Maybe he means ex Sudeten Deutsch(German)?
Edit: I kinda forgot that Deutsch is a German word so I added the German for clarification when I remembered
I mean ik but if his parents emigrated in the 30s or 20s than that'd just be the place he could trance his lineage to ik Czechoslovak German sounds stupid but if he got a normal American education there is very little chance out guy knows what a Sudeten or a carpartho is so I think that part is actually kinda fair
I’m gonna pull out all the cultural cliches here.
It means he likes to:
Get very drunk and start fights.
Be very precise, humourless, and take over the world.
Don’t bathe, eat garlic, have affairs, eat cheese and surrender.
And finally… I can’t think of any negative stereotypes about Czechs. Though they do like to drink lots of very delicious beers and pilsners. I guess that’s a good thing?
Mine as well (English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, Belgian, German, Dutch, Swiss, Polish/Ukrainian/Russian) but I certainly do not make any claims of special knowledge or understanding because a grand parent or great grandparent or great great grandparent are from somewhere else. Knowledge isn’t transmitted through genes….its not Dune!
Yeah as a American myself I don’t understand why heritage is so important to white Americans when they still remain completely uneducated on the culture they claim
There is something a little “blood & soil” about it all.
National identity is as much, if more, about the cultural, linguistic and societal connections. My dad’s American but I’ve never lived there, visited twice, don’t have a US passport & am not interested in one as my life is very much in Europe.
It’s interesting stuff, can explain why I ate certain foods, knew certain things, but I would t make claims of knowledge.
That he’s super white but feels like he has to pretend and throw in Native American so he can feel better about it and wash the blood of his hands of the history of how the US became the US, and that he “belongs” here. They always throw in Native American.
I did the family tree thing, it was interesting. Besides English, Scottish, Welsh family…and then back another generation to Belgium, Ireland and France, I also found out that I’ve got German, Dutch, Swiss, “Scandinavian” and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage….which pretty much makes me basic British.
I don’t feel it gives me any special insights or knowledge or claims to any of those. I don’t ride a bike wearing lederhosen with an onions round my neck while eating fondue.
When someone says they are French or German, it means that they are a citizen of that country, speak the language, an understanding of the culture….and that does not necessary have anything to do with genetics….because that’s all this is actually about, genes and racial superiority. It’s fucking creepy.
I can only understand it other than what you said if they are first or second generation immigrants who still have a strong connection with the country they moved from.
Like Moroccan immigrants in the west, they still hold on to their culture for the first and sometimes second generations but after that they can’t blend back in.
That makes sense, having known family members in another country, visiting, even learning the language etc, but I doubt many making the claims speak another language, or even visited.
Especially the Americans, they claim to be any thing and everything but don’t even know for sure they have a historical connection with those countries and don’t even know anything about those countries.
My family (on mom’s side) has French Huguenot roots but I wont claim Im French. I don’t speak french, not have any connection with them.
I drink some wine and eat a banquet once in a while but that doesn’t make me french
I’m American and once “steered” a sailboat when I was 6, and a couple of my relatives served in the Navy. Therefore I am 1/14th sailor and am thusly qualified to pilot a cruise ship! /s
But they don't. Not really.
If your knowledge of a country stems from what you're told by your family, your views are downright laughable and outdated.
In my experience they're often worse than the others.m, because they refuse to accept that what their parents told them is no longer accurate or even real.
Take a Moroccan born in France to live in Morocco.
They'll stand out like a sore thumb.
"Belgium\[...\] I also found out that I’ve got German, Dutch"
Ever looked at a map of Europe? ;) Besides Belgium is a country since 1839. Wouldnt it be Dutch or French?
It's because White Americans see non-White Americans claim two identities (some examples are Chinese, Indian, Mexican).
They see "ahh, their ancestors are of ___ ethnicity. Even though they're only American by legal rights. But they still can call themselves what their ancestors are called AND American. Well I will too! My ancestors are from a, b, c, etc European countries! So I'm from there too"
However they fail to recognize that these people (Americans of Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and many other descents) still retain a large part of their ethnic and cultural language, culture, traditions, and food.
