What is Your Heritage?

Discussion in 'The Hip Polls' started by lunarflowermaiden, Apr 29, 2007.

  1. newbie-one

    newbie-one one with the newbiverse

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    there's no reason for you to be ashamed of being german

    usually the main reason people feel that way is because of the holocaust/wwII.

    there is nothing genetic about the german people that caused the holocaust. essentially any country in the world can be taken over by evil people under the wrong circumstances, and that is the principle lesson that we should take away.
     
  2. leatheranne

    leatheranne Member

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    German not listed??
     
  3. BeachBall

    BeachBall Nosey old moo

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    Not to those of us who know the history of these islands, it doesn't!

    "British" refers to the indigenous peoples of the British Isles, who were here before the Romans arrived ... the Celtic peoples. So the Scots, Irish, Welsh and Cornish are properly "British" (which is why I always find it hilarious when Scottish nationalists reject the word British ... )

    "Anglo-Saxon" refers to the Germanic invaders (Angles, Saxons and Jutes) who arrived after the Romans had departed, and whose incomplete conquest of the British isles drove the British people to the Western and Northern extremities of these islands.

    (Gildas has a few entertaining observations on this process ... )
     
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  4. Shin Sir

    Shin Sir Member

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    African and Native American.
     
  5. RickyRicardo

    RickyRicardo Member

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    In the other category. Portuguese heritage as far as the eye can see.
     
  6. shoeless joe

    shoeless joe Member

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    Irish, Scottish, Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scots), Welsh, English, and German.
     
  7. -Yggdrasil-

    -Yggdrasil- Einherjar

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    Polish and Dutch.
     
  8. -Yggdrasil-

    -Yggdrasil- Einherjar

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    Rubbish.

    That actually annoys me. Don't lower yourself to a standard the rest of the world wants you at. If you're German you're German, nothing wrong with that. Y'all marched across our borders a long time ago and I sit here today with a salute to you and my hand offering friendship.
     
  9. adityananda

    adityananda Guest

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    l am asian(from India).
     
  10. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    At least she's not french :D
     
  11. dethmetalchick

    dethmetalchick VaknaĆ°i

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    Mostly Swedish, with 1 grandparent who was half English
     
  12. DrewSpeaksTrue

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    My mom is from French Canadian catholic stock and my dads side is French Canadian Calvinist and first wave English puritan. Boil on great melting pot.
     
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  13. smoothntan

    smoothntan Banned

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    Funny , why would you say that?

    A Polish Father and a German Mother. A product of Die Jungend. And, I AM VERY PROUD!!!!!
     
  14. Flagme15

    Flagme15 Members

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    English, German, and American Indian(Cherokee)
     
  15. BlondeSunshine

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  16. dogsy64

    dogsy64 Guest

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    Half English and German. But when I saw a dermatologist he said I had typical German skin, so I guess I am German.
     
  17. AstralBear

    AstralBear Feed the Bear

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    California Miwok, Cherokee, Italian, and a dash of Irish and German.
     
  18. Jenny40

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    Going back just three generations I am a mix of Silesian and Prussian genes. Both don't exist anymore and are consumed in modern Poland and Germany. My husband is 50% English, 25% Welsh, 25% Irish.

    Our kids? Let you work that gene pool out.
     
  19. snowtiggernd

    snowtiggernd Member

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    Norwegian.
     
  20. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    hessian, scott, onondagwa, and polish jew. all multiple generations in the u.s. before i was born. (well onondagwa/hedenosani, were here thousands of years before there was a u.s. that was my father's mother's mother. his mother's father was the scott, my mom's side came here after the pogroms and before the holocaust. my father's father's father's father, however many generations, was nathian teal, head of the hessian military contractors hired by the british, also before there was a u.s.)
     

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