zaangalewa
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I identify as a swedish american. I was born here in the US but my dna is my dna. Dna is who who we are.
DNA is part of who we are. Culture and life experience are the other part. My sister just got the results from her DNA ancestry test. We are 75% British, 20% Scandinavian, and the other 5% is DNA "noise", the random trace elements that show up on everyone's DNA. But culturally, we are neither British nor Scandinavian; we are American, specifically Southern American. We've been here too long for "British" to have any meaning to us whatsoever, except that we all need to wear heavy-duty sunblock when we go outside.
And where did your ancestors come from? Germany?
The DNA part, however, is still irrefutable. I can make cultural differentiations between myself and a person who actually lives in Great Britain all day long - and have them be quite valid - but I can't decide that, because I don't "feel" British and Scandinavian, I am really black or Asian or Native American.
You are able to become a "native American" - some Germans for example became "native Americans", this has nothing to do with genetics - ... and okay ... in a similar way this could work also with Asians and Negroes. You could be a reborn Negroe in the body of a Scando-Brit in America for example.
Likewise, a man who is "transgender" can differentiate all day long between himself and men who are comfortable and happy being men - and maybe even be quite valid - but that still doesn't make him correct in declaring that he's "really" a woman.
And what if someone is really a reborn woman for example in the body of a man?
Sorry, are you deliberately misunderstanding the words here?
I am not "able to become" Native American or any other racial/ethnic group. Maybe Germans were able to be adopted into tribes 200 years ago ...
I guess you are right - you personally are not able to become a Red Indian. But this has nothing to do with your Celtic and/or Germanic genes from the North of Europe. You don't understand foreign cultures, that's all. I know from two Germans, who became Red Indians in the 20th century. That's not a problem - it's wonderful that such things are able to happen. In the end we are all sisters and brothers.
For the record, I have no Germanic genes at all. And I understand as much about foreign cultures as I can from the perspective of not being part of them . . . about the way people understand the culture of Southern Americans without actually being one.
I'm really not saying anything that's controversial or insulting. Some things are cultural, and some things are not. Femaleness is not a "culture"; it's genetic. It's not something you can join. You either are, or you are not.
Okay. So you are genetically a Scandinavian Brit (Norman + Anglo-Saxon + Celt) but you have nothing to do with Germanics. Your culture is exclusivelly only American - whatever this is. Everything else is strange to you. And men are men - women are women. And who has problems in this context has this problems because of genetical defects.
Nope. You went off the rails right around the time you didn't know how to spell "exclusively". My culture is Southern American, which very much is a specific and unique thing.
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And I never said "everything else is strange to me";
You said: "And I understand as much about foreign cultures as I can from the perspective of not being part of them"
you projected that in there yourself. Everything else is NOT MINE. I can see it around me; I can appreciate and enjoy it. But I'm not actually part of it, which is perfectly okay. And even if I could become part of something culturally - which is possible in many cases - I can't become part of things biologically that I'm not already part of. I could move to Mexico, learn to speak Spanish fluently with an identical accent, get involved with the community, know the city and the history and the culture as well as anyone there - be part of the culture. But I would still be white.
And yes, men are men and women are women, because those are BIOLOGICAL.
Aha. In a scale from 1 to 10 - how good do you think is your biological knowledge?
Yes, I did say that. Which isn't the same as "everything is strange to me". Glad you're finally catching on . . . sort of.
How good does my biological knowledge need to be to grasp the concept that homo sapien is a species which perpetuates itself by sexual reproduction and has two sexes for that purpose, which are determined by genetics? They cover that shit in middle school, for crying out loud . . . or they did when I was in middle school. God knows what they teach now.
Be that as it may, it doesn't require an advanced degree to grasp these facts. It just requires a willingness to accept that facts don't give a **** about feelings.
What do you really try to tell me?
