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50. Can one really be a mongrel with just one race?

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 05:31 PM

Jan 2014

Or do you have to be mixed race?

Either way, hybrid vigor rules!

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How many people here are like me, "mongrels?" [View all] Archae Jan 2014 OP

My dear Archae! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2014 #1

If you are an American SCantiGOP Jan 2014 #61

Scottish, English here ailsagirl Jan 2014 #63

English, Irish and Scotish. But mostly Irish. n/t RebelOne Jan 2014 #66

My family has always joked about our mongrel status. Arkansas Granny Jan 2014 #2

My family does too. Archae Jan 2014 #6

Woof, woof. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2014 #3

oh lord. Maybe people will follow you around, too -- Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #4

Thanks, Archae! Don't you think we ought to let Ted Nugent No Vested Interest Jan 2014 #5

Mongrel here! CherokeeDem Jan 2014 #7

Proud Irish/Welsh mongrel here! pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #8

I knew we were cousins, ya bastid. nolabear Jan 2014 #10

I'll drink to that! pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #13

I had a DNA test done. I'm CERTIFIED mongrel! nolabear Jan 2014 #9

We knew you were certifiable pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #15

Can I ask about the DNA test? laundry_queen Jan 2014 #17

Genographic, sponsored by National Geographic Society, is one good choice sarge43 Jan 2014 #23

Sounds very cool. Thanks. laundry_queen Jan 2014 #26

Happy to help. sarge43 Jan 2014 #29

I'd like to do that too because pipi_k Jan 2014 #36

I really have to look up more Canadian history laundry_queen Jan 2014 #46

Yeah, one big problem pipi_k Jan 2014 #53

Yes, but I'd advise waiting a bit. I did it through 23andMe. nolabear Jan 2014 #38

Thanks for that laundry_queen Jan 2014 #44

I'm definitely a mutt TexasBushwhacker Jan 2014 #57

We all are. elleng Jan 2014 #11

Northern mongrel Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2014 #12

The idea that mongrels are inferior to purebreds Lionel Mandrake Jan 2014 #14

Present. laundry_queen Jan 2014 #16

Hi fellow Esto-Ukrainian! LiberalEsto Jan 2014 #39

pure mongrel here struggle4progress Jan 2014 #18

I'm such a mutt I don't even know what half of it is. JoeyT Jan 2014 #19

i am as far as can be told as someone stated in the thread purebred loli phabay Jan 2014 #20

Near as I can tell, I'm mostly German, but... TreasonousBastard Jan 2014 #21

We may all be mongrels but hermetic Jan 2014 #22

We're all mongrels. dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #24

Some fun facts for the Nug sarge43 Jan 2014 #25

I don't know Ron Obvious Jan 2014 #27

Hell, I'd need a DNA test just to know which ethnic stereotypes to be offended by. Jokerman Jan 2014 #28

East Indian, English, French frogmarch Jan 2014 #30

Heck, I'm an Asian mix with German ancestry. Xyzse Jan 2014 #31

Dutch and Eastern Kentucky hillbilly. B Calm Jan 2014 #32

Ah but what mix of Eastern Kentucky hillbilly? antiquie Jan 2014 #51

All I remember is that my mother's family was from Mt Sterling area and B Calm Jan 2014 #56

Hey, Teddy Boy! You're a mongrel too! Otherwise, you'd be black. pink-o Jan 2014 #33

Mongrel reporting. Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2014 #34

I like how so many here have not allowed white supremacists to define them as 'white' Aristus Jan 2014 #35

Mongrel-ness... pipi_k Jan 2014 #37

I'm half German and half Scottish sharp_stick Jan 2014 #40

"I keep invading myself!" sarge43 Jan 2014 #41

I'm Jewish and Italian Arcanetrance Jan 2014 #42

What was it Bill Mahr said? pink-o Jan 2014 #47

Lol something like that Arcanetrance Jan 2014 #48

Proud strutting mongrel. Up the melting pot! Populist_Prole Jan 2014 #43

Eastern European mongrel here DFW Jan 2014 #45

Polish, Italian and Sicilian NewJeffCT Jan 2014 #49

Can one really be a mongrel with just one race? mainer Jan 2014 #50

Proud to be a mongrel geardaddy Jan 2014 #52

African, Irish and Cherokee MrScorpio Jan 2014 #54

My Irish Grandfather found my Grandmother on a garbage pile... Walk away Jan 2014 #55

All American Mutt DamnYankeeInHouston Jan 2014 #58

*waves* Prophet 451 Jan 2014 #59

The only subhuman mongrels I've ever seen play for the Boston Bruins Blue_Tires Jan 2014 #60

Audrey Hepburn aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2014 #62

Me not so much..... whistler162 Jan 2014 #64

I'm an erdi odol Wolf Frankula Jan 2014 #65

Irish, Scottish, a la izquierda Jan 2014 #67