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re: Why do so many southern areas refer to themselves as americans on ancestry surveys?
Posted on 10/29/17 at 1:24 am to BeepNode
Posted on 10/29/17 at 1:24 am to BeepNode
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Having considered those two questions, why is it odd to refer to yourself as American if your family has been in America for 7+ generations?
It’s not odd at all. But the question is not “what nationality are you?” The question is about where your ancestors hail from. Yes if you want to be technical about it, you can quibble about what counts as an ancestor or say everyone cane from Africa or whatever. But obviously the survey is asking what European country white people came from.
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Posted on 10/29/17 at 10:30 am to biglego
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obviously the survey is asking what European country white people came from.
Then why didn’t they just frickING ASK THAT?
Posted on 10/29/17 at 9:16 pm to biglego
Unless both your parents are immigrants from the same country you will never be able to check just one box so until you can check all the boxes which would correlate with your ethnicity it makes no sense to put anything other than American, unless, like I said, both your parents are immigrants from the same country.
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