Your Ancestry - Page 5

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I thought that German and Scandinavian people are particularly fair skinned.

+1, in this country your family coming over does not give you a gold star, especially these days when we have record numbers of people coming over. Knowing where you came from is something you should know though. It is kind of bullshit though because the whole planet is conquered land, so why would you want to refer to yourself by anything other than the country that raised you? Even more annoying is when I hear, oh you're X... I'm Y... really?! Wow they aren't the same, and we only speak English, but at least we aren't blonde hair blue eyes!




This would make them, CACA, sounds about right....



I think he was being facetious, maybe you're just black from the waist down?

In any case, I'm 50% German, 25% British, rest Cajun French/American Indian.

I get that a lot! Maybe in a past life I was... I'm 1/2 Italian, 1/4 German, 1/4 Irish (Mother's Italian, father's half German, half Irish).

I don't know how someone can say they 100% pure anything. Its just not possible.

There's far too many movements within populations and mixing to be pure anything.

I notice there are number of internet sites where you can get DNA analysed. Not sure how accurate they are. But if they were done properly you would get some interesting if not suprising results.

Yeah, it is silly, but accurate. I always say I'm American unless someone asks for the ethnic break down, which I usually just say German, even though I associate much more with the English since I actually live with those fools.

African (Ibo more than likely), Irish, and Creek on my mother's side; African (Akan, Yoruba?), English, Cherokee on my father's side.

I know it's been brought up before in some huge thread; but, why is it that Jews feel their faith can be used for their nationality/ancestry/lineage?

Because "jewish" unlike other faiths is actually an ethnicity, as in, part of your DNA. If you are born of a mother with jewish blood, then you are a Jew.

So what about that whole thing of converting to Judiasm and becoming a Jew....?

Then you'd be a Jew by faith, not an ethnic one. I think many/most european jews and most Israelis are ethnically jewish, including the many Russian/Soviet immigrants.

However if you have converted to judaism by faith and now walk around saying you're jewish, then that's a little weird (but more just really sad). That goes for anyone who walks around saying that they are something they really aren't, or are at least tenuously connected with. I just love when clearly middle class people talk about how just a few generations ago, their family was from X royal family.

No no I mean my dad isn't German -- he's only half German, and the other half Irish, so I'm 1/4 German, 1/4 Irish, and half Italian. And if we were to extrapolate it further, we'd see that I'm also 1/8 Norwegian, 1/8 Flemish, 1/16th Korean and 1/16th Japanese. Although you couldn't tell by looking at me.

Go to some place like Aquitibuie though and try to run your fishing boat on a Sunday. When you go to sell your catch, you'll quickly learn how history gets quantified there Or maybe a little chorus of "A Nation Once Again" amongst the Celtic fans at a Celtics vs. Rangers match in Glasgow?