Another interesting thing that occurs in a mixing diaspora is the idea of "marrying into" a culture (or you could say "ancestry") because that marriage bond joins together the spouses families and a spouse by affinity to their partner's own background and family

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The human construct of ancestry exists precisely so I can slag off the Germans and Dutch with no personal conflict.

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or, more precisely: if i speak of "my ancestors" (which to be fair i would never do except as a sort of joke anyway) i almost certainly don't mean them

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i probably have german or russian ancestors in a genetic sense. but in the real one that matters, the one in my head, i don't have a single one

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in judaism, a convert is regarded as /literally/ a member of the jewish people in the sense of descent too - a convert becomes quite literally a descendant of abraham and sarah by the act of conversion. other people may find this unusual but i think it's actually really illustrative

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