Re: Asatru and Europeans...
I'm more certain of what you should not write down, than of what you should.
For the vast majority of people in Europe it is clear what their ethnicity is. Even when one of the parents belong to different ethnicities, one is usually assimilated into the other.
Traditionally, this happened even at closer levels with the matrimony. The union between a man and a woman from different villages was celebrated at the bride's village. The reason for this is that the bride, once married, abandoned her family's home to enter in the home of the groom. This way she was adopted and assimilated into the groom's family and everything else around them. The children would grow in the groom's family and village. The emotional and identity link with the village from where their mother came was weaker.
The more distant the relation between the identity of the father and the mother, the more likely that this is to cause a confusion in the identity. However, this is also highly dependable on each indivual's family environment and education.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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