what nationality are you?

MattinSTL said:
Technically I'm American. . . Honestly I gotta' join the guys who don't see themselves as any nationality though... I don't make it a point to go to Oktoberfest or drink/eat German food... I'm not particularly fond of polka and leiderhosen. I'm always amazed at how people look at each other in nationalities, instead of just some other guy who's also trying to make it the best he can.
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I tend to think of Americans as Americans too. Consider me a boorish American.
 
Anhar Miah said:
I envision a future with no countries, no boundaries and no nationality, no races, just One race, one world, one Peoples the “Human race”.

Anhar Hussain Miah
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That will only happen when we get invaded and almost put out by some wicked aliens from mars or when the monkeys or camels take over the world and enslave us humans.
 
lpcvideo1 said:
I tend to think of Americans as Americans too. Consider me a boorish American.
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In terms of who's on whose team, yes we are all Americans and in that sense "the same".

They say in time there will be only one race in the U.S. - a mix of everything - and while I'm all for interracial love (in a big way) - becoming more generic and less diverse seems like a loss, not gain.

People like Matt and my self and others who don't feel like we have any heritage, save the tract home we were raised in, my be more sensitive to that melding as we (correct me if I'm wrong on your behalf Matt) wish we had some tangible roots and that St. Patricks day, or Kwanza, or Octoberfest, meant something more to us than Halloween or April Fool's day or Homecoming.
 
coffee said:
That will only happen when we get invaded and almost put out by some wicked aliens from mars or when the monkeys or camels take over the world and enslave us humans.
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Certainly hope so.

Otherwise, what would be the point of leaving your house if everyone outside was the same?

BORing.
 

Hudson...

"Black Irish" is really an American exclusive term. There are many myths surrounding it's origin, but the truth of the matter is that it originally refereed to "Black '47 Irish". This was of course in reference to the largest wave of Irish immigration following the low point of the potato famine in 1847.

The stories of shipwrecked crew members from the wrecked Spanish Armada "mixing" their Iberian blood with the Irish is largely the stuff of myth.

However, in Ireland descriptions & references have been made for centuries in regard to hair color. For instance, Finn-gall (literally "fair foreigner") was a reference to the Viking invaders of Éire, and the light hair they introduced into the gene pool...
...while Dubh-gall (literally "dark foreigner") was a reference to the Norman (and some Danish) invaders who brought with them dark (or black) hair. For this reason, I have always thought that perhaps, in some cases, "Black Irish" could have been an Anglicized version among immigrants of Dubh-gall...refering to their black hair.

Anyways, I hope that helps.


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Oh, and personally I'm a mick...but a proud American first and foremost.
 
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Jack Daniel Stanley said:
They say in time there will be only one race in the U.S. - a mix of everything - and while I'm all for interracial love (in a big way) - becoming more generic and less diverse seems like a loss, not gain.
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I had heard that theory about India thousands of years ago. I dunno. Sounds pretty unlikely to me.

We'll get some "creole", though.
 
TimurCivan said:
im confused.....
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more like Khanfused; my birth certs say my mom is Mongolian race, my father Caucasian, THAT REMINDS ME! why don't they call albinos; cauasids, for instance; mongoloid baby; mongolian hmmmmmmmm.....................................................................................
 
Hispanic.

I don't celebrate Latino culture and I'm not that big on Mexican food, had it
growing up most of my life.

I should have been Italian.

Charli
 
Me coming from Dracula's land. But me don't drink no blood. As mater of fact my dad was born and raised few kilometers away from Dracula's castle.
Romania that is... .. But I live for 15 years in Canada.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
huh? My bubble doesn't feel busted ... I think I'm using it in the last context "black haired and Irish" and I think I like saying that I look like a fat and bald Collin Farrll ... cuz that's kind of like saying my Mustek 5000
is like a DVX except that it's single chip, has a digital zoom ... etc.

But I don't have any true sense of what "black Irish" means other than dark haired /eyed Irish , and no sense of any nationailty in terms of a connection with a heritage.

We never went to any sort of ethnic parades, or talked about any proud Irish roots or anything.

Just ... "I think we are mostly X,Y, and Z and your Dad is this, that, and the other thing"

... so I'd have to have a bubble for you to burst it, amigo :)
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Nothin meant !
 
Charli said:
Hispanic.

I don't celebrate Latino culture and I'm not that big on Mexican food, had it
growing up most of my life.

I should have been Italian.

Charli
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I am Mexican from the land of Tequila and Mariachis....
Guadalajara, Jalisco.Mexico.

I've been living in USA since 83'......

And I still LOVE Mexican Food....and a lot of Gringos
love it too since I see them in Mexican restaurants...
(my wife for starters).....
Ummm! those "Chiles Rellenos"...I am Hungry.....
and with a cold Corona with lime....ho God!!...Adios!!...
Cesar Rubio.
 
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