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07-24-2006, 10:52 AM
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They call me Tundra Boy
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: In your linen cupboard.
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The OH-SO FASCINATING ancestry or ethnicity thread.
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So, the question is, do you have any interesting family history, ancestry that you want to tell us about? Or have you been mistaken for anybody of another nationality or whatnot? Do you have a great-grandmother who went to Ireland once when she was a child, which means you're now 'Irish'? If so, for God's sake write about it here. Nowhere else. This thread! My anecdotes: I was walking through Delhi (as you do) when this skinny Indian dude runs up to me and introduces himself. He then tell me that the only reason he came up was that he thought I looked just like Shah Rukh Khan and felt it was important that he told me this. Shah Rukh Khan is Indian. I am blond. I wouldn't really say we look similar. Oh, also people from other countries tend to assume I'm Australian (my 'Australian accent' apparently') or Irish (no explanation on this one). They never seem to guess that I'm English, for some reason. I've got wonky teeth, so I would have thought it was obvious... This happens to me in the ****ing UK too!
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07-24-2006, 07:18 PM
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ashes against the grain
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: new hampsha
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Im Irish, of descent from Brian Boru. :0, and Scandanavian. French, and English.Oh and CANADIAN
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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. |
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07-24-2006, 07:36 PM
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killedmyraindog
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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Spanish, English, and Irish.
And I'd prefer that we americans get addressed as statesmen and not by our country, State to State, culture and politics change drastically. Im from Massachusetts, I hate when I get grouped in with other Americans from, say, South Dakota. We're not the same people.
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07-24-2006, 07:53 PM
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Full-Time Hellion
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: PA
Posts: 1,531
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I'm Japanese, Korean, Irish, Spanish, Morrocan, and Lebanese.
I can trace my ancestry back to the Spanish Inquisition on my father's side and I can go back as far as slavery in Japan on my mother's. I could probably trace my history back to the Moors if I wanted to . . but those people got around. To a lot of places. I look Asian, I can pass for white. Some people think I'm black, Puerto Rican and occasionally Mexican. And then there are some people that know I'm asian and can't believe it because "I'm too tall to be asian"
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07-24-2006, 09:51 PM
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butt say x
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: so i read the question as "Where YOU live" which was kinda funny instead of "Where you live"
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I'm Cherokee Indian (it doesn't show I get sunburn like a pale pasty fat white boy), Irish, and German.
So pretty much I got my land taken away from me, I then had to move back because my potatos were bad, and I tried to take over europe out of anger.
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