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.
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 ... )
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.
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.
Funny , why would you say that? A Polish Father and a German Mother. A product of Die Jungend. And, I AM VERY PROUD!!!!!
Half English and German. But when I saw a dermatologist he said I had typical German skin, so I guess I am German.
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.
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.)