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VolinMichigan said:
Apparently I'm irrelevant.
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Please forgive my focus on the subject of this thread. I got some fellow calling me a communist, while I was trying to be like Sgt. Joe Friday.

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AM64 said:
The funny part is they aren't actually "native" Americans either; they just immigrated here earlier than the people who turned the place into a real country rather than a tribal "paradise". Maybe we should just settle on "Fractious Factions".
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Now you're really splitting hairs.

If we follow that logic, doesn’t that make us all descended from the first Africans?
 
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OHvol40 said:
This is a terrible perspective. Hope it’s sarcasm.
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Why is that? Look around the world at the trouble spots and the third world countries. The common denominator is tribalism. I don't think races, sects, ethnicities, religions, etc are different in their intelligence, but I do think a culture of tribalism that almost seems ingrained is the reason a lot of cultures can't seem to develop. So, no, it's not sarcasm except for the word choice - just a hard look at why the third world and descendants are still third world.
 
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AM64 said:
Speak for yourself. 23&Me says I'm Neanderthal and no Sub-Saharan (or whatever) anywhere in my DNA. EFG
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I did the Ancestry DNA test and I'm more English than the English are. They don't do the Neanderthal test, or they didn't when I took it a few years ago.
 
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AM64 said:
Speak for yourself. 23&Me says I'm Neanderthal and no Sub-Saharan (or whatever) anywhere in my DNA. EFG
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Well I haven’t done the chromosome workup, but being half Sicilian and half Scotch-Irish I know all I need to know about that.
 
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VolStrom said:
The Patel cartels that own hotels aren't Indians, they're Pakistani. I used to work with one of their offshoots that decided to make it on his own and go into engineering. He didn't last long.
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When I was in school at UT there was one kid from India in my class who was always asking to see my homework, and one Iranian who drove a Lamborghini.
 
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RavinDave said:
Well I haven’t done the chromosome workup, but being half Sicilian and half Scotch-Irish I know all I need to know about that.
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When I try doing ancestry, everybody was already here and no link back to another country. My dad's side I can trace back to the revolutionary war including bounty land in WV. My mother's side keeps hitting a dead end at the great great grandparent level. Not that it matters at this point ...

Mixing Scots-Irish and Sicilian would seem risky business since both are known for being a little hard to control.
 
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AM64 said:
Why is that? Look around the world at the trouble spots and the third world countries. The common denominator is tribalism. I don't think races, sects, ethnicities, religions, etc are different in their intelligence, but I do think a culture of tribalism that almost seems ingrained is the reason a lot of cultures can't seem to develop. So, no, it's not sarcasm except for the word choice - just a hard look at why the third world and descendants are still third world.
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The reason why some countries are post-industrial, industrial or pre-industrial is more complex than I care to delve into today, but I can assure you it’s not due to “tribalism.” That’s not what I was referring to anyway.

Implying that white people from Europe came and made this land a “real country” means that you’re ok with genocide as a means to an end.
 
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RavinDave said:
When I was in school at UT there was one kid from India in my class who was always asking to see my homework, and one Iranian who drove a Lamborghini.
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Did you have either Dr Soni for math while at UT? Seems like every calculus or other higher level math course I had was taught by either Mr or Mrs Dr Soni.
 
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OHvol40 said:
The reason why some countries are post-industrial, industrial or pre-industrial is more complex than I care to delve into today, but I can assure you it’s not due to “tribalism.” That’s not what I was referring to anyway.

Implying that white people from Europe came and made this land a “real country” means that you’re ok with genocide as a means to an end.
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Interesting take, but no.
 
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OHvol40 said:
The reason why some countries are post-industrial, industrial or pre-industrial is more complex than I care to delve into today, but I can assure you it’s not due to “tribalism.” That’s not what I was referring to anyway.

Implying that white people from Europe came and made this land a “real country” means that you’re ok with genocide as a means to an end.
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Not having to chuck spears at wildlife in my opinion would qualify as a step up, but maybe you don't see it that way?
 
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OHvol40 said:
The reason why some countries are post-industrial, industrial or pre-industrial is more complex than I care to delve into today, but I can assure you it’s not due to “tribalism.” That’s not what I was referring to anyway.

Implying that white people from Europe came and made this land a “real country” means that you’re ok with genocide as a means to an end.
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