Nationality?

[Napoléon]

Scotland is a beautiful place.

You have never been to Glasgow.

[5thHorseman]

Shut up Frankie, Scotland is beautiful. The weather is shit but the place is quite magical.

I'm like you in that essence, Frankie. I'm English all the way on both sides at least 400 years on 1(i think) and at least 200 on the other. But I consider myself British first, and English in sports(then Welsh, NI, French, German, Nazi, Commie, all the way down to Scotland ).

70% of the UK are of Celtic ancestry, so we're all the same shit. And lets face it, the UK population in 1801 was 10.5million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_...ed_Kingdom), it's now 62 million. Pretty sure that almost everyone is a mixed breed islander scumbag. I know I am(a scumbag)

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I used to work in Glasgow, I liked it a lot.

[frankiej]

Yes, you definitely are a scumbag. You have that correct, but I agree with Nap, Glasgow sucks.


I love you really.

[jackman]

being a black american, i always get shit from my own people because i don't call myself african-american. i've never lived there and wasn't born there and neither were my parents (that's my limit personally, 1 generation out or i can't call myself that). i am simply american, which doesn't denote any particular physical characteristics. america is the youngest of all lands that have inhabited it, so beyond natives, everyone here could, if they so chose to, say they're (fill in country)-american.

that's not to say that i have no interest in my heritage and dna. i'd love to know where i come from and have been actively researching my geneaology for over a year now, and funny part is because of the lost documentation thru slavery, it's insanely hard to track it thru those 1600 - 1900 years. funny part is the oldest relative i've uncovered born 1560 comes from scotland (last name davisson). guess i'm scottish-american too. lmao. nice.

[5thHorseman]

Your avatar does have a hint of William Wallace about it.

[jackman]

Your avatar does have a hint of William Wallace about it.

i thot so too. better learn gaelic.

[frankiej]

Gaelic is just a bunch of gibberish.

[Poetess]

that's not to say that i have no interest in my heritage and dna. i'd love to know where i come from and have been actively researching my geneaology for over a year now, and funny part is because of the lost documentation thru slavery, it's insanely hard to track it thru those 1600 - 1900 years. funny part is the oldest relative i've uncovered born 1560 comes from scotland (last name davisson). guess i'm scottish-american too. lmao. nice.

If you are interested in it, they actually have DNA tests that will show what countries and areas your lineage came from. I think it's generally around $70 (at least I think that's what it is on ancestry)

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Shut up Frankie, Scotland is beautiful. The weather is shit but the place is quite magical.

I used to work in Glasgow, I liked it a lot.

I agree. I loved Edinburgh. I wasn't in Glasgow much, though.

[jackman]

If you are interested in it, they actually have DNA tests that will show what countries and areas your lineage came from. I think it's generally around $70 (at least I think that's what it is on ancestry)

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thanks Poetess. yeah, i do plan to do that test to either verify what i discovered the hard way (the reward is in the journey for me) or help me once i decide i am tired of bashing my head against the brick wall. :-D

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

This made me wonder why people consider themselves Irish-American or Italian-American or Latino, when they really are not, and the only strain of non-American was 2-4 generations ago.

Well, I'm third generation Australian. May dad's people came from county Clare in 1870. Mum's people went from Galway to Canada in 1850. I assert "I'm Australian by birth, Irish by ethnicity" Why not just "I'm an Aussie"? Affectation? I think that is common. I FEEL Irish AND am accepted as such in Ireland.