If you could change your ethnicy but keep the same meta-ethnicy , what ethnicy would you want to be ? Why ? And is there a special region where you want to be a part of that ethnic ?
A would like to be a Vorpommern German for a day.
Why :
- I'm living in a part of the Urheimat
- Big chance I am a Hallstatt Nordid :p
- Genetic mix of East (Rugians) , West (Western Ethnic Germans after 1227)
and North ( Varangians , Ethnic Danes) Germanic peoples.
"There are no races, only countries of people Chuck Norris has beaten to different shades of black and blue."
I would stay the way I am.
"For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area." Julius Evola - Men Among the Ruins
Why on Earth would I want to change my ethnicity?:
For example to have direct, i.e. the best insight into other cultures' lifes.Originally Posted by Bärin
Why on Earth would I want to change my ethnicity?
Nearly the same goes for time-travelling.
But a PERMANENT change of ethnicity, time, whatever? No need.
For that, I think, at least most reasons would be of hypocritical nature, if not all.
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."
- T. E. Lawrence
Changing my ethnicity for a day or a week!?...well, let me see: People have classified me as a Nordid-Borreby mix in the past. So I´ve already the best genes, haven´t I?:p
Okay okay, I confess it would be interesting to see how people would react if I´d look like one of these typical Hallstatt-Nordic scandinavian people, but it´d just not be in line with my inner feeling...
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I couldn't chance my ethnicity without changing my meta-ethnicity :p
I'm entirely content with my present ethnic origin (British Isles mix with slight continental Germanic input). I'll concede, however, that the thought of wanting to be mono-ethnic has occured to me, whether it be English, Scottish, German, etc. At the end of the day, though, who I am cannot be changed, and I couldn't possibly betray the pride I take in my ethnic and cultural identity without a glaring sense of shame and hypocrisy.
I don't think I would change it at all, but if i did I would become one of those obscure north atlantic island ethnicities i.e. manx, faroese, etc. Then I would find a way to leverage it to obtain special treatment from the government, university etc.
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