Is it normal to find people who obsess over their ancestry annoying?

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Really, I don't know a single interesting person who concerns themselves deeply over their ancestry. It's like they're all so boring and lacking in identity that they require a bunch of dead people they've never even met to bestow one upon them. They also tend to get really annoying and obsessed with making sure that everyone they date is 100% [insert racial group] and like to whine about the injustices done to their groups over the years ("900 years ago, my proud ancestors were FORCED, AGAINST THEIR WILL to adopt such and such religion that I don't approve of, and then the language molded as a result of outsiders moving in and they infected our culture, well, we should be drinking, worshiping Ogik the dirt-goddess and Nigurk, god of semen and milkshakes. We should be wearing loincloths and not breeding with strangers, being proud warriors, etc etc etc."). They also like to learn dead languages that have little ability to describe our modern world.

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  • Marlboro.Man.Rides.Again
    9 years ago

    I come from a long proud line of tobacco farmers.

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  • Hateful1
    6 years ago

    I have an aunt who does this. In fact it's pretty much all she does. It's very annoying.

    Also just because you can trace someones ancestry doesn't mean you are related to them. No, we are not related to the British royal family. Fifteen times removed means we are removed from the damn family.

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  • handsignals
    9 years ago

    My ancestors are Scotish and I can feel it in my veins, or maybe that's alcohol...

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  • miskris
    9 years ago

    Sounds like you a specific person in mind?

    I can see how this gets annoying. It's like when people start telling you their abstruse dream for like five whole minutes. It concerns them and their life and it's kind of boring for you to listen to.

    On the other hand, researching your own heritage is pretty fun. I've done it.

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    • Hateful1
      6 years ago

      Thank you. You used a word I didn't know. That is a rare thing, at least online. I'm used to having to describe the difference between coincidence and irony, and that R and U are letters not words.

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