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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    Quote Originally Posted by chocolatethunder
    I think the word you were looking for is "choked". You my friend, are a moron.
    Thx for correcting me .
    btw do u understand satire? or can u read white color on white background?

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    dirk is from w

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    germany is an extension of turkey nowadays.

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    Quote Originally Posted by Funnyfuka
    germany is an extension of turkey nowadays.
    Yeah, thanks for Mesut

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    [QUOTE=brain drain]Yeah, thanks for Mesut

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    Quote Originally Posted by jstern
    Personally I think he's German because he was born in Germany.
    Actually, if both the kid's parents are not German, and the kid was born in Germany, that kid will not be considered a German citizen. That's because Germany adopts the jus sanguinis principle. You are a German citizen if you have a German parent, no matter where you was born.

    The U.S adopts jus soli, u.s citizens are those who are born in the United States.


    Quote Originally Posted by Hawker
    America is the only country that matters.
    America is not a country. It's a continent that includes North, Central and South American. United States of America is a country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NewYorkNoPicks
    The United States is a melting pot, a place that (aside from "native americans") does not have a specific ethnicity/nationality connected to it.

    Russia is mainly filled with Russians, China is mainly filled with Chinese, Germany is mainly filled with native Germans.

    Dirk plays for the German team, is considered German, but has a Polish last name. Considering that Germany is a place that has a specific group of people attached to it, unlike the melting pot that is the U.S....my question is legitimate.
    Lets look at German football (soccer team) from WC 2010:
    1 Manuel NEUER
    2 Marcell JANSEN
    3 Arne FRIEDRICH
    4 Dennis AOGO
    5 Serdar TASCI
    6 Sami KHEDIRA
    7 Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER
    8 Mesut OEZIL
    9 Stefan KIESSLING
    10 Lukas PODOLSKI
    11 Miroslav KLOSE
    12 Tim WIESE
    13 Thomas MUELLER
    14 Holger BADSTUBER
    15 Piotr TROCHOWSKI
    16 Philipp LAHM
    17 Per MERTESACKER
    18 Toni KROOS
    19 CACAU
    20 Jerome BOATENG
    21 Marko MARIN
    22 Hans JOERG
    23 Mario GOMEZ

    We are not in 1945. Germany is mixed with ethnicities. I guess Hitler is turning in his grawe.

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    Quote Originally Posted by NewYorkNoPicks
    Dirk's last name is not German at all, I'm pretty confident that it is of Slavic/Polish origin.

    Does anyone know anything about this? Is he only half German? Or did his family just live in Germany without having any German heritage?

    Always have wondered about this

    Germany is next to Poland. Also, large areas around the border have been both Polish and German in quite recent history.

    AND how can Americans have Irish surnames when they're not Irish?

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    Nowitzkis ancestors are from Danzig/Koenigsberg. Former East-Prussia and part of the German Reich during the Nazi reign. Today it belongs to Poland (K
    Last edited by novocaine; 05-11-2011 at 08:52 AM.

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    Quote Originally Posted by NewYorkNoPicks
    Dirk's last name is not German at all, I'm pretty confident that it is of Slavic/Polish origin.

    Does anyone know anything about this? Is he only half German? Or did his family just live in Germany without having any German heritage?

    Always have wondered about this
    Not trying to be a smart ass, but this may possibly be why

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    "Lebron James" and "Barack Obama" are not american names either but they're US citizens.
    "Tȟatȟ

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    Quote Originally Posted by Calabis
    Not trying to be a smart ass, but this may possibly be why
    no it's not. germany and poland share a much longer history than the two world wars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teanett
    no it's not. germany and poland share a much longer history than the two world wars.
    Who cares what happened in 1700's, I simply showed an example of Poland being taken over by German and Russian forces, which is the most recent thing in history, which could have played a role with Dirk's father and mother....if its because his great, great, great grandfather crossed the border and married a german lady then so be it.....I never said this was "the reason"

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    is this for real? just beacuse his like great great grandfather could of been from somwhere diffrent dosent make him german

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    Default Re: How is Dirk German but His Last Name is Polish?

    better question is why is the sky blue?

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