My wife recently found that she has American Indian blood. We're now investigating the possibility of opening a casino. :-) At 11:43 AM 6/29/2006, Mike Stay wrote:
On 6/29/06, Tom Knight <tk@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
They are busy doing exactly this in Iceland, where the genealogies are carefully recorded. Needless to say, there are many embarrassing revelations. I'm not sure this would ever be allowed politically. There is too much to be lost by too many people and cultures. Imagine what the reaction to Hitler's jewishness would have been, for example.
A Maori friend of mine told a story of a large family reunion he attended; they invited all the descendents of a great-grandfather, and one white family that showed up was horrified to learn that they had Maori ancestors. They demanded that their family name be taken off the large family tree that had been set up and left in a huff. Fortunately, no one else was offended in return; the other families thought they were being ridiculous and had a good laugh. -- Mike Stay metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike