Ethnic comments - do you make funnies about your heritage  

I think that people people are just too sensitive but I am never sure just who is. My son as a freshman in high school spent a week at a lacrosse camp with his best friend from school. He came back with a ton of Jewish jokes, I felt some of them were inappropriate (some of them involved ovens) and said did you realize your friend is Jewish - he said yep, who do you think told me them? The child heard them from his father.

I think people consider Native Americans as exotic because we meet so few of them, I have friends and family that are like 1/8 native American but only one that is 1/4 and no 'pure' native American.

It is funny, my father was always sensitive and hated Polish jokes, he told my son he was from Germany (the Polish side), I went to the Ellis island website and wrong, he is from Poland. Though further research included possibly from Swedish blood from an invasion by the Swedes - I had never heard of this but I guess it happens.

You know that is the first Dutch joke I have ever heard. You have expanded my horizons. Thank you

Obviously, you were not raised in an area rich in Dutch heritage. Where I was raised that's mostly what we heard. The non-Dutch among us spread them far and wide.

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I don't know what you are ethnically, but I find it hard to believe that anybody in California would still harbor that kind of prejudice, California always seemed to me to be so free and easy, a place that would not get hung up on such stupid things as race or ethnic background. I guess I was wrong.

Culver City, California all by itself is known for it's racism. At least in my community it is known.

I never heard a Scotch joke about alcohol ( I heard it about another country, same geographic area) Scotch jokes always involved people being miserly.

The polish jokes I heard always involved people being dumb, I am far from dumb and well-educated but I can certainly laugh at them.

Ok - here we go-- an ethnic joke.

How can you tell when you are at an ethnic party - they punch bowl flushes.

Now how was that - everyone and no one was insulted.

Ah the wonders of a politically correct world.

If you ever visit Scotland pal you will fiend we are a very friendly generous people :) xx