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Originally Posted by Plan9
I can't wait until we're all some shade of brown and can put this race/ethnicity thing in the trash can once and for all.
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Why not some shade of yellow? 1 out of 7 people in the world is Chinese already.
I find it real cool, that we have different races and groups of people, who have maintained their unique external features.
I can't easily tell much further than 5 generations back, some branches maybe 11 generations back, but it all stays inside Finnish borders.
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Originally Posted by Daniel_
I'm English.
Both my parents were, and 3 of my grandparents. My fourth grandparent is an unknown quantity - but could be anything from the allied nations as one parent was conceived in London in the year preceding D-day, and my grandmother was not good at collecting names...
Through my father's maternal family, I am descended from John of Gaunt. He was son of Edward III, who was himself descended from Henry II, whos mother was Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, son of William I (the Conqueror).
My wife on the other hand cannot claim descent from William, but can tie herself back to a noble Saxon who went north for the battle of Stamford Bridge, and was injured so didn't come south for the battle of Hastings.
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At the end of the day, what's so noble about the noble? The fact they were able to keep tally on ancestors of a blood line that was likely more degenerated than "common" people?