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many others think I am of Turkic extraction.
In truth, I'm a huge mix of ethnicities; in addition, few of my direct blood relations "look" like they are steriotyped as. My Hungarian-Jewish grandfather probably would have been accepted into the SS (he has a Germanic family name). My Russian/Polish/Jewish was darker than most African Americans. My southern Italian relatives are North European white.
Just goes to show how much baloney the whole racial/ethnic/nationalistic obssession so many share is.
On the bright side, everyone aside from northern Europeans believes I'm one of "them"...therefore, I'm rarely stereotyped by anyone off the bat and can actually skip straight to "gasp" friendly conversation.
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