ApolloJusticeAC
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dads side = thai, laotian
moms side = cambodian
moms side = cambodian
What is your Ethnicity?
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oath2order
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Polish on mother's side. German on father's
So I'm 100% Canadian, whatever it means...but from different origins.
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If you are not native, you are obviously from somewhere else and that's why people are still referring to their origins.
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I think it's easier for people not living in North America to see USA or Canada as an unified culture but it's not the same for people living there. If you live in North America you are reminded of your origins all the time, it doesn't matter if your family live there for 20 000, 400 or 100 years.
But it's interesting, I had a friend whose grand-parents (and maybe parents?) were Portuguese, so he was always saying he was partly Portuguese because raised in that family culture, but when he went to Portugal he felt like a foreigner, even among his relatives. It was a rather traumatic experience for him because, then he felt like he didn't belong anywhere.
I'm a Canadian of French origins (mostly), I live in Quebec where the majority is French, so I can relate to the people here, I don't relate to French people, I'm not French, but if I go to another province, I'm constantly reminded that I'm not a "real" Canadian and it's too bad that they didn't kill us all, (don't worry, not all people are that nasty), same if I go to the native town nearby, it doesn't matter if I have some native ancestor somewhere in my family tree, I'm still an European for them.
So If you are not white or English speaker you are not 100% North American, if you are white and English speaker, you are not 100% North American either. So I think that's why people still stick to their origins.
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Why not just call yourself Qu?b?cois? Quebec is pretty distinct from the rest of canada... so if you just call yourself 100% Qu?b?cois that should cover it lol
I'm Quebecois but Quebec is not a country, and I'm not more Quebecois than my neighbor who looks Asian but who is being asked every day where she's from. And what about all other French-Canadians who don't live in Quebec?
I just wanted to point out that when you live in North America, you are always reminded that you are not 100% anything, If I say that I'm 100% Quebecois I will be reminded that I'm not 100% native. Quebec is a native word after all.
My friend who is an American and live in Chicago is seen as a black person by white people, but only her great grand-ma was Afro-American, her skin is pretty much the same color as mine who is seen as white. For black people she looks latino, for latinos she doesn't look like them. According to her she 100% American, but according to other Americans she's not.
If you belong to the "majority", nobody asks...like it's rarer to see a white American/Canadian saying they are of British origin, but if we take Irish immigrants (for instance), it was harder for them, they were more discriminated and they didn't like British that much so just like other immigrants they regrouped and tried to keep their culture alive. So they are Irish for us but not for you.lol
200-300 years is not that long in history, my grand-pa was still mad at the British who burn his great great grand-pa farm in 1759. XD
Well it's how I see it...
soldierroxas
Senior Member
I'm Mexican/Ecuadorian it's a crazy mix and I love it lol
Hmm, not sure you're getting my point, but that's ok. Americans and Canadians, you guys seem all kinds of messed up over this stuff. It's just odd I suppose. I guess I just don't get it.
I'm getting yours and I was not saying that for you especially. You are right. I was just trying to explain how some North Americans were seeing it. Maybe because they are still relatively young countries, and it used to be colonies...Well we get the impression that we are immigrants forever.
King Dorado
you can do anything
It's because we're all mutts in North America. We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A,' and Canadianish with a capital 'C'. You know what that means? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! Here's proof: my nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt...
and I would think, that of all so-called Europeans, the Irish more than anyone, could appreciate being the underdog, the mutt. who has provided more support to Ireland, than North Americans? who outside of Ireland, other than North Americans, regard St. Patrick's Day as an unofficial national holiday? where else would Connor MacGregor go outside of Ireland, other than North America, to enjoy the limelight and adoration of fans? what other continent, other than North America, welcomes U2 to play its national limelight sporting events? what other continent, other than North America, would create a multinational restaurant conglomerates with an Irish name like MacDonalds, or Bennigans? what other continent, other than North America, would have a college sports team nicknamed the "Fighting Irish," and a pro sports team called the "Celtics?!" Yet you show disdain for those abroad descended from Irish emigrants... that's what's messed up.
ok dude i'm tired as hell but i'm saying that even an irish person in your country who didn't drink or didn't partake in anything cultural is still irish 'cause it's in their blood, just like anyone with any other ethnicity. that's all.
visibleghost
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yeah obviously the culture immigrants brought w them when they left their home country have changed since then, that's part of why i think it's weird to be so sttatched to an identity that was do far back. idk i just don't get how someone who doesn't have european parents and was born in north america would be considered european. having european heritage isnt the same thing as being european.
and w your last part uh i mean yeah obviously, i get it but i dont get how you define ethnicity then..? like, by this logic you could say that the people who came from germany to north america might not have been 100% german because maybe they had an ancestor 300 years ago from norway so that means that they are still norweigan....
idk i just think your own life, country of residence and culture has Wayyyy more impact on your ethnicity than people who lived 300 years ago
Yes it's weird, and the culture brought by their parents, grandparents, from a time that no longer exists is somehow embellished. If they can't relate to people around them, they are dreaming of a country they belong to. It must be the same in Europe for immigrants of 1st-2nd-3rd generation, if you are constantly reminded that you are Arab, Vietnamese or else, even if you and your parents were born in France, for instance, then you stay attached to those origins, not just because you look or feel different, it's because there is always someone to remind you that you don't really belong here.
In North America it's still too fresh we may say, we didn't get over our differences, we didn't accept each other yet.
My ancestors came to that country 400 years ago (and more since there are natives as well), long before some others, and they are still people telling me to go back to my country, even my American friends think that if I disagree with the Canadian politic should go back to France (??????) What kind of logic is that? (Anyway, how can I go back to a place I've never been to?)
Well I get how weird it could be for Europeans, sometimes we have French tourists a little too enthusiastic who are way too friendly, calling us cousins and wanting to stay at home. XD
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