What nations or people are among your ancestors?

[MehGuy]

People in North Africa are usually not black, though.

Yeah, I was just kidding around.

Typically, it's sub-Saharan Africans who are considered black.

I did once tell an immigrant from one of the sub-Saharan African countries that I had some scant roots in Northern Africa. He said that made me a "brother", he seemed genuine about it too, lol.

 

[Red Gold]

Typically, it's sub-Saharan Africans who are considered black.

Yes, Sub-Sahara is the new politically correct word.
It used to be: Black Africa - in German: Schwarz-Afrika

 

[ruthiesea]

Yes, Sub-Sahara is the new politically correct word.
It used to be: Black Africa - in German: Schwarz-Afrika

Funny I heard the term sub-Saharan back when I was a teenager, when the Earth was cooling.

 

[Red Gold]

Let us try to use "subsaharan" instead of the offensive word "black".

So I ask:

Do you drink your coffee subsaharan?
Do you like films in subsaharan and white?

 

[durangodawood]

Most of the world is missing from the options.

 

[Red Gold]

Most of the world is missing from the options.

Nothing is missing.
It is all in: "other"

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Please create a better poll where the whole world is included by name

 

[Red Gold]

@ durangodawood

Have you ever created a poll yourself?

 

[Red Gold]

Irish and English have 7 votes each

 

[durangodawood]

@ durangodawood

Have you ever created a poll yourself?

Yes. A few times.

No offence meant. I just thought it was funny with a whole giant world, 4 of 10 are tiny Britain and Ireland.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Irish and German on my dad's side.
Irish, Scots-Irish, English, and Danish on my mom's side.

Just that I know of, I'm absolutely certain there's more in there. But I do know that my paternal grandmother is descended from Irish immigrants who fled the potato famine, I know that on my maternal grandmother's goes back to Scots-Irish settlers who originally settled in Maryland in the mid-late 17th century.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Red Gold]

I just thought it was funny with a whole giant world, 4 of 10 are tiny Britain and Ireland.

I did that for a good reason.

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And you would have created a poll with about 200 options, then?
Or maybe more?

 

[Red Gold]

Irish and German on my dad's side.
Irish, Scots-Irish, English, and Danish on my mom's side.

A good mixture!

 

[durangodawood]

I did that for a good reason.

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And you would have created a poll with about 200 options, then?
Or maybe more?

I wish!

 

[MehGuy]

Yes, Sub-Sahara is the new politically correct word.
It used to be: Black Africa - in German: Schwarz-Afrika

I wasn't aware that Sub-Saharan was a politically correct term. I feel like here in America some might take offense by the terminology and might even view it as a "dog whistle" depending on the context. There are some who argue that the ancient Egyptians were primarily Sub-Sarhan Africans. Even the history channel has a series about famous barbarians who managed to threaten Rome; the episode about Hannibal has him portrayed as a Sub-Saharan black man, lol. Now apart from a fringe group I do not believe most people are deluded enough to believe most ancient Egyptians were actually black or that Hannibal was probably a black man, but I do think our culture has an unofficial encouragement to kind of cross our eyes together when it comes to Africans.

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

I am an Afrikaner from South Africa. We are the most mixed you can imagine. The Dutch settled the Cape, brought Germans along, and the first generations married Malay, Indian and black African slaves and the native Khoi. Later some French refugees came and then the British conquered us and settled a fair bit. Then there are the odd adventurers coming around. Funny thing is, we then institited racial segregation policies? My grandmother worked out all the collateral lines of descent from arrival in South Africa, then fudged nice European descent when she found something she didn't like. My father and I then had to go back and correct her work.

My ancestry is mostly Dutch, German and French ... However, I have Khoi from the Cape, Angolan, West African, Malagasy from Madagascar (with admixture of Arab), Indian (Coromandel Coast and Bengal mostly), Malayan, Timorese, English, Scottish, Danish, Italian (Some Savoyard Huguenots and a guy from Calabria), Portuguese (from a shipwrecked sailor that settled down) and that one random Chinese guy that ended up at the Cape in the 1700s.

 

[Red Gold]

I am an Afrikaner from South Africa.

Do you speak Afrikaans then?
I have not heard Afrikaans spoken yet, but when I see it written, I like it.
As a German, I feel that I can understand most of it.

 

[Red Gold]

I wasn't aware that Sub-Saharan was a politically correct term.

Then you will have to learn it the hard way. If you use any other word, then you will be accused of "racism" by the politically over-correct thought police.

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Do you speak Afrikaans then?
I have not heard Afrikaans spoken yet, but when I see it written, I like it.
As a German, I feel that I can understand most of it.

Yes, Afrikaans is my home language. It is supposed to be a restandardised creole language from all those population groups I mentioned, but mostly Dutch. Interestingly enough, the first book in Afrikaans was a commentary on the Quran though.

As jy hierdie kan verstaan, ek dink dis makliker vir ander Germaanse tale om te lees as om te hoor. As ek Duits hoor is dit soortgelyk, dat ek amper niks vang nie, maar wanneer mens dit lees maak van dit baie meer sin. Ek is seker laer dialekte van Duits wat nader aan Nederlands is, sal ook help.

 

[Hazelelponi]

My DNA test said 1% Northern African. That makes me a black man

North African is Caucasian most of the time.

 

[Hazelelponi]

NVM...