you can conceivably say that I'm fat because my ancestors fled Ireland during the Potato Famine and I feel the deep seated need to eat since food is available to me.
Oh, I like it! I'm fat because of something that happened to my ancestors! Works for me! 
And, I don't know if I'll get flamed for this, but, it's always bugged me when every black person is referred to as "African American." I know more black people that would rather just be called black. One of my best friends always laughs and says "I've never even seen Africa, and, neither have any of my ancestors."
I agree. I don't go around calling myself a Scottish-German-English American. How silly. I'm just an American.
this is most definately the most ridiculous load of bull that I have ever heard
I agree. It's almost too stupid to even deserve comment. I think I'll go kill someone, and blame post-English-invasion-of-Scotland Syndrome. Ok, so it happened hundreds of years before I was born, but my ansestors didn't dig it much, I'm sure. 
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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