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Another question...How do you know what your background really is?
You may say you are 100% Irish or German and french or Russian or whatever? You dont know if your mom, grand ma or great grand ma had a little fun with a soldier or the milk man or the best friend who was something different. People did not just start cheating and I am sure Maury Povich could of had a show in any time period in history if DNA testing was around. There are also things like family secrets, unspoken of adoptions, kidnappings and on and an.
The only "true" Americans are Native Americans. And even if u wanna get technical, they crossed the land bridge from Asia some 30,000 years ago. So majority of us posting here are American only by birthplace.
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Another question...How do you know what your background really is?
You may say you are 100% Irish or German and french or Russian or whatever? You dont know if your mom, grand ma or great grand ma had a little fun with a soldier or the milk man or the best friend who was something different. People did not just start cheating and I am sure Maury Povich could of had a show in any time period in history if DNA testing was around. There are also things like family secrets, unspoken of adoptions, kidnappings and on and an.
Let Henry Louis Gates Jr. figure it out for you. I love his show.
I was born here. My parents come from Guyana which is on another continent near the equator crestled by the largest rain forest on earth the amazon. I can also trace my ancestry to three other continents excpet Australia and uninhabitable Antarctica. Its great knowing your roots, knowing your roots it tells you where you come from, where are you going and what's your purpose, fundemental questions everyone should ask. My ancestors were imimigrants, indentured servants and slaves all mixed up which later will lead to me. I find it real cool that I'm part of a worldly ethnic backgrounds.
Let me break it down. Nationality American, ethnicity Guyanese, heritage Portuguese, Irish, African, British, and Indian. I get questioned and judged on race a lot from people asking if I'm Hispanic to North African, to two guys pointing out you talk fast do you have Irish in you? Another saying I like your brown colored Indian eyes, lol. Its all incognito if you ask me. Probably in the near future when I start a family ike gonna have story time and describe how I got here. At the end of the day I'm just a product of globalism while most elites stay and marry pure.
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You may say you are 100% Irish or German and french or Russian or whatever? You dont know if your mom, grand ma or great grand ma had a little fun with a soldier or the milk man or the best friend who was something different.
My great grandparents were from the old country, I look like my dad, and he and his brothers look like his father. So that takes care of that issue.
what gets me is when you meet a person and they give you the laundry list and you wonder how do they know all the percentages they claim they are and consider Jewish as a nationality.
5 percent greek, 20 percent irsh, 40 percent italian, 10 percent spanish, 25 percent Jewish.. and mind you jewish is not a nationality its a religion but they claim they are JEWISH as if it was a nationality.
what gets me is when you meet a person and they give you the laundry list and you wonder how do they know all the percentages they claim they are and consider Jewish as a nationality.
5 percent greek, 20 percent irsh, 40 percent italian, 10 percent spanish, 25 percent Jewish.. and mind you jewish is not a nationality its a religion but they claim they are JEWISH as if it was a nationality.
by knowing your family history and where everyone came from
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