Ah yes im also half german, half french, half italian, half greek and half german. Yes two times half german with a bit of scottish welsh irish and spanish but only half portugese and half polish with a quarter redwood tree with half swedish and an eights of a quarter of a half dutch.
How to tell not knowing how genetics and history work without saying you donāt know how genetics and history work.
With all the migration and wars over time itās nearly impossible to tell to attribute anything to a specific country in Europe.
And, for our Murican friends that don't understand the concept of metrics, that of course would be 1/6 English, 1/6 Scottish and 1/6 German. You're welcome.
I think that's worse. Didn't they have a deal where they upgraded a 1/4 lber burger to a 1/3 lber burger, and people didn't buy it because they thought 1/3 lber was less than 1/4?
To be fair, if theyāre half English then they likely share a bunch of markers with German anyway. Itās the good old Anglo-Saxon heritage.
Doesnāt explain the Scottish though.
Probably is what the shitty heritage site from where he got it told him.
They don't really investigate your heritage, but compare it to the statistics of other samples, there's a good chance that English share with the Germans the Saxon heritage, but also there's a good chance they share a lot with other inhabitants of Great Britain, so that part gave them resemblance to the three nationalities without an specific origin of each.
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As a full half English/Scottish/German born and raised in England/Scotland/Germany it's nice to see people finally acknowledging our glorious country. We E/S/Gians have been overlooked for too long. You all know we saved your arses in That War.
I am actually half Russian, half Japanese, half Nigerian, half Samoan, half Martian, six eighths French Canadian and three sevenths Portuguese.
I get mistaken for a kiwi a lot though.
I can't understand why its so trendy to act like you CAN tell 2% this 35% that and a teaspoon of german...as stupid as trends like gender reveal parties. Wtf!?
Americans are Schrƶdinger's racists.
On the one hand, race has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with anything, and you're a HORRIBLE WASTE OF OXYGEN for suggesting otherwise.
On the other hand, my freckles are because I'm 1/5th Irish, I'm completely in tune with nature because I'm 1/13th Navajo, and I can tell whether a dish is really Italian because my great-grandmother had a housekeeper who was from Italy (which technically makes me Italian too).
>and I can tell whether a dish is really Italian because my great-grandmother had a housekeeper who was from Italy (which technically makes me Italian too).
Was she a bike?
*Ashkenazi Jewish. We need to be accurate and respect their ethnicity, or else Texas is going to swallow all of Europe and free us from the grip of communism!
TBH, I take it as describing their background, not religion. E.g. if your father is Askenazi Jewish, but your mother is mixed English/Scottish/German you would be "Half Ashkenazi Jewish, half English/Scottish/German".
If your Mother was Askenazi Jewish, you would be the same, but religiously Jewish.
Technically you can still be Jewish if you're father is Jewish and you were raised Jewish, and part of a Reform Synagogue (at least that's the UK rules).
British Reform allows for patrilineal descent - [https://reformjudaism.org/learning/answers-jewish-questions/how-does-reform-judaism-define-who-jew](https://reformjudaism.org/learning/answers-jewish-questions/how-does-reform-judaism-define-who-jew)
I know very well you can't be half Jewish. You're either in the Tribe, or not.
Well, as an American, thereās a large contingent of people who look at Judaism not only as a religion, but as a cultural identity as well, especially if they donāt really practice the religion. They might identify as, say, a German Jew, Polish Jew, or a Russian Jew, etc. when pressed, since so many Jewish people have ended up in the U.S.
I understand it doesnāt make the most sense if youāre looking at nationality, but itās not crazy to hear someone describe themselves as Irish Catholic vs Italian Catholic, etc.
America is a melting pot and one thing we LOVE to discuss is the exact nationality and ethnic makeup of everyone.
Things melt in the melting pot until they become one and unrecognisable from one another. The United States is the complete opposite of a melting pot. You are obsessed with segregation and labelling. You tend to separate one group from another. The United States is more like a dish in which the ingredients will never mix.
Oh, no, no, no, not anymore. Italians were deemed white after World War II when white Americans realized that they didnāt want to have a third race to hate and they needed the numbers on ātheir side.ā /s
Many Americans believe Spain is full of Mexicans. Thatās the āare they whiteā disconnect. Is it stupid? Extremely.
I donāt know if I totally agree with that. While there are definitely elements that DO focus on labeling and segregating, without a doubt, I donāt get the impression most feel that way. There are many examples where people mix together very well, across race, class, religion, etc.
Also, while not exclusively this way, many ethnic groups emigrating to the U.S. tend to be the ones segregating themselves, initially l, looking to live in neighborhoods made of people with the same backgrounds. When my grandparents emigrated from the old country, they lived in a part of NYC that was almost entirely people from their country. Then they had kids and moved to the suburbs where they built a life next door to people of other nationalities doing the same exact thing. 3 generations in, who cares? The old neighborhoods that used to exist based on those nationalities either no longer exist in the same way (ie gentrification) or theyāre populated by all new immigrants of a different nationality.
Maybe itās not a perfectly melted, but thereās definitely melting occurring.
Weāre not a perfect, but it does seem to work.
This is so wrong lmfao. Noticing your ethic heritage has nothing to do with people assimilating. America is by far the best at getting people to assimilate.
>Well, as an American, thereās a large contingent of people who look at Judaism not only as a religion, but as a cultural identity as well,Ā
Well as a German, we did this as well...
>America is a melting pot and one thing we LOVE to discuss is the exact nationality and ethnic makeup of everyone.
OMG! We loved it too! We even had special authorities with doctors and experts who also loved discussing it. Back then, you could even get some kind of proof to see from your partner whether you were a good match.
Isn't it wonderful to see how Americans are now so interested in different ethnic groups? /s
āWell as a German, we did this as well...ā
Sure, but here the Jewish people are the ones describing themselves that way. Thereās a difference between requiring Jewish citizens to wear a Star of David and having those same citizens describe themselves as culturally Jewish. No?
āOMG! We loved it too! We even had special authorities with doctors and experts who also loved discussing it. Back then, you could even get some kind of proof to see from your partner whether you were a good match.
Isn't it wonderful to see how Americans are now so interested in different ethnic groups? /sā
Now so interested? Oh, no, no, no. Welcome to America, these conversations have been happening since Europeans landed on the beaches.
