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Originally Posted by joea
Jesus was semite, and a Palestinian.  |
Semites are Jews. So? (I'm waiting for the usual response that Semites refer to all descendants of Shem, son of Noah).
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Well interesting story...not directly comparable to your situation (since you were born in Isreal I assume and your ancestors have roots there, whatever they did between say 50AD and 1948 AD),
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My nation's ancestors in Israel go back to Abraham. That would be roughly 3750 years ago. BTW, I was not born in Israel.
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I was in a student residence and we had a sort of bulding wide potluck dinner to get to know each other. Each apartment would introduce themselves in tunr then indivually. I was sitting next to a young black lady from Trinidad and Tobago whnenthis young skinny white guy got up to introduce himself as from South Africa. He said something to the effect that he was African (he meant that not Afrikkans his name was rather anglo-saxon) and proud to be one and she and this other fellow (arabic) started snickering. 
Well he was born there and felt himself African so why not...funny how in Europe some complain about immigrants not wanting to integrate and feeling attached to the "motherlad" even if born in the host country. True his ancestors came from elsewhere and all but still ironic.
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I don't see any irony at all. Mankind has migrated from place to place for 1000's of years.
And your Afrikanner friend can be African, just as every immigrant to the US can be American.