"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "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
>>>>
>>>> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.

<g> We have a saying in Yorkshire ... There's nowt so queer as folk!

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