What's Your Ancestry ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans

 

Scotch-Irish folks live in Northern Ireland, not Scotland.

 

I am half-Chinese and half-Taiwanese. Please don't hate me lol

 

Calling a Scot Scotch is committing suicide in some parts of Scotland.
English/Scottish as far back as I can trace,but since the paternal family comes from a slave trading city there could be other nationalities involved.

 

good thing we are talking about Ulster, not Scotland

 

True enough.

 

100% NA.

(All of you who are American citizens have my permission to remain in my country as long as you behave yourselves. Otherwise leave peacefully.)

 

50% Irish, 25% French, 25% German. 0% Confederate American.

 

Gramps came from Yugoslavia...Grandma was from the American South and part Native American.

 

Granny part Indian, part Cajun, an' part alligator...

... possum pure possum.
~))));>

 

Well dang! I can't 'hazard a guess'? My background is kinda sketchy since I was taken away from my bio mom when I was 9 and placed for adoption....BUT I do remember her saying "I'm German and proud of it!" Then in my teens an older sister found me and told me my poppa was a big, blond Norwegian.....then around 35 yrs later I saw my real mother one more time, asked her about the Norwegian and she said 'yes'. German and Norwegian....well, I was born blue-eyed and blond.

My 2 girls are now doing the ancestry thingy and picking my brain for names from my long ago past.....I think this will get quite interesting and might be related to the queen of England! Hey! Why not?!

 

I wanna talk politics, but my kids shut me down.

 

There's nothing wrong w/someone wanting to know their ancestry. For many of us, it's a natural curiosity and I think particularly for those of us who were separated from their bio families.

 

No actually I've never heard that. That someone ordered Scottish.
Some of yuz posters really do need to get out more.
Not just to use the Outhouse,either.

 

Western and northern European with a splash of Iberian.

Specifically, Germanic and Celtic.

 

Sometimes the distinction is not clear, hence the "Scotch-Irish" designation.

 

I've never in my life talked or wrote about Ulster.
So should I start today.?
I just as soon order a " Scottish " with a Kilt for chaser.

 

All countries are artificial to some extent. It's not as if they are products of nature. They are inventions of the human mind that can only approximate the underlying genetic and cultural complexities of a given society.

 

The Scots are a rather persnickety people.Even Laurel & Hardy had to learn dat.

 

And before 1788, America was made up of multiple independent, sovereign states, each with its own unique culture and government.

In fact, virtually every modern nation-state is a consolidated entity that supplanted a wide array of diverse cultures and peoples.

A European with the handle "Gaius Marius" is accusing Americans of having a weird fetish with nobility and ancestry? Really?

 

I get it.So blame it on man.If he just didn't persist in his wanting to
" Move On Up.To a dealers apartment in the sky hi high " - The Jefferson's -
theme song.

 

the Scotch-Irish are from Ulster.

Not Scotland. Not Ireland. But Ulster.

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the USA is not a nation-state.