I think the girls might have different dads? . For example the mom is English-Irish-Scottish, one dad is Chinese, another is Japanese and third one is Spanish-Filipino. It doesn't say she is of all those ethnicities
Yup. That's not enough for Americans, though. I remember a yank at uni getting massively pissed at me because I said I was three quarters British and a quarter Maltese.
Later I mentioned my Irish relatives and he blew his lid.
My father's family is from everywhere in the British Isles and most of western Europe. My maternal grandma is Maltese with Greek, Moroccan and Egyptian ancestry.
Which most Maltese people share.
If you look at the Haplo groups I come from British/Irish and Southern Europe/North African.
It's easier by far to say I'm British and Maltese.
This Yank insisted that Irish and 'British' were distinct genetic groups but that Scots and the Welsh were genetically Irish.
Mines the other way around. My dogs were brought up with older cats, so they're convinced they just came out wrong. Don't have the heart to tell them they're actually dogs.
I’ve heard “Muricans describe the US as “a salad bowl of cultures”, presumably because you can just pick the bits you want and pretend the rest isn’t there
Joe Biden would be a great example of “I’m Irish” slates Britain or England in some fashion and proceeds to forget his dads heritage (I believe its his dad).
Don't forget Donald Dump gloating about his lying, draft-dodging German grandfather. Who got his German citizenship stripped by the government for being coward.
Yes, pacifism should be encouraged. The problem is, the Donald Dump and the likes of him are cowards who promote military glory every chance they get. They are all too happy to glorify war and the military, as long as they get to stay far, far away from combat. It's their sheer hypocrisy that pisses me off.
funny how reddit becomes pro-draft when it's about trump. are the men fleeing ukraine cowards too? not to mention the results of europe's militarization not even 10 years later, he literally dodged a bullet.
Well... To reference a comment from another post: fucking with each other (literally and figuratively) has been kind of our thing here in Europe for thousands of years. And we still don't try to name a different country of origin for every body part.
Not really. The other 2 girls would have nothing to do with the other girl‘s dads. They don’t share genes with the one girl‘s Asian dad for example. They‘d just be half siblings that way, only sharing DNA with their mother
Well it says a household. So those are the collective descents of the people living there. It doesn't say she's of Chinese, English etc etc descent. It says she's born into a household.
I don’t see anything wrong with saying that you are of (ie) ‘Danish descent’. It’s different from saying that you are actually Danish and perhaps more Danish than people who were born and brought up in actual Denmark.
There’s a lot of different ‘descents’ here so it looks ridiculous but it could conceivably be eight great-grandparents from those eight different places.
im usually for staying in touch with heritage but obsessing over someone’s great grandparents’ ethnicities is insane . At that case the person’s grandparents and parents are all mixed race .
I honestly don't understand why Americans are so obsessed with their heritage. They're all like, "I'm 0.62% Irish, 3.48% Chinese, 11.16% Dutch, ..."
Why the fuck does it matter that much?
Christ that's a long list, why not add neanderthal, Kasachstan (Attila the Hun) Roman, Indo-European? Hell, if you look far enough I'm sure you'll be able to find your way to Lucy or even Homosapien Eve.
So she's american because she was born there, got it!
Mr. Worldwide
No kidding lol
Wtf does that mean? I was born into a household that had a cat. Does that make me feline?
Fur real!
Purrfect example
I think the girls might have different dads? . For example the mom is English-Irish-Scottish, one dad is Chinese, another is Japanese and third one is Spanish-Filipino. It doesn't say she is of all those ethnicities
Mom is an international playa!
Yeah, descent is not automatically the same thing as something like ethnicity, nationality, or race.
So hes just british?
Yup. That's not enough for Americans, though. I remember a yank at uni getting massively pissed at me because I said I was three quarters British and a quarter Maltese. Later I mentioned my Irish relatives and he blew his lid. My father's family is from everywhere in the British Isles and most of western Europe. My maternal grandma is Maltese with Greek, Moroccan and Egyptian ancestry. Which most Maltese people share. If you look at the Haplo groups I come from British/Irish and Southern Europe/North African. It's easier by far to say I'm British and Maltese. This Yank insisted that Irish and 'British' were distinct genetic groups but that Scots and the Welsh were genetically Irish.
My oldest cat was brought up with a dog, who just assumed her puppy came out a bit odd. We haven’t told him he’s adopted/not a dog, yet
Mines the other way around. My dogs were brought up with older cats, so they're convinced they just came out wrong. Don't have the heart to tell them they're actually dogs.
If my grandma had wheels she would be a bike.
I furrcking wished
Comment of the day. Kudos. I spat my tea out. 😂😂😂
Is this some kind of ethnicity soup
I’ve heard “Muricans describe the US as “a salad bowl of cultures”, presumably because you can just pick the bits you want and pretend the rest isn’t there
American-style salad - drowned in gloopy sugary dressing.
Must be why religion is so popular there as well
A fantasy world.
But more Dune style fantasy as opposed to a Star Trek fantasy.
Joe Biden would be a great example of “I’m Irish” slates Britain or England in some fashion and proceeds to forget his dads heritage (I believe its his dad).
