Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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I'm not sure if someone from a Francophone family in Quebec but who no longer speaks the language gets called something different, like Anglo.
But Americans (especially?) seem to cling to their "genetic" heritage even after they lost most of the cultural trappings, including language. Italian-Americans vs. Italians etc. The latter will often find the idea that the former is also "Italian" ludicrous.
There's a lot of unemployment among the Somali immigrants. It's not pretty.
I believe that. I don't know what the economy in Lewiston is based on, if anything.
There's a big LLBean call center, I believe.
The latter will often find the idea that the former is also "Italian" ludicrous.
Maybe so, but Italian-Americans do have a lot of things culturally in common with each other, if not their land of origin. So it's still a useful designation.
German-American less so, since we're the default demo. We're even more generic than WASPs.
But Americans (especially?) seem to cling to their "genetic" heritage even after they lost most of the cultural trappings, including language
The reason I wonder about Canada is because of the often fierce lines drawn between the two categories in Quebec. Can you be such a "traitor" to your lineage to lose right to the name?
German-American less so, since we're the default demo.
Huh? I thought it was Anglo-Americans that were default. Did you gain default through numbers, or sheer force of cultural influence?
Did you gain default through numbers, or sheer force of cultural influence?
Numbers - not cultural influence.
German-American Irish American women are now "average". I am average. Well, aside from the Indians, the brain damage, and newbies thinking I'm black and/or from Baltimore... apart from all that, I'm average. I do not think it means what I think it means.
Numbers - not cultural influence.
There's a plurality of German Americans and their descendants among white Americans? With or without removing Hispanics?
I am surprised to learn that.
Isn't Lewiston where Bates College is? I think it was a papermill town (I decided I couldn't go to Bates, because of the smell). Is the mill closed?
I think it used to be used relatively openly to mark social class and exclusion, and vestiges of that remained into my childhood, where I told and heard French jokes of the sort that are called Polack jokes elsewhere in New England.
I never heard Polish jokes, growing up. They were always Italian jokes. Where, in New England, did you hear "Polack" jokes, Nutty?
Numbers - not cultural influence
Fear the power of the mighty Scots-German hybrid that came out of the forests of the Northeast, united by their dislike of the English colonists.
What's amusing is how some of my older relatives were adamant that they were in no way descended from Scots or Irish and accused me of faking the genealogical records I found.