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Strike For The South

01-07-2007, 20:34

Most American whites are mutts after years of interbreeding the result is the most powerful country in the wrold inhabited bt blonde blue eyed intellgent people. I will ask though with which of your ethnicites do you asscotie the most with? For me it'd probably be the :england: side of me becuase I know the most about them followed by the :italy: becuase Im a 2nd generation immagrant and I dont tell anyone about the :france: side of me.

IrishArmenian

01-07-2007, 20:58

Well, it all depends on what stands out the most. Take myself for instance. Everyone I grew up with were Armenian, so they identified me as the part that stuck out, the Irish half of me.
Now, most Southerners are in fact mostly Scottish/French descendants. The Scots were given tiny, tiny farms in the South after the English took it, but the French had giant estates leftover from the French colonisation of the south. In fact, many CSA generals are of French descent. AS much as you hate to say, many Southerners have some French in them, and I'll bet you are part native American.

Major Robert Dump

01-07-2007, 21:38

not to undermine your thread or your question, but this is the very crap that fuels the whole "diversity in the school/workplace/country" arguments and quite frankly I don't give jack squat what I or anyone else is, as long as their actions, goals and dreams are honest and noble. I know that sounds gay.

I'm German, Cherokee, Kiowa. I don't know anything about my ancestors past a few generations ago because its moot. moot moot moot. Everything changes. If things go the way they are now, it looks like I'll be marrying a korean/jewish girl. Go figure. We can all try to mix with our kind, but in the end the melting pot blows it out your butts.

Lemur

01-07-2007, 21:42

Like so many Americans, I am a proud mutt. My namesakes arrived here with the second wave of Jamestown colonists in 16-something, part of the bunch of losers who were sent to look for all of the gems and silver they just knew were in Virginia. My favorite bit of family trivia is that King James, frustrated with the lack of gems and silver coming from Jamestown, wrote to warn the colonists that if they did not produce a profit he would "cast them off as broken men."

My family's been marrying other mutts and making bad investments pretty much ever since. Hooray for the American mutt!

Strike For The South

01-07-2007, 22:22

Devastatin Dave

01-07-2007, 22:29

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Happy to oblige white boy. :) ~Kukri

Marshal Murat

01-07-2007, 23:29

I'm practically British.
Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English, (everything 'cept Cornish), Cherokee, and some Franco-German.

I'd identify Scottish, just 'cause I've got bagpipes.

JimBob

01-07-2007, 23:49

Probably the Dane and Irish in me cause that's what's most. Besides that its probably the .00001 percent Cree and French from my earliest ancestors.

Ice

01-08-2007, 01:17

50% Italian (Naples)
25% German (Dresden)
20% Welsh (No Idea)
5% Irish (No Idea)

BigTex

01-08-2007, 01:34

25% Texan
15% Texan
10% Texan
50% American

PanzerJaeger

01-08-2007, 04:46

Prussian or more generically German...

Martok

01-08-2007, 06:18

I'm a mutt as well, although all my genetics originates from northern Europe - anyone who sees me can pretty much tell at a glance that I'm of mostly Nordic descent. On my mom's side, I'm mostly Norwegian with a dash of Swedish thrown in (my grandfather's grandfather was apparently from somwhere around Stockholm). On my dad's side, it's a smorgasboard: a bit of English, a bit of Irish, a bit of Danish, and a bit of German.

I probably identify with my Norwegian heritage the most, as do many of my fellow Minnesotans -- aside from Norway itself, we have more people of Norwegian descent than anywhere else on earth. May 17th is celebrated in many municipalities througout the state (including my mom's hometown), and the Norwegian government has a consulate office in Minneapolis.

I also have a pretty strong fascination with Celtic culture, but I'm not sure if I can attribute that soley to my Irish heritage.

Kagemusha

01-08-2007, 13:38

I was looking this map of the ethnic backround of the US people and it seems you are mostly Germans rather then British.I see only 3 states which population have majority of English ancestry. Why have you been so shush hush about this all this time?Only joking only joking.:laugh4: Here is a link to the map i was looking:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg

yesdachi

01-08-2007, 14:57

I am a redheaded white boy with Scottish, Irish, English, French and Austrian roots but more Native American in him than any other (total mutt) so naturally I identify with black Asians. ~D

I guess because I have very little connection to my heritage I identify mostly with all the other white mutts out there, however I am a redhead and although not treated as differently as another race I do feel that I standout in my crowd. Saying that makes me now feel like I deserve something from the man. :laugh4:

Samurai Waki

01-08-2007, 19:31

Anglo-Saxon. (Only British and German Heritage)

Daughters are going to be mutts though, because it will add in Iranian, Turkish, and Italian into the gene pool.

drone

01-08-2007, 19:57

Typical mutt of European descent, mainly Scots-Irish, Anglo, German, with sprinkles of others. Being raised Presbyterian, I tend to identify with the Scots-Irish the most. And yes, I don't know how to dance. ~D

Vladimir

01-08-2007, 20:52

After the battle of Midway, Churchill refered to us as the "American race." That's my ethnicity.

