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Yes . I am largely descended from Colonials and Irish immigrants [mostly]. One Saxon ancestor and one Quebec ancestor [a colonial in the French variety from Brittany].
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Old people usually have older mentalities.About looking down on italians,if they really disliked them they'd not have employed them some decades ago.Many italian descendants look down on anything that is not italian,many make fun of caipiras,anything that is part of our colonial culture,hate northeasterns(like that slut Mayara Petruso,or those idiots who call anyone ''baiano''),like to make fun of portuguese people,consider themselves the heroes of this land...I have italian ancestry and I know people who act and think like this.It's a trade-off,if some members of quatrocentões families look down on immigrants,some immigrants look down on anything that is colonial on this land.Originally Posted by Smaug
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Yes, indeed. All four sides of me are Colonial American, descended from English, Scots, Scots- Irish and Germans who settled in the British Colonies and 1/8 of me comes from the heavily French and German settled area of French Louisiana.
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No, most of them came from the British Isles and France from the early 1900's with almost nothing that they work ardently to define.
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No Original Colonial ancestry. 1/4 of my ancestry is from an English man who arrived in the 1890s. The rest are from the Netherlands after WW2.
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That's good. Same here. Its rather a common background in our area. All white New Englanders are or have ancestry from the British Islands.
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No idea what you're advocating, but I had to compliment your English skills.
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Long story short; brought over little that they had and got themselves situated in society through their work ethic.
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