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[Random]

Just curious as to see where everyone's ancestors are from and what culture you mainly follow.


I'm almost fully Italian, and it is the only culture that has really influenced my life. My grandparents were right off the boat onto Ellis Island and speak fluent Italian. We follow lots of Italian traditions and celebrations.

What culture does your family take traditions from?

[Tarabyte]

My maternal grandparents came from Romania. My paternal grandmother is from Germany, & my paternal grandfather is from Ireland.

I had to listen to a lot of cursing in a lot of languages growing up.

[Strategist]

My Maternal Great-Grandparents are from Ireland, my Paternal Great-Grandparents are from Germany. Im Aussie born but have that little bit of Irish and German in me still I love anything to do with Ireland too. Would love to travel over there one day to meet the rest of my family

[Narna]

Chinese

[Kat]

My great-great-grandparents came from Holland and pretty much settled the now I'm in now with other Dutch people. My great-grandmother was all Dutch and married a half-German one-quarter Native American one-quarter Spanish. (we think) and they had 12 children! My grandmother is one of the 9 girls that they had. She married my grandpa who is really unsure of his heritage, but so far we think he's mostly French and German. My dad married my mom who and she's even more mixed than we are so idk.
We're mutts.

[Trichomes]

My paternal great-grandparents were born in Italy. I never knew my paternal grandmother because she passed away when my dad was 12, but apparently she spoke fluent Italian. My dad has a huge extended Italian-American family, and I celebrated most of the major holidays with them growing up, but I'm a lot closer to my mom's side of the family.

My maternal grandmother was born is what is now Israel (so I guess Palestine at the time, but she considers herself Israeli) and moved to the United States when she was 9. Her family descended from Russia, but I'm not sure when they moved to the middle east and for what reason. I don't know much at all about my maternal grandfather's heritage, other than the fact that he was born in America and also has at least some Russian background. At some point, somebody in my family mentioned something about us possibly being part Hungarian, but I'm not sure if it's true or not.

I forgot to mention that my dad is Catholic, although not particularly religious, and my maternal grandparents are Jewish, but my mom considers herself agnostic. For some reason, my parents decided my sister and I should be brought up in the Catholic faith until we were old enough to form our own opinions about religion, so I was baptized, attended CCD (like Sunday school), made my first communion, and attended church on Christmas and Easter. We also (loosely) celebrated Hanukkah and Passover. When I was about 11, I decided I no longer wanted to pursue Catholicism and my parents did not object.

I can pretty much say whatever I want to my parents, which I'm grateful for.

Edited by Trichomes, 26 March 2011 - 06:48 AM.

[luvsmyncis]

My father's parents were of German and English heritage, all blue eyed and brown haired. My mother's parents are Mexican-American, although my grandmother's grandma was a native American of the Kickapoo or Apache tribe, we're not really sure. Everyone on that side of the family is brown with black eyes and black hair.

So I'm just this odd White/Mezcan American freckle-faced mutt in south Texas.

I'm looking forward to Easter, when we bake some sweet breads and crack cascarones on everyone's head. In my town, there's a week long event called "Fiesta" that starts with a huge parade and is basically just a bunch of tourists and Mexicans going downtown to get super drunk and let their kids get kidnapped, murdered, and found 3 weeks later in the river miles and miles away. Needless to say, I avoid Fiesta.

[Boggart]

I'm pretty sure everyone from my descent has been from China. Or at least up until great great great grandparents for sure. Not too sure after that.

Thus I'm raised Chinese, no kidding. I eat rice everyday, know how to use chopsticks, really don't have salads ever, having potatoes is an awesome treat, etc.

But I act all white with mah subway and mah swagger. Study habits of an Asian. I would say I'm more white than Asian in the way I act, but my values are definitely more Asian.

If I ever swore at my parents, they would shoot me

[luvsmyncis]

If I ever swore at my parents, they would shoot me

Totally different here. I couldn't imagine what life would be like if I didn't verbally insult my mother. We bitch and scream at each other all the time about every little thing. I imagine it would be funner if we actually spoke Spanish, because yelling always sounds better in Spanish, but you gotta work with what you got.

[Elindoril]

Grandfather on my father's side is Irish or Scottish, one of the two, I never could remember, whereas my Grandmother is French.

On the other side, my Grandfather is Scottish, and my Grandmother is English, I think.

We didn't really follow any traditions from the past generations though, other than my parents like to drink a lot, surprise surprise.

[Dara]

If I ever swore at my parents, they would shoot me

This. Mom is Chinese. My great grandparents came to the US from China. Dad's family is Scots Irish with Oklahoma/Texas influence. There was a lot of emphasis on respect, personal responsibility and family. Dad and I are into culinary "tourism"... which means we like to eat food from a variety of cultures. So chopsticks, a lot of rice... and let me just say that rice with butter and sugar and milk is an abomination.

I often feel like an odd duck. Not wholly comfortable in Chinese culture, don't quite fit into white American culture.

[Persuasion]

Fully Chinese, my parents were fresh of the boat (plane) when they came here, but went to college here and all that. Working off from little to nothing for food and tuition, they both are now very successful and, not to mention speak English without an accent, but they still have a mistake here and there.

Our family also puts a lot of emphasis on respect, family bonds, and things like elderly support. They also put a great deal of pressure on the kids to get good grades (Strait A's), be successful in life, and they really tell you what you are going to become to an extent. Tiger mom, lol.

[Frostorm]

I'm half italian and half german, but i live in south america.

[Mishelle]

I'm Black. Sadly I never identified an ethnic culture. We don't really have a culture to call our own. I wasn't raised in any culture other than American culture. I'm also mixed with White and Belizian but I don't really identify with those ethnicities.

[Mr. Hobo]

1/2 italian
1/4 russian
1/8 native
1/8 irish

culturally Italian-Canadian I suppose. though generic Canadian culture would be more accurate

[Formaldehyde]

Parents both from Hong Kong, but they both met each other after their families had moved to Canada. I would consider my family to be typical Chinese; nothing is acceptable unless it's an A, no swearing to elders, blah blah...and I like it this way. I think it's great my parents are forcing me to get good grades so I can have a good chance at a decent life afterwards.

[Ladida]

Parents and ancestors are from India. I was born and raised in Canada, so I'm kind of a mix of different views. Definitely not an orthodox Indian, I'm pretty much westernized.

[GeorgeBright]

I have Irish on both sides of my family.
I don't know of the descent of my last name though. The lineage on the father's side of both of my parents is a mystery to me.

[Burd]

Chinese
We follow the main Chinese celebrations, but we've also taken on board Christmas, Easter and the like lol

[redlion]

Anglo-Irish mutt. Some german too. Maternal line's name is Keen (german origin we think). Paternal line can be traced to a county in Ireland. More like an area, because there were multiple septs,

Mostly Westernized culture, dad was baptized catholic but stopped practicing long before I was born. Mom kept up with Presbyterianism. My parents aren't really that involved, besides working in government and healthcare. I guess they're sorta babyboomers.

[luvsmyncis]

More like an area, because there were multiple septs,

Meaning: they got around.

[AyoForYayo]

My family is mostly from the UK but some of it has been in the US since the american revolution but previously came from austria-hungary...when there was still an austria hungary

[Ali]

English and Scottish as far back as we know. Very dull.

[Mahas]

Not sure, i has some scottish, some german and even a few distant relatives apparently from over in egypt...