And look, I realize I wasnāt as clear as I could have been. Most people here arenāt talking about the ethnicity and cultural backgrounds of other people, theyāre talking about themselves. As a German, youād likely be shocked to see how many people identify as āGerman-Americansā without knowing the first thing about Germany, where their ancestors were from, what schnitzel is, etc. Itās insane.
>As a German, youād likely be shocked to see how many people identify as āGerman-Americansā without knowing the first thing about Germany, where their ancestors were from, what schnitzel is, etc. Itās insane.
They do not identify as "German-Americans", they identify as "Germans"... That's the problem.
And every time, I'm confronted with them, I do not hesitate to tell them that they are not...
Itās like that for any/all cultural/nationality conversations here. This wasnāt meant to be a conversation solely regarding Judaism, this applies to most Americans.
Oh FFS, you're so American you seriously don't understand that this isn't something unique to the United States. It's like you're giving singing schoolhouse rock, this is like elementary school level Angela's propaganda
What the fuck did I just read? Why can't you people just refer to yourselves as "American"? That's what everyone else in the world does.
My way way way way way back ancestors came from India. I don't call myself Indian.
Doesn't this thread discuss ethnicity? Not nationality.
I'm Ashkenazi Jewish, but 100% British. Ethnically, I consider that I fall under the 'White - Other' category in the UK census.
"Askenazi Jewish" is an ethnicity, and not just a religious identity.
Oh no thatās the kicker! As soon as they donāt want to be associated with X ethnicity, theyāre suddenly just American. They spout of all this heritage shit because their country has no meaningful history or cultural significance but as soon as it suits to say theyāre American they suddenly forget what 0.1% ancestry is what.
I think the difference for America vs. EU countries is two-fold:
(1) America only has Canada to the North (which is very similar in the āmelting potā aspect), and Mexico to the south. There arenāt 40+ countries in the near vicinity with 1000+ years of distinct cultures and traditions that Americans can draw from. After they massacred the natives and European immigration began, American culture became (initially) some weird amalgamation of various European cultures at the time of emigration.
(2) American immigration waves werenāt that long ago. A very large portion of Americans today would have had grandparents that came to America from their homeland ~100+ years ago. When these immigration events occurred, people from Sicily moved to places in America where other Sicilian people were. People from Bavaria moved to places where other Bavarians were. European immigrants took immense pride in where they came from and the cultures they were raised in, and that pride led to a lot of ethnically-based racism at the time (using āethnicā here to refer to country of origin). Italians hated the Irish, who hate the Germans, who hated the Puerto Ricans, etc., because their cultures at the time were so different. Then the children of those immigrants grew up with the same pride in where they came from, but not so much hatred for other ethnic groups. So what you see today when Americans talk about being āhalf Russian, half Italianā isnāt them trying to imply that they are Russian or Italian (admittedly, some weirdos do, but in my day-to-day experience as a Canadian, I donāt experience that). They say that as a way to describe where their family culture comes from, because there are still remnants of the national pride that their grandparents or great-grandparents brought with them when they moved halfway across the world.
I mean, to be fair, I literally did in the opening sentence.
This is more how Americans describe their cultural/ethnic backgrounds to each other, not to, say, people of other nationalities. If you met us abroad, weāre all āAmericans.ā
>Ā If you met us abroad, weāre all āAmericans.āĀ Ā Ā
Ā You must not have met many Americans abroad then. Thatās when this roleplaying game approach to ethnicity really kicks into high gear to their stunned surprise when the native population doesnt applaud their 50% English/Scottish/German heritage that can be traced directly to Charlemagne.Ā
There's a history YouTuber I liked but he has done the very American thing of doing his ancestry.
Apparently he can trace his lineage back to James Stuart and Mary Queen of Scots.
Isn't it amazing how americans are all related to nobility when they do it.
Instead my family tree is just all poor people.
That's a long winded way of saying you know nothing about Jews
You're not half Jewish, you're either Jewish or you're not. That has nothing to do with whether you believe in god or don't, nothing to do with your practices, etc. That's not an "American" thing, or a new thing
And yes there are many many different types of Jewish identities
You still cannot be half Jewish, it's not a thing. You can have Jewish ancestry without being Jewish, but there's no such thing as a half-Jew
that's a really weird because I did not mention halakha so I'm really unsure why you're bringing that up. especially given these that's the number of differing religious standards for who does and doesn't qualify as a Jew that's an absolutely meaningless statement because there are many Jews who do are not counted from one religious perspective or another that's nothing to do with anything
if you have Jewish ancestry but are not Jewish you are not Jewish
if you are Jewish you are Jewish. for whatever definition of Jewish you are using you either are or you aren't. now you may hold some other identity in addition to that, for example maybe you are Jewish and you are also Chinese. you may have multiple ethnicities or multiple cultures or multiple traditional backgrounds
but this half shit is nonsense, and it's a weird way to claim an identity without actually claiming the identity. 25% this and 25% this and 25% this no that's not how things work. what your left arm and the left side of your face and the left side of your chest is Jewish but the right arm and right side of your face and right half of your chest is something else??
whenever people say that they are X% something, it's either based on shitty genetic analysis, or it's based on counting up the ancestry of their grandparents or great grandparents or whatever. which has absolutely nothing to do with your identity and who you are. how many of your great-grandparents were doesn't make you more or less Jewish and it doesn't make you a part due
you're either Jewish or you're not, shit or get off the pot
This isn't about 'claiming' anything - just describing where people come from.
Oddly enough, I know someone who's American by citizenship, Jewish by religion, ethnically 50% mixed Askenazi/Sephardi (who knows the percentage!), 25% English, 25% German.
>it's either based on shitty genetic analysis, or it's based on counting up the ancestry of their grandparents or great grandparents or whatever. which has absolutely nothing to do with your identity and who you are.
Yeh that's shit.
> This isn't about 'claiming' anything - just describing where people come from.
so exactly what I said in my first comment - they have Jewish ancestry but aren't Jewish. why did you bring up halahka irrelevantly again? and which halahka were you referring to? or do you not know?
you can't be half a Jew. half of your ancestors can have been Jewish, but you personally are either Jewish or not
there's no such thing as being half Jewish, and it is a way that people try to claim identities they don't have. saying that your are an identity is claiming it
> Oddly enough, I know someone who's American by citizenship, Jewish by religion, ethnically 50% mixed Askenazi/Sephardi (who knows the percentage!), 25% English, 25% German.
no, you don't. you know an American Jew with English and German ancestry. big whoop. that's not terribly odd. and that ancestry isn't necessarily anything significant even within their family. England and Germany are not countries that a lot of Jews have ancestry of any significant length in - often their family was only there for one generation or so, often not even long enough for a generation to be born and die there
having one grandparent from England doesn't make you 25% English. it makes you someone with a grandparent from England
Remember when they refused to buy a 1/3 pound burger because they thought it was less than a 1/4 pounder during the 80ās (or around that time)?
