Catholic or Protestant?

[nancylebov]

http://redbird.livejournal.com/802605.html?nc=1

It's like the forms in Northern Ireland that would ask, not about actual religion/ethnicity [2] but whether the person would "be perceived as" Catholic or Protestant. When Rysmiel and papersky told me about those, I said I would need a "don't know" box, and they both confidently told me that, in that context, I would be perceived as Protestant.

rysmiel? papersky? Anyone else familiar with Northern Ireland who knows me?

Would I be perceived as Catholic or Protestant? If it will go into words, why?

Aside from being intrigued by the whole thing, I've gotta know whether I should be outraged by _The Da Vinci Code_.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Protestant, without a shadow of a doubt.

I think at least part of it is a bone structure/face shape thing, and what that suggests about ancestry. It amuses me muchly, frex, that tnh registers as clearly Protestant on this radar.