Your cultural heritage?

[Arglorand]

I was just arguing against the premise that "Southern Irish" is an accepted and understandable term. It's not. It can only really be understood in contrast to Northern Irish.

Not really. Given that it's used in it's own right rather than in contrast to NI.

Except it's not. The term used 99 times out of 100 is "Ireland". The hundredth time is "the Republic".

You are literally the first person I have heard using it at all.

[Arumdaum]

As are you.

Someones a tad upset after the culture / ancestry discussion, huh

No, but someone seems to be continuing on being uppity about everything.

[Patriarch]

Someones a tad upset after the culture / ancestry discussion, huh

No, but someone seems to be continuing on being uppity about everything.

Yeah I suppose the Irish stereotype has a grain of truth.

[Patriarch]

Not really. Given that it's used in it's own right rather than in contrast to NI.

Except it's not. The term used 99 times out of 100 is "Ireland". The hundredth time is "the Republic".

You are literally the first person I have heard using it at all.

That speaks more to your lack of interaction with others outside your circle.

[Arumdaum]

When will the people of NS learn... One's heritage cannot be measured as a percentage!

We can messure the genetic-ethnic heritage we receive from our ancestors. So, for instance your father is half german and half irish, and your mother is half french half polish then you are quarter german, quarter irish, quarter french and quarter polish. Thus you can enherit the culture that the mix brings to you. So it can be messured somewhat, to a point.

No, we can't.

How are we going to decide whether a person is "French" or "Turkish?" How many generations need to pass without a French or Turkish ancestor before they aren't considered French or Turkish anymore?

What if someone Irish immigrates to Sweden? How many generations need to pass (if kids with only "Irish" people were made) before they're considered Swedish? Or would they not be considered Swedish?

I mean, there were two major waves of migration into Europe of whom the majority of Europeans today are descendants of. One from Russia, and another going up from Turkey and the Balkans. And even then, the people who first went to Russia and Turkey were from Africa. And before we were humans, we were a variety of other species.

[Arumdaum]

No, but someone seems to be continuing on being uppity about everything.

Yeah I suppose the Irish stereotype has a grain of truth.

You're Irish?

[Patriarch]

Yeah I suppose the Irish stereotype has a grain of truth.

You're Irish?

No. I thought we'd gone over this already.

[Arumdaum]

Except it's not. The term used 99 times out of 100 is "Ireland". The hundredth time is "the Republic".

You are literally the first person I have heard using it at all.

That speaks more to your lack of interaction with others outside your circle.

Or maybe it means no one uses it in Lithuania either.

[Arumdaum]

American,~ 400 years; the majority of my ancestors immigrated before the 20th century. The two that did were Ashkenazi and Slovene. But going by ethnicity, I'm mostly Brit/Ashkenazi/Swede with a Slovene surname.

Technically, the majority of your ancestors weren't human, haha.

[Patriarch]

That speaks more to your lack of interaction with others outside your circle.

Or maybe it means no one uses it in Lithuania either.

Oh heaven forfend. Not Lithuania.

[Arumdaum]

Or maybe it means no one uses it in Lithuania either.

Oh heaven forfend. Not Lithuania.

Your point?

[Asigna]

3/4ths proud Filipino
while somehow 1/4 Chinese descent (i despise them)

[ImperialistSalvia]

American,~ 400 years; the majority of my ancestors immigrated before the 20th century. The two that did were Ashkenazi and Slovene. But going by ethnicity, I'm mostly Brit/Ashkenazi/Swede with a Slovene surname.

Technically, the majority of your ancestors weren't human, haha.

Hahaha, excluding them

[Arumdaum]

3/4ths proud Filipino
while somehow 1/4 Chinese descent (i despise them)

Why do you hate the Chinese?

[ImperialistSalvia]

3/4ths proud Filipino
while somehow 1/4 Chinese descent (i despise them)

Filipino/Chinese mix is rather common. Why despise China? It's an old nation with a long (and pretty remarkable) history.

[Jeffersonmile]

Well. It seems as though an argument about Ireland has already started simmering. Splendid. If the argument is about the legitimacy of the term 'Southern Ireland', then I have to say I've heard that expression before plenty of times. It's purely a relative term, to distinguish the Republic from the North.

I'm from Northern Ireland myself, I'm descended from Scottish Presbyterian planters who settled in Ulster during the 16th century (the Americans among you call us 'Scots-Irish').

As for my family, specifically, a lot of them left Ireland in the mid-19th Century and settled in around the Georgia/Kentucky area and ended up fighting for the Confederacy. A couple went to Pennsylvania, no idea what happened to them.

The ones who stayed here were dockers. My Grandfather worked at the shipyards in Larne, and his father was involved in getting the guns off the ships there during the UVF gun-running in 1913.

[Dislveislt]

80% Lithuanian
20% Polish
(above are approximate numbers)

From what I heard from my grandparents' stories, my ancestors belonged to a noble family of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and were patriotic supporters of the end of the clashes between barons. Still, Russia/Sweden/Austria came in and took away their titles of nobility, so here we are now.

[Unionist State of Scotland]

Mostly just Scottish but I do have English, Ulster and Canadian family members.

[Republic of Sapmi]

I am 50% Sami and 50% norwegian, but I have like no connection to the norwegian side of my family whatsoever. And sometimes I believe I am the only sami in the entire world that actually wants a sami state

[Arumdaum]

3/4ths proud Filipino
while somehow 1/4 Chinese descent (i despise them)

Filipino/Chinese mix is rather common. Why despise China? It's an old nation with a long (and pretty remarkable) history.

I think it's more common with wealthier Filipinos, who probably have better Internet access, can afford to move to developed countries, etc. Most, if not all, Filipinos I've met have Chinese ancestry, but apparently they're a minority in the Philippines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese-Filipinos

[Knowlandia]

My fathers side of the family hails from Eastern Europe, Ukraine to be exact. My mothers die of the family are also from Eastern Europe, though they are ethnic jews and I can trace my lineage back directly to Mosses through them.

Culturally, I speak Russian with my immigrant family, participate in Jewish religious rituals, and eat unappetizing foods.

[Asigna]

Filipino/Chinese mix is rather common. Why despise China? It's an old nation with a long (and pretty remarkable) history.

I think it's more common with wealthier Filipinos, who probably have better Internet access, can afford to move to developed countries, etc. Most, if not all, Filipinos I've met have Chinese ancestry, but apparently they're a minority in the Philippines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese-Filipinos

I know... very sad for my people.

[Arumdaum]

I think it's more common with wealthier Filipinos, who probably have better Internet access, can afford to move to developed countries, etc. Most, if not all, Filipinos I've met have Chinese ancestry, but apparently they're a minority in the Philippines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese-Filipinos

I know... very sad for my people.

What's wrong with the Chinese or Chinese-Filipinos?

[Asigna]

I know... very sad for my people.

What's wrong with the Chinese or Chinese-Filipinos?

The purity of our race...

[Arumdaum]

What's wrong with the Chinese or Chinese-Filipinos?

The purity of our race...

What do you mean by that?

How is any race 'pure?' What do you mean by 'race?'

The Philippines has always been heavily mixed since Austronesian migrants mixed with the indigenous "Negrito" peoples.