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Or at least close to it? Obviously most Americans and Canadians are "mutts" when it comes to their European ancestry. Are most Europeans "pure?" For example, are most of the French living in France actually 100% French? Or the Italians in Italy 100%? Or is there usually something else mixed in there? Does it vary from country to country? I have noticed that if somebody living in the U.S. Had one set of grandparents immigrate from a particular country(let's use Ireland for this example), so they will assume they are 50% Irish. But is that usually always the case?
I have French blood, like an 8th or 16th or something. Never really looked into it. Of course there's a lot of mixture between the European countries, especially in groups of countries that border each other. So many Dutch live just across the borders in Belgium or Germany and of course if they're not mixed marriages already, their children get most likely German or Belgium boy/girlfriends and later marry, have children and so on. I'd expect the same for the Scandinavian countries, the countries within the UK, the Mediterranean countries etc.
And then there are also lots of Western man that get Eastern European woman, lots of people that work international and end up in other countries and marry over there, independent contractors that work where ever the money is best, etc etc. And with the opening of the borders and the EU getting bigger I'd expect this movement will only get bigger and bigger and there for also the mixture between different EU nationalities.
The only people born outside the Netherlands in my family tree (as far as i know) were from South Africa, over 200 years ago (8 or 9 generations back).
Kinda strange considering i only live 15 mins. from Belgium and 35 mins. from Germany.
People are not dogs. Pure blood means absolutely nothing and people over thousands of years mix all the time.
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