For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 12, 2014

So, Patterson is Dutch? I would’ve thought Danish, Norwegian or Swedish.

Holland and England…it is easier to say European-Canadian, eh?! ;)

In Louisiana the heritage is like a "gumbo’. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. For I, French, English, Irish, Native American, Spanish, and German.

Not as long as we have hyphen-happy PC adults around.

I’m Blackfoot NAI and Canadian French. My husband is Filipino, English, Scottish and German. Our kids are…strange. :)

Lynn’s Notes:

After this strip ran, I had all kinds of letters from folks with similar backgrounds wondering where our family had originated and if there was any connection. I wished at the time we could have met some long-lost cousins, but sadly, that didn’t happen.

Actually, you also have some of my distant cousins. The family went from Austria Hungary to all sorts of places. The other side of the family was less mobile. They were drinking buddies with Ben Franklin.

im German, English, Welsh, Scots Irish, Irish,,French Norwegian, French and a New Orleanian.

oops only Norwegian, not French Norwegian, lol

I’m Irish-French. Hubby is Irish-English-Scottish-French, and somewhere in there is a dash or Mohawk

being “American” or “Canadian” or (whatever country of which you are a citizen) should be good enough. If you really feel the need to add in ancestry (which is really a PC way showing just how racist you really are), is a sad statement of just how little foundation there is to your self-esteem.

beside…in the states, if you’ve called a black person an “African-American” only to find out they’re actually British, then you know what it’s like to be (rightfully) called on the carpet in a foreign accent.

signed,

A proud Hoosier-American

Just be American. or Canadian. Adding all those adjectives in front of your name is just another way to divide ourselves. We shouldn’t embrace diversity. We should recognize it and respect it, but we should embrace UNITY first and foremost.

My ancestry is “Heinz 57”, my dog has a better pedigree, I am an American.

“……racism and secularism is getting stronger by the day.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Some day racism will totally disappear because everyone will be blended. But secularism? You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Isn’t it time to stop hyphenating ourselves? I am American.

I am a lovely mongrel. Scottish, Irish, German with a little bit of Native American.

I wish I have more diversity in me…I’m just African-American. I was born in the South but do you really call that diverse?

Scottish people would rush to point out that Scotch is whisky, but we know what you mean…!

After reading all of these comments I have decided that I would like to be called an EARTHER. Descended from a long chain of histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, valine, alanine, asparagine, aspartic , glutamic, arginine, cysteine, glutamine, tyrosine, glycine, ornithine, proline, and serine. Proudly tracing my heritage back 13.8 Billion year.

German and Cajun….guess I’m mongrel!!

My family heritage hails from the Netherlands and 3 Caribean islands (St. Thomas, Puerto Rico and Antigua). When folks ask me “What are you?” I say, “Hungry, what’s for dinner?”

Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! – Murray: hyphenater hater: I’m the same about “ethnicity”. Four syllables of pretention. The word is just two syllables: ethnos (plural ethnoi).

You are Michael. You are a Canadian, no more and no less.

You are, son, you are.

I knew somebody on-line who would say her family was a quarter Native American, because otherwise she’d have to say a quarter Winabago and they’d think she was part SUV.

racism and secularism is getting stronger by the day

Did you actually mean sectarianism?

I’m German, English, Scottish, Polish and Comanche. My kids are all that plus Norwegian and Slovonian. My grandkids are all THAT plus Greek and French-Canadian

Well, as we here in the ’States call ourselves “American”, people living in Australia can call themselves “Aussies.” About the only sure thing about where we “come from” is that we all came out of Africa… ;)

I am a mutt. Pure mutt. And I have a shirt to prove it. Check out PureMutt.com.

Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! – Murray: Ethnic is the proper adjective; ethnos/ethnoi are nouns.

Canadian, eh?

Oh, Canada! That’s where they’re from!