Shared Blood

[Absinthe]

My cock is bigger than most Europeans.

At which developmental stage?

[Guapo]

My cock is bigger than most Europeans.

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You have some Blackanoid, I mean Balkanoid in you?

[nohypocrisy]

Maybe if 'colonials' stop calling this aberration:



...football, maybe Europeans will start liking you better.

[Guapo]

Maybe if 'colonials' stop calling this aberration:



...football, maybe Europeans will start liking you better.

In Serbia it's called American football, which is what it basically is, like Aussie rules football.

[la bombe]

My cock is bigger than most Europeans.

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[SwordoftheVistula]

I have noticed an interesting thing in the last nine months on The Apricity, but most especially so in the last few weeks. I have noticed a large group of native Europeans who have sneered their noses at Americans, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, along with other Colonial descendants. They have said things along the lines that we shouldn't care about European culture as we're just Americans. We're not real Europeans...I find these attitudes to be quite puzzling. Why are those that are residing in Europe, and have had ancestors living there for centuries able to feel such comtempt for the children of their countries? Why do they not feel pride that their countries were able to produce such countries like Canada and America? Why is there no brotherly love between our related countries? Why is there no respect for our shared blood?

For the same reason American neoconservatives have such a worshipful opinion of Israel and Colin Powell: to prove themselves 'not racist'. As anyone who watches TV can tell you, being 'racist' is a very bad thing, but if you loudly proclaim that your 'nationalism' has nothing to do with race/ancestry and that any Somalian who comes in and learns the language and acts a part of superficial culture can be a 'good national citizen' you might dodge the 'racist' label especially if you Insist Very Loudly that you care nothing for ancesty, "see look I'm telling this guy with shared ancestry he sucks! Look! See I told you I'm a good PC citizen!"

The worst part is, I don't think most of them realize that rather than celebrating their "Europeanness", they're actually perpetuating the worst stereotypes Europeans and other foreigners hold about Americans.

Naw...we just don't care what a bunch of silly leftists think

what I have observed is some white Americans attempting to monopolise and indeed hijack the term "European" with the only real recognition reserved for what is viewed as the core European, that is the German and at a lengthy second, the Celt. Other European ethnicities are sneared upon as illegal immigrants and a certain suspicion cast upon by Americans who have the audacity to question an Albanians right to call himself European.

America has always had its issues with race and that has caused them to be suspicious of darker Europeans, thus aiming for Germanic and the distant cousin, the Celt

Naturally, as we were settled by Germanic and Celtic people for all of our formative years, the others only arriving over a century later.

Americans do not seem to understand this. It's as though so called 'white' Americans are offended that an Italian or Spaniard be considered European before they are.

Imagine you had a cousin, who insisted you were not a member of his family, but instead some random ppl who had a common great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother were his 'real family'. You'd be like WTF! right?

Incidentally, I don't feel I'm a real European either. I feel my ancestry has been marooned for far too long and everywhere I go in Europe, things are always just that bit different, and I am always surprised at the uniqueness of each European group I have met or country I have been to. I guess this is the thing about being British. So I don't see why any American, Canadian, Australian etc should complain about not being viewed as a European, when even us Brits are hardly so.

Lol, do you know what this made me think of? When ever I'm in the tourist areas here and up pops the old American gentleman dressed in his so called clan tartan, kilt and all. I really want to say to them that we stopped doing that several centuries ago.

Ya well just wait until he finds out you think certain blacks/pakis etc are more 'Scottish' than he is.

Such stuff always cracks me up. Lord knows how many American, Chinese or Japanese tourists I have seen that expected people like me to wear bloody clogs.

Can you believe I never wore them in my life ? Not even once as far as I know... I think that it would be fair to say that around 75 percent to 80 of all young Dutchmen (to around 45) never wore them..

OK, but what about socks with sandals

Culturally we seem cut off from the continentals. Maybe its because we do have too many non-Europeans and lack our own culture?

Wait what? Maybe you'd be better off going back a few centuries, if you need to rediscover your own culture. I'm sure that Mr. Brad McDonald of Kennesaw, Georgia would be happy to help you out.

