You cannot make it as a "Rugged Individualist" in the world, you need to have a team.
The Persian Jews took over Beverly Hills, even putting a Persian Jew into the office of Mayor of Beverly Hills, by working together as a team.
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The Persian Conquest
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/persian-beverly-hills-2------------
Persian Jews, Wikipedia page...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews-----------------
History of the Iranian Americans in Los Angeles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Iranian_Americans_in_Los_Angeles---------
Iranian Jews Find a Beverly Hills Refuge
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-02-13/local/me-543_1_beverly-hills-----------------------
IRANIAN JEW ELECTED BEVERLY HILLS MAYOR
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Iranian-Jew-elected-Beverly-Hills-mayor-----------------------------
The Persian Jews came to the USA and bought mansions, they bought the most expensive houses in the most expensive area, and they put in one of their own as Mayor. They did not start out at the bottom, they started out at the top and took over.
And the people from the Philippines work together as a team too, not as good as the Persian Jews, but they help each other. A Filipino will hire all Filipinos, and they will go to Filipino doctors, and they feel an instant bond with other Filipinos, they are each other's people, they are automatic teammates. We had a Filipino day when I worked at Universal Studios, and twenty five thousand Filipinos showed up, it was great.
The Greeks, the Italians, the Mexicans, they all have a bond with their people.
I was taught to be a "Rugged Individualist" and that I am just an "American." My family has been in the USA for so long that I do not even know which nations in Europe they came from. I am a descendant of the pioneers.
Here is my family tree...
Okay here it is on my mother's side, it is okay to share, they have all passed on...
Willard Lester Cole
Born June 30, 1919
Born in Mena, Arkansas
Died in Lancaster, California
Died in November, 1969
Buried in San Bernardino
William Cevus Cole - Willard's Father
Died 1948
Mena, Arkansas
Mary Etta Scott - Willard's Mother
Died May, 1953
Mena, Arkansas
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Jennie Amalia Massey
Born April 3, 1922
Born in Canfield, Colorado
Died February 14, 1990
Died in Lancaster, California
Brother Art Massey
Sister Juanita Massey
Arthur M. Massey - Jennie's Father
Born on October 1, 1898
Born in Littleton, Colorado
Died January 1970
Died in Los Angeles, California
Thelma Grace Wolff - Jennie's Mother
Born February 8, 1899
Born in La Junta, Colorado
Died January 7, 1969
Died in San Bernardino
Brother Argus Henry Wolff
William Henry Wolff - Thelma's Father
Born 1857
Born in Carrolton, Kentucky
Died 1907
Died in Denver, Colorado
Amalia Argus - Thelma's Mother
Born 1861
Born in Madison, Indiana
Died August 4, 1930
Died in Denver, Colorado.
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That is all that I have, I want to pay someone to help me to learn more about my family tree, and I want to do a DNA test. I think that I am part French, with some Native American, and Greek, and others, and maybe Italian.
I want to learn more.
And I think that my Great Grandfather was Chief of Police for Denver, Colorado, at one time, etc.
That was my Mother's side of my family, my Mother was born in San Bernardino, California, and she is alive and well. My Father was from Oregon.
My Father's side of my family lived in Oregon for a long time, there is a cemetery in Oregon where my Father is buried where I have ancestors going back to the 1800's.
There is a book, "Rankin Crow and the Oregon Country," which tells some of the history of Oregon, and some of my family members are mentioned in the book.
Link...
https://www.amazon.com/Rankin-Crow-Oregon-country/dp/B0006C9DEQBut anyhow, I am just an American. I need to do the DNA test and join Ancestry.com to find out more about my family tree and where my people came from. I just viewed all Americans as being my people, and all people are God's children, and I felt perfectly at home in Italy, and in France, and the people were warm and kind there.
I had a problem in Mexico, the children spit on me, when I went to do charity work with Youth For Christ, we went to help children living in a garbage dump in Mexico, and the children did not like me, they spit on me and I had to win them over. I climbed up on a dumpster, and I did a flip off of the dumpster onto a pile of cardboard, and then I passed out candy to the kids, and soon they were all doing flips off of the dumpster onto the cardboard and they were all eating candy, and they were happy. I won their friendship. Then we went to some Catholic orphanages, and the children were polite as the Nuns had taught them to be, they were good kids. But, the kids at the dump immediately let me know that I was not part of their group, I was not their people, they only liked me because I was cool and I gave them candy. But, they love American music, and American film and television, and many Mexicans love Americans. But, like, if you want to have a vacation home in Colombia, or other part of Latin America, I think the way to do it would be to donate a library to the village by where you want to have your vacation home, you have to win them over, and then they will love you. It is not like Italy, or France, where they automatically are cordial, in Latin America you have to win them over.
Anyhow, I am just an American, and I envy people who have ethnic groups to which they belong, and I like how they have each other's back, and I like how they help each other. Republican Americans are not big on helping each other, many are rugged individualists, and many would not even feed you, they want you to work and earn your own food, I even have issues about that. As young as ten years old, after my father had died, I had to work twelve hours a day bathing and brushing dogs for my Grandmother who was a dog groomer, just so that I could eat, I was told that if you want to eat then you need to work. There was no team, they thought it was just fine for you to starve unless you work. And that same kind of thinking is why they allow people to starve in the world, they want the people to work and save themselves. If you do not like to starve, then you need to work so that you can eat. I was raised to be on my own. Then the economy went really bad, and I was homeless for two years. I had no team, no ethnic group to go to for help. Finally after a nervous breakdown, a doctor in Laguna Beach, California, put me in a group home, where I could get help, and doctors and psychiatrists and psychologists and stuff helped me, and the Filipinos helped me. I love the Filipinos. Now, I would rather be part of a tribe than be alone, I would rather be a part of my community, I would rather have friends, and family, etc, being a rugged individualist is not for me.
I want to do my DNA and family tree and see who my people are, and it would be cool to have an ethnic group to identify with. Meanwhile, I am just an American, but I refuse to be a rugged individualist, I would rather have a team. And I look forward to getting married, if I can find the right woman, a wife is the ultimate teammate.
Salute,
Tony V.
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