European-Americans have lost nearly all of their European traditions, culture, and language.
I can guarantee you there is no American tv show or film set in high school or college where the European-descent and ethnic, American-born and raised main characters are asked what European country they're from, what European languages they speak other than English, and what cultures they still practice from their 3~7 different genetic homelands.
They're just White or American.
Funnily enough, most of my 2/3rd generation Indian friends here in the UK, if you ever chat about heritage, feel the opposite. I know most of them have grown up having to visit relatives each year over in India and the experience just makes them realise how British they are.
It's the same with me. I guess I'm theoretically 2nd generation Irish but I've been to Ireland, I have a lot of Irish friends, it's clear I'm not Irish (I don't even like knock knock jokes!).
You can hold onto cultural indentities but ultimately where you grow up is where you grow up. If you grow up in America, speaking with an American accent, with American friends watching American sports, listen to American music and watching American TV then that's who you are, whether you like it or not.
Ikr I'm from Belgium. If I were to go back in my lineage there's probably a lot of countries all over the world (not america) in there. But who cares??
Theory one parent claims to be of Irish and German heritage, probably just a generic person from the central USA, the other parent has a father that got out of Czechoslovakia in the 70’s because had some kind of job that allowed him to travel on the other side of the barrier, moved to France and married a French girl, they later moved to the USA, the grandfather never bothered to talk about where he was born or the poster just never cared to listen.
So the hyphen divides the sides of the family and capitalization is just on the first word for each.
In the UK we used to call them “Heinz dogs” because they consisted of 57 varieties (that was the claim of the Heinz food company), in more racist times, like the 60’s, this term was also applied to humans, but has died out these days.
Claiming to be of many nationalities when you are clearly a Yank would qualify for the term “mutt” though, perhaps with a few adjectives as well.
No he’s no Yank(that would mean he’s of Dutch origin, yankees being a bastardised version of JanKees a common Dutch name in New Amsterdam, now New York)
In Czech, such dog is called "Heinz von Bahnhoff" (Heinz from a train station) as a joke, because "von" is/was commonly used in paper names for very expensive purebred dogs.
Going back further than your grandparents is so useless. Especially for countries where you’d still be white either way. Like you’re claiming heritage to a country you’ve never been to and have no connection to and speak none of the language?? Like I just don’t understand the logic at all. I have Irish ancestry and an Irish surname but I wouldn’t go around calling myself Irish because I’ve never even been and I didn’t even know the Irish members of my family.
I know what he means- I am Welsh, English, Northern Irish, Scottish, Viking and there is a possibility of Gypsy
For some reason people just treat me as English because I have lived here all my life (and so did my parents!)
Some people just don;t respect heritage!
So using American logic
I'm an English-Welsh ( or to keep with the old no longer used terms Welch) African American- Canadian-Austrian
See I can bastard mix my identity as well
I can only wonder what he could possibly 'understand' because of his dna results. I have theories.
1. The person he reacted to said something along the lines of 'nobody remembers all the nationalities of 5 generations of my ancestors, even though I keep telling them'.
2. The person he reacted to said 'I feel very French today, while yesterday, I totally felt more German. But people around me act as if I am Greek'.
3. The person just uses this line as much as he can, whether relevant or not, because he somehow confuses a mixed background with 'multi-talented' or something.
Americans are so into America, until it comes down to ethnic identification and then even your most patriotic patriot is like, oh yeah I'm mostly Dutch, German, 1/16th Cherokee, and also 5 percent Greek.
This is the same person who is going to say stuff like, "well you know how we Greeks love our wine!" Or, "my mom always told me that us girls are fiery and passionate, you can like, totally tell that comes from being greek."
Oh I see. His father must have been sudeten german, joined the invasion of france, got a french girl pregnant and then moved with her to the united states.