[Treffie]

I have noticed a large group of native Europeans who have sneered their noses at Americans, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, along with other Colonial descendants. They have said things along the lines that we shouldn't care about European culture as we're just Americans. We're not real Europeans. I have also noticed that there is a great deal of snobbery towards Colonials because of the stigma of Aboriginal admixture at any point of their ancestral lines, whether it is truth or fantasy regarding that particular Colonial. Also, when a Colonial is honest about a far back admixture of an Aboriginal ancestor, they are mocked and/or shunned by those who are pure Europeans.

I'll give you my perspective as most Europeans have differing opinions. We don't sneer at `Colonials` for being who they are. Colonials have a proud history of settling lands and building new societies for themselves. What I find puzzling is that Colonials, mostly Americans, tend to view having non-European ancestry as something to be ashamed of, or to be viewed with disdain. Most Europeans don't see having mixed ancestry as something to be ashamed of - it really doesn't bother most of us.

I find these attitudes to be quite puzzling. Why are those that are residing in Europe, and have had ancestors living there for centuries able to feel such comtempt for the children of their countries? Why do they not feel pride that their countries were able to produce such countries like Canada and America? Why is there no brotherly love between our related countries? Why is there no respect for our shared blood?

Most Europeans aren't keen on their fellow Europeans, let alone sharing `brotherly love` towards those in Canada and the US. Europeans share so many differences with each other, we don't see that Canada and the US should be any different.

But, there is something that many native Europeans like to gloss over. There is, has been and always will be race mixing in Europe! Even now, there are those that are native Europeans that have at some point in their history an ancestor that is not completely of their ethnicity. It can't be helped, and you can't help your parentage.

We don't gloss over the fact that race mixing has gone on in Europe. In fact, we acknowledge it. Many Europeans here don't see it as an issue, unlike many of the Americans. Of course, it depends what part of Europe we are talking about, as different areas have received different numbers and types of immigrants.

There's a common enemy out there. Don't you think that they take great pleasure in seeing us argue and bicker amongst ourselves as to who is the best shining example of Europeaness? Let us not give them that anymore and cast aside our pettiness.

Who or what is this common enemy? Is it the black race, Islam, poverty? It's not that as Europeans we are aloof, in fact we are quite blasé about who we are, and perhaps this is where the differences lie? Perhaps Americans put more emphasis on their heritage than Europeans do?

[Poltergeist]

Shared Blood?

Since, thank God, so far I never had to receive transfusion of blood, I don't "share blood" with anyone.

[Electronic God-Man]

What I find puzzling is that Colonials, mostly Americans, tend to view having non-European ancestry as something to be ashamed of, or to be viewed with disdain. Most Europeans don't see having mixed ancestry as something to be ashamed of - it really doesn't bother most of us.

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Perhaps Americans put more emphasis on their heritage than Europeans do?

It's a result of the colonial experience.

Colonials were far from home and surrounded by "others", Indian savages and African slaves. Boundaries that should not be crossed arise naturally in such situations. The natural desire to associate and mate with people that are similar was stressed more. Failure to do so was looked down upon. There was a real danger in it. We would have lost our identity....gained a new one, but still lost what we had. People were aware of this. There was a lot of scorn heaped on White men that went "native" and lived their lives like the Amerindians. The disgust for Whites that mated with people of African descent is still very common.

Being ashamed of non-European ancestors and a high emphasis on "purity" and ancestry is most likely a product of this history. Believe it or not, it became an important part of our culture. We inherited it.

[Kadu]

Most Europeans aren't keen on their fellow Europeans, let alone sharing `brotherly love` towards those in Canada and the US. Europeans share so many differences with each other, we don't see that Canada and the US should be any different.

Exactly, actually i rarely hear someone here saying "i'm European".
We Europeans are a cluster of ethnicities who are under the same sphere of interests but which are only bonded by small cultural similarities.

I value very much the odysseys that the first settlers of North America had to go through and of course the process of establishment on a foreign land so very well described by John Steinbeck in "To a God Unknown". But these settlers gave origin to a different culture and to a different ethnicity, they settled something unique and i think your pride and preservationism should reside in that uniqueness rather than on romantic fantasies about overseas ties.