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    Default proof Americans are not descended from the English

    let's try to prove this through observations such as last names, culture, behaviour, cuisine, slang etc

    when I watched Tom Sawyer cartoon, I thought to myself, hmmm this behaviour seems more similar to traditional peasant-rural Scandinavian like Swedish/Dutch/Bavarian etc

    I thought the American word "cranky" sounds similar to German word for hospital krankenhaus

    cranky
    ˈkraŋki/Submit
    adjective
    1.
    BRITISHinformal
    eccentric or strange.
    "a cranky scheme to pipe ground-level ozone into the stratosphere"
    synonyms: eccentric, bizarre, weird, peculiar, odd, quirky, avant-garde, unconventional, off-centre, strange, outlandish, ridiculous, ludicrous; More
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    NORTH AMERICAN
    bad-tempered; irritable.
    "he was cranky after eight hours of working"
    synonyms: bad-tempered, irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish;
    Apparently theres a British word for that too, but the meaning is different, so here there is linguistic evidence for the American-British connection, another one is the phrase "take the piss", but the meanings in US vs UK are totally different.

    The only really English behaviour I've ever seen was the Old black and white Hollywood films. But even that was deliberately made to resemble the English.

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    Americans are multiethnic population. Of course they are not simply descended from the English and differences between American English and British English are not great, but rather minor. They can easily understand each other, by each speaking their variety of English. There are dialects of other languages that are not so close as the varieties of English.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foreigner View Post
    Americans are multiethnic population. Of course they are not simply descended from the English and differences between American English and British English are not great, but rather minor. They can easily understand each other, by each speaking their variety of English. There are dialects of other languages that are not so close as the varieties of English.
    I really have strong suspicions that American Whites are descended from British people especially the English. I can believe in Irish ancestry.

    People like Edward Norton look English/Australian to me. Also Donald Trump too.

    But others don't.

    5:05 man seems to be Indo European Nordid typical of "aristrocratic" English/upper class English types, but then again he's a gangster/warrior of an important/strategic position and Nordoids will be present in any such groups of any such European geography/social group

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4J_40Z5qsU

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foreigner View Post
    Americans are multiethnic population. Of course they are not simply descended from the English and differences between American English and British English are not great, but rather minor. They can easily understand each other, by each speaking their variety of English. There are dialects of other languages that are not so close as the varieties of English.
    But Amerikaners are a real group, a unique ethnicity just like Afrikaners, and I am an Amerikaner.

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    Stupid thread. English is the largest ancestry among Americans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smeagol View Post
    Stupid thread. English is the largest ancestry among Americans.
    Most of them just call themselves "of American ancestry" nowadays, which leads to a massive underestimation of English heritage in Americans by the census.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Martnen View Post
    But Amerikaners are a real group, a unique ethnicity just like Afrikaners, and I am an Amerikaner.
    I don't like the term ''Amerikaner'' It sounds German/Dutch while old stock Americans are predominantly English.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Martnen View Post
    But Amerikaners are a real group, a unique ethnicity just like Afrikaners, and I am an Amerikaner.
    You are an American mutt and there is no such thing as "Amerikaners".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smeagol View Post
    I don't like the term ''Amerikaner'' It sounds German/Dutch while old stock Americans are predominantly English.
    I like it because it's analogous to Afrikaner, who I see as the brothers of Amerikaners.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foreigner View Post
    You are an American mutt and there is no such thing as "Amerikaners".
    I'm part Old Colonial Stock, and Amerikaner = Old Colonial Stock.

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