New Girl. :)

[PetiteParisienne]

Welcome here I hope you enjoy it, and we need more good citizens, which it seems you will provide us with.

What a lovely compliment! Thank you so much.

[PetiteParisienne]

Welcome. Hope you'll enjoy here.

Thanks.

[GeistFaust]

What a lovely compliment! Thank you so much.

Well you seem wholesome, down to earth, and cultivated in an artsy manner so I thought I would make such a compliment.

[Laudanum]

Hi.

[PetiteParisienne]

Right, right.....but that actually doesn't address my inquiry; it explains plenty, but it doesn't explain what you're doing here specifically.

Jews are neither White nor European, and, in fact, have shown to be extremely antagonistic to the aforementioned groups.

If by 'here' you mean in the Europe, well, this is where I live and where everyone in my family has lived as far back as can be traced. My father's mother has studied genealogy as a hobby for many years now, and has traced our family back to the 1600s. There are instances of conversion to Christianity, apostasy, and inter-faith marriage with Gentiles, so it's a mixed bag.

As far as antagonism goes, I can only speak for myself and how I was raised, which was to be proud of who I am. I don't antagonise anyone, let alone other Europeans.

[Scrapple]

Thanks! I see you're from PA. You're one of the classic New England WASPs I've heard so much about. My sister goes to university in New England.

Pennsylvania isn't in New England. It is considered Mid-Atlantic here. It was mainly settled by Quakers. The Puritans in New England and the Quakers did not like each other at all. So we have a different temperment down here but I am an Episcopalian with English Ancestry so a WASP.

http://thehistoricpresent.wordpress....-our-sympathy/

Those Quakers were not meek and mild innocents who just wanted to talk. They were as righteous a group of zealots as most Puritans, and when they entered a Massachusetts town they tried to wreak maximum havoc: bursting into church services, yelling in the streets, banging pots and pans together, and even stripping off their clothes (to show their lack of attachment to worldly things). The Puritans reacted with vehement rejection, and submitted Quakers who would not heed the warnings to leave and never return to terrible punishments. Boring holes through their tongues was just one of these.

[Defiance]

If by 'here' you mean in the Europe, well, this is where I live and where everyone in my family has lived as far back as can by traced. My father's mother has studied genealogy as a hobby for many years now, and has traced our family back to the 1600s. There are instances of conversion to Christianity, apostasy, and inter-faith marriage with Gentiles, so it's a mixed bag.

As far as antagonism goes, I can only speak for myself and how I was raised, which was to be proud of who I am.

By "here" I'm referring to this board, ma'am.

[PetiteParisienne]

Well you seem wholesome, down to earth, and cultivated in an artsy manner so I thought I would make such a compliment.

Thanks again.
I am extremely bookish and an art/history nerd, so that's probably why I come off as flowery and over-educated.

[PetiteParisienne]

By "here" I'm referring to this board, ma'am.

Ok, that's what I thought initially, in which case I had hoped my first answer would have been sufficient.

To reiterate my first answer, I like discussing race, culture, and ethnicity with people who are not afraid to toss political correctness to the wayside. This board seems like a good place for that.

[PetiteParisienne]

Pennsylvania isn't in New England. It is considered Mid-Atlantic here. It was mainly settled by Quakers. The Puritans in New England and the Quakers did not like each other at all. So we have a different temperment down here but I am an Episcopalian with English Ancestry so a WASP.

http://thehistoricpresent.wordpress....-our-sympathy/

Ah, ok, forgive my ignorance. WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, right? One of my husband's great-aunts is a Quaker. Her church community is very sweet and welcoming.