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faithfilly
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Joined: Jan 28, 2007
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| Finnish decent. |
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AlexandertheSolitary
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Location: Melbourne
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Scottish, English and German ancestors, with some Huguenots who emigrated from France to Britain centuries ago. I am an Australian Citizen. I know a little about American race relations. There was some trouble betwen Anglo-Saxons and Lebanese in Sydney, New South Wales, but I live in Victoria. Specifically a rural place called St Andrews (not the one in Scotland) north/possibly north-east of Melbourne proper. Melbourne seems comparatively harmonious racially, though there has been crime related violence. Some of this may have racial underpinnings. The situation of the indigenous people of this land (Australia) is very inequitable.
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AlexandertheSolitary
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| faithfilly wrote: | | Finnish decent. |
Fascinating! Can you speak any Finnish?
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AlexandertheSolitary
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Location: Melbourne
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| Tom wrote: | | Not very exciting for me....just born and bred in the English Midlands. |
What is not exciting about the English Midlands?
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AlexandertheSolitary
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Actually, there is a little more to the racial relations situation in Melbourne than I implied earlier. There has been some controversy about Sudanese refugees, with some people ignoring histories of suffering and generalising from isolated instances of antisocial behaviour. I believe that there has generally been in Australia some issues with attitudes to Muslim immigrants (not a single ethnic group I know) and the immigration policy of our current Federal Government, a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party (yes I know detention centres began under a Labor government - American English spelling used for the Australian party unlike British Labour) with regard to asylum seekers has been pretty dreadful. This is probably moving more towards content appropriate to the Politics, Philosophy and Religion Forum rather than Statistics.
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sinsboldly
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Age: 58
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Location: Oregon, USA
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looks like I am an American, with roots of Irish-Spanish (survivor when the Spanish Armada cracked up on the coast of Ireland) and French Huguenot ( baby in a basket rescued in a shipwreck on the way to US and named Benjamin Franklin Phillipe by the adopting rescuers.) and Swedish enough to make me sweat like I am in a sauna alla time. Some ancestors migrated from Germany with a religious sect that became the Pennsylvania Dutch.
I had red hair before it all went grey, and I have a fair complexion that tans beautifully. I pass for white, and I guess I am, but I doubt if any of my forbears were from the Caucus Mountains, though (Caucasian)
I went to Ellis Island once and looked up all the family names, and there was only ONE there and she came through and married a far offshoot 5th cousin of my mom, but that was it. I remember people around me being astounded, they had never realized that before Ellis Island people long ago could just take a ship and dock on the land mass of North America and just walk on in!
So I guess I am just as an "American" than any "original People" that walked over the land bridge from Asia.
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AlexandertheSolitary
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| sinsboldly wrote: | looks like I am an American, with roots of Irish-Spanish (survivor when the Spanish Armada cracked up on the coast of Ireland) and French Huguenot ( baby in a basket rescued in a shipwreck on the way to US and named Benjamin Franklin Phillipe by the adopting rescuers.) and Swedish enough to make me sweat like I am in a sauna alla time. Some ancestors migrated from Germany with a religious sect that became the Pennsylvania Dutch.
I had red hair before it all went grey, and I have a fair complexion that tans beautifully. I pass for white, and I guess I am, but I doubt if any of my forbears were from the Caucus Mountains, though (Caucasian)
I went to Ellis Island once and looked up all the family names, and there was only ONE there and she came through and married a far offshoot 5th cousin of my mom, but that was it. I remember people around me being astounded, they had never realized that before Ellis Island people long ago could just take a ship and dock on the land mass of North America and just walk on in!
So I guess I am just as an "American" than any "original People" that walked over the land bridge from Asia.
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Thank you for this very interesting post. I think the Caucasus link with Caucasians is referring to ancient history (please correct me if I am mistaken) perhaps a hypothetical point from which people speaking a language or languages ancestral to the Indo-European languages migrated over a very long period of time to Iran, India, Asia Minor (Turkey today; NB however main language spoken there today the result of later migrations from central Asia) Greece, Spain, Gaul, etc.; some references refer to an origin in the south of Russia, a region consistent with the Caucasus hypothesis.
Interesting about the Irish-Spanish connection. I had heard something abot some surviving the devastation of the Armada and being shipwrecked not only in Ireland but in Scotland; do you know much about the history of how they and their descendants were able to integrate and find acceptance? This would be very interesting to look into.
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Ravenclawgurl
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| i am 1/2 askenazi jewish ( 1/4 austrian 1/4 czech) and 1/2 romaniote (greek) jewish |
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Ticker
Come to the Dark Side; we have cookies...
Joined: Aug 26, 2006
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Location: Cage Free at the moment
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Mom's side- Cherokee, Choctaw & Welsh
Dad's side- Cherokee, Ashkenazi Jew and Creek (Native American tribe)
Oddly enough I am told I don't look Native nor Jewish, but instead am accused of being Mexican or Middle Eastern.
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Cameo
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Age: 23
Posts: 497
Location: SE Wisconsin
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| I am 1/4 Polish and 1/4 Puerto Rican, and the other half is a mix of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Norweigan, French-Canadian, and English. |
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Tim_Tex
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Joined: Jul 03, 2004
Age: 28
Posts: 22329
Location: San Marcos, Texas
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I have Scottish, Irish, Alsatian (a French/German mix), and Cherokee blood in me.
Tim
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weird_el
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Joined: Sep 03, 2007
Posts: 32
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| Northern European -- Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, English, Alsatian, Austrian -- in that order. |
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Road_Kamelot
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Joined: Oct 25, 2007
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I'm German/Polish/Ukranian/British
Mom's German/Polish/Ukranian
Omi's pure German
Opa's Polish/Ukranian
my So called Dad is pure British |
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Averick
Calculateurre of Chaos
Joined: Mar 06, 2007
Age: 29
Posts: 2132
Location: in the trenches..
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| I have these backgrounds: Irish, German, English, Welsh, Polish, Cherokee, Osage, Jewish. A lot of these are relative. |
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Helek_Aphel
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Age: 20
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I'm Caucasian.
I have a German/Dutch (roughly half of both) background.
My father is an honorary black person. The black people he socialized with declared him "too cool to be a white guy". |
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