Comments by "chaosXpert" (@chaosXP3RT) on "Explaining America's Identity in 10 Ethnicities" video.
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My last name is German, but my Grandma was 25% Irish. On my mom's side, there is a mix of Native American, French-Canadian, and Polish. My grandpa on my mom's side was actually half Polish and actually spoke Polish to me when I was kid. I'm a true American mutt, so to speak and I'm proud of it.
It's true that I don't speak German, other than what I pick up here and there. And it's true that I only know a limited amount of French because I had to take 2 years of French classes to graduate high school. But German, Polish, French, Irish, etc. affected our families. Our history. My great, great, great, great Grandpa was a full-blooded Prussian that moved to the US and became American in his eyes when he fought in the American Civil War alongside other German and Italian immigrants. But that didn't change the fact that he built a German-style house on his farm or that he spoke German to his children or that his children would create German-style breweries that Germans today would ironically call "disgusting American beer". Our ancestors and ethnicities made us who we are.
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