Re: CHAT: US ancestry [was Re: FWD [OT but interesting] Arctic

> Date:         Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:46:25 -0400
> From: John Cowan <jcowan@...>
>
> There probably aren't enough people who list themselves as both
> African-American and of Danish ancestry (say) to show up as even
> a blip.  Both are a matter of self-labeling.
Remember that the US Virgin Islands used to be Danish, and had a
significant slave population. They were run as a colony by expat Danes
for about seventy years after emancipation, as well. So there's bound
to be a number of families with both African and Danish descent.

Now, if you'd said Swedish there...

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)

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