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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (79062)	10/19/2004 11:53:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793914

I agree that the German Americans who settled in Pennsylvania were very independent and individualistic. I have posted before about my grandmother, who rented out her "little house" behind her cafe to a very nice gay couple, male, one of whom was career Air Force at Keesler (Gulfport, MS), the other who had a beauty parlor, and taught me how to do my nails, although I don't follow his advice. She let me know they were gay, and that this was OK with her. She said she did not care whether people were white, black, red, yellow, pink, purple or polka-dotted, as long as they behaved themselves. Parenthetically I think she reneged on this during integration, but that's another story. She brought me up that way to the best of her ability, and it stuck with me even if she couldn't follow through herself. And after all was said and done, we all changed, pretty much everybody in the South went through integration and survived and are better for it. My sister's kids in Baton Rouge had a hard time due to black kids and white kids not being able to get along, but my own kids have no idea what the problem is.

To: Hoa Hao who wrote (79062)	10/20/2004 12:27:49 AM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793914

The fight for the abolition of slavery was certainly revolutionary and thankfully successful......at least in America. I can't speak for other countries, although I understand those concepts haven't flourished everywhere. I just think that some men....and women..... are too wrapped up in the fruits of capitalism and/or a lack conscience to care about humanity. I'm in the early stages of doing my genealogy, and one of the questions I want answered is why my maternal great grandmother come over to America on a leaky ship from Christchurch, Norway, alone, at the age of 16? I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was to find a future divested of servitude to a landed family? Perhaps the Irish potato famine drove her west out of hunger? Maybe there weren't enough young men to go around, or her mother and father couldn't provide so she was forced out? I do know that from a very young age I was told to appreciate and have pride in my ethnicity from both my Mother and Father. I wasn't taught to think my ethnicity is any more or less valuable or distinct than others. I am interested in the characters from the past and whether they passed on traits that can be recognized in their progeny. The more I dig, the more I understand. M