"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "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
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>>> 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 ...
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>> 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.
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> 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>
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>> In the end, it doesn't matter.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> https://yesteryearsnews.wordpress.co...a-desperadoes/
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> Fascinating stuff!!! I've saved it to read properly later, thanks

My dad always said that we Heinz 57. We are a mix of all sorts of things
but we could only track my mom's family back so far. We assume that they
came from Ireland because of the name McElhiney. And she said it was said
of some of her older relatives that they were black Irish. Many of the
older relatives had black hair and dark eyes. But there is also Cherokee
Indian on that side of the family.

For some odd reason, my dad's mom hated the Irish. Especially the Irish
women. She would put them down. My dad said that when she was young, many
young Irish women came to this country and worked as maids for the wealthy.
My grandma looked upon them as gold diggers, just waiting to swoop in and
take any eligible men that might have been out there. But the very odd
thing is, after her husband died, she married a man who I think had an Irish
name. McCandless. So go figure. She was rather odd in many respects.
Said she would never eat foreign food. Italian and Mexican being foreign to
her. And yet she made German potato salad! But perhaps she didn't consider
that to be foreign because there was some German in our background as well
as French and English. I was told by some people that my maiden name was
Scottish but my dad said it was English. And my grandma's maiden name was
French but it records show that it was changed slightly when they came to
this country. Which was fairly common to do.