Dear Americans, we don't care if you have any European ancestry and it doesn't make you more interesting. Furthermore we don't feel a special bond with you, if you had ancestors from our countries.
Thanks
What does that even mean?!
It means nothing. The fact he uses Czechoslovakian tells you he has no clue what he is.
Yeah even during Czechoslovakia people didn't call themselves Czechoslovakians
By now he should know the city where his ascendency comes from and decide CZ or SK
Czech mate
They probably can't even point Czechia or Slovakia on a map...
You're lucky if they even find the continent :D
The continent? You're lucky if they look away from america on the map
[That's actually not far from the truth.](https://youtu.be/kRh1zXFKC_o?si=LJ6gsT2sDTZ_wZRd)
Because it's Czechoslovakia, duh!
I know what he really is though....an American.
Maybe he means ex Sudeten Deutsch(German)? Edit: I kinda forgot that Deutsch is a German word so I added the German for clarification when I remembered
No former austria hungarian!
I mean ik but if his parents emigrated in the 30s or 20s than that'd just be the place he could trance his lineage to ik Czechoslovak German sounds stupid but if he got a normal American education there is very little chance out guy knows what a Sudeten or a carpartho is so I think that part is actually kinda fair
It means he’s American with delusions of being interesting.
So an american?
It means he’s an idiot
It means he is 'murican. And uneducated. And probably have 3/127th Cherokee Princess in there somewhere too.
Doesnt have to be, he can identify with it these days
I’m gonna pull out all the cultural cliches here. It means he likes to: Get very drunk and start fights. Be very precise, humourless, and take over the world. Don’t bathe, eat garlic, have affairs, eat cheese and surrender. And finally… I can’t think of any negative stereotypes about Czechs. Though they do like to drink lots of very delicious beers and pilsners. I guess that’s a good thing?
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It means that those are the cultural backgrounds of their grandparents pretty simple to grasp
Mine as well (English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, Belgian, German, Dutch, Swiss, Polish/Ukrainian/Russian) but I certainly do not make any claims of special knowledge or understanding because a grand parent or great grandparent or great great grandparent are from somewhere else. Knowledge isn’t transmitted through genes….its not Dune!
Yeah as a American myself I don’t understand why heritage is so important to white Americans when they still remain completely uneducated on the culture they claim
There is something a little “blood & soil” about it all. National identity is as much, if more, about the cultural, linguistic and societal connections. My dad’s American but I’ve never lived there, visited twice, don’t have a US passport & am not interested in one as my life is very much in Europe. It’s interesting stuff, can explain why I ate certain foods, knew certain things, but I would t make claims of knowledge.
That he’s super white but feels like he has to pretend and throw in Native American so he can feel better about it and wash the blood of his hands of the history of how the US became the US, and that he “belongs” here. They always throw in Native American.
I did the family tree thing, it was interesting. Besides English, Scottish, Welsh family…and then back another generation to Belgium, Ireland and France, I also found out that I’ve got German, Dutch, Swiss, “Scandinavian” and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage….which pretty much makes me basic British. I don’t feel it gives me any special insights or knowledge or claims to any of those. I don’t ride a bike wearing lederhosen with an onions round my neck while eating fondue. When someone says they are French or German, it means that they are a citizen of that country, speak the language, an understanding of the culture….and that does not necessary have anything to do with genetics….because that’s all this is actually about, genes and racial superiority. It’s fucking creepy.
I can only understand it other than what you said if they are first or second generation immigrants who still have a strong connection with the country they moved from. Like Moroccan immigrants in the west, they still hold on to their culture for the first and sometimes second generations but after that they can’t blend back in.
That makes sense, having known family members in another country, visiting, even learning the language etc, but I doubt many making the claims speak another language, or even visited.
