Interesting. I neither know nor care about my family history - well, I know that I'm "mostly German", but beyond that, it really doesn't matter. I suppose I am "linked" to Europe by white skin. But I don't care, and don't consider myself "European" in any sense. As a mostly German decended person, I am not particularly related to either the American Indians who first moved here, the Norsemen who first "discovered" the continent, nor to the Italian who led the Spanish expedition that later "discovered" and published their findings of the New World.
But, how does being related to someone matter??
You've inadvertently highlighted a huge difference between the West (particularly the US) and non-Western cultures - the West is fundamentally forward looking. The past is gone, and any glories from it belong to the people who lived then. We should look to the future and celebrate what *we* can do, rather than what *someone else* has done.
And generally, the past wasn't all that great anyhow. Indeed, would you say Pakistan a better or worse place to live than 100 years ago? The US is definitely better. And the further back you go, the worse it gets. I would maintain Pakistan is the same.
Yet Pakistan today, for all the "proud" history of Pashtuns such as yourself, still can't keep the electricity on. Maybe you need to think less about the names of your ancestors, and more about how to build power plants and keep them running in the future. And maybe Valentine's Day is really a tiny insignificant matter that you should not fuss about at all.
That's quite some verbal and reasoning gymnastics that you've engaged in. The argument began when you accused Pakistanis of not being really Pakistani because they had no cultural continuity with the land of Pakistan.
After I've demonstrated to you that I know far more about my family history and can trace it back much further than someone of European origin such as yourself; you now claim that you were never really interested in cultural continuity in the first place. That reminds me of Aesop's fable of the fox who being unable to reach the grapes, claimed that he never wanted them anyway
The Norsemen didn't 'discover' the Americas. You don't 'discover' something by arriving 15,000 years later
And you make this claim too after admitting that a group of Asians had already settled it. You know what else? The Asian descendants in the Americas and the Asians on the Asian continent itself were trading long before Columbus lost his way
Bering Strait Artifacts Reveal Trade Between Asia And The New World Centuries Before Columbus : SCIENCE : Tech Times
If you're so 'forward looking' how is it that despite living in the Americas you believe you are 'Western'? The Americas are a land discovered, made habitable, and settled by an Asian people. Why do you keep looking back towards Europe when the Americas have just as much if not greater links with Asia and Africa? Shall I quote what the Greeks and Romans and the alleged founders of your 'Western' culture said about your German ancestors as compared to how they considered mine?? Because they sure as hell regarded us as civilized and you as slaves fit only for the mines and the pit. 'Western' my foot!
The Americas must have been a hell of a lot better than Europe considering how many white Europeans fled there, so the notion that the Americas became good because of your ancestors holds as much water as the leaky boats you landed in and immediately begged the Asian descended peoples of the Americas to pretty please supply you with food....
Haha...son, my ancestors taught yours to wear trousers, produce metal tools, grow wheat, and we invented the language of whose original form you've bastardized into 'german'. Basically we dragged you out of the Stone Age when the only thing you looked forward to was eating each other. And we know exactly which part of Asia you left before you began thinking you were better than us and your claims about being 'civilized'.
Yes, we saw how 'civilized' when you were killing each other like flies in the trenches, shoving millions of your minorities into the gas chambers, torturing and experimenting on others, and that's leaving aside the millions of each other that you raped. I'd have much greater respect for your claims of moral superiority if you weren't living on a land stolen from the people who fed white Europeans, and built with the labor of tens of millions of Africans. Your superiority. HA!
Our accomplishments are based on use of our own resources. Skills which we passed on to the rest of the world. Yours are based on the exploitation of others with the vilest treachery after pretending to be their friends e.g. the Native Americans. I'll leave aside how all you brave white European migrants in the Americas use Pashtuns to fight a war against the Russians. Just remember 'duck and cover' Johnny, and if you can't do that kiss the *** of those more powerful than you.
As for power plants, in the 1970's if the Saudi Arabs hadn't agreed to link gold to oil, the 'west' would have lost the Cold War and you'd be speaking Russian or Chinese. Your whole existence it seems is based on begging and stealing others resources and labor.