The Atrocities of Your National Heritage... This is a Fun Thread! :D

[Wuvlycuddles]

I'm from Wales and we haven't done a damn thing to anyone, ever..... 'cept maybe unleashed Charlotte Church unto the world, but she is mostly forgotten about these days.

 

[Sieg Firebrand]

I'm British. We're responsible for America. I'm so sorry.

 

[Agent 45]

Netherlands: Slave trade, we're sorry for that.
And trying to retake Indonesia after World War II, not our finest moment...

Or when our troops did nothing during ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica. At least we still have troops feeling utterly guilty about it but still, not our greatest moment. Still sort of peeved that it is not taught in history classes.


Also: salty liquorice (salmiak). And advocaat. We're sorry about those as well.

Hey, I like salmiak! Though I also like mustard, which is apparently odd. And I don't like rice...yeah I have no right of speaking when it comes to taste.

The whole balkan civil war thing was a gigantica mess. While I would say that it was pretty cowardly of us to basically do nothing, it's not like the rest of the world did do something about it, so that is not in particular a fault of ours.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Ireland.

Let's not start down that merry road shall we? (passes a mass grave weekly)

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I'm German, so my answer should be obvious.

For anyone who still doesn't get it, yes, I am talking about this stuff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut.

Absolutely atrocious. I'll never forgive my ancestors for popularizing this disgusting stuff.

okay i laughed pretty good there, and i must agree. horrid.


OT: America....take your fucking pick, i tell you. we are one young ass country and by golly you could drop a pin in every decade and find something, i assure you. Probably would agree though on the native american thing, took a native studies class this past spring and the teacher was awesome but damn "us whities" fucked shit up, hell, just by even being there and introducing different bacteria's/diseases/etc...

But we also gave birth to Neil Patrick Harris, all arguments are now invalid.

 

[bluerocker]

Irish, Scottish, German, French, British and Norwegian.

Well, I'm a mutt when it comes to my ancestors, so...

I think the better question would be "What DIDN'T my ancestors do?" Yeah. I'm sorry.

 

[DeliciousTruffle]

I am also a mutt. And it doesn't matter, because I would like to be judged on what I have done to help other people, not what my dead old ancestors have done.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

well im Australian... ummm. i cant anything that was an atrocity in australia.

 

[Alleged_Alec]

Netherlands: Slave trade, we're sorry for that.
And trying to retake Indonesia after World War II, not our finest moment...

Or when our troops did nothing during ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica. At least we still have troops feeling utterly guilty about it but still, not our greatest moment. Still sort of peeved that it is not taught in history classes.


Also: salty liquorice (salmiak). And advocaat. We're sorry about those as well.

Hey, I like salmiak! Though I also like mustard, which is apparently odd. And I don't like rice...yeah I have no right of speaking when it comes to taste.

The whole balkan civil war thing was a gigantica mess. While I would say that it was pretty cowardly of us to basically do nothing, it's not like the rest of the world did do something about it, so that is not in particular a fault of ours.

I really like mustard as well. Not a big fan of any kind of liquorice myself.

And yeah, you're probably right about that Balkan wars, but our troops were there when it happened, and they did nothing.


Also: you guys know the word "apartheid", right? Yeah, that's us.

well im Australian... ummm. i cant anything that was an atrocity in australia.

You guys pretty much wiped out the Aboriginals, right? And also: you gave the world thousands of horrible animals which give people around the world nightmares whenever they go to the wrong parts of the internet.

 

[Evil Smurf]

the systematic genocide and oppression of Aboriginals, including murdering all of the Aboriginals in Tasmania. Ahhhh God save the Queen.

My mum's side is Greek.....Greece is awsome! sorry about crashing Europe
My dad's side is English but I do have a Viking last name, Sorry about pillaging stuff

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Australians haven't done anything too much horrible crap but I'm descendent from English origins, and as many people have pointed out, we have that whole Empire/Rapist of Africa stigma over our heads.

Captcha: father time, I think not Captcha.

 

[Andy Beaumont]

I am British, and the whole opium wars where we forced opium onto China to make massive profits, when China refused the opium because it was bad, we went to war with them. Kind of a dick move.

Also after the Norman invasion of Britain the normans committed what was basically genocide, now known as "the harrying of the North". Basically they rode up to the North and killed hundreds of thousands of people for not much reason...

 

[Overusedname]

I'm white and native american. And the native blood seems to go WAAAAY back to when Natives and Whites weren't on speaking terms.

I can't help but feel there was some non consexual sex involved in my ancestry, which greatly disturbs me.

 

[Aesir23]

Let's see, I'm from Canada so I'll just say that we really just screwed over the Natives in general. Reservations, infected blankets, residential schools, murdering them, etc. The list goes on. Americans did the same thing but apparently we decided that we would lull them into a false sense of security for a bit before being evil.

My ancestry is British, Norwegian, Scottish, German and Irish. Well, you know how that goes. Pillaging/Viking stuff, empires, genocide, forcing people off their land for sheep, etc.

 

[Agow95]

The only bad thing Wales has done is to give Britain the Go-Compare guy.
For those of you who don't know, here's the first of about 20 adverts with the guy.

 

[PieceOfEden]

Enslaving the indigenous population (a.k.a Apartheid) and in order to promote reconciliation, allowed the very same people who had sub standard education for a century, rule the country.
But hey, Mandela!

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

Inventing the industrialization of genocide is what my country can claim for itself.
It turns my stomach to think that there are still people here who firmly believe that this is all a lie and that we actually were the good guys in WW2.

But I guess this is what you have to deal with when you're born in Germany.

Edit: And since I overlooked the "fun" thing, there's still this:

Inventing the industrialization of genocide is what my country can claim for itself.
It turns my stomach to think that there are still people here who firmly believe that this is all a lie and that we actually were the good guys in WW2.

But I guess this is what you have to deal with when you're born in Germany.

Edit: And since I overlooked the "fun" thing, there's still this:

I think attempting to enslave Africa was pretty bad.

The Irish never do anything except fight amongst each other or lose.

EDIT Hell, I don't think we even left the Island until the British showed up with the their oppression and technology. We've hit a nice balance at the moment.

The British had the whole empire thing going on, take your pick.

IRA?

I'm going to catch shit for this, but it could be argued that the past IRA were freedom fighters, not terrorist. The parade of the Orange Order in Catholic minority neighborhoods and harassing catholic school children [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_dispute] doesn't make me feel more sympathetic to Ulster loyalist.

OP:As previously mentioned, the terrible actions that the US took on the Native Americans comes to mind.

Well said man

 

[averydeeadaccount]

Well, I'm english, and we kind of did the whole evil empire thing at one point. Y'know, we took hold of pretty much the entire world. Turned one of the countries into a damn prison, we had that many countries. Think about that, at what point have you reached the megalomaniac level of "Turn entire country into a prison".

Yeah, that's pretty damn awful. Sowwy...

don't worry, it worked out pretty well for us. and if your counting stealing Australia from the Aboriginals as one of your countries atrocities, then I suppose it couldn't have been Australia fault (we didn't even exist yet). i guess that means we haven't done anything wrong : )

 

[Jynthor]

I'm Dutch and you totally deserved being enslaved and getting your land stolen.

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Ok, maybe not.