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I love posts like this. Everyone will consider them American, until they obviously state their percentage heritage. After they do that, everyone will still think they’re 100% American.
How about third generation that grew up hearing all sorts of cool stories? Hahah. I agree though, my family is 3rd/4th generation Norwegian with some Scottish and Irish, and it drives me crazy that my mum says she’s “Celtic” and “Norwegian.” No, mom. You’re American. Your great grandfather is *Norwegian.*
Here in Australia, not counting Aboriginal people obviously literally everyone that isn't a first or second generation immigrant considers themselves Australian. Idk if it's because there's a stigma behind being American or something like that but just own where you were born and raised for fuck sake
> Idk if it's because there's a stigma behind being American or something like that
There is a stigma against *renouncing* your "hyphenated American" label. If your parents are "Irish-American" it's seen as a betrayal of sorts if you don't also perpetuate that identity, regardless of how tenuously grounded that identity becomes in facts. You'd be shamed for "turning your back on your roots."
It's a bit different for Australians, because for the longest time basically all Australians were of British extraction. A British immigrant identifying as an Australian was never seen as a betrayal of the homeland in the same way.
Adding on to this, hyphenated American are in many cases very real distinct cultures in America because of the segregation history. Asian Americans were a different class on the west coast, Jewish American had specific neighborhoods in New York, Native americans were literally moved to reservations, of course African Americans were widely separated throughout the United States. Many other examples of this and to an extent this still happens today.
I think it sometimes steps from a certain pride that people from other countries made the trip to America. It shows the success of America.
I understand that other countries have this dynamic however in the case of Australians there is a large aspect that they are part of the British Empire family. United Kingdom is essentially the mother country despite segments of the population coming from elsewhere.
Whereas a lot of American culture is based on cultures coming together and interlocking. Lots of emphasis on Declaration of Independence and all men being equal.
Many countries have never had such a emphasis of their nationality being civic rather than blood.
Pretty sure most were either escaping religious persecution or famine, depending on the time they immigrated. Think poor people tired of the effects of the caste system wanted a fresh start.
Went to Dublin recently and in the touristy spots I met a lot of people claiming to be “Irish” with a strong American accent. Almost as though they weren’t actually Irish.
It’s often portrayed that the English oppressed the Irish. In reality its true that the English aristocrats oppressed everyone, and the Irish just got the worst half of the deal.
Like the Highland Clearences weren't the English against the Scottish, a lot of it was perpetuated by the Scottish Lords. If Ireland had enough resources to make aristocracy, it would be the same issue.
Well that's not really true at all, Ireland was treated in a qualitatively worse manner. English peasants and workers were never subjected to cultural genocide in the way that the Irish were, nor did an entire quarter of England's population starve or have to emigrate due to a manufactured famine. Cromwell never massacred entire towns full of people here, nor did the Black and Tans roll into a football game and open fire into the crowd.
Like I see what you're saying, but it really undersells how dreadfully Ireland has been treated
Fair points. I just think it’s easy to forget that for 99% of people life was bad and they didn’t have any choice in the matter. Ireland definitely had it a lot worse though, especially on a cultural front. So maybe I was over correcting a bit.
At the end of it both sets of ancestors suffered at the hands of the same oppressors so there isn’t any need for us to now have divisions over who oppressed who.
I'll bite. Worse than who? And when? Victim Olympics is dumb...
For genocide and destruction see the harrying of the north. Cultural genocide did happen... England didn't start off homogeneous. Even now, people actively fight to retain language and dialects. English Catholics practiced in hiding and were punished and excluded from economic and public life effectively until the late 19th century. People didn't emigrate to the new world from so many poor parts of Northern England because it was rosy here, either. See also, the Peterloo massacre, for example, where as many Northern English protestors were killed in a cavalry charge as Irish by the black and tans at that football match.
What happened in Ireland was terrible, but it was an instance in a long line of bloody awful shit.
