Getting in touch with your roots

damn didn't realize yall would be so hostile
same feeling as: "wow very judgemental community here" lmao
- I still remember when someone came to /r/Wicked_Edge, a subreddit about straight razors, and asked to compare two disposable brands. People were as kind as possible.
  
  Not to be confused with /r/straightedge, which is about drug-less Punk.
- lmao I wonder if he's one of those guys who believes it's gay to wipe your ass
- I don't know, one guy has a real problem that needs to be addressed. The other guy is mad because people got mad at him for cosplaying an ethnic identity.

"or should I say us 🇮🇹"
"Sopranos was my favorite show"
Oof. Imagine saying "roots was my favorite show so it makes sense my great great great grandparent was black"
- I have Italian ancestry and I've always found these guys to be cringe, but I also get why they do it . Many people in the United States yearn for meaning and interpersonal connection in their lives. "Being an Italian" provides a prepackaged, very commercialized possibility of community with little effort required - you're just born to it, so instant acceptance, right?
  The reality is often less Soprano's chic and more "nonno and nonnina were illiterate farmhands who moved to the US for a better life. Nonno died from mystery cancer and all of nonnina's bones dissolved after birthing her 15th child at 24. Now chew nonnina's birthday cake for her".
  
  In no particular order, I have French, German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and a teensy tiny bit of "my great great great great grandmother was native American and we actually have the proof but nobody could ever tell without a DNA test so it only gets brought up when talking about obscure family genetic lineage"
  Maybe it's because my family is super midwest-usa-bible-belt, and I never even found out about most of it until a genetics test when I got married to my now wife (we wanted to know if kids would even be a medical possibility with our various issues), but I don't identify with any of the places my ancestors lived in, so there isn't a particular culture I'd like to be part of. And to be perfectly frank I'm not sure I want to be part of any culture, I just want to tend to my forest with fair ~~Goldberry~~ my wife.
  You do make a good point though, if you're looking to be part of something or feel particularly drawn to a culture after being immersed in what you think it's really like, I could absolutely see this happening with 100% sincerity.
  
  We need to do a better job of teaching people to approach community groups with respect and as themselves. I'm a severe introvert so it took me way too long to figure that out but it's really that simple. There are no shortcuts, be nice to people, ask respectful questions, befriend them, and suddenly you're invited to the party/dinner.
- My sister got a DNA test done that shows we've got 96% Italian heritage and I've never seen Sopranos.
  Guess I'm a poser
  
  You'd better go to Olive Garden and get in touch with your heritage.
  
  Its a fantastic show, you should watch it.

There weren't enough hand emojis 👋👌, mama Mia's, or references to spaghetti. No wonder he didn't fit in.
- Maybe if you're mostly German, you learn to avoid wild hand gestures from a young age. Just to be safe, you know?
  
  Or just register as a republican and say it's fashionable.
  
  Well they used to teach it in schools!
  
  Elon: 0% german
  
  Everything you do below your shoulders is fine
- You missed the main one🤌🤌ma che cazzo

This looks like a great way to troll communities. Might do this in the France sub
- Hon hon hon fellow baguette connoisseurs!
  
  Defarge: We are so poor! We don't even have a language! Just a stupid accent!
  Peasant: She's right. She's right. We all sound like Maurice Chevalier. Honh, honh, honh!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VnjqSZ7mBQ
  
  Emily in Paris was my favourite show so it makes sense!
  
  I brew my own alcohol, the stuff I call wine would probably offend the French.
- I'm French, ain't no way a french community doesn't fall for it, this might be the easiest one to troll.
  
  Ehhh qubecois are even easier to trigger than the french
- Tbh, I would be much more triggered by the fact that you gave your DNA to a private company for fun, than any "oui oui baguette" jokes
  
  Can lean into that too
- Now I kinda want to know which country communities would react most positively and negatively to such a post.
  UK here so we get multiple choices but I think all of them would laugh at you. Northern Irish you should probably be careful with.
  
