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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Heritage is more about self-identification due to social circumstance than biology.  It makes little sense to force people into buckets based on their genome.  It doesn't work for Blacks, it doesn't work for American Indians, and it doesn't even work for European immigrants.  For instance, I am probably 1/2 Italian, 3/8 German and 1/8 French.  But I have no identification with that 1/8 French, and we have little connection to cultural traditions of Germans.  I was raised by an Italian mother with an Italian grandmother who were closely connected to their immigrant history.  So generally I identify as Italian-American.  [/quote]

I definitely second this! Identity is a complicated matter of self-perception. I identify as Irish because my father is from Ireland and has moderately exposed me to that heritage. I consider myself American because I was born and raised in this great nation. I consider myself Anglo-Saxon, because America's cultural heritage stretches back to England, and is linked with nations like Canada, Australia and New Zealand, though I have no English ancestry either. I consider myself Western, and affiliate with the cultural inheritance of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem, despite having no Mediterranean or Semitic blood. I am Catholic, and so I identify with the early martyrs and Biblical figures, despite being separated by 2,000 years, a continent and bloodlines.[/quote]

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