• ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    If you’re an American and you’re not a native American you’re family immigrated here. Why is it so weird to want to know where your family or ancestors come from, I’m lucky and can trace my family name back a couple hundred years. I’m still American I just got family history that’s fun to know about.

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      20 days ago

      I think there’s a big difference between knowing your family’s history and drawing an identity from it.

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      19 days ago

      Either they immigrated recently enough that you can just ask them, or it simply does not matter. You think most Europeans speak the language of their great great grand parents?