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This can apply to not only Americans. So many nations now have significant populations from someplace else that it can apply to most anyone.
So: what "extraction" are you? And what do you feel you have gotten from those roots?
Mine is mostly Austrian, from the Italian/Austrian border (Tirol), which explains having an uncle Guido. Also German, some French. I have inherited all the family recipes, along with a fondness for a good drink with friends. And what's the line? "I have already given him the best table, knowing he is German and would take it anyway..."
German ancestors came to America in 1709. Austrian in 1902.
So.... what are you?
So: what "extraction" are you? And what do you feel you have gotten from those roots?
Mine is mostly Austrian, from the Italian/Austrian border (Tirol), which explains having an uncle Guido. Also German, some French. I have inherited all the family recipes, along with a fondness for a good drink with friends. And what's the line? "I have already given him the best table, knowing he is German and would take it anyway..."
German ancestors came to America in 1709. Austrian in 1902.
So.... what are you?