Post #92438
2025-12-25 04:47 UTC
Replies (10)
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@Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2025-12-25 09:10
When someone goes "I am x% (insert European country here)" it's actually convincing proof that he is 100% American.
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@lol_idk@piefed.social 2025-12-25 06:17
This obsession probably comes from America's blood quantum laws, but also we are really a melting pot in many ways. We have no real history or traditions so we look to our genetic makeup to help us build an identity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_quantum_laws My Australian Aboriginal friends were confused by the quantum thing, like to them they were either Aboriginal or not, they didn't care much about percentages. And from the other comments and meme, I'm guessing most other people don't either
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@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 06:05
I honestly don't know anyone but Americans who do this. Has anyone else encountered someone white who wasn't American boast about their mixed "genealogy"?
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@TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 2025-12-25 05:24
So in the US, the joke is “I’m 10% Cherokee princess”, which is just a blonde white girls way of excusing their own racism when it inevitably falls out of their dumpster of a mouth (racists, not women). I can usually disarm it with “yeah I’m half Japanese and half American, I can’t tell which side I hate the most” I’m wondering if that Irish-German-Russian-Scottish is a similar “wide coverage” play? I don’t know, just guessing.
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@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-25 13:14
Somebody randomly told me a few weeks ago that the mystery flavor of airheads was never really a single flavor, just a random mix of the end of one flavor of taffy on the assembly line and the begining of a different new flavor. So even though this is a shitpost it's both accurate and oddly poetic. It's like a metaphor for how the entire idea of race seems to have originally been a social construct with no real basis in significant differences other than providing a distraction and false justification for individuals at the top of a hierarchy to maintain inequality, exploitation, and social stratification. And since the human lizard brain loves a distraction and can be easily exploited by targeted advertisement, we see branding works because people keep buying it. Anyway, merry Christmas/happy holidays and if we as a civilization make it into the new year and/or any years beyond that point, I hope we can start paying attention.
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@TomMasz@piefed.social 2025-12-25 12:55
We're mostly mongrels in the US, even those with roots in Europe. I always thought I was 100% Polish, but discovered in the early 2000s that I had a German (possibly Prussian) great-grandmother on my father's side. My wife is likely fully German, so our kids are more than half German but have a Polish last name.
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@Oaksey@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 14:45
It is always really a case of how far back do you go for the snapshot of where your ancestors were at that point in time.
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@RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2025-12-25 13:45
I am 101% tuna salad
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@Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 14:09
Being able to chew your food is for the poors.
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@HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 16:10
You'd think, but you can actually get quite granular with it. Nothing noticable really but enough to tell with some certainty where people originated.