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I work primarily with Italians and one of 'em is like 50% Italian. He cracks me up when he tells me that he's looking to marry an Italian so his offspring have a higher % of Italian in them. He's thinking as long as his kids do the same then his lineage will slowly creep back to a higher % Italiano.
Italians are crazy, however it had me thinking I could do a similar thing since I am a "halfie" (thanks again Tom for pointing that out j/k). Still I don't even know a single, no pun, Armenian lady. As a matter of fact I've met zero Armenian ladies that are my peers.
Even still the whole idea my Italian friend poses is silly. It's similar to a limit that approaches infinity. You'll never achieve 100% ever again no matter how many generations follow his plan. You'll get infinitely closer but will never reach 100%. Also similar to GPA ... if you make straight 100% on all your tests and then you flunk one ... well you'll never be able to obtain a perfect GPA ever again ... you can get infinitely closer but never actually achieve the same academic standing although 99.999_% is in my mind ultimately the same thing ....
To answer your question ... maybe if I move out to CA and meet a nice lady. There should be some around D-Town ... if I were single I'd go to one of the Armenian churches around town ...
I'd be like "Yo ladies say wut up to the human hairball!" just kidding ...
Although i get your point and agree with most of it, your GPA analogy fails. in most schools, an A+ (or an AP class) will contribute a 4.3 (or 4.0 + .05/class) to your GPA, meaning enough of those could get you back up to a 4.0. So let's see, if you were to marry a super armo who's like over 100% armo, then there's hope for your kids...such silliness
on a more serious note, do you actually think that those who claim to be 100% armo are indeed that? does such a thing exist? the exponential model is probably true of everyone because if you trace back far enough you'd notice that no one is 100% anything. just a thought...
and if this is true (which it is), the italian kid is right. if he keeps increasing the "italian-ness" of his family, somewhere down the line, in a few hundred yrs, the descendent would call himself a full Italian.
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