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jb814
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07 Aug 2005, 6:04 pm

I just learned that the Martello towers all around the coast of the UK were as much to do with harassing the shipping of those colonial chappies as it was a defense against the French. Still, at least James Joyce found a good use for one.

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07 Aug 2005, 8:28 pm

nirrti_rachelle wrote:

I'm black with some Native American ancestory on both sides of the family, hence, having physical features that make me look like a black Pocahontas. The fact I seem to be the only black female in this forum isn't surprising since asperger's rarely occurs in females....or African-Americans. Don't I feel special.

I met a black girl with AS, about 10 or 11, a year ago. She was in my mom's class.

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08 Aug 2005, 3:06 am

nirrti_rachelle wrote:

YOu rock out loud! But not as much as Krisiun.

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08 Aug 2005, 3:34 am

nirrti_rachelle wrote:

I've never heard of a living person that is black and part indian. The way I was raised, that was used exclusively as a joke.

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08 Aug 2005, 3:37 am

My cousin once dated someone with AS.

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08 Aug 2005, 4:09 am

It wasn't you was it?!

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08 Aug 2005, 4:15 am

thatrsdude wrote:

It wasn't you was it?!

F**K NO! WE ARE SOUTH AFRICANS, NOT REDNECKS! IT WAS SOMEBODY WHO WENT TO UNIVERSITY WITH HER WHO SHALL COME OVER SOMETIME IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.

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09 Aug 2005, 8:58 am

3/8 German, 1/4 Hungarian, 1/8 Dutch, 1/8 Scottish, 1/8 British

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09 Aug 2005, 2:09 pm

Scotland is part of Britain. So your a quarter British.

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09 Aug 2005, 2:37 pm

I have no idea what my various percentages are of my lineage. I would have to do a lot of family searching for that.

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09 Aug 2005, 3:23 pm

eamonn wrote:

Scotland is part of Britain. So your a quarter British.

hahahah, okay fine, 1/8 Scottish, 1/8 ENGLISH, happy? :lol:

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09 Aug 2005, 3:56 pm

Probably mainly of Scottish blood.

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10 Aug 2005, 6:08 am

I think I have some Italian blood in me too. From my pat. gm side of family. They did have Ita. surnames so then that should mean yes.

It probably explains why I have an interest in pasta and garlic (lol).

So Ita. + Span. + Amerindian + something else.

It would make me a hypocrite when I said I didn't really like all that 1/4 this and 1/2 this stuff. Actually as I think about it, it is natural, healthy and evolutional in the first place. Besides many Europeans throughout the entire continent are mixed of different races from years of migrations and yes, even conquests. That would explain blonde and red-headed Spaniards, and other blends. Also I read that some Pac. Islanders have a mixture of all kinds of stock (Asian 'aka mongoloid' stock, African 'aka negro' stock, and even some Caucasian 'aka white' stock). Many from India, have all 3 in them. SE Asians have mixes in them and so on, and so on and so on.

I just don't like using heritage and ancestry to fully describe who I am and use it for politcal reasons, or social gains. That seems wrong to me.