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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do so many Americans always want to pretend they're something they aren't and try to exoticize themselves? 
Like "I'm 0.002% German, 25% Italian... bla bla...", but don't even speak the language, let alone ever been to those places. And now "indigenous Europeans"??? Give me a break. 
You're American and you're white. Get over it. Seriously, [b]talk to people from other contries, it sounds ridiculous and nobody else does this[/b].

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A true European (born and raised)[/quote]

No, they refer to people who were born and raised in Germany as "Turks". Or at least, that's what my cousins in Germany do.[/quote]
Ah, my German Oma, in German, born & raised, refers to Germans as... Germans. [/quote]

Yes, my German cousins also refer to Germans as Germans. The question is, how does your Oma refer to people who live in Germany and are Muslim and of Turkish ancestry?[/quote]

Where do you see that question above? I didn't see it, sorry.

I'm sure she would refer to them as Turkish if they weren't native Germans as Muslim is their religion. [/quote]

Yes, she would call Germans of Turkish ancestry Turks. Now, what were you saying about people from the US and their ridiculous, unique hang-ups about identity?[/quote]

Ah, the same thing that Americans do with "Mexicans"? That's a different conversation. I wasn't the one writing that btw.

We're talking about boring white Americans trying to make themselves interesting by claiming some heritage of a country they've never even been to, a culture they didn't experience, and a language they don't even speak.

I've learned not to be too interested anymore when someone tells me they're "German". And I've stopped asking where in Germany they're from because the answer is usually "My great-great-great-great grandmother......" 
Never heard a European claim a long gone heritage from some ancestor, and call themselves "Polish" or "French" when they didn't even grow up there, for example. [/quote]

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