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**bxxasxxa** · 07-10-2011, 02:16 AM

Someone born in a Nordic country, and having cultural and ethnic roots there for several generations.

A couple of Icelanders having a child in Stockholm will have a Nordic Swedish baby by default being the child raised here as Swedish!

Dienekes demands you to have grandparental roots on all lines to the same country/ethnicity for being able to participate in his projects. This Finnish institute that studies Swedish, Finnish, German and British genes demands at least three grandparents from the same country, if I'm not mistaken. So this Icelandic baby would not be approved to be studied when looking at what they call Swedish genes.

In any case, my point was that the only way to define ethnicity without having someone questioning it is when you are "100 percent" of something and not aware of anything else, except if it's very distant. I am half Finnish, have a fully Swedish name and have only Swedish as native tongue (I can't speak any Finnish), and I'm not counted as immigrant in most of the modern statistics either. But there are full-blown Swedes who don't consider me as Swedish (you can see an example here). I have fully Swedish friends who simply tell me to drop the knife, if I happen to carry one at some point.

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07-10-2011, 02:16 AM	#10
bxxasxxa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 414 Senior Member	Someone born in a Nordic country, and having cultural and ethnic roots there for several generations. A couple of Icelanders having a child in Stockholm will have a Nordic Swedish baby by default being the child raised here as Swedish! Dienekes demands you to have grandparental roots on all lines to the same country/ethnicity for being able to participate in his projects. This Finnish institute that studies Swedish, Finnish, German and British genes demands at least three grandparents from the same country, if I'm not mistaken. So this Icelandic baby would not be approved to be studied when looking at what they call Swedish genes. In any case, my point was that the only way to define ethnicity without having someone questioning it is when you are "100 percent" of something and not aware of anything else, except if it's very distant. I am half Finnish, have a fully Swedish name and have only Swedish as native tongue (I can't speak any Finnish), and I'm not counted as immigrant in most of the modern statistics either. But there are full-blown Swedes who don't consider me as Swedish (you can see an example here). I have fully Swedish friends who simply tell me to drop the knife, if I happen to carry one at some point. Some Off Topic posts moved into this thread of its own. / Moderator
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