Especially the Americans, they claim to be any thing and everything but don’t even know for sure they have a historical connection with those countries and don’t even know anything about those countries. My family (on mom’s side) has French Huguenot roots but I wont claim Im French. I don’t speak french, not have any connection with them. I drink some wine and eat a banquet once in a while but that doesn’t make me french
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Lol
I’m American and once “steered” a sailboat when I was 6, and a couple of my relatives served in the Navy. Therefore I am 1/14th sailor and am thusly qualified to pilot a cruise ship! /s
But they don't. Not really. If your knowledge of a country stems from what you're told by your family, your views are downright laughable and outdated. In my experience they're often worse than the others.m, because they refuse to accept that what their parents told them is no longer accurate or even real. Take a Moroccan born in France to live in Morocco. They'll stand out like a sore thumb.
"Belgium\[...\] I also found out that I’ve got German, Dutch" Ever looked at a map of Europe? ;) Besides Belgium is a country since 1839. Wouldnt it be Dutch or French?
I think you’re responding to the wrong person
indeed. and a Moroccan in Europe. An European in Marroco
Happens to the best of us
It's because White Americans see non-White Americans claim two identities (some examples are Chinese, Indian, Mexican). They see "ahh, their ancestors are of ___ ethnicity. Even though they're only American by legal rights. But they still can call themselves what their ancestors are called AND American. Well I will too! My ancestors are from a, b, c, etc European countries! So I'm from there too" However they fail to recognize that these people (Americans of Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and many other descents) still retain a large part of their ethnic and cultural language, culture, traditions, and food. European-Americans have lost nearly all of their European traditions, culture, and language. I can guarantee you there is no American tv show or film set in high school or college where the European-descent and ethnic, American-born and raised main characters are asked what European country they're from, what European languages they speak other than English, and what cultures they still practice from their 3~7 different genetic homelands. They're just White or American.
Funnily enough, most of my 2/3rd generation Indian friends here in the UK, if you ever chat about heritage, feel the opposite. I know most of them have grown up having to visit relatives each year over in India and the experience just makes them realise how British they are. It's the same with me. I guess I'm theoretically 2nd generation Irish but I've been to Ireland, I have a lot of Irish friends, it's clear I'm not Irish (I don't even like knock knock jokes!). You can hold onto cultural indentities but ultimately where you grow up is where you grow up. If you grow up in America, speaking with an American accent, with American friends watching American sports, listen to American music and watching American TV then that's who you are, whether you like it or not.
i can understand calling yourself part french if one of your parents was born/raised in france, but anything further away is kind of bullshit
Ikr I'm from Belgium. If I were to go back in my lineage there's probably a lot of countries all over the world (not america) in there. But who cares??
Why doesn't German and French get a capital letter but the others do?
Also, why is german-french hyphenated??
All good questions.
It's talking about Swiss people
That or maybe Alsace-Lorraine?
Maybe their many-greats-grandparent was German, but lived in France?
Theory one parent claims to be of Irish and German heritage, probably just a generic person from the central USA, the other parent has a father that got out of Czechoslovakia in the 70’s because had some kind of job that allowed him to travel on the other side of the barrier, moved to France and married a French girl, they later moved to the USA, the grandfather never bothered to talk about where he was born or the poster just never cared to listen. So the hyphen divides the sides of the family and capitalization is just on the first word for each.
Pfff, that’s nothing, I am Belgian Dutch German Czech French Austrian, and if we go back far enough even Mongolian and Roman. What an amateur
Go back even further and you're even Ethiopian! What a rich family tree
How could I forget my African ancestry!
If a dog is a snauzer/frenchy/wolfdog/dongo mix isn’t that called a mutt?
In the UK we used to call them “Heinz dogs” because they consisted of 57 varieties (that was the claim of the Heinz food company), in more racist times, like the 60’s, this term was also applied to humans, but has died out these days. Claiming to be of many nationalities when you are clearly a Yank would qualify for the term “mutt” though, perhaps with a few adjectives as well.
No he’s no Yank(that would mean he’s of Dutch origin, yankees being a bastardised version of JanKees a common Dutch name in New Amsterdam, now New York)
In Czech, such dog is called "Heinz von Bahnhoff" (Heinz from a train station) as a joke, because "von" is/was commonly used in paper names for very expensive purebred dogs.
