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ManiacalMadMan said:Quite clearly you are not actually READING the nonsense people have been writing here.
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I posted this thread (just so you understand my intent) in an effort to bring the board together in a commonality of connection through something we all share; an historical past.
Can we just fucking lighten up here?
The board, just prior to that, had been spiraling down to a polarization in which many - including myself - had taken part. It was as the Italians say "basta cosi" (enough already). Therefore I thought that since we all come from somewhere it would be a way for each of us to (if interested as I stated initially) to share what they knew about their own individual history.
Early on in the thread you came in to state you had no interest as is your prerogative. Good for you. Now it appears you do have interest - negative interest.
But many here (and certainly it's true of me) have a keen interest in genealogy as you'll note by the varying responses of all kinds irrespective of nationality and ethnicity.
Seems we do have something pervasively alike: we all come from a history uniquely our own which unites us in the greater spectrum of humankind.
I am not upset or bothered by persons who have a genuine interest in their heritage, what I do not like about the entire heritage through genealogy matter is the fuckfaced idiots who use it as a way of holding themselves up as better than others
I'm not sure what you mean by 'heritage through genealogy'. But if you suggest that it doesn't exist I say that's untrue. I have a heritage that gives me a sense of self. One of the things I value most about my upbringing is that it was implied throughout it that "you come from fine people". Sometimes it was outright stated. But it was not stated as arrogance. It was a standard to which to aspire. And when, if tempted to make a questionable choice growing up, I found myself in a moral dilemma I recall consciously thinking "my mother and father would be ashamed of me". It's made an immense difference to my life.
Among my own direct ancestors/collateral relatives I have:
Bastards (literally and figuratively)
Colonial American Governors
Revolutionary War Heroes
American Statesmen
Ne'er-do-well privateers
French Huguenots who found safe harbor on these shores
Lesbians and at least three generations of homosexual males who precede me
(and that just touches on the varying types of those I've discovered)
Many who've posted here appear to have a historical past in which they find a sense of history and identity too.
I haven't seen one poster who's 'used it as a way of holding themselves up as better than' anyone. What I've seen is a sharing of differing histories that may (just may mind you if you'll allow it) serve to inform those of us who only know a great deal about our own historical genealogy about a greater reality in those who share their own unique backgrounds.
For instance: I've already learned much from the posts of Gisella and Dr. Dilz about South American ancestries and how the mixing of indigenous peoples and immigrants from Africa and Europe has brought about some of the extremely nifty people we now know as Argentinians, Brazilians, etc...
For you to heave cold water on the thing is, I think, a shitty thing to do.
Here's a thought; if you have no interest in it why not leave the thread to those significantly posting here who do?
Your posts smack of sour grapes.