My Grandpa talked about how he would not get hired for a job and they would say they didn't hire the drunken Irish.

not very prosperous. There were small farms but the terrain is too hilly and rocky for extensive farming; or people could be sailors or fishermen. A lot of Norwegians left for the U.S. in those days but I'm beginning to wish my GG-grandfather had stayed put. Some other ancestors came from Scotland in the late 17th century, probably for a lot of the same reasons.

Born and raised in PR, so I am from the shithole myself.

Y'all brought your shitholes to my nation.

true

Steelworkers and the Union Railroad worker here in Pgh. Dad was a WWII and Merchant Marine vet. So disgusted right now. Called my Senators and Rep. What line does Trump have to cross before they shitcan him?

Destitute and illiterate.

My great grandmother came over from Ireland when she was 15-16.

were from the shithole of Wales. They worked in the PA coal mines, too.

Most of the others, as far as I know were born in the colonies. Maybe a couple from the shithole of Germany in the early 19th century.

3rd generation Mexican-Scandinavian here.

So a healthy mix of shithole and acceptable I guess (for fuck's sake...our president is racist asshole)

Norway and Mexico. My maternal grandparents were fleeing poverty, and on my father’s side a revolution. Potent chemistry resulted when their offspring met at a New Year’s Eve dance in 1946-47.

I only know about my mom's side (my dad's side I think is English)... my grandma's parents came from Sweden and Norway. My grandpa's parents ended up in Iowa (railroad work...so many people think that Mexicans in Iowa are new migrant farmers....when a lot have been there for nearly 100 yrs). My grandpa followed the railroad work to Northern Minnesota. Let me tell you...the arrival of a dashing Latino in the late 1940's had all the Scandinavian ladies wanting him. So my grandma took no chances, (she PROUDLY told us this) - she seduced him so he had to marry her (cue looking at my eldest uncle and everyone doing the math in their heads). They had 6 kids and were married over 55 yrs.

Their love was so strong and amazing. One of my uncles met his wife when he was in the service in the 70's - she is from Thailand and such a beautiful and loving woman. Our family has a great mix of ethnicities- and of course we are all gorgeous even if we don't always look like we come from the same family. We have short round and brown (mostly the Mexican side), tall and blond, blue eyes, brown eyes, straight hair, kinky curly hair, freckles, fair skin, dark skin (in summer). My grandpa was in the service, 4 of their 5 sons (my mom and her other brother couldn't serve for medical reasons) was in a separate branch of service, and that tradition has continued with my cousins and their kids.

and North America was not a shithole until people like the Drumpfs showed up

Mine are from

Ireland, Germany, Denmark

hard to fight germ warfare back then

Settled in Boston. "Shanty Irish", "Irish as Paddy's Pig", all that stuff.

came here to work in copper, silver and gold mines in the US. Poor working people all. They were treated like shit, despite the places they came from. After a couple of generations, though, that stigma disappeared.

mine traced back to 1600's NY, eventually settled in GA in 1800's via PA, SC

So, I guess 30% of my ancestors weren't from "Shithole" countries?

My parents immigrated from Italy after WWII. They came here as newlyweds with just a suitcase each, and a 5th grade education. They each owned their own business (Dad owned his barber shop & Mom ran an alterations business from home). They bought a home and paid it off within 5 years. They lived frugally, saved a sizeable nestegg for their retirement, but also took trips and enjoyed life.
They saved a college fund for my sister and me, and insisted that we get the education they were unable to get. They were productive US citizens their whole lives. Hard working, no-nonsense, strong family values, devout Catholics, helpful to all their neighbors in need. In other words they were an immigrant success story. But they also put up with being called "Wop", Dago", etc.

There was a time decades ago when there was prejudice against Italian (and Catholic) immigrants. Now, the same prejudice exists, but the target group has changed to Muslims, and people from so called "Sh*thole countries. SAD.

I refused to have my hair cut by anyone who did not have an Italian accent. And a white mustache. But times change.

