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**CaseyFronczekHomie** · 03-02-2011, 07:45 AM

I'm "pure" in this poll, purely one ethnicity (=exactly 7/8 "pure"). Nobody's really purely anything, unless they're some isolated tribals.

It's impossible to know all your ancestors since their numbers increase exponentially per generation (obviously with more overlap the farther back you go). You can't even go by DNA since the reference groups may be mixed already.

Of course it is impossible, and groups define themselves in different ways, for example nobody could be pure English for more than 1,500 years since the concept of Englishness didn't exist prior to that.

However, I was trying to ask whether people had any noticeable foreign heritage, I just chose 1/8th foreign as an arbitrary cut off point (my only logic was that generally people know about any exotic lineage up to their great-grandparents but beyond that they usually find out through researching their ancestry).

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neither racially nor ethnic wise... i dont really see why you say mixed race or ethnic people are insecure... alot of them are proud of it and accept it

No, but there is a lot of people who try to be things which they aren't- look at the people begging to get classified as something or other.

03-02-2011, 07:45 AM	#16
CaseyFronczekHomie Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 398 Senior Member	I'm "pure" in this poll, purely one ethnicity (=exactly 7/8 "pure"). Nobody's really purely anything, unless they're some isolated tribals. It's impossible to know all your ancestors since their numbers increase exponentially per generation (obviously with more overlap the farther back you go). You can't even go by DNA since the reference groups may be mixed already. Of course it is impossible, and groups define themselves in different ways, for example nobody could be pure English for more than 1,500 years since the concept of Englishness didn't exist prior to that. However, I was trying to ask whether people had any noticeable foreign heritage, I just chose 1/8th foreign as an arbitrary cut off point (my only logic was that generally people know about any exotic lineage up to their great-grandparents but beyond that they usually find out through researching their ancestry). ---------- Post added 2011-03-02 at 00:46 ---------- neither racially nor ethnic wise... i dont really see why you say mixed race or ethnic people are insecure... alot of them are proud of it and accept it No, but there is a lot of people who try to be things which they aren't- look at the people begging to get classified as something or other.
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