You really summed up nicely what I’ve been thinking on the topic. (And a lot of other people in our sphere I’m sure.) I was taken in by the Evropa thing for a bit there, lol, but it never felt right. Always felt, as you said, LARPy. Just too broad and thus without much substance. I’ve been doing ancestry research for a couple years, and just got my dna results back yesterday from a company that focuses on British lineage. I was surprised to find my dna is 86% British! I knew it would be a lot, just didn’t know it was quite that much. I like the Settler term because I also have a small amount of non-British 1850-1890 period ancestry—but they were *all* settlers (Texas, Arizona, Idaho), so that term would cover them as well.
It’d be nice to be able to take back AMERICAN, but damn seems like a monumental task at this point. Who knows though. Anyway, cheers, great article.
I wouldn't put too much stock in the DNA tests. I took the Ancestry test in 2014 and they have updated the results five or six times since then. Their last update was made because the previous one had a lot of people mad for making them a much higher percentage Scottish than they thought they should be. The first result they gave me was ridiculous, but at least it was all European. AmRen posted an article a couple of years ago that anonymously quoted an employee from one of these companies saying they would throw in 1-2% of non white ancestry in people's results to "mess with racists."
The best way to figure out your ancestry to work on a genealogy of your family. It can be time consuming to do accurately, but it will give you a better idea than the commercial DNA tests will.
If someone uses "angloid" unironically—that's a sign you should disregard everything they have to say. I can tell people think you emphasizing the Anglo character of America is splitting hairs, but some of the reactions you're getting really demonstrate just how necessary it is to keep affirming that fact. It reveals how truly skewed the DR's perception of American identity can be and has been. Failure to acknowledge this has lead to all sorts of bizarre LARPing, confusion and xenophilia which you've alluded to here. Anti-Anglo is a codeword for Anti-White and Anti-American.
You really summed up nicely what I’ve been thinking on the topic. (And a lot of other people in our sphere I’m sure.) I was taken in by the Evropa thing for a bit there, lol, but it never felt right. Always felt, as you said, LARPy. Just too broad and thus without much substance. I’ve been doing ancestry research for a couple years, and just got my dna results back yesterday from a company that focuses on British lineage. I was surprised to find my dna is 86% British! I knew it would be a lot, just didn’t know it was quite that much. I like the Settler term because I also have a small amount of non-British 1850-1890 period ancestry—but they were *all* settlers (Texas, Arizona, Idaho), so that term would cover them as well.
It’d be nice to be able to take back AMERICAN, but damn seems like a monumental task at this point. Who knows though. Anyway, cheers, great article.
I wouldn't put too much stock in the DNA tests. I took the Ancestry test in 2014 and they have updated the results five or six times since then. Their last update was made because the previous one had a lot of people mad for making them a much higher percentage Scottish than they thought they should be. The first result they gave me was ridiculous, but at least it was all European. AmRen posted an article a couple of years ago that anonymously quoted an employee from one of these companies saying they would throw in 1-2% of non white ancestry in people's results to "mess with racists."
The best way to figure out your ancestry to work on a genealogy of your family. It can be time consuming to do accurately, but it will give you a better idea than the commercial DNA tests will.
I did Living DNA, matched pretty darn well with what I’ve found doing extensive genealogy research.
Simple. What about White Anglo Saxon Protestants?
If someone uses "angloid" unironically—that's a sign you should disregard everything they have to say. I can tell people think you emphasizing the Anglo character of America is splitting hairs, but some of the reactions you're getting really demonstrate just how necessary it is to keep affirming that fact. It reveals how truly skewed the DR's perception of American identity can be and has been. Failure to acknowledge this has lead to all sorts of bizarre LARPing, confusion and xenophilia which you've alluded to here. Anti-Anglo is a codeword for Anti-White and Anti-American.