"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 6/22/2013 12:45 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>> I got to thinking about this later. It is pretty much the same in UK.
>> Many Scots hate the English. Most will not show it, but if you hear
>> those when there are no English around ... otoh most English love the
>> Scots. Work that one out
>>
>> We get to see that in action. Himself is Scots born, while I am of
>> Scottish extraction so we are treated as Scots with friends and
>> neighbours, even though we have English accents. We get the other side
>> of it when away from them ...
>>
>
> Ethnic identity is a funny thing. I always thought my wife's family was
> all Irish but she later tells me that she had some Scottish blood flowing
> through her. It doesn't change anything about a person but I look at her
> at a slightly different angle now.

Do you really??? How interesting) You need to be careful, she might don
a kilt and start doing a Highland Fling around her kitchen and start cooking
haggis for your dinner)))) If I were you I would keep a sgian dubh
handy, just in case <g>

> In the end, it doesn't matter.

No it doesn't. What matters (to me anyway) is not if they have Martian
blood but the kindness a person has in their heart.

Her people came to America early on and
> planted roots that ran deep and they helped build this country. We have a
> bill of sale for a bitch and child that one of her grandfathers from the
> mid-1800s purchased when humans could be bought and sold. Her family came
> to raise hell in the new country and they've been raising hell every
> since.

So, does she raise hell? btw how sad and dehumanising to call a woman a
'bitch' It is good those days are past when the selling of human beings
was acceptable.

> https://yesteryearsnews.wordpress.co...a-desperadoes/

Fascinating stuff!!! I've saved it to read properly later, thanks

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