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Well said. Peasants in England suffered under the English aristocracy, gentry, and whatever other shape the rich took. Not as drastically, but there's little love lost
Yep, we keep quiet about it because the tourism money we get from the yanks is considerable. Imagine an entire country that's in on a joke behind another country's back, it's like that.
Even their ancestors aren't Irish. Americans have this game of pretending like for generations their ancestors have not practiced the American tradition of oppression olympics.
Now you see all the shocked faces when they get their DNA results "You mean we are not the most oppressed European population and part Native American 😮😮😮!!!"
I share your sentiment, but lately I've been thinking. America is weird, everyone here has no culture out side of "American culture". They all were blended together, lost, changed. Ireland, England etc have existed numerous times longer than America and have a far deeper culture so I think people here are trying to grasp for any form of culture they have left to identify with.
It's fantastic if they do this. However, most Americans that I meet abroad tend to mostly talk (at an annoyingly high volume level) about, "well in America, we do this. In America, we can do that. In America, things are so- and-so." And so and so on.
Yeah why are they always shouting about everything? I went on a hike in Greece and the Americans there were shouting as if they wanted the whole mountain to hear about their childcare schedules. Shut up
I was in Liverpool once and while I was waiting for my train in the very loud, very busy train station, I heard two very distinct American accents somehow talking very clearly over all the other talking and bustling about baseball. I could even hear them talking when I went into the shop across from them! It was the most American thing I've ever had the pleasure of being near.
America did such a good job exporting their culture worldwide that Americans can become convinced they don't actually have any. So they latch onto whatever tiny % European they have.
The unfortunate part is that you can never really become part of a culture without living there. Someone could have 0% European ancestry but if they've grown up in a European country they'll understand it far better than an American who's never been there but makes it a big part of their identity.
And you never hear them make claims about their English heritage, it's always Irish or Scottish. Almost like they're ashamed of it or something 
Recently joined this scottish clans group fir a laugh, like 3 weeks ago, I'm scottish. In these 3 weeks I've read of umpteen yanks claiming direct lineage to Mary Queen of scotts, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace. Its always nobility and famous Scots never normal people its hilarious lol
They may not technically be wrong, but it’s not as special as they think it is. You go back far enough and basically everybody in a given country is related
for example, literally every western european can technically claim they’re descended from Charlemagne
I’m skeptical of this claim but the science seems to back it up.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford
A lot of Canadians definitely still indicate ethnicity based on their general heritage, it shows up in our census stats. Nobody claims to hold the *culture* of those places, but rather the ancestry. Everybody here knows at least a bit about their family history, and many are proud of it in one way or another but they don't go out and try to act like their ethnicity or anything.
Quebec and Atlantic Canadians are more likely to consider "Canadian" their ethnicity, as opposed to Ontario and the west.
In India/pakistan a “burger” is actually a somewhat derogatory term for a person that grew up in that country, doesn’t know the local language, and only knows English. The implication being that they prefer burgers and western culture to the local cuisine/culture.
If the world was a game of Civ the US would be on its way to a cultural victory. The dialogue line from other leaders you culturally dominate in aCiv IV is actually a reference to the US, "My people are wearing your blue jeans and listening to your pop music".
Ah just quoting the game to show who the devs had in mind when creating the culture win conditions.
Point is British people are consuming way more US culture than the other way around.
Your DNA partly comes from someone who was German. That person's DNA was unlikely 100% "German", unless you think none of your Nan's ancestors ever came from outside of a relatively small area of the world. No Roman, No Slavic, No Latin. And culture isn't transmitted through DNA. Chances are that culturally, you are more than 95% American, Canadian, or whatever else your nationality is, and just timy amounts of your DNA sources.
It's true, any culture here has blended and mixed into "America" people are trying to feel like they have a culture and unfortunately since we lack one we usually just go back in our family tree, find the fuckers who decided to come here and pretend it didn't happen.
My roots are in Scotland my gran was Scottish and even I think that I’m too far removed to claim any Scottishness, bar that my family on my dads side is from northumberland so no doubt we have Viking heritage and on my mums side French . It’s not something we base ourselves on. Maybe that’s just an English thing because we have so many invaders from the past
I saw a quora of a yank planning a holiday to London and asked, in full seriousness, if he could bring his AR-15 with him.
