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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2004, 11:53:37 AM »
Oh by the way, Ontario > Canada

Scotland > Ontario
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2004, 10:08:47 AM »
Heh, if PP is full of Canadians
Are there anymore nationalities besides Canadians?
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2004, 11:38:04 AM »
well I'm Scottish, obviously
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2004, 11:45:03 AM »
Quite a few English people i think, including myself.

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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2004, 11:47:46 AM »
All the people with English IPs are actually just me logging in under alternate accounts, though.

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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #30 on: April 19, 2004, 11:48:30 AM »
well I'm Scottish, obviously
eh... obviously???
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #31 on: April 19, 2004, 01:16:38 PM »
Heh, if PP is full of Canadians
Are there anymore nationalities besides Canadians?


Well, of course. I think the last time I counted there were at least 16 countries represented in the modding community...States, Canada and UK are the biggest hubs of course for English-speaking modding community. But I have seen big national forums in a number of different languages as well.

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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #32 on: April 19, 2004, 01:30:19 PM »
I live in the states, but I'm Norweigan/ Irish, which probably doesn't count.

I once had a conversation with a woman who lived in the Netherlands, she made the comment that most of the Americans she knew could calculate the near-exact percentages of their blood. "I'm 12% Scottish, 57% British, 31% Russian" that type of thing. What an interesting observation. 
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #34 on: April 19, 2004, 02:30:55 PM »
Oh, ok, thanks Chaz! :)
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #35 on: April 19, 2004, 02:45:35 PM »
I once had a conversation with a woman who lived in the Netherlands, she made the comment that most of the Americans she knew could calculate the near-exact percentages of their blood. "I'm 12% Scottish, 57% British, 31% Russian" that type of thing. What an interesting observation. 

Being a relatively young nation mostly populated by immigrants will do that. I predict that will become less popular in the coming decades as it gets to be harder to track, but since so many immigrant populations were so very regionalized in the early going, it was interesting to people to track the flow.

(and I'm 12.5% Lithuanian, if anybody's keeping score.)
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #36 on: April 19, 2004, 02:52:58 PM »
I think it's great that people remember their roots, but I hate it when Americans (and by that I mean people who were born and raised in America) say they're Scottish because their great-great-great-whatever came from Scotland.  It's very irritating.  I mean, my grandpa was polish, but I don't tell everyone I'm polish just because of that
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #37 on: April 19, 2004, 03:02:13 PM »
I'm 25% Swedish and 25% Norwegian. The other half I don't know so precisely because my mother's family's been here for so long. Northern/ Western Euro-stuff.

I think many Americans identify themselves with the immigrant culture that was strongest in their childhood.
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #38 on: April 19, 2004, 04:24:15 PM »
I think many Americans identify themselves with the immigrant culture that was strongest in their childhood.

Ah, then I would be classified as Redneck/WASP. :P

I'm very glad that, as an adult, my family tree has expanded to include Irish-Catholic and Mexican heritages. Homemade Kahlua > casserole pot luck.
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #39 on: April 19, 2004, 04:32:10 PM »
Somewhere long ago I decend from the Malteser Knights. (check my real name; Barend MALTHA)
Which means I'm of royal blood.
So all of you...

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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #40 on: April 19, 2004, 04:34:09 PM »
well, I'm a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce, does that count?
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #41 on: April 19, 2004, 04:51:42 PM »
According to my great-uncle, who worked on a huge genealogy project for our family, I'm a direct descendant of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Also, apparently, Charlemagne and a whole bunch of Welsh kings. No bowing from me  ;D.
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #42 on: April 19, 2004, 05:06:59 PM »
On a sidenote:  When people go to rebirthing gurus they always remember having been the princess of this and the Pharao something, but from a statistical perspective most of their dreams should be of the indulgencies of being a peasant. I can trace my ancestry back to Pericles, Leonardo daVinci and Goethe but lost track of my percentile statistics. My dog says he is quite a cross breed too. *wuufff*
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #43 on: April 19, 2004, 05:56:18 PM »
Irish,Scottish and English bloodlines.
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #44 on: April 19, 2004, 05:57:13 PM »
I'm related to several of the King Henry's (can't remember which ones) so no bowing for me either. FDR is my cousin. My great aunt had lunch with him once but she was too young to remember it.
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #45 on: April 19, 2004, 06:34:07 PM »
I'm related to the chocolatier to the last Tzar of Russia.
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #46 on: April 19, 2004, 07:52:00 PM »
I once had a conversation with a woman who lived in the Netherlands, she made the comment that most of the Americans she knew could calculate the near-exact percentages of their blood. "I'm 12% Scottish, 57% British, 31% Russian" that type of thing. What an interesting observation. 

Being a relatively young nation mostly populated by immigrants will do that. I predict that will become less popular in the coming decades as it gets to be harder to track, but since so many immigrant populations were so very regionalized in the early going, it was interesting to people to track the flow.

(and I'm 12.5% Lithuanian, if anybody's keeping score.)

As O.Wilde once said (must be about a hundred years ago now): "The youth of americain nation is their most ancient tradition" or something to that account :D

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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #47 on: April 19, 2004, 11:58:04 PM »
I'm German, Irish and French.

I'm related to a saint. Not just any saint, mind you, but a martyr. Not anyone that you have likely heard of, however. St. Augustine Schoeffler. Was a missionary to someplace like Vietnam in the 1800s. Got his head chopped off and thrown into a river.
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #48 on: April 20, 2004, 12:59:07 AM »
I'm German, Irish and French.

I'm related to a saint. Not just any saint, mind you, but a martyr. Not anyone that you have likely heard of, however. St. Augustine Schoeffler. Was a missionary to someplace like Vietnam in the 1800s. Got his head chopped off and thrown into a river.

Just his head?
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Re: Discussion of Introductions
« Reply #49 on: April 20, 2004, 01:04:40 AM »
I think she's probably related to his entire body, actually.  Never heard of a head for an ancestor.
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