Am I Chinese? No. But neither is Josh who’s great grandfather is from Ireland thinks he was a gladiator in another life.

  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I believe that I, a white American, was Chiang Kai-shek in a past life. Many Tibetan Buddhists have told me this. I am the true ruler of China and I ask that Xi turns over governance of the country to me

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    My ancestry is like, the dumbest guys in Europe. We got dudes who lost everything in the English Civil War, loyalists in the American revolution who moved into Canadian land promised to slaves who rebelled to fight for the bri’ish and Bavarian guys who hit dirt with sticks for a lifetime until figuring the early 20th century would be a fantastic time to go overseas and be German, so they pretended to be Belgian a couple times because it was easier. My uncle did a whole genealogy thing when he found out he was weirdly closely related to his childhood BFF. The furthest dude on my dad’s side he can find is a fella who went by the name Roundhead Smith.

    Edit: between the loyalists and the war of 1812, they did kill a lot of Americans, so there’s that.

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    Pretty fucked up that my great-great…-grampa Lu Bu cheated on my great-great…-grandma with your great-great…-gradmother like that. My side of the family always thought he was honorable and steadfast and this changes everything.

  • my most notable ancestor was named Clyde, but he was remembered by his people as a word they used for “Diarrhea”. he was walking down the path one day and after eating some particularly rotten seagull eggs a day earlier [while searching some sea caves for wrecked salvage], stopped to have a shit.

    he slipped on some moss and clonked his dome open as his b-hole blew out completely all over his sandals.

    when he was found, they assumed he had “literally shit his brains out.”

    the year was 1993. he was my father.

  • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    good point, i am actually a descendant of Chanyu Modun, great unifier of the Xiongnu people elmofire

    it’s actually semi-plausible for a european cause Huns as allies & enemies went to most the provinces in the roman empire except Africa, more plausible than Genghis Khan whose grandkids were only brushing up against Poles & Hungarians