Europeans, do you have extended family in the States?
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This is aimed at Europeans only. Your Grandad would have to log on and say he has a Grandson in the US for this to be relevant, if he is still around that is, condolences if he isn't
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I really don't get why Americans are trying so hard to prove their European heritage. So many Americans have contacted me over the years trying to find their Irish roots and usually they don't seem to realise their ancestors weren't Irish at all but just boarded the boat in Queenstown. People with obvious names like Fleming asking about their Irish ancestors? Irish people aren't as obsesses with their origins as Irish-Americans are.
I've seen Americans buying little clumps of Irish turf (something every petrol station sells by the 10kg bag) and paying good money for it or buying the cd's of the first Irish musician they encounter on Irish soil (simply because it's "traditional Irish"). The Irish love that of course, it's good for the economy.
I've seen Americans buying little clumps of Irish turf (something every petrol station sells by the 10kg bag) and paying good money for it or buying the cd's of the first Irish musician they encounter on Irish soil (simply because it's "traditional Irish"). The Irish love that of course, it's good for the economy.
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We don't have to "try" to prove anything. We don't have to "try hard" to prove anything. If you got educated on the matter and maybe even read a few of the posts in this thread you would understand why whites have a connection to Europe. But you failed on that front.
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We don't have to "try" to prove anything. We don't have to "try hard" to prove anything. If you got educated on the matter and maybe even read a few of the posts in this thread you would understand why whites have a connection to Europe. But you failed on that front.
okay, so now only whites are proud of their heritage? How can you have a connection with a country you left two centuries ago?
My grandparents left Hungary two generations ago and I'm aware of this but I don't call myself a Hungaro-Belgian. My father still spoke Hungarian and I have a few words as well.
How many Irish Americans speak Irish, German, Dutch, Greek, Italian?
I have encountered many Americans claiming to be German but when they found they are actually Polish they are often shocked.
Isn't this just a racial supremacy thread?
I'm not saying you have to prove anything but a lot of your countrymen seem to think they have to. La na Padraig was invented in the US and the Irish found it a good idea but in Ireland it is seen for what it is: just another bank holiday to get drunk and run around in silly costumes: nothing more, nothing less.
If Irish-Americans are so proud of being Irish, how come they don't speak Irish or play football or hurling?
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We don't have to "try" to prove anything. We don't have to "try hard" to prove anything. If you got educated on the matter and maybe even read a few of the posts in this thread you would understand why white Americans feel they have a connection to Europe, even though no European is ever going to acknowledge that. But you failed on that front.
I corrected your post.
Anyway, flemishgael, it's like this:
2 boys play in the sandbox.
Boy 1 has no brothers or sisters, lives in a wealthy neighborhood & prefers to draw little figures of animals in the sand.
Boy 2 has 3 brothers & a sister, lives in one of the poorer areas of town & prefers to make sand castles.
Boy 1 thinks he's different (maybe he even thinks he's better), so instead of trying minimize the amount of differences, he'll try to ad some more, just so he can prove they're not the same.
Boy 1 goes to his dad & asks where he's from. Dad, expecting a simple question, asnwers something along the line of Baton Rouge or Henderson (or any other town), but this answer doesn't really satisfy boy 1.
Boy 1 goes to his grandparents (father's side) & asks where his great grandparents came from. They say they came from Norway (grandfather's side) & Finland (grandmother's side). Boy 1's grandparents from his mother's side answer the question as well when asked. They say that their parents came from Sweden.
Boy 1 does some simple calculus & comes to the conclusion that he's 50% Swedish, 25% Norwegian & 25% Finnish, even though he knows next to nothing about Sweden, Norway or Finland.
Boy 1 proudly walks up to boy 2, kicks over his sand castle & says they're different, because he (boy 1) is 50% Swedish, 25% Norwegian & 25% Finnish.
Boy 2, thinking they truly must be different, since he (boy 2) isn't nealry as insane as boy 1, goes to his grandparents as well & asks where he's from.
Eventually boy 2 finds out he's 1/8 Polish, 1/8 Russian, 1/4 Czech & 1/2 British.
Boy 2 proudly returns to the sandbox & claims that boy 1 and he are indeed different & that he's better than boy 1, because the Russians ruled over Finland between 1809 & 1917.
Boy 1 now feels terribly offended & starts attacking that 'filthy Russian slavedriver' as boy 1 prefers to call him.
Eventually, a English/Dutch/'Any other European country' boy, who came along with his dad (he had to be in the US for business) walks past the sandbox & happens to overhear the two boys arguing. He simply asks his dad whether all American kids are insane...
Wow. Again, it's obvious you haven't read a fucking post in this thread and don't have a clue what you are talking about.
I didn't even read your post.
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why noy call it that.every other fucking thread on the board is "racist" as well. Fucking liberal scum and their dilluted view of the world.
I'm an American who has relatives in the States.........does that count?
Wow. Again, it's obvious you haven't read a fucking post in this thread and don't have a clue what you are talking about.
I didn't even read your post.
I have read all the posts but haven't changed my mind whereas you obviously don't read them by your own admission.
I've read all of them as well, except for that drivel in the last one that was posted. It's obvious Europeans and European-Americans (and Canadians) have different views on the issue.
No because you are not European.
But I'm sure you wish you wish you were! :hatsoff:
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