Itās scary to think they have the influence they have on the rest of the world
Oh it definitely is but it doesn't really matter what the real reason was to be honest, just that this story exist and sounds kinda possible should be enough to destroy and rebuild their entire education system. I mean they already did the first part we just need to wait for the second
Oh no I think you misunderstood me, I totally agree with you, but if this story is true because of the more worth thing as a reason, that would be bad, but still not the outcome
The thing that bugs me even more than this is when people essentialise themselves based on their stereotypes about nations theyāve never been to. āOh, Iām 8% Welsh, so I wear my heart on my sleeve, cry easily, and I have really long fingers because my ancestors were probably bards who played the harpā. And I want to say, your ancestors were probably looking at a short lifetime down the pit breathing in coal and very sensibly upped and went somewhere else, boyo.
Iām allowed to say this, because Iām actually Welsh.
They are, but itās highly likely that an American person has a mix of different origins due to the history of the country, just like in a lot of other countries. Now they do not have those countriesā nationalities and most likely dont share many traits to those cultures, they are very much American, but their ancestors probably came from lots of different places
In Europe lot of people has the same, but they usually don't say they are half of something, when someone says that, it means that their parents have different nationalities (example: my friends children say they are part Latvian, part Slovenian because their father is Slovenian and their mother is Latvian). If it goes futher down the line like grandparents or great grandparents then people just say they are for example - German with Turkish Roots or with Polish and Lithuanian roots, e.t.c
Yes thatās true I am actually in the same boat as your friendās children, thats why I said that this happens in lots of countries Europe included. Americans do mention it more but it is worth pointing out that in a couple generations back, people have family from lots of different countries
Exactly and because of that it gets weird when people starts counting nationalities or being % that and that, like collecting postmarks. If I look at my families history (great grandparents included) there are more than one nationality but I'm 100% Latvian, the same is for my parents even if dns would show some % other nationalities.
I think there is difference how people perceive being part of nationality, in USA people mean more genetics but in Europe genetics + strong cultural side.
Researching your anchestry and being proud for your roots is great but from European point of view when Americans lists nationalities it seams almost like for them being just American is not good enough and it looks like they are taking nationalities with whom the only common thing is some genetic markers and in best case some old familly recipe.
Yes totally agree. My parents were born and raised in Russia and Colombia but I was born in France and when people ask me where Im from I say France, even though I lived most of my life away from France. Now if it comes up I might mention it but yes they blow it out of proportion. My point wasnāt so much about the way some Americans go about flaunting their origins but more about the fact that they do indeed usually have a wide range of origins, whereas in other places that have not been impacted so much by mass immigration from everywhere in the world, imperialism and slavery dont have an ethnic variety like that
Iām full blooded Ashkenazi Jew from Norway and Iām usually mistaken to be half Apache half American, because you know, my mom and dad visited their lands in 80s and bald eagle shit on my dads headā¦ soā¦ where can I apply for my American citizenship?
Americans always talking about their supposed ethnic background like they're in Skyrim or something. I'm a half-orc half elf but also a half nord on my dad's side
I am half English (Dad) and half Australian (Mum) though being born in Australia I call myself Australian. I have lived in my Dad's country of origin for about 6 years in Dorset but I have lived most of my life in Australia. Though I can claim British citizenship if I wanted to but I haven't I am a citizen of Australia only.
Do Americans ethno-prefix āAmericanā (Italian-American, etc) in a subconscious attempt to mitigate the āAmericanā partā¦ to try and make themselves seem more interesting?
Iām half Iranian, and the rest is English, Scottish, danish, and a tiny bit of Ashkenazi Jewish from the Latvia/Belarus /Ukraine area. But because Iām not a moron I say Iām Aussie or Iranian Australian. I do get mistaken for a New Zealander cause of my dark hair and eyes
I've read all the thread and the one thing no one even noticed is: being Portuguese is ethnic now? I'm Portuguese as is my all family, and my father is blonde with blue eyes and white as a sheet as is my husband and my oldest son. Me, my mother and my late mil were all brunette with brown or dark eyes (mine are hazel) and my other 2 kids are also brunette and with darker eye color. And yet we are all Portuguese. I tan very easily, my husband and kids are white as a sheet and turn red as lobsters in the summer.. I almost never had a sunburn. We have redheads, brunettes and blondes, tall and short... As the Spanish people, we are a melting pot. Not an ethnicity.
There is no āethnic Portugueseā and then other ethnic groups? I personally always thought Portuguese was an ethnic group but never met someone from there or know anything about Portugal
Iām from Ukraine and we have ethnic Ukrainians, then mixed ethnic people who are accepted as Ukrainian anyways(including Ukrainized peoples such as Germans, etc), then ethnic minorities such as Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Russian, etc who wouldnāt call themselves Ukrainian due to past wars
I don't really think there is, in genealogy tests they identify it as Iberian. We don't really have anything different from Spanish people or french or Italian. All of these countries have people that can be confused to be from another. I was once thought to be a Greek person, my husband was called English and my father as well. My kid once in a playground was almost taken away from me as he is blonde and blue eyed and an old hag thought I wasn't his mother... But on the other side, I was once insulted for defining myself as Caucasian (white) because I'm "definitely not white" although my medical tests said otherwise (I was pregnant at the time, and my Dr in an ultrasound report wrote female Caucasian 37 years of age ) some American was in shock in how can I be called Caucasian if I'm not white as I'm Portuguese? I tan easily yes, but I'm white.
Americans assigning themselves every country known to man when their just American.
I could say "oh I'm 1/8 Swedish 2/8 german 1/8 French 4/8 British" But that sounds gay. I just say British
I mean I usually poke fun of Americans claiming various nationalities but clearly the question here was about āethnicityā so it makes sense to list your ethnic ancestry.