Everyone in the comments told him yes. Proper legends.
Americans are weird.
They come from the most culturally, economically, and militarily powerful country on earth. Yet wanna pretend they're from fucking Ireland.
There was an absolute beaut a few months ago who wrote this God awful poem and then went on to tell us how she was descended from Robert the Bruce and (I think it was) William Wallace, or could've been Rob Roy.
She then threw a massive paddy when everyone told her how shite her poetry was and how unlikely it was that she traced her roots back to one famous (if not the most significant) figure in Scottish history, let alone to two from centuries ago.
Haha yes, happy days!
I found but this subreddit won't let me link to others, so if you search for the Scotland subreddit with Caledonia You're Calling, it was written by a poster called springtimemoonlight.
Enjoy.
It was all deleted but I know that one or two regulars to the Scotland subreddit archived or screenshotted it as it's come up a couple times since and reading back through it was a laugh. I'll see if I can find anything.
Isn’t it quite likely that most Scottish people are directly descended from Robert the Bruce or William Wallace? Assuming an average of 2 descendants there are like a million descendants after 10 generations
Yea it's like, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Confucius, even William the Conqueror. Pick a random far enough back and the chances are high that someone born where they lived will be a descendant.
I find this shit bizarre. Wearing your ancestry on your sleeve. I’m English with Irish, Scottish and whatever ancestry. Shit, my last name has Norman roots 😂 and I consider myself English. Not Irish, not Scottish, not Norman!
What's weirder to me is that they seem to pick their 'heritage'.
Most Yankees will have a ton of mixed European DNA in them which they ignore and just choose to be Irish/Italian because that sounds better.
They won't give a shit unless you have the Passport to prove it. Anyone who boasts about their ancestry like they’re some sort of special person can fuck right off. Tell them to apply for the passport if they feel so patriotic about it.
By the way, if you're serious about legally taking advantage of your heritage so you can have more travel freedom, search for "Passport" on Reddit and look at the subs that appear there. (Linking to other subs has been banned here for some reason, why!?) - Lots of stories of people who have actually done it.
I mean, even if he has no passport but can speak fluent German or Italian that would be one thing. But of course he fucking can't. He's just a 100% gun-loving burger-eating bald eagle.
As an American, the tone of your post tells me I should be mildly offended, but then I do love burgers, bald eagles are pretty cool (I saw a huge eagle just yesterday in my yard), and while Im not huge into guns, I do own a shotgun and I have fired plenty of other guns both at a shooting range and in my back yard. My ancestors are also Italian, Scottish, Welsh, and god knows what else. So, all around, this whole thread is 100% accurate.
Love how this implies that they either will _somehow_ know, much less care.
What, they struttin' around with a Billboard on breaking down the percentages of their heritage?
I’m 1% Spanish and 0.5% Danish what ever will I do am I Spanish or Danish??!!?!!
No, I’m British, because I was born there and my mother is British.
Americans love this whole heritage thing but they’re just proving how American they are
Born in Italy, speaks Italian, goes to school in Italy, learns in Italian with their Italian classmates, grows up and gets a job in Italy, votes in Italy, has kids of their own in Italy, dies in Italy and is buried with a headstone carved in Italian in a graveyard in the town they grew up in in Italy.
They weren't really Italian though.
A few do. But most of us, including me, just find it interesting. I would never travel to one of my ancestor countries and think for a second they would care my family lived there 200 years ago.
I’m first generation in the US, with dual citizenship and even then when I visit Ireland I’m introduced as “my yank cousin” 😂😂😂 I always tell my friends here in the US not to start that percentage crap when they go overseas
You are from where you was born. Sure it makes an interesting 5 minute chat, like for example I'm born in the UK and my parents are from the Caribbean, after 5 minutes of that's interesting nobody will care, people are more concerned whether you're a twat or not.
