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I like Himbo. Of course, it's non-race specific, but degrading nonetheless...
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And 1/97th Japanese? Jeez, are we desperate to be cool or what?
"I know, rather than coming up with a personality, I'll pretend that my great x10 grandfather might have once seen a Japanese woman's breats. That way I can get really upset whenever the H-bomb is mentioned, and make girls think I'm sensitive and stuff. This will surely lead to lots of naked, sweaty sexual sessions."
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The ideas of cultural history and social memory are uncharted territories to Omega.
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I'm 1/64 Cherokee, or something like that. Mainly German, Italian, and Scandanavian on my dad's side, and a general Brittish/Irish conglomerate on my mom's.
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You ever watch a period movie set in New York about 150 years ago? All the stores have signs in them saying "Irish need not apply?"
WAAAAY back then, in the States (possibly Europe too, but I'm not 100% sure), the Irish were considered a "sub" race, much as Africans and Orientals were.
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Another one over in England was to have signs in bars saying "No dogs or Irish". Speaking as someone 100%(as far as I know) Irish, I don't feel offended by this, just vaguely amused.
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1/4th Russian. I only know that because my great-great-great grandfather is some guy named Alexander Puskin (which I'm told is some famous Russian guy).
It is interesting how a thread about gas turns into family heritgage.
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"Some famous guy"...heh...
Aleksandr Pushkin was only one of Russia's most beloved & wonderful poets of the 19th century.
While we're on famous folks in the family...I'm related to Einstein (like a 4- or 5-branch distant relation)& to Arthur Fleigenheimer, AKA Dutch Schultz.
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There, I think I've succeeded in bringing the two topics closer together.
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Did he check behind the fridge? I lost Depth Charge's gun once, and it was there. Lord knows how, since I don't regularly take Transformers with me when I get milk.
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Since we're sharing, Scots-Irish-German-Welsh-English-Polish-Iroquois. (although I only found out about the Iroquois part last week, - mom found an error in her genealogy - it's possibly on more than one branch of the family tree, and already likely higher in the rankings than either Polish or Welsh.)
If certain terms such as the dreaded "n-word" are so offensive... pray explain the reasoning behind people of that particular group using that term to describe themselves in their music and popular entertainment?
Once again, words are not 'bad,' in and of themselves, any more than books , movies, or any kind of information is 'bad.'
'Bad'-ness is in intent, and action. It always has been, and it always will be.
I mean, I could call you a psychofragulated tubloidial framitzammer, too. Does that mean anything to you?
Words actually, in and of themselves, MEAN very little. Take the overuse of the word "brother." Brother has a very definite meaning: male sibling. But Freemasons, people with "brethren"-ish churches, and People-Of-Mid-Northern-To-Mid-Lower-Latitude-African-And-Sometimes-Elsewhere-Origin (just striving for accuracy here) call each other 'brother' on a daily basis all the time in the USA, even if their tribes of origin are busy slaughtering each other in the ancestral homeland.
Offense can even be taken at innocuous words, perhaps moved by innuendo (or the recipient's inherent insecurities), You mother-loving pie-eater.
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Irish, but descended mainly from the interaction of elements in the cores of dying stars and in supernova remnants. I also have some beta-decay in me, and I'm nearly sure my great-great grandmother (on my brother's side, now) was a hydrocarbon suspended in a vapour state, even though I'd rather not talk about that part of l'histiore la famille.
Famous relations?
A cousin of mine was one of the primary constituents of the Bos�-Einstein condensate that gluons were supposed to have been seen in last year.
I heard somewhere that I'd a pure element in me from like centuries ago that could have been chlorine!! (reminds of the stories my father still tells us from time to time, about my mother being about as inert as neon when they first met - arf!)
Apparently my grandfather was a colleague of many of Winston Churchill's farts.
->>back to the bashing<<-
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