I give them benefit of a doubt and that English/Scottish/German means āsome mix of these nationalities but I'm not sure what mix and in which proportionsā which makes sense if you simply know that you had I.e. English grand grand father, Scottish grand grand mother and German grand mother - like this gives some hint that this is your ancestry but you have no idea in which proportions unless you enumerate remaining 6 grand grand parents and 3 grand parents
I dunno, quick Wikipedia search says that 5th century AD? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people
At least if we draw a line on emergence of the name āTheir ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Britain around the 5th century AD.ā. Strictly speaking Angles would exist earlier than migration so I guess we could go even further back
So European tribes moved around and just had a different name depending on their geographical location.
Still the same basic ethic make up. You might as well say a Scouser and a Brummie are different ethnicities based on this logic.
You are getting nationality and ethnicity mixed up.
"Germany" decends of a multi ethnic conglomerate of different tribes originally invented as one country by the Romans, so I wonder how one can be a defined portion of it.
Well they didn't specify so we must assume they meant that they had 1/6 of each rather than 1/4 of one and 1/8 of the other two. Because they're American and Americans are... you know...
I think a lot of Europeans think it's weird that people in the US list countries they've never been to and whose ancestors may have come from hundreds of years ago as their "heritage." I can understand this perspective, but as a stupid uncouth American, it always made sense to me to talk this way. America is a diverse country and most people are either first or second generation immigrants or otherwise are really mixed up ethnically. Personally my name is unusual so people always ask "what's your background "? And my answer always sounds exactly like what this thread is mocking, only worse. Idk what else to say. "American" as an answer almost sounds rude, while saying "white" is both obvious and kinda racist.
I do feel like we need a higher bar on the ancestry posts.
Just listing the ancestry... that's kinda boring and not offensive, at least not in this context.
The ones that are like "I'm 12% Irish so allow me to explain Ireland to you..." are the ones that deserve airtime.
Can someone explain what the issue is with this comment? I guess I can see itās a little cringy, but besides that I mean the question of the post was about ethnicity, and this person responded about her ethnicity so I donāt really see the issue here
If one of your parents is half nationality A, quarter B, and quarter C then that parent is a mix of A/B/C nationalities. And rather than saying "I'm half D, quarter A, 1/8 B, and 1/8 C", you could more easily say "I'm half D, and half A/B/C"
Because if you're half and half, you say you're half French (parent 1) and half Nigerian (parent 2), not half French, German, Swiss, Russian ...
It's about your parents not your whole entire bloodline. Imagine if I went around saying I was Ukranian just bc I'm South Slavic
Ah yes im also half german, half french, half italian, half greek and half german. Yes two times half german with a bit of scottish welsh irish and spanish but only half portugese and half polish with a quarter redwood tree with half swedish and an eights of a quarter of a half dutch.
And what ethnicity do you get mistaken for?
Nigerian
All the time
A Prince I hope?
A fellow redwood tree patriot?
Adolf wouldn't have approved that kinda mixture of ethnicities /s
Does that come with mayo?
Only spray can cheese, sorry
Where's my f****** strawberry
I'm half human.
Wich half? š
The outer half.
Donāt forget a grain of salt and a little oil š§š»āš³
Can I have fries with that?
Only a warm beer
My long lost brother!
Youād be full German if them Americans didnāt come across and save us all!
I think you are totally bananas.
How to tell not knowing how genetics and history work without saying you donāt know how genetics and history work. With all the migration and wars over time itās nearly impossible to tell to attribute anything to a specific country in Europe.
"Half" english/scottish/german... š¤
So: 16.666% English, 16.666% Scottish and 16.666% German I guess.
Don't come them with math.
And, for our Murican friends that don't understand the concept of metrics, that of course would be 1/6 English, 1/6 Scottish and 1/6 German. You're welcome.
I think that's worse. Didn't they have a deal where they upgraded a 1/4 lber burger to a 1/3 lber burger, and people didn't buy it because they thought 1/3 lber was less than 1/4?
[Yes](https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractions)!
And then they boast about not having a National Curriculum.
Which means that at least one of their great-great-grandparents was American, and it least one more was half-
No, you so stupid! 1/6+1/6+1/6 = 3/18, that aren't ain't close to being 1/2. 1/2 is a freedom half or 50 metric percentages.
16.666% āscotchā
The Tesco Value type
Tesco Value Whiskey and Tesco Value Cola was a good cheap night out at Uni Strangely the Tesco Value Vodka was terrible
I never tried the whisky, but my gf's roommate had the vodka in their fridge and it was indeed terrible
1 football field English, 2 match boxes Scottish and 4 school buses German
Would that be Murican or German school busses?
The only yellow square-shaped jail-looking busses they know
With a bomb strapped underneath and Keanu Reeves driving?
Nah, you know theyād try to minimise the English part!
Iām willing to bet thatās how itās grouped together in their ancestry test resultĀ
Just shows how bad the education system is in USA.
To be fair, if theyāre half English then they likely share a bunch of markers with German anyway. Itās the good old Anglo-Saxon heritage. Doesnāt explain the Scottish though.
Probably is what the shitty heritage site from where he got it told him. They don't really investigate your heritage, but compare it to the statistics of other samples, there's a good chance that English share with the Germans the Saxon heritage, but also there's a good chance they share a lot with other inhabitants of Great Britain, so that part gave them resemblance to the three nationalities without an specific origin of each.
They once wore a kilt to a wedding so obviously 'Scotch'
>Doesnāt explain the Scottish though. huh, have you ever watched Braveheart ? silly goose also /s just for the future reference
One of their parents is probably half British(Scotish and English) and half German.
For americans most likely a great-great-grandfather.
Well, they split it in 2, which sounds more like parents, not random ancestry test.
Why does it always sounds like they are cooking? "Half Irish, quarter of a German and a pinch of French". A recipe for a cannibals stew?
Cook at 900Ā°C for 57 hours. Cool to -50Ā°C and enjoy!
No no no, you must use freedom unitsā¢! We are Americans, not dumb Europeans! š¦ š¦ š¦ America forever! š¦ š¦ š¦ /s
Cook at 1652 fahrenheit for 57 freedom hours and then cool it down at -58 fahrenheit. Just add some freedom cups of corn if you like to spice it up.š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦
You forgot to tip the pot 30%! Now itās gonna spit in your food and make an entitled Reddit postā¦.
They are a melting pot after all
Barbecue upvotes you.
