I did one of those mail in DNA test and found out I'm like over 50% data breach
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Americans love to answer the question "where are you from?" with an ingredients list.
Americans are all saying they’re proud of their country and then say shit like this unironically.
Makes sense though because in America, everyone is American regardless of background, race, etc etc etc so people, in their search for ways to differentiate themselves from others, latch on to their heritage.
in America, everyone is American regardless of background, race, etc
Except if you moved here recently, of course. We can't have that.
Ironically America has incredible diversity within its borders. The average west coaster, northeasterner, Bible belter, and Midwesterner are completely foreign to each other. Plus a religious obsession with sports is another way we tribalize.
My lineage is German, Irish, and Scandanavian, but my stomach is 100% Mexican.
Americans when they find out they're 1/823th of a footballfield finnish: "OMG I AM SO DIVERSE! AND NOW A CERTIFIED MINORITY" Americans when they try to do finnish things: "Yeah no this is fake, its not possible for anyone to survive in 230f"
I'm 25% Finnish (Grandmother)
I enjoy saunas
Is 25% enough to enjoy other Finnish things?
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Basing your preferred genetic heritage on how much you like a TV show. Smh.
American Italians have embraced the pop culture caricature of themselves and become it.
Americans ~~Italians~~ have embraced the pop culture caricature of themselves and become it.
HEY, I'm typin' hea'
My brother got a DNA test and found we're mostly descended from Nordic people and not Germanic/Irish as we were told as kids. So naturally, I am now a Vikings fan.
When you learn that Vikings are also Germanic:
There is no escaping it, Gustav
And the Vikings invaded the isles … so, they may still well be Germanic and Irish. Just sorta.
There’s actually weirdly little Viking DNA in the British Isles. Except maybe in Yorkshire where there’s a suspiciously high incidence of natural blondes.
*not counting the Orkneys and Shetlands.
American with 7% Irish ancestry on the Shankill Road lecturing the locals on why they should have a united Ireland energy.
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Y'all actually know your ethnicity? I know i'm white and that's about it.
I know i’m white
100% American.
Americans use ethnicity as a synonym for race. That's not formally correct. Wikipedia has it thusly:
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
If you don't know your ethnicity, then you don't have one. Except you do have one. White American certainly fits the definition.
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