Mine does, too. Mine grows like six inches in a year, no lie. I also have LOTS of hair.

This was the thing that stood out to me, too. Unthinkable previously. It makes me irrationally happy. As a fellow human being.

Ditto.

Never woulda seen this in previous generations. Not in a million years. That's pure Diana.

I LOVE HIM.

Ditto. That's why I like Shahs, and when I like Shahs the best. Seeing a peek into the lives of these people whose culture, background, and lifestyles are so different from mine, and their fun shenanigans and real emotions with friends and family. That's why RHONJ was so good season one when it was about stage mom…

I'm white, I watch these shows, and I agree 100%. It is MORE damaging to black women, because black women are countering more broad-brush negative stereotypes than white women in America. Ergo, there is an element of racism in this particular flavor of voyeurism. It makes me *more* uncomfortable than, say, the…

I have one of those names in my tree—my grandmother's maiden name. Could be Irish, could be French. Spelling leans toward Irish, but said relatives have been low-church Protestants for as long as anyone can remember, and married into a bunch of Scottish and Scots-Irish names, so... who knows?

I think a lot of this can be explained by the Scots-Irish invisibility phenomenon, coupled with the fact that a lot of those "generic white Southerners" are a mixture of Scots-Irish, Scottish, Irish, and English, and thus don't know how to identify themselves from among these ethnic choices. Also, many people just do…

I am also dismayed by people's general lack of curiosity and knowledge on this. Ancestry.com is pretty easy. I can't imagine not wanting to know this information. I've known my family history back to the 18th century since I was a child and started asking my older aunts and uncles about it. One of them gave me a…

Scots-Irish

This is my suspicion, as well.

I'm pretty sure that Americans have tended historically to overreport their ethnicity as German in the census. But, of course, I can't find a link now.

Many "European Americans" know exactly where their ancestors came from, either because it was fairly recent (within the last ~120 years) or because they have family trees, etc. Furthermore, almost all European Americans *could* find this information out if they so desired, because their ancestors left a paper trail in…

Yeah, this is funny to me. Those same British people who think Americans are stupid for knowing and claiming our ethnic heritage as English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, etc., are also usually pretty adamant that third- and fourth- generation British-born people of West Indian or Pakistani or Nigerian ethnicity aren't…

Or have multiple European origins not accounted for by this simplistic breakdown.

Scots-Irish very much has a connection to Scotland.

I don't know. My family is exclusively from those (Southern) areas on the map coded "American," and I know I'm mostly English and Scottish from family surnames, family trees, and, now, Ancestry.com, and I identify as such, including with Britain as my "homeland," as it were.

Yeah, the author obviously does not live in the South.

NAACP, too. Totes smug. Also, those Jews, man - get a load of THAT smugness? Why they gotta be meeting together and shit? What a bunch of self-congratulators.