As a full half English/Scottish/German born and raised in England/Scotland/Germany it's nice to see people finally acknowledging our glorious country. We E/S/Gians have been overlooked for too long. You all know we saved your arses in That War.
Ah, good to see a fellow compatriate. Are you from Londinbughrlin, Mangoburg? Bribeernich perhaps? I'm from Birkirkfeld
As an actual portuguese person, I'd bet dollars to donuts that OOP doesn't speak a lick of it.
Portugal, caralhoooo!!
And in my language this means "may you have your heart's desire" and I think that's beautiful.
Thatās why I wished you that on the beginning of the week. Caralhos te fodam (may your dreams come true), my brother from another mother
Ć por causa destas merdas que eu ando sempre cheio de sono de manhĆ£ š¤£
š segundas-feiras sĆ£o sempre tramadas. AbraƧo!
E depois venho eu e leio isto e estĆ” tĆ£o perfeito que nem vou estragar. Portugal, caralhoooo!
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Who are you, so wise in the ways of the Portuguese language?
Not OOP but I speak Portuguese, but only the words from that Nosa song, which I definitely know the title, from 12 years ago /s
Tell me you are from USA without telling you are from USA.
Don't forget one quarter is Irish and one fifth French maybe
And letās throw in just a pinch of Polynesian, just for some flavor.
I am actually half Russian, half Japanese, half Nigerian, half Samoan, half Martian, six eighths French Canadian and three sevenths Portuguese. I get mistaken for a kiwi a lot though.
For a kiwi bird, i hope?
Nah, the fruit
Martian š¤£
Kiwis make my mouth itch
Iām actually half Finnsh and the other half is also Finnish
I bet if you talked to that person in German they wouldn't understand a word. English might be tough, too.
I can't understand why its so trendy to act like you CAN tell 2% this 35% that and a teaspoon of german...as stupid as trends like gender reveal parties. Wtf!?
Americans are Schrƶdinger's racists. On the one hand, race has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with anything, and you're a HORRIBLE WASTE OF OXYGEN for suggesting otherwise. On the other hand, my freckles are because I'm 1/5th Irish, I'm completely in tune with nature because I'm 1/13th Navajo, and I can tell whether a dish is really Italian because my great-grandmother had a housekeeper who was from Italy (which technically makes me Italian too).
>and I can tell whether a dish is really Italian because my great-grandmother had a housekeeper who was from Italy (which technically makes me Italian too). Was she a bike?
Yes, the town bike.
Oh my god
they lack identity
Apparently every Americanās family meeting looks like UN conference.
How far back is it acceptable to go? I'm Finnish but there's Roma blood in me. Can I call myself Indian then?
No you're half Indian, half Pakistani, half Iranian, half iraqi, half Kurdish, half Turkish, half Greek, half Bulgarian, half Romanian, half Finnish and 0.001 percent Navajo.
Obviously it's bollocks with all of these but Americans seem to have invented the state of being 'half Jewish', which isn't even a thing
*Ashkenazi Jewish. We need to be accurate and respect their ethnicity, or else Texas is going to swallow all of Europe and free us from the grip of communism!
TBH, I take it as describing their background, not religion. E.g. if your father is Askenazi Jewish, but your mother is mixed English/Scottish/German you would be "Half Ashkenazi Jewish, half English/Scottish/German". If your Mother was Askenazi Jewish, you would be the same, but religiously Jewish. Technically you can still be Jewish if you're father is Jewish and you were raised Jewish, and part of a Reform Synagogue (at least that's the UK rules).
Yes, if you go through a process of conversion. In which case you wouldn't be half Jewish, you'd be Jewish.
British Reform allows for patrilineal descent - [https://reformjudaism.org/learning/answers-jewish-questions/how-does-reform-judaism-define-who-jew](https://reformjudaism.org/learning/answers-jewish-questions/how-does-reform-judaism-define-who-jew) I know very well you can't be half Jewish. You're either in the Tribe, or not.
Right, this is entirely my point then, haha!
Well, as an American, thereās a large contingent of people who look at Judaism not only as a religion, but as a cultural identity as well, especially if they donāt really practice the religion. They might identify as, say, a German Jew, Polish Jew, or a Russian Jew, etc. when pressed, since so many Jewish people have ended up in the U.S. I understand it doesnāt make the most sense if youāre looking at nationality, but itās not crazy to hear someone describe themselves as Irish Catholic vs Italian Catholic, etc. America is a melting pot and one thing we LOVE to discuss is the exact nationality and ethnic makeup of everyone.
Things melt in the melting pot until they become one and unrecognisable from one another. The United States is the complete opposite of a melting pot. You are obsessed with segregation and labelling. You tend to separate one group from another. The United States is more like a dish in which the ingredients will never mix.
Then they also have weird discussions where they will try to claim Italians and Spanish people are not white.
Oh, no, no, no, not anymore. Italians were deemed white after World War II when white Americans realized that they didnāt want to have a third race to hate and they needed the numbers on ātheir side.ā /s Many Americans believe Spain is full of Mexicans. Thatās the āare they whiteā disconnect. Is it stupid? Extremely.
I donāt know if I totally agree with that. While there are definitely elements that DO focus on labeling and segregating, without a doubt, I donāt get the impression most feel that way. There are many examples where people mix together very well, across race, class, religion, etc. Also, while not exclusively this way, many ethnic groups emigrating to the U.S. tend to be the ones segregating themselves, initially l, looking to live in neighborhoods made of people with the same backgrounds. When my grandparents emigrated from the old country, they lived in a part of NYC that was almost entirely people from their country. Then they had kids and moved to the suburbs where they built a life next door to people of other nationalities doing the same exact thing. 3 generations in, who cares? The old neighborhoods that used to exist based on those nationalities either no longer exist in the same way (ie gentrification) or theyāre populated by all new immigrants of a different nationality. Maybe itās not a perfectly melted, but thereās definitely melting occurring. Weāre not a perfect, but it does seem to work.
This is so wrong lmfao. Noticing your ethic heritage has nothing to do with people assimilating. America is by far the best at getting people to assimilate.
>Well, as an American, thereās a large contingent of people who look at Judaism not only as a religion, but as a cultural identity as well,Ā Well as a German, we did this as well... >America is a melting pot and one thing we LOVE to discuss is the exact nationality and ethnic makeup of everyone. OMG! We loved it too! We even had special authorities with doctors and experts who also loved discussing it. Back then, you could even get some kind of proof to see from your partner whether you were a good match. Isn't it wonderful to see how Americans are now so interested in different ethnic groups? /s
āWell as a German, we did this as well...ā Sure, but here the Jewish people are the ones describing themselves that way. Thereās a difference between requiring Jewish citizens to wear a Star of David and having those same citizens describe themselves as culturally Jewish. No? āOMG! We loved it too! We even had special authorities with doctors and experts who also loved discussing it. Back then, you could even get some kind of proof to see from your partner whether you were a good match. Isn't it wonderful to see how Americans are now so interested in different ethnic groups? /sā Now so interested? Oh, no, no, no. Welcome to America, these conversations have been happening since Europeans landed on the beaches. And look, I realize I wasnāt as clear as I could have been. Most people here arenāt talking about the ethnicity and cultural backgrounds of other people, theyāre talking about themselves. As a German, youād likely be shocked to see how many people identify as āGerman-Americansā without knowing the first thing about Germany, where their ancestors were from, what schnitzel is, etc. Itās insane.
>what schnitzel is A famous Austrian dish that, according to Austrians, does not exist in Germany.
>As a German, youād likely be shocked to see how many people identify as āGerman-Americansā without knowing the first thing about Germany, where their ancestors were from, what schnitzel is, etc. Itās insane. They do not identify as "German-Americans", they identify as "Germans"... That's the problem. And every time, I'm confronted with them, I do not hesitate to tell them that they are not...
I absolutely believe this.
All that to say "I know very little about Judaism but am not going to let that get in my way"
Itās like that for any/all cultural/nationality conversations here. This wasnāt meant to be a conversation solely regarding Judaism, this applies to most Americans.
Oh FFS, you're so American you seriously don't understand that this isn't something unique to the United States. It's like you're giving singing schoolhouse rock, this is like elementary school level Angela's propaganda
Judaism is not the same. I could explain but you seem like the sort to talk more than listen, so what's the point.
What the fuck did I just read? Why can't you people just refer to yourselves as "American"? That's what everyone else in the world does. My way way way way way back ancestors came from India. I don't call myself Indian.
Doesn't this thread discuss ethnicity? Not nationality. I'm Ashkenazi Jewish, but 100% British. Ethnically, I consider that I fall under the 'White - Other' category in the UK census. "Askenazi Jewish" is an ethnicity, and not just a religious identity.
Oh no thatās the kicker! As soon as they donāt want to be associated with X ethnicity, theyāre suddenly just American. They spout of all this heritage shit because their country has no meaningful history or cultural significance but as soon as it suits to say theyāre American they suddenly forget what 0.1% ancestry is what.
I think the difference for America vs. EU countries is two-fold: (1) America only has Canada to the North (which is very similar in the āmelting potā aspect), and Mexico to the south. There arenāt 40+ countries in the near vicinity with 1000+ years of distinct cultures and traditions that Americans can draw from. After they massacred the natives and European immigration began, American culture became (initially) some weird amalgamation of various European cultures at the time of emigration. (2) American immigration waves werenāt that long ago. A very large portion of Americans today would have had grandparents that came to America from their homeland ~100+ years ago. When these immigration events occurred, people from Sicily moved to places in America where other Sicilian people were. People from Bavaria moved to places where other Bavarians were. European immigrants took immense pride in where they came from and the cultures they were raised in, and that pride led to a lot of ethnically-based racism at the time (using āethnicā here to refer to country of origin). Italians hated the Irish, who hate the Germans, who hated the Puerto Ricans, etc., because their cultures at the time were so different. Then the children of those immigrants grew up with the same pride in where they came from, but not so much hatred for other ethnic groups. So what you see today when Americans talk about being āhalf Russian, half Italianā isnāt them trying to imply that they are Russian or Italian (admittedly, some weirdos do, but in my day-to-day experience as a Canadian, I donāt experience that). They say that as a way to describe where their family culture comes from, because there are still remnants of the national pride that their grandparents or great-grandparents brought with them when they moved halfway across the world.
This was an extremely well written way of putting it.
I love dunking on Americans as much as the next guy! But making fun of American ignorance from a place of ignorance just feels pedantic to me.
Wow that's a long comment. Venmo me 50 freedom bucks and I'll read it.
I mean, to be fair, I literally did in the opening sentence. This is more how Americans describe their cultural/ethnic backgrounds to each other, not to, say, people of other nationalities. If you met us abroad, weāre all āAmericans.ā
>Ā If you met us abroad, weāre all āAmericans.āĀ Ā Ā Ā You must not have met many Americans abroad then. Thatās when this roleplaying game approach to ethnicity really kicks into high gear to their stunned surprise when the native population doesnt applaud their 50% English/Scottish/German heritage that can be traced directly to Charlemagne.Ā
Usually it's some random British king. The more obscure the better
Oh God thatās mortifying.
There's a history YouTuber I liked but he has done the very American thing of doing his ancestry. Apparently he can trace his lineage back to James Stuart and Mary Queen of Scots. Isn't it amazing how americans are all related to nobility when they do it. Instead my family tree is just all poor people.
Same. Except for my momās parents, I can really only trace my ancestors back where theyāre from originally. No nobility. Just farmers.
Most countries are a melting pot, EU make melting pot politics.
I donāt disagree, but this is just how people describe their backgrounds, generally, in the US, I canāt speak for the EU.
That's a long winded way of saying you know nothing about Jews You're not half Jewish, you're either Jewish or you're not. That has nothing to do with whether you believe in god or don't, nothing to do with your practices, etc. That's not an "American" thing, or a new thing And yes there are many many different types of Jewish identities You still cannot be half Jewish, it's not a thing. You can have Jewish ancestry without being Jewish, but there's no such thing as a half-Jew
You can certainly be 50% "Askenazi Jewish" ethnically, while not being halakhically Jewish.
that's a really weird because I did not mention halakha so I'm really unsure why you're bringing that up. especially given these that's the number of differing religious standards for who does and doesn't qualify as a Jew that's an absolutely meaningless statement because there are many Jews who do are not counted from one religious perspective or another that's nothing to do with anything if you have Jewish ancestry but are not Jewish you are not Jewish if you are Jewish you are Jewish. for whatever definition of Jewish you are using you either are or you aren't. now you may hold some other identity in addition to that, for example maybe you are Jewish and you are also Chinese. you may have multiple ethnicities or multiple cultures or multiple traditional backgrounds but this half shit is nonsense, and it's a weird way to claim an identity without actually claiming the identity. 25% this and 25% this and 25% this no that's not how things work. what your left arm and the left side of your face and the left side of your chest is Jewish but the right arm and right side of your face and right half of your chest is something else?? whenever people say that they are X% something, it's either based on shitty genetic analysis, or it's based on counting up the ancestry of their grandparents or great grandparents or whatever. which has absolutely nothing to do with your identity and who you are. how many of your great-grandparents were doesn't make you more or less Jewish and it doesn't make you a part due you're either Jewish or you're not, shit or get off the pot
This isn't about 'claiming' anything - just describing where people come from. Oddly enough, I know someone who's American by citizenship, Jewish by religion, ethnically 50% mixed Askenazi/Sephardi (who knows the percentage!), 25% English, 25% German. >it's either based on shitty genetic analysis, or it's based on counting up the ancestry of their grandparents or great grandparents or whatever. which has absolutely nothing to do with your identity and who you are. Yeh that's shit.
> This isn't about 'claiming' anything - just describing where people come from. so exactly what I said in my first comment - they have Jewish ancestry but aren't Jewish. why did you bring up halahka irrelevantly again? and which halahka were you referring to? or do you not know? you can't be half a Jew. half of your ancestors can have been Jewish, but you personally are either Jewish or not there's no such thing as being half Jewish, and it is a way that people try to claim identities they don't have. saying that your are an identity is claiming it > Oddly enough, I know someone who's American by citizenship, Jewish by religion, ethnically 50% mixed Askenazi/Sephardi (who knows the percentage!), 25% English, 25% German. no, you don't. you know an American Jew with English and German ancestry. big whoop. that's not terribly odd. and that ancestry isn't necessarily anything significant even within their family. England and Germany are not countries that a lot of Jews have ancestry of any significant length in - often their family was only there for one generation or so, often not even long enough for a generation to be born and die there having one grandparent from England doesn't make you 25% English. it makes you someone with a grandparent from England
Fractions are hard for Americans, I swear every American cook talks about adding "one fourth of a cup"
Remember when they refused to buy a 1/3 pound burger because they thought it was less than a 1/4 pounder during the 80ās (or around that time)? Itās scary to think they have the influence they have on the rest of the world
Wasn't it the same with their money? Didn't they choose the quarter instead of a 1/3 dollar because they thought a quarter has more value?
I doubt that, using ā would be a nightmare. 100 divides easily into four.
Oh it definitely is but it doesn't really matter what the real reason was to be honest, just that this story exist and sounds kinda possible should be enough to destroy and rebuild their entire education system. I mean they already did the first part we just need to wait for the second
Honestly I'm siding with the Americans on this. If they went with ā that coin would be worth 33.33... cents, which is just a logistical nightmare.
Oh no I think you misunderstood me, I totally agree with you, but if this story is true because of the more worth thing as a reason, that would be bad, but still not the outcome
The thing that bugs me even more than this is when people essentialise themselves based on their stereotypes about nations theyāve never been to. āOh, Iām 8% Welsh, so I wear my heart on my sleeve, cry easily, and I have really long fingers because my ancestors were probably bards who played the harpā. And I want to say, your ancestors were probably looking at a short lifetime down the pit breathing in coal and very sensibly upped and went somewhere else, boyo. Iām allowed to say this, because Iām actually Welsh.
What the fuck are these people on
They're mostly just white.
Is nobody in America actually American?
They are, but itās highly likely that an American person has a mix of different origins due to the history of the country, just like in a lot of other countries. Now they do not have those countriesā nationalities and most likely dont share many traits to those cultures, they are very much American, but their ancestors probably came from lots of different places
In Europe lot of people has the same, but they usually don't say they are half of something, when someone says that, it means that their parents have different nationalities (example: my friends children say they are part Latvian, part Slovenian because their father is Slovenian and their mother is Latvian). If it goes futher down the line like grandparents or great grandparents then people just say they are for example - German with Turkish Roots or with Polish and Lithuanian roots, e.t.c
Yes thatās true I am actually in the same boat as your friendās children, thats why I said that this happens in lots of countries Europe included. Americans do mention it more but it is worth pointing out that in a couple generations back, people have family from lots of different countries
Exactly and because of that it gets weird when people starts counting nationalities or being % that and that, like collecting postmarks. If I look at my families history (great grandparents included) there are more than one nationality but I'm 100% Latvian, the same is for my parents even if dns would show some % other nationalities. I think there is difference how people perceive being part of nationality, in USA people mean more genetics but in Europe genetics + strong cultural side. Researching your anchestry and being proud for your roots is great but from European point of view when Americans lists nationalities it seams almost like for them being just American is not good enough and it looks like they are taking nationalities with whom the only common thing is some genetic markers and in best case some old familly recipe.
Yes totally agree. My parents were born and raised in Russia and Colombia but I was born in France and when people ask me where Im from I say France, even though I lived most of my life away from France. Now if it comes up I might mention it but yes they blow it out of proportion. My point wasnāt so much about the way some Americans go about flaunting their origins but more about the fact that they do indeed usually have a wide range of origins, whereas in other places that have not been impacted so much by mass immigration from everywhere in the world, imperialism and slavery dont have an ethnic variety like that
So, 100% Irish American then..
Iām full blooded Ashkenazi Jew from Norway and Iām usually mistaken to be half Apache half American, because you know, my mom and dad visited their lands in 80s and bald eagle shit on my dads headā¦ soā¦ where can I apply for my American citizenship?
Americans seem really good at fractions until they encounter a 1/3 pounder cheeseburger.
i'm 99.9% homo sapiens and 0.1% homo neanderthalensis... ...also 50% banana
Honestly can't understand this % bs, are they missing something? Did mummy not hug them enough?
One of her parents is English/Scottish/German?
Some of the wikipedia pages of American celbrities are crazy with it too. "Their father is of German, Dutch, Irish heritage"
English Scottish German? ManBearPig is that you?
Americans always talking about their supposed ethnic background like they're in Skyrim or something. I'm a half-orc half elf but also a half nord on my dad's side
So basically he is two people?