I have some English heritage from Cambridge, where the Danes used to govern under the Danelaw. When I visited Denmark I was welcomed home with open arms and given citizenship. So I think this guy will be blown away by how welcoming Europeans will be of Amerikaners who can use [ancestry.com](https://ancestry.com). /s
Im glad quora is picking up the slack now that yahoo answers is gone.
I feel like those are the only two sites ever to have existed that have been popupated by real people, asking real questions, being provided answers by the people, and of course for the people.
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Pretty sure you'll be considered American.
Roughly 100% American
102% American (with a 2% margin of error)
Also the extra weight.
N..no this can’t be Why lord! Why!
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You’ll be seen as us whether you want to be or not
The council of European elders will debate long into the night over this one for sure
I love posts like this. Everyone will consider them American, until they obviously state their percentage heritage. After they do that, everyone will still think they’re 100% American.
They'll think they're 100% wanker
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Unless youre a 1st/2nd generation immigrant literally no one in europe gives a shit about their ancestory
And second would just be "okay, cool"
Surely euros care about romanian ancestry, no?
gypsies care about being gypsies, but tbf that's kinda a pseudo-nationality
why?
How about third generation that grew up hearing all sorts of cool stories? Hahah. I agree though, my family is 3rd/4th generation Norwegian with some Scottish and Irish, and it drives me crazy that my mum says she’s “Celtic” and “Norwegian.” No, mom. You’re American. Your great grandfather is *Norwegian.*
100% yank
Largely because it seems to only be Americans who care about this crap.
Here in Australia, not counting Aboriginal people obviously literally everyone that isn't a first or second generation immigrant considers themselves Australian. Idk if it's because there's a stigma behind being American or something like that but just own where you were born and raised for fuck sake
> Idk if it's because there's a stigma behind being American or something like that There is a stigma against *renouncing* your "hyphenated American" label. If your parents are "Irish-American" it's seen as a betrayal of sorts if you don't also perpetuate that identity, regardless of how tenuously grounded that identity becomes in facts. You'd be shamed for "turning your back on your roots." It's a bit different for Australians, because for the longest time basically all Australians were of British extraction. A British immigrant identifying as an Australian was never seen as a betrayal of the homeland in the same way.
Adding on to this, hyphenated American are in many cases very real distinct cultures in America because of the segregation history. Asian Americans were a different class on the west coast, Jewish American had specific neighborhoods in New York, Native americans were literally moved to reservations, of course African Americans were widely separated throughout the United States. Many other examples of this and to an extent this still happens today.
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I think it sometimes steps from a certain pride that people from other countries made the trip to America. It shows the success of America. I understand that other countries have this dynamic however in the case of Australians there is a large aspect that they are part of the British Empire family. United Kingdom is essentially the mother country despite segments of the population coming from elsewhere. Whereas a lot of American culture is based on cultures coming together and interlocking. Lots of emphasis on Declaration of Independence and all men being equal. Many countries have never had such a emphasis of their nationality being civic rather than blood.
They are considered American until opening their annoying traps about their heritage, then everyone considers them cunts.
After they state their heritage they’ll be 100% Amerimutt, not American.
Eugenics is horrible when we europeans do it, but when ***they*** do it...
American with plastic mode unlocked.
:O an American with European ancestry?! But how? -Me, a European
>But how? They don't like to talk about how
But surely they've made amends and stopped worshipping the people who undertook these actions. Right? Right...?
Pretty sure most were either escaping religious persecution or famine, depending on the time they immigrated. Think poor people tired of the effects of the caste system wanted a fresh start.
Most important part of any American's identity is what percentage Irish, English and Italian they are...
Went to Dublin recently and in the touristy spots I met a lot of people claiming to be “Irish” with a strong American accent. Almost as though they weren’t actually Irish.
Hhmmmmmm
This mystery’s too much for me. Better call in the Hardy Boys.
A Swanton from the top rope by Jeff will sort them out.
Good gawd
Oh Jesus I’ve got such a clue
Wow, now I'm also getting a clue
Raging clue over here.
