[ SECRET POST #1990 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1990 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Calvin and Hobbes]


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03.
[Golden Sun]


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[Downton Abbey]


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[Beyond: Two Souls]


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[Veep]


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[John Cooper Clarke]


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[Kristen Stewart]


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[A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones]


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[The Social Network]


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[Ray Bradbury]


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[Protomen]


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[Hamish & Andy]


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[Falling Skies]


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[Hetalia]


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[Legend of Korra]


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[Dragon Age: Origins]


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[Minecraft]


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[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable]


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[Avengers]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 025 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's what you'd hope, and then sometimes some of them visit your country for their first time ever and say in all sincerity they're totally just like you, when they're really totally just like American tourists, and you start doubting everything... :(

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, well that sucks then. :/

Most of the people I know, at least, wouldn't go to a country they've never set foot in and claim to belong there. However there's still a chance that the language issue is at play; an American might be trying to tell someone that they actually have Irish ancestry and are not communicating very well based on the shorthand they're used to.

Or they could just be an ass. It happens.

[thene]

I've met a fair number of Americans who don't get that Irish and Scottish are two different things. :/ I don't think it's just miscommunication, I think there's a lot of underlying ignorance about the creds they're attempting to claim and they just...don't care how little they know about their supposed ancestry.

[(Anonymous)]

Then you have met some very ignorant Americans, yeesh. Again, I don't think I know anybody who doesn't know that.

Though I agree that they probably don't know a lot about their heritage, it does come down in part to a difference in what we're trying to convey when we say where are ancestors are from versus what people from other countries are expecting. In my neighborhood, it isn't normal to know a lot about your distant family history other than vague generalities about place and time. (Though America is wide and varied and I recognize that this is often not at all the case.) I only know more than "German and Polish" because my grandmother is a genealogist. Most Americans don't have access to that, or an overwhelming need to find someone with those skills. This isn't their fault, and there is very little reason within the country itself to know these things.

By saying "I'm German" to a friend, I wouldn't be saying that I've done heavy research into my ancestry. It's not a statement of purpose, or a claim to an overwhelming (or even basic!) knowledge of the culture. just a statement of fact that translates to "I'm distantly German-American" in casual use. It only gets complicated when we assume that people outside of the country would understand the phrase "I'm German" the same way.