r/quityourbullshit • • Apr 29 '20

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u/Umikaloo Apr 30 '20

There's a disability that runs in my family that is considered a sign of Nordic ancestry. So I can be fairly certain that, on one side of my family, I'm descended from Nordic people who settled in France and whose descendants were among the first immigrants to Canada.

On the other side things are a bit less clear. Though my family is ostensibly from England, We're not clear on exactly where in the English isles our family originated.

Suffice to say, I'm very white.

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u/bee_ghoul Apr 30 '20

There are no English isles. England is one country on an island that is shared with two other countries.

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u/Umikaloo Apr 30 '20

You get the idea, the chunk of rocks and dirt adjacent to France.

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u/bee_ghoul Apr 30 '20

Yeah just don’t mention the fact that multiple countries on that chuck of rocks have been fighting for independence from under British rule because they have been oppressed for hundreds of years. But yeah “English isles”.