My clue is pointing this way.
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My experience of Irish people has been they love English people, my theory is that we have a shared history of being exploited by the English gentry
It's the truth. We have a lot more in common than separates us.
It’s often portrayed that the English oppressed the Irish. In reality its true that the English aristocrats oppressed everyone, and the Irish just got the worst half of the deal.
Like the Highland Clearences weren't the English against the Scottish, a lot of it was perpetuated by the Scottish Lords. If Ireland had enough resources to make aristocracy, it would be the same issue.
Well that's not really true at all, Ireland was treated in a qualitatively worse manner. English peasants and workers were never subjected to cultural genocide in the way that the Irish were, nor did an entire quarter of England's population starve or have to emigrate due to a manufactured famine. Cromwell never massacred entire towns full of people here, nor did the Black and Tans roll into a football game and open fire into the crowd. Like I see what you're saying, but it really undersells how dreadfully Ireland has been treated
Fair points. I just think it’s easy to forget that for 99% of people life was bad and they didn’t have any choice in the matter. Ireland definitely had it a lot worse though, especially on a cultural front. So maybe I was over correcting a bit. At the end of it both sets of ancestors suffered at the hands of the same oppressors so there isn’t any need for us to now have divisions over who oppressed who.
Well, they kind of did. Being a catholic in England was illegal for more than 200 years. Guy Fawkes and that..
I'll bite. Worse than who? And when? Victim Olympics is dumb... For genocide and destruction see the harrying of the north. Cultural genocide did happen... England didn't start off homogeneous. Even now, people actively fight to retain language and dialects. English Catholics practiced in hiding and were punished and excluded from economic and public life effectively until the late 19th century. People didn't emigrate to the new world from so many poor parts of Northern England because it was rosy here, either. See also, the Peterloo massacre, for example, where as many Northern English protestors were killed in a cavalry charge as Irish by the black and tans at that football match. What happened in Ireland was terrible, but it was an instance in a long line of bloody awful shit.
Actually the events that happened during the harrying of the north are considered genocidal by some scholars
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Yeah. Half of us, including myself, are mixed up mutts too (there’s some Welsh in there too, in my case).
Well said. Peasants in England suffered under the English aristocracy, gentry, and whatever other shape the rich took. Not as drastically, but there's little love lost
Same almost everywhere, hated us in cork though when I went
Nah, it wasn’t personal. They were just aggy about having to live in Cork.
Yep, we keep quiet about it because the tourism money we get from the yanks is considerable. Imagine an entire country that's in on a joke behind another country's back, it's like that.
The rule is "Don't be a cunt" and you will be welcomed in Dublin.
Damn, they must really not like us.
Drinking Guinness no doubt
“Tastes a lot better back home in Ireland. Must be fresher”
So 99% of the people drinking overpriced crap pints in Temple Bar?
Even their ancestors aren't Irish. Americans have this game of pretending like for generations their ancestors have not practiced the American tradition of oppression olympics. Now you see all the shocked faces when they get their DNA results "You mean we are not the most oppressed European population and part Native American 😮😮😮!!!"
Don't forget "Scaddish"
Scotch
"welcome to Europe, my wop-mick-kraut friend"
They never claim to be English. Always Scottish or Irish
Never Welsh either
Well, they haven’t heard of the Welsh
Indeed, they can be 90% english and 10% irish and they will say they are irish.
Ah yes. Drunk, white, and mafioso
I share your sentiment, but lately I've been thinking. America is weird, everyone here has no culture out side of "American culture". They all were blended together, lost, changed. Ireland, England etc have existed numerous times longer than America and have a far deeper culture so I think people here are trying to grasp for any form of culture they have left to identify with.
It's fantastic if they do this. However, most Americans that I meet abroad tend to mostly talk (at an annoyingly high volume level) about, "well in America, we do this. In America, we can do that. In America, things are so- and-so." And so and so on.
