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I think Tomi is a dolt, and have no idea why anyone gives her a venue to talk, but, what does her opinion have to do with what her ancestors did? Can I criticize slavery yet have slave owning ancestors (for the record, they did not, came to the US after slavery ended)? Do them owning slaves have any bearing on my opinion about slavery?
My other thought is; how does this person know about Tomi's ancestors? Hell, I hardly even know about mine, I could not imagine someone else magically finding something so detailed like what languages they did or did not speak.
Of course though European immigrants (specifically those from the UK, Ireland, Germanic, and northern Europeans) were much more assimilated than any other immigrant group, the US derived from such groups and/or are offshoots of such groups. The US is not a large deviation from those societies back then. It is an apples and oranges comparison.
You obviously don't know how genealogists do their work. Anyone can do the research just based on public records starting with Tomi Lahren (or anyone) and work backward to climb her family tree. Really old census records did include if a person knew how to write, read and/or speak English as well as how much education they had or not. It's not magic,it's dedicated research.
Great. Incredibly stupid thing to say, given the actions of her own ancestors. So a genealogist discovers this about Lahren’s immigrant ancestors:
I keep telling people that most of the stories we hear about European immigration are FALSE! They took their sweet time assimilating into this country, and it often took several generations to do so.
25 years doing genealogy.
Mostly
The immigrants speak the native tongue and a bit of English.
The CHILDREN of immigrants speak English and the native tongue.
The grandchildren annoy the immigrant generation by speaking English and just enough of the native tongue to mess it up badly.
I get a kick out of people who say their immigrant ancestor from 1780 spelled their name some way when they signed everything with an X because they could neither read nor write.
Tracing famous peoples ancestry is pretty easy as long as you can find an ancestor alive 1940 and before. That is the last census released to the public. Census (~1910) record whether people could speak English
Hey libs, did she falsely claim native american heritage then leverage that lie to become a tenured professor at a major ivy league university? Just saying...glass houses and all that you haters.
But, but, but - whatabout...... Took only 10 posts.
Dumb, blonde and racist. That is how Fox News like their women.
Are you sure that you should be throwing "dumb" around so loosely, considering?
Even assuming the genealogists assertions are correct, the interpretation of them is off. With only one of her ancestors does the wording imply that English was not known. I see little issue, unless liberals are now of the opinion that bilingualism is bad.
Moreover: "low skill" has never applied to Norwegians or Germans here, as a broad group. If Mexicans can build the equivalent in Stockholm in Mexico as a display of skill and harmony, then maybe we can begin to speak about comparisons between the two groups. Until then, everyone knows that your comparisons are incomparable.
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