What is it that makes you in anyway proud of your ancestors?

[Theowl32]

Another harsh truthful lesson from an actual educated African speaking with two negro Americans. Brainwashed into forever and always blaming others for their current problems now.

Not to be totally hypocritical...I do that myself. Have done that myself. You know how many people actually care about excuses? Virtually none and never enough to actually make difference.

 

[Orangecat]

My ancestors invented the wheel!

 

[Unkotare]

My ancestors invented the wheel!

I'm proud of my ancestors' proclivity for drinking, fighting, and fornicating.

 

[Orangecat]

I'm proud of my ancestors' proclivity for drinking, fighting, and fornicating.

Without the fornicating, we wouldn’t even be here! lol

 

[lg325]

They survived and their DNA lives on instead of extinction like others in history.
Very interesting characters from Vikings to Algerian Traders to a white slave girl from England and American Indians all my ancestors were tough survivors.

 

[Crepitus]

Another harsh truthful lesson from an actual educated African speaking with two negro Americans. Brainwashed into forever and always blaming others for their current problems now.

Not to be totally hypocritical...I do that myself. Have done that myself. You know how many people actually care about excuses? Virtually none and never enough to actually make difference.

My ancestors are pretty recent (1940s) Sicilian immigrants. Our culture and history goes back before roman times. We gave the world painters, composers, judges, authors, and of course the Mafioso.

But you don't see me bashing you people for not contributing much.

 

[Ava]

They've all set high goals for themselves and achieved them. A long lineage of notable successful people, some I was born too late to know. But, I can read about. They have had solid family lives and reared good children as well. I'm sure they were/are not perfect people but I respect them for reaching for the moon and making it there, so-to-speak. There have been no slackers.

Well, YOU asked!

 

[Samofvt]

Pardon moi for intruding upon this, however it seems like a good and truthful thing. It sounds like the Japanese may have taken this concept to painful lengths. The practice generally makes awkward situations less awkward. Then it becomes almost funny, as in the case where one person bows lower than the person they are greeting, and lower again, and so on and so forth. Monte Python might have recorded a skit about this ;-)

 

[toobfreak]

My ancestors invented the wheel!

My ancestors invented crawling out of the pond and breathing air on dry land!

 

[The Irish Ram]

I'm proud of my ancestors' proclivity for drinking, fighting, and fornicating.

You're Irish?

 

[longly]

My ancestors invented the wheel!

And invented the chariot, and domesticated the horse, goats, cattle, sheep, and invented the saddle, and stirrups. They were great people who eventually gave up the nomadic life of the steppes and moved into South Asia, India, North Africa and Europe and finally the Americas and eventually landed on the moon. They did all that basically because they were hungry; unlike the easy life in the Tropical South, they struggled to survive and that made them great. But that is the past, the thing is what are you going to do now? Has the good life made us soft?

 

[lg325]

You're Irish?

I was going ask that myself but didn't

 

[Dekster]

I am proud of my native american ancestors. Not really so much them as the genetic disposition to be able to get a tan just from the fridge light when I am eating all the cheese at 4 in the morning.

 

[Unkotare]

You're Irish?

100%, but more importantly American.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

 

[Orangecat]

My ancestors invented crawling out of the pond and breathing air on dry land!

Not sure if that's invention or evolution, but congrats regardless!

 

[Orangecat]

And invented the chariot, and domesticated the horse, goats, cattle, sheep, and invented the saddle, and stirrups. They were great people who eventually gave up the nomadic life of the steppes and moved into South Asia, India, North Africa and Europe and finally the Americas and eventually landed on the moon. They did all that basically because they were hungry; unlike the easy life in the Tropical South, they struggled to survive and that made them great. But that is the past, the thing is what are you going to do now? Has the good life made us soft?

Mankind has reached its pinnacle, now we begin the downward slide into overpopulation and socialist tyranny.

 

[Unkotare]

It wasn't until my siblings and my generation that anyone deviated at all from the direct potato genetic line. It would have been downright dangerous to have done so. Now, we're all over the place.

 

[Unkotare]

Mankind has reached its pinnacle, now we begin the downward slide into overpopulation and socialist tyranny.

We haven't remotely approached a pinnacle.

 

[Orangecat]

We haven't remotely approached a pinnacle.

Matter of opinion, that. When was the last time we went to the moon? Can we afford to expand further, when so many are starving?