Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Richard Hakluyt]

Would it be too pedantic to point out that every country outside east Africa is populated by the descendants of people who came from somewhere else?

Yes it would.

These are not ancient population movements. The First Fleet sailed to Australia in 1788; the colonisation of the Dakotas is almost in living memory.

I think that our cultures are safe because we have large populations. China and India had some tough times but were never at risk of being disinherited. The places with lower populations became the areas of dispossession.

[Eddie Teach]

Ok. What is the magic number of years one's ancestors need to have been in a place to consider himself a native rather than an immigrant?

[Barrister]

Ok. What is the magic number of years one's ancestors need to have been in a place to consider himself a native rather than an immigrant?

There is no "magic number" but there's an obvious difference between one's ancestors having lived in a place for 10, 100, or 1000 years.

[Tamas]

Ok. What is the magic number of years one's ancestors need to have been in a place to consider himself a native rather than an immigrant?

To consider themselves? IMHO being born there.

To be considered by others? Well if they have a different skin colour you'll have the natives talk of "3rd generation immigrants" and such, so they are fucked.



It really is cultural. Hungary is very intolerant at one hand to non-assimilated cultures/identities, don't really let non-whites assimilate, but there are tons of people whose grandparents/great grandparents had a distinct German/assorted Slavic identity during their time, and this is absolutely not a "concern" for either the offsprings or society.

[Richard Hakluyt]

There was a Polish community of 250k people left in the UK after WW2. They went native incredibly quickly. As a schoolkid I would meet children that seemed completely native but with difficult surnames; one might notice some differences on visiting their homes. The last traces, for all practical purposes, disappeared sometime in the 1990s..........just before the new Poles started turning up. In Preston we had to do without a Polish deli for just over five years.

[derspiess]

I guess I'm an 11th generation immigrant

[Barrister]

I'm a 5th generation immigrant.

[Grey Fox]

It gets muddled but 13th Generation is the most straight forward answer.

[Richard Hakluyt]

On a warm summer's day I like to dress in woad and curse the Romans at a sacred oak grove.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The process still happens; I would hold up Xinjiang and Tibet as places where immigration will ultimately completely change the culture of those regions.

[The Brain]

AOAAAAAA-AAA!

[Razgovory]

I'm a 5th generation immigrant.

16th generation.  I had one ancestor who came over in the 1620's.

[Valmy]

Would it be too pedantic to point out that every country outside east Africa is populated by the descendants of people who came from somewhere else?

Yes.

And why didn't you pick up your gun and fix Georgia instead of moving here? 

[derspiess]

I'm a 5th generation immigrant.

16th generation.  I had one ancestor who came over in the 1620's.

So did I, but my generations seem more stretched out than everyone else's

[Valmy]

I'm a 5th generation immigrant.

16th generation.  I had one ancestor who came over in the 1620's.

So did I, but my generations seem more stretched out than everyone else's

Yeah I was frankly very surprised to see how many of my ancestors came over in the 17th century. If I am descended from you and you are not Irish, you probably came over in the 17th century or early 18th century. Even the Germans.