PanzerJaeger

01-08-2007, 22:44

ajaxfetish

01-08-2007, 22:53

:wales:
The one I most identify with, and the source of my name

:england:
:denmark:
Other major contributors

:unitedstates:
The end result

Ajax

Kanamori

01-09-2007, 13:39

In order: :germany: :france: :switzerland: :scotland:

naut

01-09-2007, 13:47

You can apply this to any colonised (post-colonised) state really.

caravel

01-09-2007, 14:08

You can apply this to any colonised (post-colonised) state really.
Indeed. So that's....

All of us... :yes:

Louis VI the Fat

01-09-2007, 14:28

For me it'd probably be the :england: side of me becuase I know the most about them followed by the :italy: becuase Im a 2nd generation immagrant and I dont tell anyone about the :france: side of me.Ah, so that explains you occasionally overcoming your inner redneck to display moments of artistic brilliance....:beam:

Prussian You mean you're genetically mostly Slavic then? :sweatdrop:

naut

01-09-2007, 15:15

You mean you're genetically mostly Slavic then? :sweatdrop:
Not a wise path to tread there it would seem. :laugh4:

Yeh, I was going to add similar in my post Caravel, but I thought some would find it too presumptuous. But, you are absolutely right we are all a mix of different ethnicities. The only way to prevent such a happening was if we we're so horribly inbred that we could not claim to have a family tree but rather a family figure of eight. :dizzy2:

doc_bean

01-09-2007, 17:09

Being a Belgian I am the bastard child of every invader that ever came our way :2thumbsup:

Vuk

01-09-2007, 17:12

I am half English, part Serb, part Italian (Sicilian actually), part Irish, a quarter Norwegian, part Scottish (unfortuanetly :D), part Russian, part Jewish, and part German.

AntiochusIII

01-09-2007, 19:37

Like I said, I'm Cyrodiilic.

My race is the Imperial Race. Fear our name.

Strike For The South

01-10-2007, 02:15

Ah, so that explains you occasionally overcoming your inner redneck to display moments of artistic brilliance....:beam:

Yesir

Divinus Arma

01-10-2007, 02:29

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Vuk

01-10-2007, 02:56

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I never did know, what exactly does "Cracker" (Not sure if I spelled that right) mean?

Strike For The South

01-10-2007, 03:50

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My user title says it all!!!!!!!!!

PanzerJaeger

01-10-2007, 04:24

You mean you're genetically mostly Slavic then?

Not as far as I can trace back. I do not have blonde hair or blue eyes either, so its a possibility.

Strike For The South

01-10-2007, 04:49

Not as far as I can trace back. I do not have blonde hair or blue eyes either, so its a possibility.

What does that have to do with being German? Look at Germans!

BigTex

01-10-2007, 05:01

Why suddenly stop tracing your lineage back to the slavic? Inevitably we're all African's. Calling oneself german, italian or english is just a way to say you are one of that group. Me, I'm an American-Texan. Born and raised in America, and so have all my family who are alive today, no need to trace it back further then that. No need to say I am one of another group.

American, it's as much a race as english.

Sensei Warrior

01-10-2007, 07:08

Idaho

01-10-2007, 12:44

(points and laughs at the yanks trying to lay claim to some real heritage)

~;)

Banquo's Ghost

01-10-2007, 13:45

(points and laughs at the yanks trying to lay claim to some real heritage)

~;)

I'm not sure that statement is much of an addition to a good-natured thread, even with the smiley.

Let's not rise to any bait being offered, folks.

:bow:

Sigurd

01-10-2007, 14:25

Looking at the map provided by Kage... (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg)
I see 34 counties with a Norwegian majority.
Come back to the old country, there is no need to live in exile any more ya dumb foo's.
Besides our slush fund (herafter called the Pension fund) will ensure a good life as a senior. It has doubled since the last time I posted its value.. now it is 2000 billion. (2 trillion)
Haul your backsides back to your roots... we need workers here. We can't employ half of sweden...

PanzerJaeger

01-10-2007, 22:37

What does that have to do with being German? Look at Germans!

