What Is My Ethnic Background

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I was born September 28th 1984 to the parents of Vail D. Smith and Vicki Lynn Smith. My parents were married for 13 years when I breathed my first air. At the time of my birth, my oldest brother Adrian was 11 years old, and Shaun was 7 years old. Our community background was farming in the southeast corner of Idaho. Raised in this vacant land of country, everyone knew everybody as the population in our surrounding area was not more than a few thousand occupants. We thrived on Mormonism religion and had the same values of family oriented lifestyle as everyone in the community. All indigenous people were of white descendants that grew up from a farming community or had a farming background. I was not a farmer, but lived on five acres. My father

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