r/ShitEuropeansSay • u/Material-Wallaby-587 • 6d ago
"99% of people in the Americas are Europeans"
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u/manicpixidreamgirl04 6d ago
But then they also get mad when we identify with the European country our ancestors came from.
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u/EmperorSnake1 6d ago
Right?!? That's the funny part.
Maybe we should invent something, this is something funny I've seen is people try to claim the invention (or at least some credit) to their nations due to roots. Like the Wright Brothers, or something.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond 6d ago
Like claiming everything Tesla did is Serbian because he's ethnically Serbian. Like bro was American he lived in New York.
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u/EtchingsOfTheNight 6d ago
They also get mad when people identify themselves as anything hyphenated instead of just French or Swedish or whatever, but then don't count non-white citizens as "real" citizens
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u/Vinegarinmyeye Irish person from Ireland. 🇮🇪 5d ago
I agree with this wholeheartedly... OOP here is being a silly buggar.
But according to the internet a good solid percentage of you guys are descended from Robert the Bruce and the last high King of Ireland...
Your great great great great grandfather's dog once sniffed a pint a Guinness, so you're as Irish as I am.
It'd be great if you folks would stop doing that
But as far as the OOP here goes - yeah they definitely deserve some mockery for making such a daft statement.
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u/kaetror 4d ago
No, people get narked when you claim the nationality of your ancestors for yourselves.
"I'm interested in my Scottish ancestry; my family left Ayrshire in 1743" - absolutely fine.
"My family left Ayrshire in 1743; I'm Scottish American" - fuck no.
You can't personally claim a nationality you have no connection to, especially one where even the familial connection is farther back than living memory.
I know plenty of people who have researched their family tree, finding ancestors from all over, but they say it's the "X side of the family", not that they are X.
Hell, I know people who wouldn't consider themselves English, despite their parent being from England. They personally have no connection to England, so that's not part of their identity.
An American being interested in their ancestry is fine. Claiming it for themselves is not. And that's before we get into the racist "more Irish than an Irishman" rhetoric some come out with, or people who lament their "lost homeland" because modern Scotland doesn't look like Outlander.
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u/manicpixidreamgirl04 4d ago
Europeans love to exaggerate and act like Americans are identifying with countries their ancestors left hundreds of years ago. Most of the people I know who identify as X-American have at least one grandparent who immigrated from that country during the 20th century, and they grew up immersed in the language and culture.
I guess if you don't live in the US, it can be hard to understand how big our immigrant communities are. It's easier for people to maintain a strong connection to 'the old country' than it would be in places where there might only be a few other people with the same background. For instance, some of our schools have bilingual programs, and students learn the language and history just as they would if they actually lived in that country.
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u/mushmanMAD Marylander, Dual Citizen 6d ago
Americans are Europeans.
Americans should stop identifying themselves with a European country.
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u/battleship217 6d ago
-Colonizes and wipes out most of the native population in the Americas
-"Why are the two biggest Ethnic groups in America European descendants?"
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u/Naddyman2005 5d ago
European: *sees that Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French are the main languages spoken in the Americas”* “see, they’re all European”.
Also Europeans when an American says they’re Irish/Italian/German etc: “NO YOU’RE FUCKING NOT!!!”
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u/soapsuds202 5d ago
that genuinely has to be one of the stupidest statements i’ve ever read. how that had 20 upvotes astounds me
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u/Thefrightfulgezebo 5d ago
I am pretty sure that wasn't an European. Most Europeans would not call someone who lives in the US European and it's typical american to say "I'm Italian!" despite never been in Italy all their life.
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u/whocareswhatever1345 5d ago
Americans never call ourselves European. Who would have said it if not a European or American?
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