Which was, is and will always be a shithole.

My father grew up on a farm in Iowa. He eventually moved to New York, met my mother and her large wonderful Italian family.

I'm sure Trump admired casino mogul, Kirk Kirkorian

Others came from the British Isles.

I had one maternal great grandfather, Kaspar, who was back and forth. He kept coming over to bring his kids and nephews over. He'd come here, work a while to have enough money to go back and return with another of the younger generation then repeat the process. Altogether he brought at least 4 or 5 of the kids.

India, which has issued something like 800 million voter cards.

Of course when my parents moved from Brooklyn to Long Island in 1958, the neighbors thought we were just dirty Italians.

My paternal side settled first went to British West Indies in 1607 and had a son on the way. The son then went to Boston and was married in 1632. I know my while genealogy. I have spent years researching. Thus far I am only able to trace back one more generation to Saint Sidwell in Devon England.

My maternal side came into the US by way of Canada about a century ago. Before that they were from Normandy. I can go back a little farther because the Catholic Church maintained better records. I can go back to the late 15th century.

Italian on my fathers side and UK/Native American on my mothers side. My grandfather came to America in 1922 and had to endure various racial slurs, primarily wops and dagos. My father said when he and his friends would go to the local YMCA, they wouldn't allow them to swim unless the showered first, greasy guineas as he and they were called.

Moms grandparents didn't fare much better being labeled sheep shitters.

To think it's 2018 and this crap is still going on, especially with people of color, I am totally pissed off! This cannot stand, period!

most emigrated in the middle of the 19th century; although my dad's father came on the boat at age 16 from Sweden in 1906.

since I am an Italian with dual US nationality, but I'm also from one of the wealthiest regions of the Shithole in the shape of a booth and, because I'm northern Italian, I'm KKK-approved. So, am I half shithole? Who knows... I'll wait for President Shithole to tell me.

as is true of all humans, if you go back far enough.

I hope I'm not in too much trouble here. At least I spelt them write, dint I?

My GF moved here in 1925 (in the no immigrants era) to escape the gradual Mussolini purge of Sicilians
He was a railroad worker, and I mean on the train itself
Came here to be a fireman (coal shoveler) on the Penn Central and moved to Chicago (family already there) to work on the Rock Island as a brakeman, which is what he did in southern Italy
It's why I get black guys using the N word. I use wop, guinea, and dago in my family all the time!
It's a way of diluting the impact, but really Italian Americans haven't had to worry about a fucking thing in my lifetime and I was born in 1956!

and we did get ridiculed, at least I did. I can remember when my parents bought a cottage in Marshfield/Ma (south of Boston)
we were right on the ocean. I remember walking down to the beach with Patty Monroe, I was 14 so was she. She told me her father was mad that a family of wops bought my house, he said there was no difference between italians and AA and neither were aloud on the beach

I left Boston about 20 years ago, I took my son back to Marshfield about 10 years ago to see my parents etc. They made fun of him on the beach, said he was a nixxa.. My son is half PR, and very dark especially in the summer as I am.

I get where you're going
Know the last time anybody gave me shit over dark skin and Italian? Never.

I'll grant that I grew up in a factory city (around 75,000) people that was quite diverse.
Italians were hardly scarce enough that anybody thought a thing about an Italian neighbor. Practically every neighborhood had some Italians, polish, slavs, you name it. I admit the vast majority of AA citizens lived on the east side of the river, but definitely not all. Plenty of black students went to the west side HS
So, you can probably surmise why I did not hear the kind of stuff you did. Town was pretty broadly diverse

My father from Bulgaria.

I'm an all-American mutt.

My earliest American ancestor arrived in Virginia in 1640. Back then, Britain was a shithole nation. Puritans, and all that...

Anything from Napoli south is a shitty shithole

My grandfather lived in Scranton. I now live in Dayton, OH. Trump wouldn't call Hungary a shithole because it's lilly white.

A far off place called America, on my Mom's side. One is definitely a shit hole and the other, Germany, used to be.

