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re: Lets talk about your heritage.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:11 pm to CrimsonChin
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:11 pm to CrimsonChin
35% German
35% English
10% Cherokee
20% Belgian
35% English
10% Cherokee
20% Belgian
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Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:19 pm to makersmark1
I'm a mutt.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:20 pm to CrimsonChin
Majority Irish and Spanish
(Small amount of Native American[Chumash Indians], Cuban, and Mexican.)
Irish half came in the early 1900's
Spanish half came over during WWII
(Small amount of Native American[Chumash Indians], Cuban, and Mexican.)
Irish half came in the early 1900's
Spanish half came over during WWII
This post was edited on 11/25/14 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:22 pm to SEC. 593
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German and Dutch Jew
Why does referring to someone as a "Jew" seem wrong to me? I feel compelled to use the adjective form, "Jewish." I blame that Brendan Frasier movie, School Ties.
Anyway... I'm mostly of German and French ancestry, with a little Swiss, English, and Irish.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:27 pm to CrimsonChin
Anglo-Saxon and Scottish. Ancestors were Anglican Cavaliers who moved to Virginia in the 1650s. I do have a 6x grandma who was a Spaniard from Aragon.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:31 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I'm a mutt
Isn't everyone who was born in Louisiana?
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:33 pm to CrimsonChin
My last name is German and my grandmother is from Lebanon
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:34 pm to makersmark1
50% Russian (Eastern European)
25% English
25% Irish
25% English
25% Irish
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:46 pm to CrimsonChin
American living in 'Merica. Lot of European wimpiness (Scot, Welsh, German) in my ancestors was gradually erased upon their arrival to 'Merica, for which I'm grateful.
Like others I don't get this quest.
Like others I don't get this quest.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:47 pm to Rebelgator
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50% Russian
Knew it, all along. Explains everything.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:52 pm to CrimsonChin
These threads inevitably turn into a long list of everyone describing their white ancestry, as if your 12 greats grandma coming from Belgium instead of Holland means anything.
Then there's the 1 or 2 black guys who 'come out of the closet' and admit they're black, followed by at least 5-6 white people who try and chat the newly revealed black guy up because they are desperate for a black friend to seem 'cool'.
Then there's the 1 or 2 black guys who 'come out of the closet' and admit they're black, followed by at least 5-6 white people who try and chat the newly revealed black guy up because they are desperate for a black friend to seem 'cool'.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 7:53 pm to Rebelgator
Crazy how much of a difference there is between Eastern and Western Europeans. Culturaly, financially, and in appearance.
I remember traveling from Munich to Prague and even though the two cities are only a 4 hour drive apart and both are major cities in their respective countries -- It was like hitting a black hole and popping out on the other side of the universe.
Outside of the major cities in the East (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, etc.) it feels like going back into a time machine.
I remember traveling from Munich to Prague and even though the two cities are only a 4 hour drive apart and both are major cities in their respective countries -- It was like hitting a black hole and popping out on the other side of the universe.
Outside of the major cities in the East (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, etc.) it feels like going back into a time machine.
This post was edited on 11/25/14 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:18 pm to CrimsonChin
Grandma 100% Icelandic (moms mom). Other parts are German and Irish (dads side and moms dad)
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:22 pm to cokebottleag
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...followed by at least 5-6 white people who try and chat the newly revealed black guy up because they are desperate for a black friend to seem 'cool'.
I've plenty of black friends... well, at least acquaintances, and I'm definitely not cool and never have been. I'll go out on a limb and guess you live in Texas. (That's not a guess at all, your post just struck me as funny in a "Hey, look at the Texas guy talking about black people he never, ever sees" way.)
But I do think these questions are pointless. I'm an American, by gum.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:26 pm to Yat27
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Why does referring to someone as a "Jew" seem wrong to me? I feel compelled to use the adjective form, "Jewish." I blame that Brendan Frasier movie, School Ties.
It really depends on context. It's something that can be said and taken both ways. I'm generally meh about it, but I didn't grow up with the descrimination like some others.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:27 pm to CrimsonChin
American
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:28 pm to finestfirst79
Typical southern Appalachian Scotch-Irish with Cherokee thrown in.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 8:51 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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Why does every white person claim this shite?
They don't. It was not too uncommon in the south to see a mixed white/native american child, but it was very uncommon in the west. It was considered a great source of shame because of the violent relationship between whites and natives on the frontier.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 9:07 pm to CrimsonChin
Whiteness is a relatively new social construct. 100 years ago the Irish, Spaniards, Italians, Jews and assorted Slavic people weren't considered "white".
So I'm not white but I am 50% German and 50% Swedish.
So I'm not white but I am 50% German and 50% Swedish.
This post was edited on 11/25/14 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 11/25/14 at 9:17 pm to finestfirst79
I have no black friends, but plenty of hispanic ones. I have black acquaintances and work colleagues, but honestly never set out to 'make a black friend' just because somebody was black. I could give a shite.
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