Well, I survived another Saint Patrick's Day

[Doktor Howl]

Then there's the American (or at least white American?) obsession with genealogy. A lot of us don't really have roots in the area we live in because we tend to be fairly mobile as a people, so knowing where your ancestors come from means more than it might otherwise.

I think this is a bunch of it.  It also explains White people that have convinced themselves that they have Indian blood.

Or have 1/32nd Indian blood and grew up in suburbia but consider themselves qualified to run sweat lodges.

I'm reasonably certain that almost nobody knows anything about their great-great-great-great grandparents except for the Mormons, who basically just killed Indians.  And everyone else that came near them.

[Doktor Howl]

Kundalini sweat lodges. 

Wazzat?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It's a great way to keep a population under control. Keep em poor and keep em hungry if they're not playing ball. Not a great way to give up their identity or ease their bitterness towards history.

Terrible, what all those dead Englishmen MADE you do.   

I'm speaking historically of course. Obviously the English never made me do anything except miss my bus at Heathrow and sternly warn me that I better be heading back to the United States on that flight out of Paris.

[Doktor Howl]

It's a great way to keep a population under control. Keep em poor and keep em hungry if they're not playing ball. Not a great way to give up their identity or ease their bitterness towards history.

Terrible, what all those dead Englishmen MADE you do.   

I'm speaking historically of course. Obviously the English never made me do anything except miss my bus at Heathrow and sternly warn me that I better be heading back to the United States on that flight out of Paris.

So was I.  I meant to say You People.

[Juana]

Then there's the American (or at least white American?) obsession with genealogy. A lot of us don't really have roots in the area we live in because we tend to be fairly mobile as a people, so knowing where your ancestors come from means more than it might otherwise.

I think this is a bunch of it.  It also explains White people that have convinced themselves that they have Indian blood.

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Then there's the American (or at least white American?) obsession with genealogy. A lot of us don't really have roots in the area we live in because we tend to be fairly mobile as a people, so knowing where your ancestors come from means more than it might otherwise.

I think this is a bunch of it.  It also explains White people that have convinced themselves that they have Indian blood.

Or have 1/32nd Indian blood and grew up in suburbia but consider themselves qualified to run sweat lodges.

I'm reasonably certain that almost nobody knows anything about their great-great-great-great grandparents except for the Mormons, who basically just killed Indians.  And everyone else that came near them.

Kinda this. Though I'm still waiting for some of my Mormon relatives to figure out what the fuck the "Johnathan Strange affair" is.

[Doktor Howl]

It still seems like a pre-packaged narrative, though.

[Doktor Howl]

Kinda this. Though I'm still waiting for some of my Mormon relatives to figure out what the fuck the "Johnathan Strange affair" is.

In almost every case, a minority being oppressed is an injustice.

When dealing with the Mormons, it's just common sense.

[Juana]

That seems to be my family's line of thinking. The Johnathan Strange thing is what made my great-something-odd grandfather lead the group who chased the Mormons out of the tiny settlement they were living in.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Funny enough i do know something about my thrice great grandfather (through my nanas geneological research.) a massachusetts resident named jeremiah mullen. Ran a horse and buggy service. His obituary said "dear friend of the bottle"

[Doktor Howl]

That seems to be my family's line of thinking. The Johnathan Strange thing is what made my great-something-odd grandfather lead the group who chased the Mormons out of the tiny settlement they were living in.

Whereupon they settled in Utah, and Brigham Young took up the hobby of slaughtering any wagon trains that came througn, blaming the Indians, and then killing them in "retaliation", thus eliminating any loose ends.

Today, of course, they restrict their behavior to stomping on Gays for no reason, and pushing for more wars with those perfidious Ay-rabs.

[Doktor Howl]

It occurs to me that I have been dragged off topic by Irish people.

[Juana]

That seems to be my family's line of thinking. The Johnathan Strange thing is what made my great-something-odd grandfather lead the group who chased the Mormons out of the tiny settlement they were living in.

Whereupon they settled in Utah, and Brigham Young took up the hobby of slaughtering any wagon trains that came througn, blaming the Indians, and then killing them in "retaliation", thus eliminating any loose ends.

Today, of course, they restrict their behavior to stomping on Gays for no reason, and pushing for more wars with those perfidious Ay-rabs.

There is that. I'm still pissed they stuck their filthy fingers in my state's politics with Prop 8.

It occurs to me that I have been dragged off topic by Irish people.

A little bit.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Apologies.

[Doktor Howl]

There is that. I'm still pissed they stuck their filthy fingers in my state's politics with Prop 8.

That's actually when I began despising the Mormon religion.  Until that point, I considered them just another cult full of harmless kooks, like the Rotarians.

[Doktor Howl]

Apologies.

S'ok.

But I still maintain that the whole Irish thing is a narrative whose adoption is easier than being yourself.