• rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    22 days ago

    My lineage is German, Irish, and Scandanavian, but my stomach is 100% Mexican.

  • riodoro1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Americans are all saying they’re proud of their country and then say shit like this unironically.

    • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Makes sense though because in America, everyone is American regardless of background, race, etc etc etc so people, in their search for ways to differentiate themselves from others, latch on to their heritage.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        Ironically America has incredible diversity within its borders. The average west coaster, northeasterner, Bible belter, and Midwesterner are completely foreign to each other. Plus a religious obsession with sports is another way we tribalize.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    23 days ago

    American with 7% Irish ancestry on the Shankill Road lecturing the locals on why they should have a united Ireland energy.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    23 days ago

    “or should I say us 🇮🇹”

    “Sopranos was my favorite show”

    Oof. Imagine saying “roots was my favorite show so it makes sense my great great great grandparent was black”

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 days ago

      I have Italian ancestry and I’ve always found these guys to be cringe, but I also get why they do it . Many people in the United States yearn for meaning and interpersonal connection in their lives. “Being an Italian” provides a prepackaged, very commercialized possibility of community with little effort required - you’re just born to it, so instant acceptance, right?

      The reality is often less Soprano’s chic and more “nonno and nonnina were illiterate farmhands who moved to the US for a better life. Nonno died from mystery cancer and all of nonnina’s bones dissolved after birthing her 15th child at 24. Now chew nonnina’s birthday cake for her”.

      • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        23 days ago

        In no particular order, I have French, German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and a teensy tiny bit of “my great great great great grandmother was native American and we actually have the proof but nobody could ever tell without a DNA test so it only gets brought up when talking about obscure family genetic lineage”

        Maybe it’s because my family is super midwest-usa-bible-belt, and I never even found out about most of it until a genetics test when I got married to my now wife (we wanted to know if kids would even be a medical possibility with our various issues), but I don’t identify with any of the places my ancestors lived in, so there isn’t a particular culture I’d like to be part of. And to be perfectly frank I’m not sure I want to be part of any culture, I just want to tend to my forest with fair Goldberry my wife.

        You do make a good point though, if you’re looking to be part of something or feel particularly drawn to a culture after being immersed in what you think it’s really like, I could absolutely see this happening with 100% sincerity.

        • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          23 days ago

          On the one hand, as a country of immigrants, there are tons of places where communities settled and brought their culture with them and so have a strong feeling of connection to their ancestry despite their culture today being completely different. The French Quarter of New Orleans comes to mind. On the other hand, we also kinda traded tradition for consumerism. We lack a real sense of history and culture of our own, making it easy to connect more with our hereditary culture than our country’s.

          You can also add to this the ease modern technology has brought in communicating with people across the globe. Americans are probably more likely than just about any other country to have distant family connections in other countries that they are in contact with. If you’re French, you probably come from a generational line of French people who lived not far from you (relatively speaking). By comparison, as a kid, me and my parents went on vacation once to spend a week with some distant relatives of ours in Scotland because we have connections to a specific family castle there.

  • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Americans when they find out they’re 1/823th of a footballfield finnish: “OMG I AM SO DIVERSE! AND NOW A CERTIFIED MINORITY” Americans when they try to do finnish things: “Yeah no this is fake, its not possible for anyone to survive in 230f”

    • Arda@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Thats how they say it in the show i think it was supposed to be some Italian dialect

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Basing your preferred genetic heritage on how much you like a TV show. Smh.

    American Italians have embraced the pop culture caricature of themselves and become it.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      22 days ago

      Americans Italians have embraced the pop culture caricature of themselves and become it.

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 days ago

    damn didn’t realize yall would be so hostile

    same feeling as: “wow very judgemental community here” lmao

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I still remember when someone came to /r/Wicked_Edge, a subreddit about straight razors, and asked to compare two disposable brands. People were as kind as possible.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      I don’t know, one guy has a real problem that needs to be addressed. The other guy is mad because people got mad at him for cosplaying an ethnic identity.