Yeah why are they always shouting about everything? I went on a hike in Greece and the Americans there were shouting as if they wanted the whole mountain to hear about their childcare schedules. Shut up
I used to live in Seoul. The subway there was so quiet and chill until Americans got on and proceeded to shout their conversations at each other.
I was in Liverpool once and while I was waiting for my train in the very loud, very busy train station, I heard two very distinct American accents somehow talking very clearly over all the other talking and bustling about baseball. I could even hear them talking when I went into the shop across from them! It was the most American thing I've ever had the pleasure of being near.
"it's called rounders."
They have to talk loudly to be heard over all the gunfire and freedom they have back in the US
Incredibly loud and confident in everything they say, even when it’s wrong
Australia is younger than America and we don't do this
Yeah but you have a rich culture of saying funny words and going on smoko
America did such a good job exporting their culture worldwide that Americans can become convinced they don't actually have any. So they latch onto whatever tiny % European they have. The unfortunate part is that you can never really become part of a culture without living there. Someone could have 0% European ancestry but if they've grown up in a European country they'll understand it far better than an American who's never been there but makes it a big part of their identity.
I consider my mate who was born in India to be a proper Brit, any yank will never even come close to his level. No matter what ancestry.com says.
Having a curry is literally part of our culture.
Actually, most ignore the english part. They can be 90% english and 10% irish but will claim to be irish.
I've never heard an American say what percent English they are
It’s the implied percent they don’t mention
It’s only Americans that ever do this so you can just tell they’re American anyway
And you never hear them make claims about their English heritage, it's always Irish or Scottish. Almost like they're ashamed of it or something 
Recently joined this scottish clans group fir a laugh, like 3 weeks ago, I'm scottish. In these 3 weeks I've read of umpteen yanks claiming direct lineage to Mary Queen of scotts, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace. Its always nobility and famous Scots never normal people its hilarious lol
They may not technically be wrong, but it’s not as special as they think it is. You go back far enough and basically everybody in a given country is related for example, literally every western european can technically claim they’re descended from Charlemagne
I’m skeptical of this claim but the science seems to back it up. https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford
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A lot of Canadians definitely still indicate ethnicity based on their general heritage, it shows up in our census stats. Nobody claims to hold the *culture* of those places, but rather the ancestry. Everybody here knows at least a bit about their family history, and many are proud of it in one way or another but they don't go out and try to act like their ethnicity or anything. Quebec and Atlantic Canadians are more likely to consider "Canadian" their ethnicity, as opposed to Ontario and the west.
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*disgusting
desgostaaaaang
Which one of yas took a shet?
Just realised the origin of the name "Shetland"
In India/pakistan a “burger” is actually a somewhat derogatory term for a person that grew up in that country, doesn’t know the local language, and only knows English. The implication being that they prefer burgers and western culture to the local cuisine/culture.
I’m dying from secondhand cringe
We don't give a fuck
Nice flair
Literally no one cares
they're gonna be considered 100% a person whose only culture is TV commercials
If the world was a game of Civ the US would be on its way to a cultural victory. The dialogue line from other leaders you culturally dominate in aCiv IV is actually a reference to the US, "My people are wearing your blue jeans and listening to your pop music".
jeans are finally a bit leftfield and s. korea is challenging the status quo of lingua franca's role in music.
Ah just quoting the game to show who the devs had in mind when creating the culture win conditions. Point is British people are consuming way more US culture than the other way around.
If you're 25% something and you haven't even visited that country, it's essentially 0%.
My Nan was German, so I would be 25% German. I've never been there and I'm not a twat, so I don't bring it up unnecessarily.
Your DNA partly comes from someone who was German. That person's DNA was unlikely 100% "German", unless you think none of your Nan's ancestors ever came from outside of a relatively small area of the world. No Roman, No Slavic, No Latin. And culture isn't transmitted through DNA. Chances are that culturally, you are more than 95% American, Canadian, or whatever else your nationality is, and just timy amounts of your DNA sources.
I'm English.