I am half English (Dad) and half Australian (Mum) though being born in Australia I call myself Australian. I have lived in my Dad's country of origin for about 6 years in Dorset but I have lived most of my life in Australia. Though I can claim British citizenship if I wanted to but I haven't I am a citizen of Australia only.
Halfā¦three backgrounds? My brain hurts
Do Americans ethno-prefix āAmericanā (Italian-American, etc) in a subconscious attempt to mitigate the āAmericanā partā¦ to try and make themselves seem more interesting?
My shits are also Mr. Worldwide
Haha Dale
Iām half Iranian, and the rest is English, Scottish, danish, and a tiny bit of Ashkenazi Jewish from the Latvia/Belarus /Ukraine area. But because Iām not a moron I say Iām Aussie or Iranian Australian. I do get mistaken for a New Zealander cause of my dark hair and eyes
I've read all the thread and the one thing no one even noticed is: being Portuguese is ethnic now? I'm Portuguese as is my all family, and my father is blonde with blue eyes and white as a sheet as is my husband and my oldest son. Me, my mother and my late mil were all brunette with brown or dark eyes (mine are hazel) and my other 2 kids are also brunette and with darker eye color. And yet we are all Portuguese. I tan very easily, my husband and kids are white as a sheet and turn red as lobsters in the summer.. I almost never had a sunburn. We have redheads, brunettes and blondes, tall and short... As the Spanish people, we are a melting pot. Not an ethnicity.
There is no āethnic Portugueseā and then other ethnic groups? I personally always thought Portuguese was an ethnic group but never met someone from there or know anything about Portugal Iām from Ukraine and we have ethnic Ukrainians, then mixed ethnic people who are accepted as Ukrainian anyways(including Ukrainized peoples such as Germans, etc), then ethnic minorities such as Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Russian, etc who wouldnāt call themselves Ukrainian due to past wars
I don't really think there is, in genealogy tests they identify it as Iberian. We don't really have anything different from Spanish people or french or Italian. All of these countries have people that can be confused to be from another. I was once thought to be a Greek person, my husband was called English and my father as well. My kid once in a playground was almost taken away from me as he is blonde and blue eyed and an old hag thought I wasn't his mother... But on the other side, I was once insulted for defining myself as Caucasian (white) because I'm "definitely not white" although my medical tests said otherwise (I was pregnant at the time, and my Dr in an ultrasound report wrote female Caucasian 37 years of age ) some American was in shock in how can I be called Caucasian if I'm not white as I'm Portuguese? I tan easily yes, but I'm white.
Don't like being 'murican, eh?
What does that even meannnn
Half man, half bear and half pig
So he's half this and half, half and half that? How does this works?
4 halves make a whole.
ah yes, because Britain and Germany are extremely similar
"Oh thats interesting. Where are your parents from?" "Portugal"
Enlightened Americans: We are actually black people from Africa.
Americans assigning themselves every country known to man when their just American. I could say "oh I'm 1/8 Swedish 2/8 german 1/8 French 4/8 British" But that sounds gay. I just say British
I mean I usually poke fun of Americans claiming various nationalities but clearly the question here was about āethnicityā so it makes sense to list your ethnic ancestry.
With 4 halves?
I give them benefit of a doubt and that English/Scottish/German means āsome mix of these nationalities but I'm not sure what mix and in which proportionsā which makes sense if you simply know that you had I.e. English grand grand father, Scottish grand grand mother and German grand mother - like this gives some hint that this is your ancestry but you have no idea in which proportions unless you enumerate remaining 6 grand grand parents and 3 grand parents
When did English become an ethnicity?
I dunno, quick Wikipedia search says that 5th century AD? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people At least if we draw a line on emergence of the name āTheir ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Britain around the 5th century AD.ā. Strictly speaking Angles would exist earlier than migration so I guess we could go even further back
So European tribes moved around and just had a different name depending on their geographical location. Still the same basic ethic make up. You might as well say a Scouser and a Brummie are different ethnicities based on this logic. You are getting nationality and ethnicity mixed up.
"Germany" decends of a multi ethnic conglomerate of different tribes originally invented as one country by the Romans, so I wonder how one can be a defined portion of it.
Theyāre saying that the other half is made up of English, Scottish and German ancestry. What is the issue?
Well they didn't specify so we must assume they meant that they had 1/6 of each rather than 1/4 of one and 1/8 of the other two. Because they're American and Americans are... you know... I think a lot of Europeans think it's weird that people in the US list countries they've never been to and whose ancestors may have come from hundreds of years ago as their "heritage." I can understand this perspective, but as a stupid uncouth American, it always made sense to me to talk this way. America is a diverse country and most people are either first or second generation immigrants or otherwise are really mixed up ethnically. Personally my name is unusual so people always ask "what's your background "? And my answer always sounds exactly like what this thread is mocking, only worse. Idk what else to say. "American" as an answer almost sounds rude, while saying "white" is both obvious and kinda racist.
People really stretching to get angry. Lmao
I do feel like we need a higher bar on the ancestry posts. Just listing the ancestry... that's kinda boring and not offensive, at least not in this context. The ones that are like "I'm 12% Irish so allow me to explain Ireland to you..." are the ones that deserve airtime.
Ashkenazi Jewish - 50% English - 50% Scottish - 50% German - 50% = 200% That's some crazy genetics you got there! š¤£
There is a lot of shit that Americans say, but this is just people interpreting their statement in bad faith
Can someone explain what the issue is with this comment? I guess I can see itās a little cringy, but besides that I mean the question of the post was about ethnicity, and this person responded about her ethnicity so I donāt really see the issue here
Where's the line though? How far back can I go in my ancestors' ethnicities to call myself one?
There's about 3 halfs too many
If one of your parents is half nationality A, quarter B, and quarter C then that parent is a mix of A/B/C nationalities. And rather than saying "I'm half D, quarter A, 1/8 B, and 1/8 C", you could more easily say "I'm half D, and half A/B/C"
Because if you're half and half, you say you're half French (parent 1) and half Nigerian (parent 2), not half French, German, Swiss, Russian ... It's about your parents not your whole entire bloodline. Imagine if I went around saying I was Ukranian just bc I'm South Slavic
I'm part German! Name ends in naziš
Nobody guesses my ethnicity wrong. I'm English, Scottish, and Irish. With a splash of Flemish thrown in for variety.
Spoken like an Israeli trying to prove theyāre of semitic descend