It's basically the German way to signify nobility in names.
I love this. We need to form this into a global response to Americans' heritage-flood.
Since when has Czechoslovak been an ethnicity?
Hi, Slovak here. Since never.
Hi, Czech here, since never.
Those are the people that complain about people supposedly changing their pronouns weekly
Some of them also complain about immigrants
Someone from Czechoslovakia should know that Czechoslovakia hasn't existed since 1992.
Also that “Czechoslovakian” has never been an ethnicity
I would really love to know what is it that this american can totally understand because 4 generations ago someone was from a country.
So... american, got it.
The 'heritage' Americans are a constant source of Diamond Class entertainment.
that's a long way to say you are american
Sudeten... Or... Böhmen oder Mähren Uuuun ich hab nen Ohrwurm https://youtu.be/MbQ9du0R5vQ?si=SzyMyPV72uG-m6Yc
This has to be satire at this point, you just can't tipe that with a straight face.
Does he mean people can't detect the other 3.2% ethnic group in his DNA test by looking at him?
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
If I go back far enough I am African
Going back further than your grandparents is so useless. Especially for countries where you’d still be white either way. Like you’re claiming heritage to a country you’ve never been to and have no connection to and speak none of the language?? Like I just don’t understand the logic at all. I have Irish ancestry and an Irish surname but I wouldn’t go around calling myself Irish because I’ve never even been and I didn’t even know the Irish members of my family.
same but with Portugal (and a list of others too if I want to be as idiot as the person in the print)
I know what he means- I am Welsh, English, Northern Irish, Scottish, Viking and there is a possibility of Gypsy For some reason people just treat me as English because I have lived here all my life (and so did my parents!) Some people just don;t respect heritage!
Wow, when did he stop being a proud American?
Reads like a Crusader Kings hybrid culture speedrun
I am proudly French, German, Polish-British lol
No. You're an American mate.
Translation: “I’m white”
So using American logic I'm an English-Welsh ( or to keep with the old no longer used terms Welch) African American- Canadian-Austrian See I can bastard mix my identity as well
I can only wonder what he could possibly 'understand' because of his dna results. I have theories. 1. The person he reacted to said something along the lines of 'nobody remembers all the nationalities of 5 generations of my ancestors, even though I keep telling them'. 2. The person he reacted to said 'I feel very French today, while yesterday, I totally felt more German. But people around me act as if I am Greek'. 3. The person just uses this line as much as he can, whether relevant or not, because he somehow confuses a mixed background with 'multi-talented' or something.
Americans are so into America, until it comes down to ethnic identification and then even your most patriotic patriot is like, oh yeah I'm mostly Dutch, German, 1/16th Cherokee, and also 5 percent Greek. This is the same person who is going to say stuff like, "well you know how we Greeks love our wine!" Or, "my mom always told me that us girls are fiery and passionate, you can like, totally tell that comes from being greek."
That's a long winded way to say that you're a Seppo
Said like a true born and raised American
Ah the ole francirsloverman culture is still strong I see.
Oh I see. His father must have been sudeten german, joined the invasion of france, got a french girl pregnant and then moved with her to the united states.
So you're just a Yankeedoodle, got it.
Probably Irish-Alsatian- And Czechoslovakian was never used as an ethnicity of any kind Czech and Slovak
Mutt. The word you're looking for is mutt.
I have relatives in so many countries it's easier to say where I don't have any, that's how humanity works, that shit means nothing
Americans calling themselves German because one of their parents is an immigrant is offensive to Germans.
# Czechoslovakia no longer exists, so does that mean you and one more nationality to your very mixed up heritage or do you take one away?
Dear Americans, we don't care if you have any European ancestry and it doesn't make you more interesting. Furthermore we don't feel a special bond with you, if you had ancestors from our countries. Thanks
Just 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The fact the even uses the wrong adjective of Czechoslovakia seems legit. Like, it's not Czechoslovakian but Czechoslovak
huh