When someone goes “I am x% (insert European country here)”
it’s actually convincing proof that he is 100% American.Somebody randomly told me a few weeks ago that the mystery flavor of airheads was never really a single flavor, just a random mix of the end of one flavor of taffy on the assembly line and the begining of a different new flavor. So even though this is a shitpost it’s both accurate and oddly poetic.
It’s like a metaphor for how the entire idea of race seems to have originally been a social construct with no real basis in significant differences other than providing a distraction and false justification for individuals at the top of a hierarchy to maintain inequality, exploitation, and social stratification. And since the human lizard brain loves a distraction and can be easily exploited by targeted advertisement, we see branding works because people keep buying it.
Anyway, merry Christmas/happy holidays and if we as a civilization make it into the new year and/or any years beyond that point, I hope we can start paying attention.
My mum used to work in a town where they make a kinda popular chocolate in middle Europe, like small step up from store brand type stuff (milka, in case anyone’s faniliar). She’d always bring home their factory shop ‘mystery chocolate’ that was very openly literally this: the bars right after they’d switch flavors, and they would be a non predictable mix between the two. I loved that stuff more than the actually store bought chocolate as a kid because you’d genuinely never know what you’d get. They came in these super non distinct plain white wrappers too, which added to the charm.
They do that with dum-dums, I know. I…couldn’t tell you if they’re actually different flavors, honestly, they all taste “fake fruit” to me, but they’re definitely different colors, and instead of cleaning the machine between batches of flavors they just start making the next batch and some of the candy comes out mixed. Perfectly edible just kinda weird so they put a “mystery” flavor wrapper on it. Honestly I respect the frugality of it all.
This obsession probably comes from America’s blood quantum laws, but also we are really a melting pot in many ways.
We have no real history or traditions so we look to our genetic makeup to help us build an identity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_quantum_laws
My Australian Aboriginal friends were confused by the quantum thing, like to them they were either Aboriginal or not, they didn’t care much about percentages. And from the other comments and meme, I’m guessing most other people don’t either
In Europe it is mostly just defines by if you have ancestry or not since pure bloodedness really has bad connotations in Europe.
Pure like Hapsburg?
Being able to chew your food is for the poors.
I honestly don’t know anyone but Americans who do this. Has anyone else encountered someone white who wasn’t American boast about their mixed “genealogy”?
I don’t know if boast is the right word, but it is very common to disclose if you are half something. Half-french, half-polish etc.
Half is fair enough as that implies some cultural mixing, but fractions lower than that are just “look at me” bullshit.
Oh yeah that’s a common question about ethnicity usually an optional question filled out in case there’s some legal process in the future trying to determine if there’s underlying discrimination from poor treatment/service to a specific group when a legal complaint has been lodged.
I’m talking about the weird obsession some Americans have with determining what % of their genes originated from other countries.
The closest it’s gotten for me is usually a conversation about family history which most of the time is usually “A country on my father’s side and B country on my mother’s side”. But they’ve never broken it down into percentages before like it’s some sort of eugenic recipe.
It’s the immigrant mongrel thing. Outside America, it isn’t unusual for your ancestry to be that of your home country for dozens of generations, or maybe halves. Inside America, that’s basically only just full blooded Natives, most everyone else is a hodgepodge of several countries.
Is just a way to kinda keep track of all the various ancestries.
It is always really a case of how far back do you go for the snapshot of where your ancestors were at that point in time.
We all came from the same slimy creature that slithered out of the primordial soup and never looked back.
Mistakes were made.
We’re mostly mongrels in the US, even those with roots in Europe. I always thought I was 100% Polish, but discovered in the early 2000s that I had a German (possibly Prussian) great-grandmother on my father’s side. My wife is likely fully German, so our kids are more than half German but have a Polish last name.
No contradiction here, a large chunk of former Prussia is now part of Poland.
Yeah dig enough and you’ll find almost anything. I mean where should you stop, it’s genetics after all?
You are 100% the person this post is about, and 100% American. Those are 100% of the relevant percentages.
My great grandmother once gave an Irish carny a handie in exchange for a bag of peanuts and a look at an elephants bum ,(she was weird like that!). So ya… I’m basically Irish!
If America is so great, why are you all trying to claim you’re someone else?
So in the US, the joke is “I’m 10% Cherokee princess”, which is just a blonde white girls way of excusing their own racism when it inevitably falls out of their dumpster of a mouth (racists, not women).
I can usually disarm it with “yeah I’m half Japanese and half American, I can’t tell which side I hate the most”
I’m wondering if that Irish-German-Russian-Scottish is a similar “wide coverage” play? I don’t know, just guessing.
I am 101% tuna salad
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You’d think, but you can actually get quite granular with it. Nothing noticable really but enough to tell with some certainty where people originated.
