What Do Other Countries Think Of Your Ancestry Thread

[Brighton]

I've got

Spaniard
Mapuche
Irish
Jewish

Im curious how other members and people from their countries feel about the places I have ancestry from.

Everyone post their ancestry and respond to others

Mine:
Georgia
Ukraine
Russia
Poland

Umm I see Eastern Europeans are generally very Conservative and a bit "cold" and depressed?? Except for Czechs and Slovenes..

Poles seem quite nice though, the ones I've met. Not sure about the others

Mine:

Colombia
Spain
France
England
Wales

Georgia seems to be a European-Middle Eastern hybrid, and it seems to be better now than the violent mess it was in the early 90s in particular. Ukraine and Russia have rich histories and well-educated people, but for whatever reason have been ill-governed and with a strong propensity towards authoritarianism throughout the centuries. Poland seems to be very nice, only that the number of immigrants from there in Britain is a bit excessive imo.

Umm Spaniards are nice, although they can be kind of cocky towards Latin Americans..

French people are generally rude, they barely shower.. uff not a fan at all in general terms.

Never met a Welsh but they seem nice.. maybe peasanty?

English people are extremely nice, polite.. love them.

Colombians are extremely happy and nice, loud, funny, talkatible. Poor and violent country though.. unfortunately.

[Leto]

Mine:

Colombia
Spain
France
England
Wales

How much Euro is your Colombian parent? I consider you white, but I'm just curious. More than 50% Euro?

[Leto]

I'm not goona tell you my opinion on Russia and Ukraine. Georgia is a nice country, it is really more European than most other Caucasian ethnic groups. I admire Christian Caucasians. I don't wanna comment on politics, sorry.

[Tooting Carmen]

Spaniards - I agree with Brighton's comment. I'd also add I love the language, cuisine, scenery, and their greater emphasis on thought and intellect compared to Britain.
Mapuches - a tough, resilient people that have suffered a lot.
Irish - see above.
Jews - hard-working and entrepeneurial people, but it does annoy me how they tend to be disproportionately numerous in politics, media and finance, and also how the Holocaust has an international day of remembrance in a way that other atrocities, such as the Soviet Gulag, do not.

[Tooting Carmen]

How much Euro is your Colombian parent? I consider you white, but I'm just curious. More than 50% Euro?

Yes, she's pretty Euro.

[Leto]

Norway - typical Scandinavian social degeneracy, only it has a lot more oil.

Fixed. up
Sorry, I couldn't help but "correct" you.

[Methmatician]

Spaniard
Mapuche
Irish
Jewish

Spaniard - Cool language.
Mapuche - I'm afraid I've never heard of them. I'm assuming they're Native Americans.
Irish - Cool accent.
Jewish - Very diverse people.



Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro

[Tooting Carmen]

Bosnia - highly divided country that took up most of the news coverage for much of the 90s.
Montenegro - a relatively benign and quiet part of the former Yugoslavia.

[Brighton]

Mapuches - a tough, resilient people that have suffered a lot..

It's weird for me to say it -cos I'm Chilean- but I think we kind of inherited that from the Mapuches

[Brighton]

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro

A country I regret not having been to. I went to Dubrovnik and should've gone to Bosnia. Amazing stuff and a lot of interesting things from the war.

Anyway, I don't really know much about former Yugoslavians specifically but they seem to be hard-working people, quite nice -Croats and Slovenes were lovely, those are the countries I've been to-.. too Conservative compared to other Europeans though.. perhaps too Christian to my taste? but that's it. Amazing landscapes I'm assuming.

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And yah, these are the Mapuches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche