Nationality of members

[prepstudinsc]

The generalization is why I put down my ethnic heritage. While I'm from the US, that isn't a nationality, it's just my country of citizenship. Most of the other choices were obviously nationalities, although one could be German and live in Spain, or could be Italian and live in Switzerland, etc., but the US is the veritable "melting pot" of all races and cultures.

 

[jonb]

Originally posted by ChimeraTX@May 28 2005, 11:46 AM
Hell, I don't blame them. We are the most retarded country on the face of the Earth.

(BTW, I love taking cheapshots at other countries too. C'mon... what are they going to do? We'll say they have WMDs and build a "coalition." )

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Hey, I have jokes about each individual province, such as how Alberta's the 51st state, or how people from British Columbia are all child molesters.

 

[ashlar]

I was born in America. My mothers side of the family are all from Poland, though my grandmother was born and raised in St. Dizer, France to Polish parents. My fathers side of the family I know less about, I know they are all slovac .. and thats about it. Some people say thats where I get my musical ability from ... gypsy blood or something.

 

[B_DoubleMeatWhopper]

Since Cuban was not an option, I had to abstain,

 

[ItsJustMe]

Born in New York and have lived on the east coast of the US my entire life. My family background is eastern European-- Russian and Polish.

 

[13788]

ravenously:

Originally posted by prepstudinsc@May 28 2005, 08:44 AM
I'm from the US, but I am of Italian, French, German, Irish, and Swiss heritage.

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Me too! All but the Italian

 

[Dr Rock]

Originally posted by ChimeraTX+May 28 2005, 07:36 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChimeraTX &#064; May 28 2005, 07:36 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Native Americans usually identify themselves by tribal affiliation, not by some erroneous continental grouping that assumes ethnic relatedness.[/b]

... you do know that native americans were isolated for the best part of 30,000 years, right? it wasn&#39;t until at most about 1500 years ago that asian colonists tried landing in north america, and even less time since europeans have done so.

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3 a : national status; specifically : a legal relationship involving allegiance on the part of an individual and usually protection on the part of the state b : membership in a particular nation[/quote]

 

[prepstudinsc]

Originally posted by ravenously+May 28 2005, 08:04 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ravenously &#064; May 28 2005, 08:04 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-prepstudinsc@May 28 2005, 08:44 AM
I&#39;m from the US, but I am of Italian, French, German, Irish, and Swiss heritage.

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Me too&#33; All but the Italian

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Cool deal. It&#39;s a good combo.

 

[black_hung]

I&#39;m born and bred in England. I&#39;m black.

 

[prepstudinsc]

Originally posted by ChimeraTX@May 28 2005, 09:23 PM
It&#39;s actually less than that, but the point is: you shouldn&#39;t try to equate a shared region to a shared nationality.

Do you believe "European" is a nationality?

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European is the same as saying American...it just refers to the continent on which you live. It&#39;s not a reference to a country or a nationality. One can be of Western or Eastern European heritage, but that is just to give a general idea of where your ancestors lived. I say I&#39;m a European mutt because it&#39;s easier than saying Italian, French, Irish, Swiss, and German, and it would clearly convey that I was not of Asian extraction or Native American or whatever.

Bottom line, I&#39;m from the US, and I&#39;m of Western European extraction.

 

[Knight]

I&#39;m English although I have been told I don&#39;t look English (insulting I know ) that would be the Italian lineage. Also I go very brown when I tan, Italian again. Yet I am really English, the Italian is very dilute...

 

[ashlar]

Originally posted by Knight@May 28 2005, 08:42 PM
I&#39;m English although I have been told I don&#39;t look English (insulting I know ) that would be the Italian lineage. Also I go very brown when I tan, Italian again. Yet I am really English, the Italian is very dilute...

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Either way your sexy, so who gives a shit

 

[Knight]

Hehe thanks You&#39;re not bad yourself, not bad at all

 

[ashlar]

Originally posted by Knight@May 28 2005, 08:52 PM
Hehe thanks You&#39;re not bad yourself, not bad at all

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*bows*
Why thank ye kind sir.

 

[ashlar]

Originally posted by ChimeraTX+May 28 2005, 08:54 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChimeraTX &#064; May 28 2005, 08:54 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-ashlar@May 28 2005, 08:47 PM
...so who gives a shit

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Real Englishmen, I imagine.

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Well everyone has to poo sometime I reckon.

 

[prepstudinsc]

Originally posted by ChimeraTX+May 28 2005, 09:54 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChimeraTX &#064; May 28 2005, 09:54 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-ashlar@May 28 2005, 08:47 PM
...so who gives a shit

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Real Englishmen, I imagine.

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Why do you say that Knight isn&#39;t a real Englishman? He&#39;s mostly of English heritage and he lives in England. I&#39;d call that English. The fact that he&#39;s part Italian just makes him sexy and gives him a big dick like the rest of us on the board who are part or full blooded Italian. LOL

 

[prepstudinsc]

Tell me what you&#39;d consider the royal family? They have all sorts of mixed blood in them...they are not purely English.

Sorry to be blunt, but I think your ideas of race are really whacked.

 

[Knight]

LOL well it was my great, great grandmother who was Italian...so I really am only a very small part (8 inches lol ) Italian...And I call myself English

 

[prepstudinsc]

Originally posted by ChimeraTX+May 28 2005, 10:23 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChimeraTX &#064; May 28 2005, 10:23 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-prepstudinsc@May 28 2005, 09:12 PM
Tell me what you&#39;d consider the royal family?  They have all sorts of mixed blood in them...they are not purely English.

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The royal family is just that: royal. I wouldn&#39;t apply the same standard to them as I would the average Englishman. AFAIK, they only have ancestry from Northwestern European countries though.
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The Brits here need to help me out, but if I remember correctly they are related to the royals of Spain. They&#39;ve got a lot of inbreeding, but I don&#39;t think that they are purely Northern European.


As to other people from Europe, the side of my family from Venice is actually partially from what is now Switzerland. To look at many northern Italians, they look Germanic because they often have German/Swiss/Austrian heritage mixed in.
In fact some of the regional dialects up there are a strange mix of Italian/German and the food is definitely influenced by central Europe, not by southern Europe.
They don&#39;t think of themselves as remotely related to the people of southern Italy.

I&#39;ve met some distant relatives from Italy and they were all very fair skinned, with light hair and light eyes. They don&#39;t look Italian at all.

 

[ItsJustMe]

Originally posted by ChimeraTX@May 28 2005, 10:06 PM
The Italians I&#39;ve seen don&#39;t look English, so he has unassimilable ancestry. I don&#39;t consider him English, just like I wouldn&#39;t consider immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants English.

This reminds me of something else. I&#39;m Jewish which is a religion but also a culture and, somewhat, an ethnic group. Over the course of my life I&#39;ve been told more times than I can count that I don&#39;t look Jewish (because I have blue eyes, fair skin, light colored hair) but since when does someone look a religion? Someone can look Italian or Swedish or Japanese or whatever but a religion?

Food for thought.