So if someone tried to tell you that your OWN ETHNICITY didn't exist

[XemaSab]

how would you react?

'Cause DAMN, I was straight tempted to slap this bitch a few nights ago who was INSISTING that Scots-Irish is NOT an ethnicity. :grr:

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Well, if you ever do slap her...

Slap her again for me

No Scots-Irish, indeed! :mad: :nuke: :grr:

[XemaSab]

5. Will do

:thumbsup:

[joneschick]

2. there are some serious idiots out there

I once had a guy insisting on arguing with me about which of my brothers was the oldest! Um, dude, I'm pretty sure I've got this one. :hi:

[madinmaryland]

3. Scotch-Irish is not an ethnicity?

:wtf: I thought that's what I was (half at least). :shrug:

[XemaSab]

4. No, it's totally an ethnicity

It's one of the biggest ethnicities in the US.

She's just ignorant.

[electron_blue]

6. Eh

Wouldn't bother me.

[Westegg]

7. So that makes me ethnicity-free? Hmm...

...I wonder what that same lady would make of the German or British parts of my heritage? She'd probably have the same reaction. So, according to her, a Scots-Irish/German/English/tiny-sliver-of-French person such as myself has no ethnic identity.

As a solution, I would refer this good woman to the dictionary. To encyclopedias and, if possible, to some general history books. It's really quite simple.

Ignorance offends me as much as racism and prejudice do. Oh, wait! What is the root of racism and prejudice? Exactly!

[NewJeffCT]

8. Would she have said you're two ethnicities?

One part Scotch and one part Irish?

[XemaSab]

9. She was arguing that I'm Scottish

which is just not accurate. :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

10. I wonder how

your Irish parent would have reacted? Or, are both your parents Scotch-Irish? Or is one Scottish and one Irish?

[XemaSab]

11. The Scots-Irish are Scots who settled in Northern Ireland around 1600

lived in Ireland for a few hundred years, then got tired of being pawns of the English, so they moved to the US. Well, some of them are still there, but they're just plain Ulstermen. :P

But we're a unique breed. :D

[CottonBear]

12. Hello from a fellow Scots-Irishwoman!

My ancestor came over from Ireland in the mid-1700s! :hi:

[XemaSab]

13. Hi!

My Scots-Irish ancestor who bears my surname was fleeing the law and came over around 1880! :D

[Gormy Cuss]

14. It's not. It's a recipe for

distillation.
:P

[XemaSab]

23. AKA

"What's that funny contraption you got in the shed, grandpa?" :P

[rockymountaindem]

15. People say the same thing about Jews all the time

That's when I get to explain the difference between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism.

[DarkTirade]

17. Yeah, I've gotten that one more than once.

When listing off my various ethnic backgrounds (that I know of... I don't know a huge chunk of my european side. :) ), people will tell me that I can't be a quarter jewish because it isn't an ethnicity. :banghead:

[rockymountaindem]

24. On the other hand, it doesn't help when my more evangelistically-minded friends

continue to try to tell me that I can be a Jew and still believe in Jesus. While I suppose that's true in the ethnic sense, it just ain't in the religious sense. Their inability to understand that cultural and religious Jewish belonging can go hand-in-hand is another weird thing.

[DarkTirade]

26. I'm not culturally jewish at all, my great-grandparents converted at some point.

But they're still descendant from jews. And if they'd stayed in Poland for another decade or two, there mighta been some problems.

*edited to add the word 'great' in front of grandparents. :) *

[IronLionZion]

34. What about when Jewish people say it? Many of them deny their own ethnicity. nt

[rockymountaindem]

40. That depends

When a religious Jew says that there is no Jewish ethnicity and that the community of Jews consists only of those who adhere to the Jewish religion, they make some sense to me. After all, the faith existed long before more modern notions of nationality. On the other hand, people who deny their ethnicity so they can assimilate are doing it for personal reasons that I just don't understand.

[Aristus]

16. I would mess up their world with a claymore or a Shillileagh,

then go somewhere for haggis and a pint of Guinness. B-)

[Rambis]

18. Here ye go

[Aristus]

19. Thanks, mate.

Th'wurruld's a luvvly place when ye've a drop taken...

[Rambis]

22. conflicted

pinta Guinness or Gies a pint o heavy

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. aint that just caucasian?

:P

[XemaSab]

27. Uh, sure....

:D

[kwassa]

29. Yeah, we're all from the Caucasus

which is why we like to caucus!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. aren't we all just chinese even if we are thai, middle eastern even if we are persian or arab,

indian if we are from anywhere on the subcontinent?

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

33. You're Oriennals

:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

35. i love wood work

[XemaSab]

39. .

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

21. What's worse is

when I say I'm part Welsh, they say, "Oh isn't that part of England?"

:grr:

[Chan790]

25. I'm tempted to point out that Scots-Irish would be a culture not an ethnicity...

and thus she's correct. However, too many people don't know the difference for it to matter much.

To be technical, your ethnicity would be Celtic (probably).

Same as mine (descended from Scottish Catholics from the highlands), Gerry Adams (leader of Sinn Féin, theoretically a Marxist, but the son of Irish-Catholics), Rev. Ian Paisley (filthy Ulsterman that he is), Mary Shelley (descended from Scottish lowland presbyterian stock), Winston Churchill (about as British as you can get), Jim Bakker (born in the US South to parents of Scots-Irish heritage), The Queen of England, most Australians, a large percentage of Canadians and about 2/3 the population of the French province of Normandy. If you're ancestors were in almost any way inter-married with the British, you're almost certainly at least partially Celtic.

A genetic survey done last year revealed that among the British, genetic stock of other common British ethnicities (Pictish, Anglo, Saxon, Norman, I'm forgetting several) was being lost out of the population. That's how common Celtic ancestry has become. We've conquered much of the English-speaking world through intermarriage and fecundity.

edit: changed most to much. It seemed over-reaching.

[YankeyMCC]

28. I consider my Ethnicity to be "mutt"

well maybe I should at least add the qualifier of "human" so "human mutt"

Does that exist? :)

btw: I'm not poking fun at you or the idea that Scots-Irish is an ethnicity, just poking fun at myself.

[NJmaverick]

30. "Scottish-Irish"?

Aren't they prone to wanting to bitch slap people?:evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

36. Who let you out of GDP?

'Cause yeah, sometimes the urge to bitch-slap people can be overwhelming.

No, this is NOT a non-sequitor. :P

[IronLionZion]

31. People tell me Indian Christians don't exist and then ask me why I wear a cross.

I feel like punching them, and for a while I would patiently explain it to them, but now I just say whatever and go find someone more intelligent to talk to. It's just not worth it anymore.

[Chan790]

37. Indian?

As in Native American or from India?

I know quite a few Christians who are one or the other and one who is both.

:shrug:

[IronLionZion]

38. Indian from India

and I think it's awesome that you have a friend who is both because I would love to be around when he or she is asked "dot or feather?" :rofl:

Actually a lot more people are discovering the existence of us, but they will vehemently denounce the existence of our 2000-year history. They think it just happened recently!!!

[Burma Jones]

41. There are a hell of a lot of us........

Of course, once I described myself as Scots-Irish to one of my College buddies' Irish Immigrant, South Side of Chicago Father and he gave me an earful of nasty insults, then we all got drunk and then I was OK.......