Though it was pretty poor at the time (mid-19th C.).

Also, Ireland, which was something of a shithole at the time due to the British occupiers brutalizing the population.

Although the ones from Russia were really from the Ukraine (Odessa and Ekatrinaslav) and the ones from Austria-Hungary were from Krakow, which is now Poland. I guess borders used to move around a bit in those shithole countries.

The story is, one German came over to avoid fighting in the wars they were always having. Then he sent his passport over to his brother, and his brother came over illegally on the passport. Not stories that are told with shame.

Among the original Ohio River Valley settlers 1700-1750!

(beyond the Pale of Settlement). Talk about shitholes!

It was Austria-Hungary back then but all four of my grandparents were Slovak. I don't know exactly where my mother's parents were from, but my dad's were from a village near Bratislava. My grandmother's family home was still there about 20 years ago.

I am very proud of my Rusyn heritage.

Hard times there in 1890. Pogroms

I have shit in Ireland but not in Poland

Toilet List

I didn't realize that DU was almost all white. wow. I assumed there would be more black people here.

But yeah, there was a falling off of members

Dads side and Moms side. 🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Maternal and paternal from the Carpathian mountain region of now Slovakia. Then Austria-Hungary.
Many of their relatives settled in PA, but mine in New England.

Grandfather owned a butcher shop for awhile but the depression fixed that. He then worked/ finished working for Carpenter Steel.

I am delighted to be progeny of the Carpatho-Rus heritage they endowed me with.

Husband both sets grandparents from Sweden. I guess he makes the grade better than me for having an acceptable standing. '"sarcasm!"

Ireland
UK
France
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Germany
Denmark
Italy
Portugal

Tiocfaidh ar la.

Several are "how the hell did that get in there?", but the saliva doesn't lie apparently.

going back thousands of years. For so many nations. I remember a PBS story about a genetic tag in Poland (blue dot birthmark at the base of the rear torso) that is matched in China. Apparently, Genghis Khan's people made it as far west as Poland.

By way of the Roman Empire's actions in 70AD, then probably Spain, then Prussia/Poland/Germany depending on when you are talking about.

Many have managed to go home.

I was too busy and then too old to start over, which I am increasingly feeling was a major life mistake.

England and Italy, with some French, Irish, German, Scottish, and Dutch.

I'm 1st generation.

Emigrated to avoid prosecution for horse thievery, and I'm damn proud of it.

I always have to spell it out for people, and virtually no one pronounces it correctly.

England, Ireland, France, Germany, Holland.

Glassport? Mill hunkies?

Or as they called it, "the Old Country".

tell Shit from Shinola.

Shinola is made in Detroit.

See the difference?

company, though the Shinola Detroit company later developed a shoe polish and legally acquired the name. (see below)

History

The first one here was an English Protestant, a Dissenter, who went to Holland first, and sailed from Leyden to Massachusetts. The Irish came much later, and one was a Quaker tho the rest were Roman Catholic. The folks from Alsace were on my dad's side, and spoke German, tho his family line is also quite Irish. Proud to be American Mutts.

My husband is an immigrant from Belgium, a nice little country. But at the time his parents decided to come to the US (1953) the Holocaust that took most of their relatives in Russia, Austria, Poland, and Belgium was a very recent memory. You could say that for them as Jews, nice white Europe was one anti-Semitic shithole.

People are capable of change. Right now it looks like parts of Western and Northern Europe are doing quite a bit better than we Americans are -- good for them. We need to remember who we are supposed to be.

Scotland
Ireland
England
France
Sicily
Spain

My grandparents emigrated from Europe in the early twentieth century. My maternal grandfather was an orphan at age 9 and made the Atlantic crossing from Italy with his 10 year old brother. He went back to his ancestral village, found a wife and brought her over from the old country. My paternal grandfather came from Ireland around 1902 and went back and forth several times before finally staying in 1919. They came poor. They built lives, paid taxes, sent kids to college and to war.

