Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
Please select one option:

a) I am European
b) I am Asian
c) I consider myself to be both Asian and European (Eurasian)
d) I do not consider myself to be either of the above.
e) Decline to respond.
I was always fascinated with European culture, I grew up with Alexandre Dumas', Conan Doyle's, Walter Scott's, Robert Stevenson's and Jules Verne's novels and I think that Russian culture without doubts has European origin, but of course it has it's own unique features due to geographic, religion and ethnic profiles. Asian culture is great, but I always feel like it's kind of alien and exotic for me. Also as far as I know all my ancestors were of Slavic origin (mostly ethnic Russians), who lived in European part of Russian Empire (particulary in Nizhny Novgorod, Vyatka, Vladimir and Ryazan provinces). The only exception I know of, well, may be one of them was French. There is some kind of legend in my family (my father's line) that the founder of the family was a Napoleonic soldier, who was captured by Russians in 1812, and later adopted Orthodoxy, married a Russian girl and changed his surname Savigny to СавИнов.
But aside from my humble person, I wonder if we compare percentage of people who belongs to European race in such without doubts European cities as Paris or London and in Russian cities located in Asian continent such as Novosibirsk or Krasnoyarsk? I guess they (the Siberian cities) wouldn't look more Asian from this point.
Well, considering the above, my answer is mostly a) and maybe a little d) (at least that's the way I feel like).