cause for pride and celebration.

But really, ethnicity doesn't mean anything. It doesn't make you a nice person, or a good basketball player, or full o' the blarney. I consider 100 percent ethnicity insignificant. It's what you do that makes you a good, significant person.

Interesting question, though.