• deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I didn’t mean to imply anything about natives I just meant the people I know that literally grew up on a reservation where they were born, (they had no choice) some of them white people themselves, that have a very different life when contrasted to the lives my family had which is specifically very, very disconnected from Native American heritage and is actually directly in line with colonial racist history to where I even wonder if there’s any evidence my family even is native at all or if my racist ass white grandpa just said that he was because he thought it was cooler than being polish-german-whatever else. It sounds crazy but it’s literally more probable than him having any tribal in him at all, and it’s the same case for a lot of Americans

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      1 day ago

      thanks for clearing that up.

      im endlessly fascinated by the social phenomenon where people claim heritages that they don’t have. our families seem to be the opposites in this regard due to my family insisting that they’re whitest of europeans even both dna and mirrors making it crystal clear that they’re not. lol