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America has been referred to as a "melting pot" of immigrants from other countries.  When did your family come to America?   What's your ethnic background?

The only thing I know about my family's timing here is from my dad's mother's side; they were farmers and immigrated from Norway in the mid-1800s, settling in the Waupaca, WI area.

My background is:

1/4 Norwegian

3/8 Irish

1/8 Slovenian

1/8 German

1/8 Polish 

I'm crappy with math, so I'm not sure if that adds up right, but close enough.

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There's a lot of northern Europe in my bloodstream; apparently some people wanted to own their own land and becomes farmers.

There's also a certain amount of Native American blood, but I'm not sure what tribe. It's definitely not enough to open my own casino.

And I agree with Jeffery that the idea of the melting pot is at best a flawed analogy, at worst a really screwed up political ideology. A lot of people came to America, both back in the day and more recently, because in the old country they couldn't be who they were. Then they got to America and a whole bunch of people whose grandparents got here early showed up and told them they couldn't be who they were. Go figure.

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On 14.8.2016 at 5:01 PM, naughty_lucy420 said:

America has been referred to as a "melting pot" of immigrants from other countries.  When did your family come to America?   What's your ethnic background?

The only thing I know about my family's timing here is from my dad's mother's side; they were farmers and immigrated from Norway in the mid-1800s, settling in the Waupaca, WI area.

My background is:

1/4 Norwegian

3/8 Irish

1/8 Slovenian

1/8 German

1/8 Polish 

I'm crappy with math, so I'm not sure if that adds up right, but close enough.

Sounds like a good mix. 100% norwegian here... ;-)

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My parents' wandered into a bedroom one fine afternoon. One came from Ireland and the other from Finland. Don't know what to think about my blue hair. Should I sue?

Nose needs some work too. 

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I'd like to take this opportunity to quote the eloquent Monsieur Dwayne Carter dit Lil' Wayne from a track that was eventually replaced on 2008's Tha Carter III, but I will bowdlerize it somewhat for those delicate in sensibility:

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Momma always told me I was crazy
And my hoes say I'm amazing but I don't listen to a lady
But the *itc* say I'm hot and I say no bi**h I'm blazing
Like, what the fu*k you expect I'm a mothe*fuc*ing Cajun

Unlike M. Lil' Wayne, I do listen to a lady—even more than one! But like the dreadlocked and tattooed rapper from the Hollygrove neighborhood in New Orleans, and like another, more famous Carter, I am a m*therfu*k**g Cajun.

In more complicated genealogical news, there is also Sicilian, Isleño, Black, French French, German, Mic'Maq, and no doubt other varieties up in the family tree, varieties that, indeed, have melted into the singular identity of Cajun over three hundred years or so.

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