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To: NZerFromHK

The largest category is German at a whopping 15%. English only comes in at 8%. Irish is a huge category as well.


14 posted on 02/23/2006 4:18:46 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Sam Gamgee

The data in the Canadian census in 2001 gives an incomplete picture as many people refused to answer ancestry information. A cursory search on the net shows "4 out of 9 Canadians have majority British descent" while 12.9% reports majority Irish descents.

This gives about 57% of all Canadians as British/Irish descent. Minus French (30%) this means 81% of all "English Canadians" are British/Irish in descent. The figures do look interesting.


17 posted on 02/23/2006 4:46:26 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: Sam Gamgee

If you create a "metaethnicity" of all Germanic language speakers in continental Europe (German s, Dutch, Swiss, Austrians, Flemish, Alsatians, German-Russians), there are about 50 million Americans of a Germanic metaethnicity in the U.S., about 21% of the population.


19 posted on 02/23/2006 7:14:46 PM PST by Wallace T.
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