My DNA tells me I have Greek and Turkish too. The smallest part of my ancestry is Norwegian. I only know this from medical testing for breast cancer revealed I have a genetic mutation found in Norwegians. Probably got it from some Viking who "visited" Ireland. At 5'2'' I wish this potential Viking ancestor had bequeathed me with more physical height than a greater risk for breast cancer, but what are you going to do? Feh.

Some of them settled on Long Island and some in Maryland, drifted south to North Carolina and Tennessee and from there to the mountains of north Georgia.

Mainly from the area that’s now Poland near the Russian border.

I only know one for sure though: Lithuania.

From Russia before the Russian revolution. Some of the Welsh/English were here in the colonial times. I suspect there may be other countries as well.

Also, my mother's parents were from Portugal (Azores).

The Italians came here not knowing a word of English and picked it up in one generation, the second generation went to college. They were proud to be Americans and worked hard to fit in and give their children a better life. Fuck Trump!

In other words: Eastern European Ashkenazi JEWS

Poverty brought them here. They worked hard all their lives. Ironically, my daughter and her husband are trying to emigrate to Germany, having experienced and lived in a society the past three years that helps everyone have a decent life. The American Dream is dead.

since they mostly came to this continent with the intention of stealing land, and were pretty successful at it. I just wish they had stolen some land in Manhattan, rather than Lincoln County.

The great-grandfathers mostly had British surnames, predominantly Norman and Celtic. But the genome came back 50% "Western Europe," 1/3 England, 1/6 Ireland-Scotland-Wales, and a smattering each of Scandinavian, Finno-Russian, and Spanish. Like I say, Normans.

mostly... a bit Ireland, Germany and the Middle East


https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0915/Reading-writing-and-empathy-How-Denmark-is-a-leader-in-teaching-social-skills

Black Irish on both sides to be precise.

I think it blew up though.lol.


Africa, that continent Trump calls the shit hole.My gg grandfather was brought here from Africa. His son was a soldier in the Civil War. He fought in the Colored Infantry.

. . .ancestors were refugees from genocide.

That was a bad time for a lot of people.

So is "LeftInTEX", I believe. (post #23)

Possibly Greek. They didn't have it as bad as the Armenians though. The Ottoman Turks were a nasty lot.

Scotland, England, Wales, Germany, Netherlands, Canada (Native American Blackfoot)

By way of Auschwitz

My family settled in the mountains of what is now Western North Carolina and also in upstate South Carolina.

The Scots-Irish left Scotland for what is now Northern Ireland before immigrating to America.

My dad’s family are all Presbyterian (typical for Scots-Irish) and my mom’s were Baptist.

A few years ago, I met some nice folks from Northern Ireland who were visiting my city.

I immediately thought “my people!” LOL! They looked just like my dad’s family and me!

certainly for most of the last five hundred years while Europeans were colonizing the Americas, you could well describe the places they came from as shitholes. In all of Europe, you had a rich royal class that owned nearly everything of value, you had religiously-motivated wars that killed millions, and you had conditions where diseases were rampant. Add to that the lack of religious, association, and speech freedoms, and you can see why so many risked a potentially deadly long sea voyage to escape.

I have used the term Third World hellholes to describe places that exist today in the same aspects that I just used to describe Europe in less enjoyable times. Can I disparage a place without necessarily disparaging its people? Can the residents of other nations protest what the United States does without necessarily condemning 100% of its voters?

That Foul Orange One hit very close to home.

My mother's side all are Portuguese immigrants from the shithole islands of the Azores. On my father's side I am mostly from the shithole country of Italy but I've been told there is some shithole Irish and English mixed in there too.

My grandmother was Catholic born on a military base in Hawaii but I don't believe it. I think she's a Kenyan Muslim.

I guess the more elitist colonists would have called the German immigrants "shithole refugees". We almost had German for our language.

It has improved.

They just needed to switch from a potato-based economy to a beer-based economy.

Sláinte!

The main 3: England, Germany, Italy