When someone goes "I am x% (insert European country here)"
it's actually convincing proof that he is 100% American.

This obsession probably comes from America's blood quantum laws, but also we are really a melting pot in many ways.

We have no real history or traditions so we look to our genetic makeup to help us build an identity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_quantum_laws

My Australian Aboriginal friends were confused by the quantum thing, like to them they were either Aboriginal or not, they didn't care much about percentages. And from the other comments and meme, I'm guessing most other people don't either

I honestly don't know anyone but Americans who do this. Has anyone else encountered someone white who wasn't American boast about their mixed "genealogy"?

So in the US, the joke is “I’m 10% Cherokee princess”, which is just a blonde white girls way of excusing their own racism when it inevitably falls out of their dumpster of a mouth (racists, not women).

I can usually disarm it with “yeah I’m half Japanese and half American, I can’t tell which side I hate the most”

I’m wondering if that Irish-German-Russian-Scottish is a similar “wide coverage” play? I don’t know, just guessing.

Somebody randomly told me a few weeks ago that the mystery flavor of airheads was never really a single flavor, just a random mix of the end of one flavor of taffy on the assembly line and the begining of a different new flavor. So even though this is a shitpost it's both accurate and oddly poetic.

It's like a metaphor for how the entire idea of race seems to have originally been a social construct with no real basis in significant differences other than providing a distraction and false justification for individuals at the top of a hierarchy to maintain inequality, exploitation, and social stratification. And since the human lizard brain loves a distraction and can be easily exploited by targeted advertisement, we see branding works because people keep buying it.

Anyway, merry Christmas/happy holidays and if we as a civilization make it into the new year and/or any years beyond that point, I hope we can start paying attention.

We're mostly mongrels in the US, even those with roots in Europe. I always thought I was 100% Polish, but discovered in the early 2000s that I had a German (possibly Prussian) great-grandmother on my father's side. My wife is likely fully German, so our kids are more than half German but have a Polish last name.

I am 101% tuna salad

It is always really a case of how far back do you go for the snapshot of where your ancestors were at that point in time.