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Cornish, happy to be British but I'll never be English.

I do not dislike the saxons, I am simply not one.

Half Korean and my half whiteness is a quarter Irish and a quarter Scottish. On my white side I've got journals and diaries of them coming over to America fresh off the boat back in the colonial era and have a great grandfather that helped pioneer aviation in my city and also was some of the first pilots to practice carrier landings (explains why I have a desire to fly? I have 40 flight hours ). Korean side I've got a bunch of war stories that I can hand down to my own demon spawns once I get attached to a succubus. However most people don't know wtf I am other than I'm a good looking Mexican/Italian/Puerto Rican/Asian/Jewish person...with the right grooming and tan I can pass off as a whole lot of races.

Damn proud and fortunate to be born an American too; also imo mixed races are what this country and the future of mankind is all about!

hm, i've got irish, german, russian, cherokee, and probably a bit more if i really thought about it

I'm Norwegian, Danish, English, German, Scottish, and Irish, in that order.

I like Norway, it's kind of a neat ancestry.

I'm Polish. Though the only thing its gotten me is the ability to follow a conversation in the mother tongue, sort of (lot's of first/second generation friends in HS).

Never particularly cared about ethnicity though, least of all the American version of that concept. I quietly laugh at all the Irish pride on St. Patty's and other, similar holidays.

I'm English/French.

And I was recently looking at a really really old Burke's Landed Gentry with my brother, turns out we've got land somewhere, just with other relatives. And my ancestors were quite important.

Is it snobby to be proud of fine pedigree?

(I use that phrase in a non-snobby/vulgar way)

sA

I'm proud of being a Canadian.
I'm from Québec, so I'm equally pround of my french heritage.

Let's remember all of us are descended from some monkeys in Africa.

Except Nick Griffin, MEP, Chairman of the BNP. He descended from an English monkey.

Proud to be Canadian!

My brother traced our family tree back to about 1812. Everyone was English except someone on my mother's side of the family who was a French officer. I don't know if he was an emigre royalist French or a captured Napoleonic French. Either way it's an interesting example of how ancestry is mixed even without obvious waves of migration.

I am of English descent with a quarter scottish and and eight spanish in me.

However my english family is odd when it comes to their past, my last name was originally jewish but was corrupted when said jewish family moved to scandinavia then came to england in 1066 in the form of french nobility and stayed in the north of england (sheffield/rotherham area) until the present day.

so really im english/french/scandinavian/jewish/scottish/spanish

No offence but your "noble viking" line made me lol a little.

I am 1 32nd part swedish and AM VERY PROUD OF MY HERITAGE. HINGE DINGE DURGA. Olaf svensson my great great great great etc. grandfather ftw.
otherwise, very english/scottish etc. can't really tell you much, because quite frankly, don't really know.

warpcrafter wrote:

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:I'm Irish, German, English, Italian, French and Dutch. Possibly a little bit scottish. To me they are all perfectly good heritages to party to.
But first and foremost, I'm an American. I don't care if you say "But you're not Native are you?". I was born here, hence I'm a native. I love this place, and don't want to give it up, for all it's flaws.

Damn right. The rest of the worlds hates us for being Americans. I say evil is better than incompetence, because at least that way you get credit.

QFT. Evil all the way.

My little family is the living definition of "American melting pot".
I am German,Native American & French.
My girlfriend is African American,Purteo Rican,Jewish & Irish.
Our children get to check almost every box on the "Ethnic decent" questionaire.

It's strange. Deep down I know hertitage and background is all a load of nonsense (in my opinion). However since I've started living in Korea I have, outwardly at least, become a lot more vocal about my heritage/nationality (which is Irish). Many Koreans are extremely patriotic, so I've reacted to their (occasionally overbearing) pride by re-affirming my own identity. But I don't really care.

Kilkrazy wrote:Let's remember all of us are descended from some monkeys in Africa.

Here we go again dispencing the monkey myth lie.

You can believe your descended from a monkey if you want to.

Anywhoo, I'm part French and Scotch-Irish.

My Great GrandFather was actually an officer in the French Army in WWI and WWII and also part of the French resistance'

GG

generalgrog wrote:
Here we go again dispencing the monkey myth lie.

Do you really need to bait everyone that mentions evolution?

I am just going to back Dogma up (in hopes that G-grog is joking) before the religious trump card gets this thread locked.

