America deserves to be nuked, this is my breaking point, it’s irredeemable.
This is what happens when “cultural hegemon of the world” brain collides with “23andme obsession to fill the immutable void of whiteness” brain
I love that the 23andme crowd seem to miss the part where you don’t really share much DNA with anyone older than your grandparents.
Can’t let reality get in the way of some neat phrenology
I’ve recently gotten into genealogy mostly as a way to cope with a lot of loss in my family over the last couple of years. It’s fun, but I don’t really feel like I’m related to the people I’m researching. It’s neat to uncover the stories that led to me sitting in my car before work typing this. There are some real weirdos in the hobby. I’m sure that’s true of just about any hobby though. I also recently joined a metal detecting forum and apparently it’s the hobby of MAGA types
Metal detecting is a MAGA-coded hobby…? Whyyyy thoooough…?
you have to have enough disposable income to buy a metal detector and enough free time to wander around empty fields using it. and then it really helps to have the confidence to roam around engaging in a goofy hobby that comes with being a cishet white dude in the u.s. i think it’s mostly selection bias and the subtler side effects of systemic racism
I really don’t know why. My guess is it’s a Venn diagram of older dudes who are retired and civil war buffs.
I’m also interested in the civil war and that’s a chuddy hobby. I’m interested from a leftist political perspective. There’s still a decent handful of lost causers in the forums. I once saw an online slap fight where two guys were trying to one up each other by naming increasingly bloody battles in which the other team got owned as some sort of gotcha.
just replace the percentages past a point with “angloid mongrel”
The whole “I’m 22% Scottish and 45% Italian” types of American make more sense the more I learn about the history of eugenics and its popularity in the US.
I remember speaking to an American sociologist, and they told me that there’s a really interesting line of literature exploring the somewhat uniquely American fixation with “heritage”, and its origin in settler colonialism.
Americans have no culture, so they must steal it from people distantly related to them.
Sadly, it’s
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with 
Hahaha, I’m booming right now, and can’t figure it out. Tried a couple of combos.
I left that up there so you guys can point out what’s off. 😞 I wish we had those emojis on our list in the Grad.
omg why is your yeonmi so much bigger (no surgery jokes please)
EDIT: this is a test
- on communist hexbear, the link to yeonmi’s image will get overridden if you replace the “emoji yoenmi-park” text with “emoji bugs-stalin” for instance
oh wow, on the grad it’s still park lol
but on the bear
real
hours
It’s like a Yeonmi matryoshka doll that says harsher truths as she gets smaller.
huh
try removing the bit in quotes, so it ends at the .png
Hahaha, we did it, that was it. Thanks a lot, Wheaties. I’ll have to familiarize myself with the rest of the emojis.
good luck there’s a fuck ton of them and I can never remember the name a given one is filed under
Pretty sure the image macros are a hexbear feature
nah, we switched from the old :word-here: format to ![ ] () specifically becase other instances can see and use 'em.
“Hope this helps in the future when you try to gatekeep culture”
He says, as he gatekeeps culture. Fascinating specimen.
the yes true Scotsman fallacy
“I’m not Scottish” “YEAH YOU ARE”
ah yes truly the torchbearers for the highland ways would make the name Ronald MacDonald, of the Clan MacDonald known by every man, woman and child as the Laird of Lairds.
he looks like every man, woman, and bairn I met in between Skye and Inverness.
Doxxing Rangers fans is against the rules.
Only nobles of the clan McDongle are allowed to wear the traditional red-on-white tartar pattern with the gilded vest
This is the problem with heritage BS. If you are not from said region, you are not that region’s ethnicity, because you are not apart of that region’s culture. It’s that fuckin simple.
If you’re from Scottish ancestry, but born and raised in New York, you’re a fucking New-Yorker. At best, you are a Scottish-American New-Yorker. Your kids will just be New Yorkers, though.
You’re absolutely correct and this is something Native Americans bring up all the time to Americans who claim to be Native because of dubious “Cherokee ancestry.”
