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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:23 am
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My parents do genealogy, and the more they find out, the mroe cultures I know my ancestors were a part of. But since I haven't grown up knwoing these cultures I don't actually feel much attachment to them. I'm Scottish, Irish, British, Welsh, French, German and Native American. But I've only really felt attached to my Dad's English/Welsh Eastern Shore side, and my mom's Scottish/Irish Protestant southern side. Everything else is so far removed from me I feel like it isn't actually important that it is part of me. Like my one German ancestor was from 1566, so I never met him and I don't know at all what part of German culture he was a part of.
So, I guess my topic is about how everyone brags about being a part of a lot of cultures very frequently, but it is really only the direct family's culture that is a part of your life. Ever feel that way?
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:30 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:42 am
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My father is Jewish, Scottish, Haitian Creole, and other things, and my mother is Irish, Scottish, and British. however, I have not been raised in any of these cultures. When I am around Irish people, I find that don't know any of the songs which they have known from early childhood; when I'm around Scottish people it's much the same. I have never worn a yarmulke, and I find little in common with my British and Caribbean ancestors. That's why I study so far into other cultures, I guess.
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:41 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:56 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:55 pm
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I really believe I am the generation, at least of my family, that has no culture. There's nothing passed down, no one really talks about the family, and I don't even speak my language. I've missed out.
Maybe my culture is just so engrained within me, I have no idea it's there. I sometimes speak with an out there accent that sounds like the tapes I am learning Dutch on, and I am insanely thrifty, which I guess is Dutch, but...I don't know. My culture doesn't feel so present in my life, I guess.
Oh, for the sake of the topic, I'm Dutch, Native American, German, Irish, and English.
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:56 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:33 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:21 pm
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I'm everything. Portugese, I'm a quater, that's the most I am of anything, then...Italian, Irish, German, Polish, Canadian, British, and maybe a bit of other things. I'm...an eigth Italian and the same of Polish, those are the ones I feel...sort of because of my grandfather. He's half and half and he just seems so....Polish and Italian....I guess. The rest is there...sprinkled in.
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:56 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 11:14 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 3:09 pm
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