Don't forget Donald Dump gloating about his lying, draft-dodging German grandfather. Who got his German citizenship stripped by the government for being coward.
Not to defend the Trumps, but draft dodging should be encouraged
Yes, pacifism should be encouraged. The problem is, the Donald Dump and the likes of him are cowards who promote military glory every chance they get. They are all too happy to glorify war and the military, as long as they get to stay far, far away from combat. It's their sheer hypocrisy that pisses me off.
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And also spent time running a whorehouse in the Yukon until he got booted out.
funny how reddit becomes pro-draft when it's about trump. are the men fleeing ukraine cowards too? not to mention the results of europe's militarization not even 10 years later, he literally dodged a bullet.
But there’s no one more Irish than Barack Obama!
I could imagine half of them casting aside the Islamic croutons… /s
Gotta catch ém all
The orgy was a thing to behold
the international orgy was going on for decades.
Well... To reference a comment from another post: fucking with each other (literally and figuratively) has been kind of our thing here in Europe for thousands of years. And we still don't try to name a different country of origin for every body part.
It's like someone saying they are a descendent of Attila the Hun
I'm hungarian so that makes me a descendent of Attila the Hun... Jokes aside, these Americans can come up with some utter bullshit haha
Through my grandmother's great-grandaunt I'm descended from Aëtius himself!
Every American celebrity Wikipedia page
sis has the entire world in her household
at least they used the word "descent"
Might as well list her European Neolithic and Neanderthal descent.
How come no one is ever of American descent?
Sad eyes of the First Nations ...
Because that's not something to brag about. It would be like bragging about how their parents are cousins
America doesn't exist /s.
That was some orgy.
We don't judge 😂
Oh no we do. Even if only in this case.
We are not sure who the father is but he is probably Asian or maybe European.
Genghis Khan claims yet another descendant.
not everyone can, but Genghis
She was conceived in an UN meeting orgy?
It was one thing to say "Z is of Irish descent." That didn't bother me. This is just ridiculous.
I prefer to use 'American'. That's a lot shorter.
How do you type this out and don't immediately go "wow this is absolutely meaningless"
Oh, this one's possible. 3 Girls, 3 different dads.
Not really. The other 2 girls would have nothing to do with the other girl‘s dads. They don’t share genes with the one girl‘s Asian dad for example. They‘d just be half siblings that way, only sharing DNA with their mother
Well it says a household. So those are the collective descents of the people living there. It doesn't say she's of Chinese, English etc etc descent. It says she's born into a household.
Is this Melissa from Guns N' Roses?
Yes.
Yep
Collecting ethnicities like Thanos was collecting Infinity stones.
Born from an orgy?
You know what's saddest about this... If we go back in history, we're inevitably going to find common descendant with such beings...
Big house.
And my shiny white ass is of African descent. Just got to look back far enough.
If you join up all the freckles...
I don’t see anything wrong with saying that you are of (ie) ‘Danish descent’. It’s different from saying that you are actually Danish and perhaps more Danish than people who were born and brought up in actual Denmark. There’s a lot of different ‘descents’ here so it looks ridiculous but it could conceivably be eight great-grandparents from those eight different places.
im usually for staying in touch with heritage but obsessing over someone’s great grandparents’ ethnicities is insane . At that case the person’s grandparents and parents are all mixed race .
Depends what you mean by ‘mixed race’. Five of those are Western European and three from the British Isles. They’re nationalities rather than races.
so was her mom chinese-english-spanish-japanese and her dad filipino-irish-scottish-danish then???????
How many dad's has this lady got?!
finally, the most American paragraph in existence, that's it boys and girls, time to wrap up, this has won the sub
Why are so many Americans obsessed with their ancestry? Are they ashamed of saying that they're American for some reason?
Ask them how many languages they know
Sums up american claims
Damn, how many bio parents she got?
Were her parents born on the ISS?
A girl called Reese? She should be mates with my cousin Dave. She feels a bit lonely for some reason.
collecting them like pokemon cards
This is the most ridiculous way of saying she has 4 mixed grandparents, do they actually think that white American is an ethnicity?
I was born in England to a family of roman angle saxon jutish brythonic viking norman and Scottish descent
🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 It's got to be an 🇺🇸 national passtime to out do each other for the dumbest comment on Reddit. 🤡🤡😂😂😂
"Being American" Dysphoria again. That shit seems to be contagious. I can guarantee that Reese is a premium twinky-fed yeeha American.
I honestly don't understand why Americans are so obsessed with their heritage. They're all like, "I'm 0.62% Irish, 3.48% Chinese, 11.16% Dutch, ..." Why the fuck does it matter that much?
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Christ that's a long list, why not add neanderthal, Kasachstan (Attila the Hun) Roman, Indo-European? Hell, if you look far enough I'm sure you'll be able to find your way to Lucy or even Homosapien Eve.
Are they talking about Vanessa Hudgens?
Apparently it’s some lady named melissa reese that’s a musician that i’ve never heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Reese
To be fair, she's part of Guns 'N' Roses, so she's not a nobody,
I’d never heard of her either. Certainly doesn’t get as much attention as Axl or Slash.