re: OT fathers would you have a problem with your daughter dating outside her race?

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Gangs of New York is a fictional movie that's only historical basis is that some people with those names existed..it has no basis in historical fact whatsoever.

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And the concept of racism didn't exist until post WW1 when Leon Trotsky coined the word racistov in Bolshevik Russia and start using it as one of many reasons to murder people. While prejudices were obviously known and practiced throughout the world with differing levels and opinions of acceptability, simple ingroup preference had for all of human history throughout all the world been considered normal and natural. It still is everywhere outside of Western whites.

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None of that changes the fact that Protestant/Catholic are religious differences, not racial and these religious differences were the bigger impetus in strife. See England and Ireland

Finally, Northern European descended people in America inuding English, Norman French, German, Dutch, Swedish did in fact see themselves as the same, and Theodore Roosevelt became immensely popular spreading a notion that these Northern European races had come together to create an uber American race. He eventually won the Presidency thanks in no small part due to this racial based popularity

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