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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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formerflautist
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Not necessarily another nationality but I do wish that my ancestors had kept the language and some of the traditions. While I'm aware of my European ancestry I don't feel like I have any ties to it. |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Not necessarily another nationality but I do wish that my ancestors had kept the language and some of the traditions. While I'm aware of my European ancestry I don't feel like I have any ties to it. |
i've got a very diverse family: Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, French, Luxembourger, German, Sephardic Jew, English, Irish, Spanish, some other junk.
okay, it's not super diverse. it's European+1/8 Jap+1/? Jew. but i don't like being told i'm 100% american! my 1/4 dutch bit gets really upset. we keep some traditions of the dutch and swedish parts.
my boyfriend is 100% English, which i find quite boring.
so maybe i am glad I'm from the USA. my feelings just vascillate. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I already have 2 passports (kiwi canadian) but sometimes think it would be cool to be American. |
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Yo!Chingo
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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I've always been perfectly happy and proud to say that I was a Southern American. My secret wish however was to have an irish accent  |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I always thought it would be cool to either be Swedish or a Czech. Both cool countries and good at hockey. |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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I am perfectly content being a New Zealander.
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| i've got a very diverse family: Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, French, Luxembourger, German, Sephardic Jew, English, Irish, Spanish, some other junk. |
Hate to pick on you, but i HATE when people do this...
I'm 1/24 Phillipino, and 2/98 to the seventh denominator Cherokee and My mom's mailman was Morrocan. And of course...Irish and Italian.
I especially like it when they have it all memorized and spout it off with an air of smugness (usually girls tend to do this more). I'm Latin, Vietnamese, Dutch, French, Maltese.....LAME!
Unless you speak the language or you're from the country, or at least your parents are, it doesn't really 'count'. Being 'proud' of your ancestry seems to be carried a little bit too far in some circles. It's as if people want to do anything to diversify themselves from the regular mainstream wave of Caucasian. I don't see why. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, right about now I wish I were Korean. That way, I would have been getting married this year to someone I love instead of having him choose his mommy, daddy and sister over me.
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| i've got a very diverse family: Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, French, Luxembourger, German, Sephardic Jew, English, Irish, Spanish, some other junk. |
Hate to pick on you, but i HATE when people do this...
I'm 1/24 Phillipino, and 2/98 to the seventh denominator Cherokee and My mom's mailman was Morrocan. And of course...Irish and Italian.
I especially like it when they have it all memorized and spout it off with an air of smugness (usually girls tend to do this more). I'm Latin, Vietnamese, Dutch, French, Maltese.....LAME!
Unless you speak the language or you're from the country, or at least your parents are, it doesn't really 'count'. Being 'proud' of your ancestry seems to be carried a little bit too far in some circles. It's as if people want to do anything to diversify themselves from the regular mainstream wave of Caucasian. I don't see why. |
I agree. I don't even consider myself 1/2 Welsh, and always just say British, because that is the passport I have. I do consider myself British/Canadian though, with my upbringing. I also have 1/8 Metis (Native Canadian) blood, some French, and I think some more, but in no way think of myself in those terms, as I am not
I guess I don't speak Welsh either (and don't plan on learning it anytime soon) ... 
Everybody wants to be someone else. Everyone wants a different skin colour as someone else. Why???  Why tan yourself, or use stupid whitening cream, or change your eyelids, etc etc etc...
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
Hate to pick on you, but i HATE when people do this...
I'm 1/24 Phillipino, and 2/98 to the seventh denominator Cherokee and My mom's mailman was Morrocan. And of course...Irish and Italian.
I especially like it when they have it all memorized and spout it off with an air of smugness (usually girls tend to do this more). I'm Latin, Vietnamese, Dutch, French, Maltese.....LAME!
Unless you speak the language or you're from the country, or at least your parents are, it doesn't really 'count'. Being 'proud' of your ancestry seems to be carried a little bit too far in some circles. It's as if people want to do anything to diversify themselves from the regular mainstream wave of Caucasian. I don't see why. |
um... so's your face.
seriously, though, i think part of the psychology of it is that the USA seems (on some levels, and notice i'm using "seems") devoid of its own culture, so i (and others) feel we need to identify ourselves with something more concrete. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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um... so's your face.
seriously, though, i think part of the psychology of it is that the USA seems (on some levels, and notice i'm using "seems") devoid of its own culture, so i (and others) feel we need to identify ourselves with something more concrete. |
I have always seen it as a way to feel more special, more unique. Along those lines, I have always thought those people must not have any interesting characteristics themselves if they need to define themselves by that. Just my opinion. |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| KWhitehead wrote: |
um... so's your face.
seriously, though, i think part of the psychology of it is that the USA seems (on some levels, and notice i'm using "seems") devoid of its own culture, so i (and others) feel we need to identify ourselves with something more concrete. |
I have always seen it as a way to feel more special, more unique. Along those lines, I have always thought those people must not have any interesting characteristics themselves if they need to define themselves by that. Just my opinion. |
i'll agree with that as well. except that i'm fascinating. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm 3/4 New Jersey, 1/8 New York and 1/8 Korean. I speak all three languages. |
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i can do
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Unless you speak the language or you're from the country, or at least your parents are, it doesn't really 'count'. Being 'proud' of your ancestry seems to be carried a little bit too far in some circles. It's as if people want to do anything to diversify themselves from the regular mainstream wave of Caucasian. I don't see why. |
To an extent I agree with this but I also agree with people being able to self-identify. I still 'feel' my parents cultures and can be viewed as either. So I identify as both, and American of course. Ultimately, it's probably up to the person.
As for the OP, I am happy being American, but would love a British accent. |
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