Am I the only one going for Czech Republic tonight?

[JohnKleeb]

Hey, I dont hate Canada but the Czechs are who I am going for, but I go for whoever wins this game, I wont root for the US or the Finns.

[HEyHEY]

1. Hey looks like it!

hahahaa.... I can't cheer for them since comments made by their teams after they won a couple titles....thought they were the next thing :eyes: look at them now

[JohnKleeb]

2. Its only because they're my ethnic brothers

if they were Romanians, I'd go for Canada.

[UrbScotty]

3. You won't root for the US?

SOMEBODY HATES 'MURKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JohnKleeb]

4. nope

In international sports, you'll catch me rooting for other countries, its why I'll be going for Ireland in the world cup.

[barb162]

5. Yeah, I will, I'm Czech. What game?

sorry guys, don't follow sports

[JohnKleeb]

6. ahh they're playing the candians in hockey

I follow sports but not hockey but HEYHEy's picking on the Slovaks last week energized me heh, I am part Slovak but I like the Czechs as well, in fact until I was 10-11 I thought I was Czech, and our nominee is too.

[barb162]

7. funny you should bring that up

I thought I was slovak until about ten years ago. My cousin visited Prague (quite beautiful city she said) and she told them she was Slovak and when she mentioned our last name, they all told her, no, no, no child, that is a Czech name. I guess the borders around there were changing a lot around late 1800-early 1900s. SO maybe my ancestors lived on the Slovak side and were really Czech? I don't know.

[JohnKleeb]

8. Well my grandmother's maiden name was Kovalcik

We're also related though distantly to one of the flagraisers on Iwo Jima who was a Slovak born guy. I dont know where in Slovakia my great grandparents lived, but I do know they were so called Greek Catholics which is more like Eastern Orthodox Christianity than Roman Catholicism, my grandmother became a Roman Catholic when she married my Slovene grandfather who I thought was Serbian for the longest time, but thats not true because Serbs are Orthodox and my grandfather is a Catholic, and Serbs often have "ich" or "vic" or whatever after their name, his name is Beltz. They are a simliar people, maybe they intermarried alot, I know Croats and Slovenes intermarried, thats what Tito of the former Yugoslavia was, he had a Croatian father and name but his mother was a Slovene.

[barb162]

9. this one Russian history teacher I had

told me that if the last name begins and ends with a "k" you're Slovak. So my mother's maiden name was Kuldanek and my father's was Kosik, so I thought I was totally 100% slovak. I even went to a slovak graqmmar school, the same one my mom went to. Plus when you're brought up and that's all you hear, well, you know, then you're Slovak. My grandparents spoke Slovak and couldn't stand the Bohemians (the Czechs) because she said they always thought they were better than the Slovaks. So when my relative got done with Prague and told me the name Kuldanek was Czech, I looked at her like she was nuts. I still think I am Slovak on my father's side and maybe Czech on my mother's. To get more complicated I knew this guy whose last name was "Kravchuk" and he was solid Polish, his parents could speak Polish, etc. Both sides of my family are Roman Catholic. I tried researching the last names a bit and never got very far on it. Though my friend gave me a Slovak geneology society where they will trace for you by the last name what towns the family name came from. The Russian teacher told me the name Kosik was from a town called Oravska or something and that seemed to ring a bell with what my mom told me. Some town near the mountains where they ski now.

But anyway I can't figure out my maternalgrandmother, who hated the Czechs so much, married my grandfather who had a Czech name. All 4 of my grandparents spoke Slovak. One of these days I intend to visit Prague at least. This one time for my brother's birthday I got him a really good book on Czechoslovakia before it split imto 2 nations. It had the huge map with it and we tried figuring out what towns the ancestors came from. We got one side down but the other town, maternal side, has more than one town with the same name.

Glad to meet you!!!