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Alo0osh131 [2012-01-12 19:14:15 +0000 UTC]
Wait, his last name is Murray?
What is he Scottish?
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Alo0osh131 In reply to AquariusMj212 [2012-01-13 06:58:45 +0000 UTC]
Yeah Britain includes Scotland.
That's a Scottish name, man.
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Alo0osh131 In reply to AquariusMj212 [2012-01-13 20:13:43 +0000 UTC]
...which means that Romeo is Scottish...
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Alo0osh131 In reply to AquariusMj212 [2012-01-16 11:33:47 +0000 UTC]
Then you need to change his surname...
If he was born and raised in LONDON just like his FOREFATHERS then his name cant be Murray.
Since its a SCOTTISH NAME, not an ENGLISH NAME.
The British nationality inludes Enland, Scotland, Wales and Alistair.
But that doesn't mean they have and share the same surnames. It doesn't work like that.
Just like my surname, man. If you tell it to people they'll know its Arabian. But what part of Arabia? Egypt or Lebenon? Or KSA?
And if in KSA then which city in KSA?
My last name comes from Mekka, then you can' t say it's from Riyadh. Which is exactly what your doing.
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AquariusMj212 In reply to Alo0osh131 [2012-01-16 20:26:46 +0000 UTC]
no. i'm keeping it the way it is. not all people analyze what race your from by ur surname, and there are A LOT of "Murrays" in america and u don't call them non-americans. same goes for UK. so really ur just going overboard with this...
i mean, yes, maybe Romeo's central roots will come from Scotland, but those after them might have immigrated to the UK. and besides, Romeo's mom Jessamine is pure british.
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Alo0osh131 In reply to AquariusMj212 [2012-01-17 10:12:33 +0000 UTC]
America is supposed to be a country for ALL races so of course there would be people with all kinds of names and backrounds.
But in the America DOESN'T EXIST YET in the 1800s!
And emigrants would have eventually changed their names if they're forefathers had been their for a long time already.
But he STILL has the same name. So it doesn't work.
Im not even British and I recognised that the name isn't English.
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AquariusMj212 In reply to Alo0osh131 [2012-01-18 13:27:50 +0000 UTC]
WHAT THE HELL??!! what do you mean "DOESN'T EXIST YET IN THE 1800S"??! in case you didn't know, the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE was signed IN 1776! meaning AMERICA existed since the 1700S, idiot! and was already inhabitant by people known as AMERICANS by the late 1700s and 1800s! if you want the literal view too, there were already A LOT of famous AMERICAN romantics between the years of 1800-1860. like Washington Irving (1783-1859), William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)--love this guys work, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), and Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). all of them AMERICAN, and already some are born BEFORE the 1800s.
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Alo0osh131 In reply to AquariusMj212 [2012-01-26 21:29:46 +0000 UTC]
That last part about American authors makes absolutely no sense in this conversation...
Yes America did exist back in 1800s BUT, it wasn't the America we know today with all different kinds of races and what-not. In the America of today we can find people with descendents of ALL races: Asian, African, European... And they all count as being AMERICAN.
But back then, it wasn't like that. It was just the Native Americans and the men and women that traveled from to America to concur and claim it which were mostly the French and British.
And after they did claim some locations, they became BRITISH and FRENCH colonies, NOT AMERICANS.
So in a way "The United States of America" only became an independent nation AFTER the AMERICAN REVOLUTION which was finally ended in 1781, and even then they were still just 13 states... not a fully fledged America with different races.
And my mistake for saying that America didn't exist during the 1800s, what I meant was that it wasn't the "50" United States of America.
And as for the Authors, well... look at their dates of birth, man. The earliest one that you wrote was Washington Irving and he was BORN in 1783 which was AFTER the American Revolution, and his first MAJOR book "A History of New York" was published in 1809, which is WAY past the American Revolution and he was already 26 years old.
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AquariusMj212 In reply to Alo0osh131 [2012-01-31 16:39:34 +0000 UTC]
YES! EXACTLY! AMERICA DID START EXISTING AFTER THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU! and YES people did immigrated in the early 1800s to new york from asia and europe, most of whom were chinese and germans. and YES, especially the germans, once they immigrated to the US they had to sacrifice what they had in their previous home and they DID have to pass this small test before fully entering the US by pledging their FULL LOYALTY to America and they become AMERICAN CITIZENS. not much different from today, really.
and all what i've said really was just trying to prove to you america EXISTED in THE 1800s! but that went WAAAYY off course for what was the MAIN subject. which was: NO, Romeo ISN'T american, he just moved to america at the age of 16 with his mother for a fresh new start since they practically didn't have anything left for years back in London, and Romeo--much like his late father--was a very hopeful soul. he believed that there was more waiting for them than staying cooped up with nothing in London. and THAT'S where he meets Juliet who came with her father to new york from italy for a new adventure, and also her father wanted to finish his life's work: inventing the first telephone, there.
so yes, Romeo is british who just moved to new york. Juliet part french and part italian who didn't know her father was even alive until her grandmother told her the truth and didn't wait an extra second to pack up her stuff from a small village in france and head out to seek her long lost father in italy. Claire, God knows what's her race, but she's american in modern time new york. any more confusion?
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