Concerned Citizen started this discussion 4 months ago#128,988
The British seem to think the world thinks more highly of the British than we actually do and I don’t really understand why. It’s like they think they’re a powerful country like Russia or America or China or something, but they’re just a little island in the Atlantic we Americans fly over to get to France, an important country.
My feeling whenever I heard somebody say "Britain is North Korea," or "I feel sorry for Britain because of the migrants," or "there’s no free speech in Britain." My feeling is like, okay, well what if it was? Why should I care? And the answer is there’s basically no reason because it’s an irrelevant country.
Concerned Citizen (OP) replied with this 4 months ago, 2 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,389,592
Then it’s like they talk all this talk of "oh we are superior because we enslaved all the blacks in Africa!" But it’s like, in the 1880s, Nigeria had about 15 million people and the UK had 40 million people. Now the UK has 70 million people and Nigeria has 230 million people. But I’m supposed to believe an accident of population sizes had nothing to do with it and your culture is special somehow.
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@1,389,594 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Also, a lot of the territory that’s part of the United States wasn’t conquered by the English, the English intentionally had a rule that colonists weren’t supposed to expand westward to prevent conflict with the native Americans, but the United States bought most of the interior of the lower 48 from Napoleon, and Alaska was bought from Russia.
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It’s a majority minority thing, English, Irish, Italian, German, and a bunch of other stuff. Every ethnicity in the United States on a per-country of origin basis is technically a minority.
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None of them. "White" as a category technically dominates, because the term white was extended to include Irish and Italian immigrants, but they weren’t originally seen as white. White isn’t a country though.
Concerned Citizen (OP) replied with this 4 months ago, 32 seconds later, 53 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,389,618
If you’re trying to make a point that the 8% of Americans that have English ancestry "dominate" because they’re the largest white ethnicity, 8% means 92% of Americans aren’t English so I wouldn’t call that "dominating." Then just because English is the largest white ethnicity doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the largest ethnicity. Most black Americans are Nigerian but it’s hard to find data on what percentage since slaves weren’t allowed to keep their heritage, but if you started doing DNA tests on black Americans, I wouldn’t be surprised if the percentage of Americans with Nigerian ancestry turns out to be larger than the percentage of Americans with English ancestry.
You get what I’m saying? It is mathematically possible for every white ethnicity to be a minority and for white people to be the majority at the same time.
> If you’re trying to make a point that the 8% of Americans that have English ancestry "dominate" because they’re the largest white ethnicity, 8% means 92% of Americans aren’t English so I wouldn’t call that "dominating." Then just because English is the largest white ethnicity doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the largest ethnicity. Most black Americans are Nigerian but it’s hard to find data on what percentage since slaves weren’t allowed to keep their heritage, but if you started doing DNA tests on black Americans, I wouldn’t be surprised if the percentage of Americans with Nigerian ancestry turns out to be larger than the percentage of Americans with English ancestry.
I believe it usually resolves to “West African.” It’s hard to trace anything beyond that and the places that promise results are scams. They will trace payees to a royal family in the Benin or Ashanti kingdoms.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 4 months ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,389,724
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No, DNA tests actually tell you on a per-country basis in Africa. Africans have more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined since humans lived in Africa longer than they lived anywhere else. Africans are very genetically distinct.
> I had a positive view of current Britain but the way that they same to constantly shit talk American culture makes me pause. Same as Australians
I’m the other way around. If a Brit doesn’t shit talk America, I don’t trust them, because Americans shit talk America, and if you don’t shit talk America you’ve probably got some ulterior motive.