Bold take. I think it depends. I’m thinking of examples of ethnic enclaves in the US (e.g. Chinatowns) where the language and (a version of the) culture are laboriously preserved and passed down.
For most white Americans you’re bang on the money, because racism didn’t corral them into those sorts of communities where they maintained and preserved their community out of a sense of necessity, defiance, etc.
Those enclaves are seperate cultures from mainland China’s and over time each culture will likely diverge from one another.
Cultures are physically manifested through direct interactions between individuals. Because of that, cultures constantly shift and evolve over small increments, and physical space has a large impact on how those shifts occur. Even if concerted effort is put into making the local enclave’s culture the same as mainland China’s, that enclave has surrounding influences from the American culture it’s inserted into, and it will thus shift differently from the mainland somewhat. The lived experience of each culture is also going to be different in various ways.
Because of this, I think it’s reasonable to state that a person born and raised in New York Chinatown is going to be culturally distinct from a person born and raised in LA Chinatown, and they both would be distinct from a person born and raised in mainland China.
On your point, IIRC the modern American English accent is closer to how the language was spoken in England than what the people in Ingerland speak currentlyEdit: I’m wrong and stupid and dumb, the people below me know more about linguistics than I ever will
I’m pushing back gently on this as it’s one of those common internet fun facts, which is somewhat true but more complicated.
Both American English and UK English have gone through a dialectical (get it) change since points of separation.
Both have different idiosyncrasies left from their shared original early modern English. But both are also still quite different and changed by time and material conditions.
There is no one way people in England speak currently. Britain has massive diversity in accents.
As far as I understand, Shakespearean English sounded most like modern-day West Country English (imagine a stereotypical pirate). This accent is rhotic, similar to many American accents, but unlike the modern south-eastern or RP accents that most foreigners identify as “British”.
Specific southern accents.
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Yeah I was gonna say… as someone who works in a town where they pretend they’re scottish… nah.
I remember watching two Americans try to eat a Scottish breakfast in Edinburgh. Stupid fucks just pushed the food around their plate and looked bemused. One of them put a tiny amount of brown sauce on their fork and touched it to the tip of their tongue to taste it before making a gagging sound as though they’d been made to taste raw sewage. I honestly wanted to hit them in the head with a brick
As a local of Edinburgh, nothing more infuriating then the American tourists during the fringe and winter. Many are sound as hell but some Americans are just misery to be around. Can’t imagine visiting that cursed nation
scottish breakfast is when no burger
I had to look up what a Scottish breakfast is but now I’m confused ass to why an american wouldn’t readily shovel that down their gullet, like I could see not being into the black pudding, but everything else sounds delicious.
People will say this and them complain that there arent good tacos in Scotland and “no spicy food”.
Try growing black pepper, cilantro or nutmeg in the cold soggy stony highlands.
One day Americans will learn culture doesn’t run in your veins, and the people in general will understand that DNA inherently spreads through and across populations over time.
Given how long Scotland has been inhabited, it’s quite substantially likely that every person on Earth has DNA from native Scots. So there you go, everyone on Earth is now “authentically Scottish”.
There are a lot of factors, but after about 10,000 years, you are likely either an ancestor of all humans alive, or none.
I’m also from North Kilt Town! Do you know Angus Macleod?
Wait a second, there’s no Angus Macleod in North Kilt Town!
Why you’re not Scottish at all!
Ach! Don’t be daft! I was born and raise- hey, what the? My retirement grease!
He was gonna retire on a track and field career after getting enough grease to last a few seasons. There’s nary a creature alive that can outrun a greased Scottsman
You have to read this in the
voiceThere’s more than 5x as many people outside of Africa with African ancestry than the population of Africa, so ergo the rest of the world knows African better than Africans.
caaaareful now, this is essentially what westoids believe…
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This does support my argument that Italian Americans are the true Italians tho
Maron, get the load of bolls on this guy!
