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Send your thoughts and reactions to Letters to the Editor. R52 - the problem is that there was never any suggestion of Peggy's mother being an Irish Catholic. Weiner's doing a lot of backpeddling with this explanation.
He and his staff always portrayed Peggy as if she were a full-blooded Norwegian. It came up repeatedly when she expressed her distaste for Swedes, got a Scandinavian roommate, etc. I don't want to muddy the waters, but Peggy's Catholicism isn't the only thing that was inconsistent with her Norwegian background. Look it up in the dictionary, Denny Dimwit. Hint: There are many available right here on the internetz.
As for Joan, who knows? Her background is still a complete mystery. They are all complex people who rarely had thing going smoothly and simply for them ok, Roger excluded. This very obvious, inevitable explanation of Peggy's ethnicity fits perfectly in. She was raised by a domineering mother who always had to have HER way. And off course there was no way her children wouldn't be raised the way she wanted them to.
Peggy insistence on being perceived as Norwegian is a way of distancing herself from her mother and identifying with her father, the probably more introversive, as non-Irish as possible parent she was close to, as is suggested in The Suitcase, when she's reminiscing about his death. One more thing. Unless someone hasn't followed MM, in which case why would they have such a staunch stand to begin with, hasn't it been already established that we're not being fed with all the information from the start and part of the fun is rereading what we'd seen before based on some new data we get along the way?
So we were not handed Peggy's full DNA test from the start. Mexican Jew here mexican father and jewish mother i call myself Pablo Rudd and my boyfriend is Persian Catholic persian father and catholic mother I call him Vin Diesel hotter cousin with some hair. The character was always portrayed as catholic. What she was never portrayed as, which you seemed to have missed, is Norwegian.
She was portrayed as an uber-Carholic widow with a Norwegian married name and Catholic kids who bore that same name. The only people who had great difficulty filling in the gap she-married-a-Norwegian-and-raised-their-kids-Catholic, a mental leap of 3 seconds for most of us are people like you who require EVERY.
And just because they made the mother uber-Catholic, doesn't mean we were supposed to assume she was Irish. Let's not act like accuracy isn't in question at times with this show, but you want to believe every single detail was well-thought out in advanced. This means nothing. People of mixed ethnic background often identify more with one side of their heritage than another. Peggy's father could have expressed a lot of ethnic pride that imprinted on her.
And before you say "but they were Catholic", consider this: a Catholic girl in the 30s would likely insist her kids be raised Catholic in a mixed marriage. Her father's one concession to his wife's background could likely have been just that, and all the Norwegian pride that followed was a reaction to it, to insure his papist kids still grew up "Norwegian".
I'm obsessed, but more with the weird obstinance of people who insist that something obvious is impossible, and then cling to that view after the obvious explanation everyone else expected is revealed. Do you need a Very Special Mad Men, where Peggy returns to the old sod, a soft montage of misty emerald countrysides, candle-lit pubs and thatch-roofed cottages set to a Celtic soundtrack?
Maybe they could show her eating corned beef and cabbage or doing a jig. Would that satisfy you? After all it only took a handful of cultural references to convince you she was a Full-Blooded Norwegian Princess to the exclusion of any other ethnicity. Apparently knowing that Norway and Sweden were sometimes at odds means you can trace your lineage to the Viking era.
Can someone please explain? I was visiting family in Bay Ridge today, and some of the streets were closed off. Today was the annual Norwegian Day parade! I was so tempted to ask every one of them if they were Catholic. While all groups identified strongly with their faith, they also were in close proximity to one another. The children played together, went to the same schools, and hung out in the same places as teenagers.
Immigrants came to this country under many varying circumstances. Men in particular would not be so loyal to their faith as women being that it is they who have the children. In Peggy 's family, as long as the child was raised a Catholic, I don't think it would be so much of a problem. In fact, having been raised in this part of Brooklyn at the time, I find it a really authentic piece of writing - too much so to be acceptable to the general public. If Peggy Olsson has a norwegian father and an Irish mother.
It makes no sense, that Peggy, as i recall it, will tell her mother that her new roommate is Norwegian and not Swedish. This would only make sense, if her mother was norwegian. I'm sure that the very small and "brotherly" disputes between Swedes and norwegians, will have no effect on any irish nationals. I too find it hard to believe that a norwegian man, marrying a catholic in the what I presume would be the 's.
Would raise his kids into catholisism. But hey. Everything is possible in America. No further proof is needed that many DLers have mental issues. Mikkel at R68, after reading this thread I did a little Youtube watching and stumbled upon a clip of Peggy with her roomate.
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