  Well trolling UK communities is too easy so it would be like cheating

Americans are all saying they’re proud of their country and then say shit like this unironically.
- Makes sense though because in America, everyone is American regardless of background, race, etc etc etc so people, in their search for ways to differentiate themselves from others, latch on to their heritage.
  
  in America, everyone is American regardless of background, race, etc
  Except if you moved here recently, of course. We can't have that.
  
  Ironically America has incredible diversity within its borders. The average west coaster, northeasterner, Bible belter, and Midwesterner are completely foreign to each other. Plus a religious obsession with sports is another way we tribalize.

Me after I found out I'm 1% South American
- I think that one is Mesoamerican
  
  Oh how careless of me. Here. I think this one is more accurate.

If he is mostly German good chance that his Italian roots are from the Italian Alps where they speak German.

American with 7% Irish ancestry on the Shankill Road lecturing the locals on why they should have a united Ireland energy.
- Something something shillelagh.
- Had to read that twice, first time through it looked like you were saying your ancestry included Roadkill.
  
  That’s true, I’m from Yorkshire.
- Chucky our lard

I did one of those mail in DNA test and found out I'm like over 50% data breach

My brother got a DNA test and found we're mostly descended from Nordic people and not Germanic/Irish as we were told as kids. So naturally, I am now a Vikings fan.
- When you learn that Vikings are also Germanic:
  There is no escaping it, Gustav
  
  And the Vikings invaded the isles … so, they may still well be Germanic and Irish. Just sorta.

Basing your preferred genetic heritage on how much you like a TV show. Smh.
American Italians have embraced the pop culture caricature of themselves and become it.
- Americans ~~Italians~~ have embraced the pop culture caricature of themselves and become it.
  
  HEY, I'm typin' hea'

Americans when they find out they're 1/823th of a footballfield finnish: "OMG I AM SO DIVERSE! AND NOW A CERTIFIED MINORITY" Americans when they try to do finnish things: "Yeah no this is fake, its not possible for anyone to survive in 230f"
- I'm 25% Finnish (Grandmother)
  I enjoy saunas
  Is 25% enough to enjoy other Finnish things?
  
  Does your sau a have a carpet
- 230? Holy fuck, I'm happy to accept bitch-hood for not being able to handle that. How do you breathe?
  
  You throw water on the oven to cool it down enough so you don't die. You need to try it.
- Eight hundred twenty threeth.
- How many °C is 230f? (asking for the rest of the troop)
  230f is 110°C
  
  its exactly 110c

Americans love to answer the question "where are you from?" with an ingredients list.

My lineage is German, Irish, and Scandanavian, but my stomach is 100% Mexican.

He's like every other person in New Jersey
- It's lonely not being Italian American in NJ. I was psyched when Korean and Japanese kids started moving into town in the 1980s because suddenly it wasn't me and 25 kids who all shared a common culture.
  
  There are a lot of Polish Americans there too.

Marrone? Uffa, issat aposta be a Madone?
- That was my guess. He just misheard.
- Thats how they say it in the show i think it was supposed to be some Italian dialect
- Marrone means brown so probably

Yeah, fuck of danes. Didn't like you anyway 😆
/s
- fuck of danes. Didn’t like you anyway
  You might be part Swedish then.
  
  Thor remember one time many warriors lit ship full of Danes on fire. Then it sink. Was a good day for Thor!

Y'all actually know your ethnicity? I know i'm white and that's about it.
- Americans use ethnicity as a synonym for race. That's not formally correct. Wikipedia has it thusly:
  An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
  If you don't know your ethnicity, then you don't have one. Except you do have one. White American certainly fits the definition.
- I only know mine because I know the immigrant I descended from.
- I know i’m white
  100% American.

I'm over 90% Italian, it was a very small town full of my relatives, that should pretty much explain everything without having to go into detail.
- do you like sopranos?
  
  My family was actually apart of making the Soparanos 💀
  
  Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
- Do you have six fingers?