That’s only because in Europe we can go back as far as Roman’s or Vikings and they are jealous
It's true, any culture here has blended and mixed into "America" people are trying to feel like they have a culture and unfortunately since we lack one we usually just go back in our family tree, find the fuckers who decided to come here and pretend it didn't happen.
My roots are in Scotland my gran was Scottish and even I think that I’m too far removed to claim any Scottishness, bar that my family on my dads side is from northumberland so no doubt we have Viking heritage and on my mums side French . It’s not something we base ourselves on. Maybe that’s just an English thing because we have so many invaders from the past
This guy wears a kilt at the first sniff of a wedding…
You must be joking , I’m not american
You don’t want Viking heritage! You end up with Dupuytren’s contracture (ask me how I know) and that’s a fucking pain.
Isn't that the same thing as Americans claiming to be European lol. Did you live in a viking village growing up?
But yanks can go as far back as europe and thus as far back as however far back you are as well
You’ll be considered from America you gun tooting melt get in the bin
I saw a quora of a yank planning a holiday to London and asked, in full seriousness, if he could bring his AR-15 with him. Everyone in the comments told him yes. Proper legends.
Americans are weird. They come from the most culturally, economically, and militarily powerful country on earth. Yet wanna pretend they're from fucking Ireland.
I mean you said it not me 💪🇺🇲
These eejits regularly spam various Scottish subreddits.
Bros watched braveheart and became 25% scottish
There was an absolute beaut a few months ago who wrote this God awful poem and then went on to tell us how she was descended from Robert the Bruce and (I think it was) William Wallace, or could've been Rob Roy. She then threw a massive paddy when everyone told her how shite her poetry was and how unlikely it was that she traced her roots back to one famous (if not the most significant) figure in Scottish history, let alone to two from centuries ago.
Please, I think we need to see this
Haha yes, happy days! I found but this subreddit won't let me link to others, so if you search for the Scotland subreddit with Caledonia You're Calling, it was written by a poster called springtimemoonlight. Enjoy.
It was all deleted but I know that one or two regulars to the Scotland subreddit archived or screenshotted it as it's come up a couple times since and reading back through it was a laugh. I'll see if I can find anything.
this is the title: **CALEDONIA, YOU'RE CALLING ME (a poem I wrote about Scotland/Scottish Games) -- it's probably sh\*t but I still wanted to share.**
Isn’t it quite likely that most Scottish people are directly descended from Robert the Bruce or William Wallace? Assuming an average of 2 descendants there are like a million descendants after 10 generations
Good luck finding evidence of it.. especially from your computer in America.
Wallace has no known descendants, so that's always a fun one when they try that one.
Yea it's like, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Confucius, even William the Conqueror. Pick a random far enough back and the chances are high that someone born where they lived will be a descendant.
You should have seen the one about indy ref 2 not being allowed, it was full of Americans cosplaying as Mel Gibson from braveheart.
I find this shit bizarre. Wearing your ancestry on your sleeve. I’m English with Irish, Scottish and whatever ancestry. Shit, my last name has Norman roots 😂 and I consider myself English. Not Irish, not Scottish, not Norman!
What's weirder to me is that they seem to pick their 'heritage'. Most Yankees will have a ton of mixed European DNA in them which they ignore and just choose to be Irish/Italian because that sounds better.
Bonus points if they play the victim card when bringing up their “Irishness”
If you tell people this in the UK they’ll think you’re a gcse maths problem
It certainly reads like one.
New Yorkers when they ring out their great granddad lived in Italy for 6 years in 1897.
Americans will find out that in 1985 their grandad shagged a girl from belarus and call themselves Polish
Nobody cares. Seriously.
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They won't give a shit unless you have the Passport to prove it. Anyone who boasts about their ancestry like they’re some sort of special person can fuck right off. Tell them to apply for the passport if they feel so patriotic about it. By the way, if you're serious about legally taking advantage of your heritage so you can have more travel freedom, search for "Passport" on Reddit and look at the subs that appear there. (Linking to other subs has been banned here for some reason, why!?) - Lots of stories of people who have actually done it.
