Am I Chinese? No. But neither is Josh who's great grandfather is from Ireland thinks he was a gladiator in another life.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    My ancestry is like, the dumbest guys in Europe. We got dudes who lost everything in the English Civil War, loyalists in the American revolution who moved into Canadian land promised to slaves who rebelled to fight for the bri'ish and Bavarian guys who hit dirt with sticks for a lifetime until figuring the early 20th century would be a fantastic time to go overseas and be German, so they pretended to be Belgian a couple times because it was easier. My uncle did a whole genealogy thing when he found out he was weirdly closely related to his childhood BFF. The furthest dude on my dad's side he can find is a fella who went by the name Roundhead Smith.

    Edit: between the loyalists and the war of 1812, they did kill a lot of Americans, so there's that.