Indeed. I believe Louis assumed I would be embarrassed to have slavic genes as the Pure German race espoused by the Nazis was definitely not slavic in any aspect.

As I have said many times in the past however, I do not support those ideologies, so such a thing does not bother me in the slightest.

My family has been German in nationality, culture and ethnicity for as far back as I can trace - far before Germany was even a nation. Whether my genes are scandinavian, slavic, or whatever, makes no difference to me. :yes:

ajaxfetish

01-10-2007, 22:57

(points and laughs at the yanks trying to lay claim to some real heritage)

~;)
America--polyglot nation of Brits, Slavs, Italians, Irish, Hispanics, Greeks, assorted other Europeans, Asians, Africans, Polynesians, and Native Americans.

England--polyglot nation of Celts (and perhaps earlier tribal groups), Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norse, Norman French, and assorted other groups.

In the end we're both mutts. ~:)

Ajax

Sensei Warrior

01-11-2007, 01:49

(points and laughs at the yanks trying to lay claim to some real heritage)

~;)

I don't know if this will be considered taking the bait so feel free to remove if need be. I definately don't want to be starting any forest fires around here.

I took Big Tex's point to mean that some of us Americans have been 'in country' so long, how do we identify with another culture we barely know about, and haven't been practicing?

For instance my family has been living in the USA since a time when it wasn't the USA yet. I am of Scot, Welsh, English, French, and Native American descent, along with a smattering of others that have been lost to the annals of time. I grew up in Middle class suburbia, English is my first language, went to public school, and can only assume did very American things.

Don't drink tea, I prefer coffee, don't celebrate Guy Fawke's day, failed French in school, don't even know what persuasion of Native American I am, and football to me involves touchdowns not goals.

Since I am most definately of mixed lineage, what other option do I have? I can only identify with one culture, and that's an American one. I think alot of people in the USA feel the exact same way. If they are more then a couple of generations removed from their parent culture or if they have have intermingled with a number of other cultures then they typically either consider themselves lost, or just American. AKA the hyphen falls off of their identity. No more Euro-American, or Afro-American, of Middle Eastern-American, just American.

As an extra aside, I find it humourous that you're from Exeter, but your handle is the name of a state in the USA. I always assumed you were from Boise or something.

Motep

01-11-2007, 01:57

I am:

mostly: :germany: :canada: + :france: (french canadian) grovon indian, :ireland:

Others:
:norway: :russia: :poland: :luxembourg: :lithuania: :netherlands: :wales: :unitedkingdom: :spain: :switzerland: :sweden: :denmark: :belgium: :finland: and several native american tribes, such as the grovon, chrokee, blackfoot, and a coule others I cant quite remember...

Don Corleone

01-11-2007, 02:59

My ancestors were Irish (actually Kagemusha, I think there's more Irish descendants than any other group in America, even Germans) and Italian.

I am American. Despite Idaho's rather self-opinionated diatribe above, having been to Ireland and Italy, I'd say my ancestors made the right decision. Charming countries, both, but I'm much happier here at home and convinced that they made the right decision.

Marshal Murat

01-11-2007, 03:47

While I'm American, I enjoy celebrating what heritage I have. While it's great to eat McDonalds, watch Football (TOUCHDOWN!), and await the next sorta crazy think Bush is gonna do, its refreshing and albiet pride filled to call myself Scottish.
I enjoy
1.Playing Great Highland Bagpipes
2.Wearing a kilt
3.Talking with an attempt at a Scottish brogue

Whether I'm more English than Scottish, I don't care.
I've got some Scottish blood in me, and its always fun to go bagpiping in parades and really get into the culture. Since we are such a polygot, everyone becomes the same (in a way) so we all choose something to identify with to fit a specialized group.
Any sociologist that can comment?

IrishArmenian

01-11-2007, 04:00

A piper in Florida, what a novelty! Good stuff, the pipes. I'll have my wife contact you for any funerals in the family, granted you can play the uilean pipes, and fly to Armenia...and are ok with lcopius amounts of Vodka...and Stout-Vodka Boilermakers...and Armenian Cognac...and other celebratory things, seeing as we view funerals mostly as celebrations of life and we have less mourning.

Kanamori

01-11-2007, 05:58

It is of course plainly obvious that the nations from which your ancestors came say practically nothing about the actual ethnicity or about the general peoples, celtic or germanic tribes or whatever, that make up a person's heritage, if that can be somehow traced with any accuracy... My family members once lived somewhere else... but then that points the meaninglessness of nations... can't do that.