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The Doom Legions wrote:

Larthinia wrote:My great grandfather was a WW2 corporal. from what I know >.<

Mine was imprisoned by the Japs in WWII, from what I've heard. He's been gone for about a decade by now.
I barely know shet about my family XD

Herargon wrote:

Bunkeranlage wrote:
That's long…

There is a Chinese man whose family tree goes back all the way to Confucius.
It has been proven, too.

Bunkeranlage wrote:

Avaerilon wrote:(I'm related to Robert Burns on my father's mother's side)

Interesting…

Meanwhile, I have Lim Bo Seng as a great-granduncle.

Larthinia wrote:

Bunkeranlage wrote:
Interestingly, my family was also very involved in the military, especially during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Since my great-grandfather was the stepbrother of a prominent anti-Japanese resistance leader, the Kempeitai tried to interrogate him so as to get more information on the resistance's plans. When he refused, they took him to a beach along the north coast and drowned him.

The irony was that all that my great-grandfather knew about was Lim Bo Seng's whereabouts. He was just a biscuit factory manager.

Cool

Herargon wrote:

The Doom Legions wrote:Mine was imprisoned by the Japs in WWII, from what I've heard. He's been gone for about a decade by now.
I barely know shet about my family XD

Well, one person (don't know who, but I think a "achter-oudneef" or something like that was a soldier on the German side...
But another family member was in the resistance.
You could say we have both sides of the coin.
Generally we hate that person on the german side, but also we feel spite for him because he was forced to.

Bunkeranlage wrote:

Larthinia wrote:Cool

According to one of my uncles, whom I interviewed on the subject, my (late) grandfather was only two years old when the Japanese arrested my great-grandfather.

Herargon wrote:

The Doom Legions wrote:Mine was imprisoned by the Japs in WWII, from what I've heard. He's been gone for about a decade by now.
I barely know shet about my family XD

Well, one person (don't know who, but I think a "achter-oudneef" or something like that was a soldier on the German side...
But another family member was in the resistance.
You could say we have both sides of the coin.
Generally we hate that person on the german side, but also we feel spite for him because he was forced to.

Herargon wrote:The man that is a descendant from Confucius.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Tsui-chang

Gigaverse wrote:I'm Vietnamese, born to Vietnamese parents in Vietnam, and currently live in Vietnam.

I'm also an English grammar Nazi and a hypocrite.

-Ebola- wrote:

Herargon wrote:The man that is a descendant from Confucius.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Tsui-chang

He is not the only one.

Vorkaant wrote:I should also add that I have a Dutch father.

The Eastern Antarctic State wrote:So things are slowly becoming cooler here...

Larthinia wrote:

Vorkaant wrote:I should also add that I have a Dutch father.

Cool.
Many people there seem to have Dutch ties.

Larthinia wrote:

The Eastern Antarctic State wrote:So things are slowly becoming cooler here...

IN this thread?

The Eastern Antarctic State wrote:

Larthinia wrote:IN this thread?

No, Australia

Larthinia wrote:

The Eastern Antarctic State wrote:No, Australia

Oh
In Romania, it gets hotter as days pass.

Herargon wrote:

Sungai Pusat wrote:I think what you might be asking about is the person's ethnicity.

In which case, I am Chinese. That's as far as I know or care to know about my ethnicity.

Nationality is Singaporean. Current residence? Well, take a guess.

The country where chewing gum is forbidden - aka Singapore?
I've had Dutch family who lived in Singapore for a short time too