do you have Irish Catholic ancestry?

[RINO Tom]

Yes, though it is small enough (1/16th or something like that) that I would not usually find it worthy of mentioning.  It is far outnumbered by Swedish and especially German.

[RINO Tom]

probably but idc because I was born in America so I'm American and nothing else.

Dude, you're why we can't make cooler ancestry maps.

[RINO Tom]

Yes, quite a bit, but I don't particularly ~identify~ with that side of my family.

No. I have Catholic ancestry though.

All white people do, since before the 16th century everyone in Europe was Catholic.

I have 20th century Catholic ancestry. About a quarter.

Also that statement is not correct. The Sami tribes in northern Scandinavia were not Christianized until the 18th century and were converted to Lutheranism. And much of Russia wasn't Christianized until after the Schism.

Not to mention people from Jewish backgrounds (if you consider European Jews white, which not everybody does). Even plenty of Gentile families today are descended primarily from Jews who converted to Russian Orthodoxy or the Church of England or something a couple of centuries back.

This has always been an interesting topic to me.  The closest Jewish friend I have would probably consider himself "White" but would be very clear that "European ancestry" speaks to something completely separate from any Jewish groups - presumably going more into ethnolinguistic group divisions of Indo-European vs. Afro-Asiatic.

[RINO Tom]

Yes, I'm from Chicago. Irish, Polish, and German Catholic.

God, even the Germans in Chicago are frickin' Bavarians!

[RINO Tom]

Yes, I'm from Chicago. Irish, Polish, and German Catholic.

God, even the Germans in Chicago are frickin' Bavarians!

Bavaria is the best part of Germany imo, I love it

Haha, I was just kidding.  Bavaria is awesome, and its people are lovely; I really I enjoyed my time there.  However, my surname is historically Prussian (and therefore Northern and Protestant/Lutheran), so I will always throw some light-hearted mud regarding this matter.