Believe what you want, but expecting rational people to bend over backwards for your views is just uncalled for... any people for that matter.

I want to be descended from these guys...



But in reality I know that I am not descended from a chimp (because of obvious timeline interferences... with the clock and the not happening really with the rhetoric and the stuff with the glass jars...) but in fact some form of primate that may have been an aquatic dwelling creature, or even a plain stomping one. Furthermore, I am a monkey currently, and the only thing that seems to make me "special" is a pretty large brain... and nothing to really do with it .

Humans actually evolved from clams, not monkeys.

I'm an American, though the breakdown of that for me is- Sicilian (funny story really), Dutch, German (we had a principality in the 1600's), more Dutch, Choctaw, Cherokee and English (I'm descended from a signer of the Declaration of Independence). I'm also half Okie.

Kilkrazy wrote:Let's remember all of us are descended from some monkeys in Africa.

And those monkeys were descended from pond-slime in the primordial soup!

Except Nick Griffin, MEP, Chairman of the BNP. He descended from an English monkey.

He is still pond-slime!

Hells yeah.

Wang Chi: Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run.
Jack Burton: May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.

I love being a melting pot.

Scotch-Irish.
yet to meet anyone from scotland that would describe themselves as an american translation of an alcoholic beverage, but you go guy, yay you!

Italian, Irish, Cherokee, British. I hate myself apparently.

dogma wrote:

generalgrog wrote:
Here we go again dispencing the monkey myth lie.

Do you really need to bait everyone that mentions evolution?

Maybe I was the one baited?

Or maybe I feel obligated to give another point of view? Just because I give my point of view, doesn't mean I'm baiting anyone.

GG

I'm of mostly german heritage with some russian and polish in me, maybe some others but I haven't gotten that much into the genealogy of my family.

I would like to make some tshirts that say "German pride" or "White pride" but apparently the latter is too racist, which is funny as I see Native Americans wearing shirts proclaiming "Native Pride" and nobody says anything about that.

I'm proud of who I am and my family, even if some of them are more than just a little insane. LOL

generalgrog wrote:
Maybe I was the one baited?

You can be baited without being addressed?

generalgrog wrote:
Or maybe I feel obligated to give another point of view? Just because I give my point of view, doesn't mean I'm baiting anyone.

GG

Another point of view would have been 'We are all descended from Adam and Eve'.

Calling evolution the 'monkey myth lie' is baiting.

But... it is an ice cold beer? NOT FAIR!!!

generalgrog wrote:Maybe I was the one baited?

Or maybe I feel obligated to give another point of view? Just because I give my point of view, doesn't mean I'm baiting anyone.

GG

He was stated a commonly accepted belief in order to make a point about meaningless ancestry is, and to make a dig at a well known racist. His acceptance of evolution is hardly contraversial and not the primary point being made.

If you or another Christians said something like 'I find my faith helps me keep on the straight and narrow' and other posters came in to say 'here we go again on the God myth'... people wouldn't think much of that poster. Don't be that guy.





Meanwhile, I don't have any pride in my ancestry. I've been told my background is made up of English, Irish and German, but I don't feel any connection to it. It seems to be an American thing to do, to create an identity out generations lapsed regional connections. Being a, Irish/Danish/Italian might feel better than being a middle class white suburbanite. Or perhaps it isn't so much an American thing as a geek thing... everytime I've seen this conversation its been on-line on a gaming board, which is why it seems to be Americans contributing.


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dogma wrote:Never particularly cared about ethnicity though, least of all the American version of that concept. I quietly laugh at all the Irish pride on St. Patty's and other, similar holidays.

It's the people who claim Scottish ancestry and wear kilts at their weddings that get me. Never been to Scotland, couldn't name a place in Scotland (other than maybe Loch Ness), but come wedding day out comes the kilt.

Its a general American thing. I can still remember writing heritage essays in grammar school.


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sebster wrote:
It's the people who claim Scottish ancestry and wear kilts at their weddings that get me. Never been to Scotland, couldn't name a place in Scotland (other than maybe Loch Ness), but come wedding day out comes the kilt.

Oh god yes. There's a town not far from my house that holds a festival of highland games every year. Its always billed as an authentic celebration of Scottish heritage. Really its just an excuse to throw around big logs, get drunk, and play Rugby. Though that might be a pretty accurate description of Scottish culture, minus the Rugby anyway.