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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^or because you lived in Milan, do you mean Northern Italians and Ashkenazi Jews, again both tend to be blonde and blue eyed? Probably not because, again, what you actually mean is the stereotype. [/quote]

My husband is Ashkenazi Jewish, Eastern Europe, and he has blue eyes, curly hair, normal size nose (another stereotype someone will probably bring up).  Our kids have blue eyes, I have green and are fair skinned.

This whole thing is cracking me up because I grew outside of Boston, went to college in Boston, went to Martha’s Vineyard every summer and Maine. And the misinformation is running wild.

My ancestors born in New England are almost evenly Irish and English.  In my family, The English came over very early, the Irish came over during the potato famine.

In my years meandering around New England I cannot recognize a wasp.   Most early settlers didn’t have money. I have one mayflower ancestor family who is land rich down the Cape and money poor.     Soon enough the English, Irish, French Canadian, and others were marrying each other.   seriously how many English Americans married only English immigrants.  Wasp culture appears to be gone.

There’s one example of a true wasp - former Governor of Massachusetts William Weld.   Otherwise maybe they just don’t show themselves to us regular folk.  [/quote]

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