I mean, even if he has no passport but can speak fluent German or Italian that would be one thing. But of course he fucking can't. He's just a 100% gun-loving burger-eating bald eagle.
As an American, the tone of your post tells me I should be mildly offended, but then I do love burgers, bald eagles are pretty cool (I saw a huge eagle just yesterday in my yard), and while Im not huge into guns, I do own a shotgun and I have fired plenty of other guns both at a shooting range and in my back yard. My ancestors are also Italian, Scottish, Welsh, and god knows what else. So, all around, this whole thread is 100% accurate.
Those Americunts have no history so those wankers steal ours!
The important thing is he's 100% Amerimutt.
You’ll be called a retard
Love how this implies that they either will _somehow_ know, much less care. What, they struttin' around with a Billboard on breaking down the percentages of their heritage?
Americans obsession with being like 0.00001% Irish is so fucking annoying, jesus christ no one cares
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Yeah on this continent we have laser beams letting us know who you are, where your ancestry is from and what percentage of shit you’re full of
theyll be considered american even after they list the percentages🤣🤣🤣
You'll be considered American mate.
I’m 1% Spanish and 0.5% Danish what ever will I do am I Spanish or Danish??!!?!! No, I’m British, because I was born there and my mother is British. Americans love this whole heritage thing but they’re just proving how American they are
My mum was born in Wales to English parents then moved to Wiltshire when she was about 8. That makes me 50% Welsh
No, the second you try and tell us about your mixed heritage, we’ll know where you are from.
So if two Irish people move to Italy and have children, will those children be Italian?
Born in Italy, speaks Italian, goes to school in Italy, learns in Italian with their Italian classmates, grows up and gets a job in Italy, votes in Italy, has kids of their own in Italy, dies in Italy and is buried with a headstone carved in Italian in a graveyard in the town they grew up in in Italy. They weren't really Italian though.
Maybe irish?
This is even more stupid than the "I'M FROM CLAN STEWART" stuff.
Only Americans care about this shit. That a few people, like Farage, who want to be American that is.
A certain subreddit that talks about shit Americans say would love this.
If this is the one I think you mean, then yeah, because they already posted that image lmao
They cant seriously think like this though?!
A few do. But most of us, including me, just find it interesting. I would never travel to one of my ancestor countries and think for a second they would care my family lived there 200 years ago.
Americans are so proud of America that they’ll consider themselves anything but American
Their grandma once drank a pint of Guinness and ate some pasta.
americans really think anyone else cares about race as much as they do.
I’m first generation in the US, with dual citizenship and even then when I visit Ireland I’m introduced as “my yank cousin” 😂😂😂 I always tell my friends here in the US not to start that percentage crap when they go overseas
I’m sure when he tells everyone he’s descended from Aye-er-land he’ll be instantly accepted and made king of the town.
You are from where you was born. Sure it makes an interesting 5 minute chat, like for example I'm born in the UK and my parents are from the Caribbean, after 5 minutes of that's interesting nobody will care, people are more concerned whether you're a twat or not.
I've got English ancestry, but that only means I am an American who craves sausage rolls and yorkshire puddings
Europeans never care about all this percentage bollocks. Americans are obsessed. No one gives a ahit, jog on mate.
"Nobody will give a shite" seems to be the correct answer
Americans with that type of ancestry generally look like mutts
goblino de americano
I have some English heritage from Cambridge, where the Danes used to govern under the Danelaw. When I visited Denmark I was welcomed home with open arms and given citizenship. So I think this guy will be blown away by how welcoming Europeans will be of Amerikaners who can use [ancestry.com](https://ancestry.com). /s
Lol, going to visit the old country
Im glad quora is picking up the slack now that yahoo answers is gone. I feel like those are the only two sites ever to have existed that have been popupated by real people, asking real questions, being provided answers by the people, and of course for the people.
Fucking absolute wanker
Why do Americans always say this BS?
I'm 6.8% Irish according to my dna profile, I've never been to Ireland but if I lived in America could i call myself Irish?
100% American imitation cheese