Culture / Ethnicity

[J.A.K.]

Irish on my dad's side and Native American (Cherokee) on mom's side. My great grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee so I am closer to that bloodline than the Irish.

But I don't play up any of that...just American.

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[wet work]

-I'm mostly German with a little Dutch, which I just recently discovered.

-doesn't really play any real role in my life.

-I think my great-grandfather/grandmother(on my moms side) came over in 1905.
(i think guids linked that ellis island site and I saw that there were only 25 people with my last name which I thought was kind of interesting as other names in my family
had a couple or few thousand)

- I don't really maintain any traditions, heck I'm not even really a fan of the food.

[Freakin]

I'm german & irish.

My wife is thai.

I am embracing thai culture, not german or irish.

[samjjones]

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As of late I have been trying to learn more about my ethnicity and culture. I was born in Argentina to an Italian father and German mother.

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GR - was your mother born in Argentina?

[BPA234]

- What is your ethnic / cultural background?
50/50 Sicilian & Irish


- How big a role does it play in your life?
Plays no role at all.

- How far removed are you from the immigrant generation of your family? (in the end we are all immigrants, except for the Natives)

Completely removed, 3rd generation.

- Do you maintain any traditions from the "old country"?

None at all.

[cjmewett]

- What is your ethnic / cultural background?

I was born in the States and spent my entire childhood and young adulthood in Texas. My dad was born and raised in Wales, my mom in Canada. Dad's grandparents were English immigrants to Wales on his father's side and Welsh way back on his mother's side. Mom's grandparents immigrated to Canada from Ireland on her mom's side and Scotland on her dad's side. So I'm 100% British isles whitey.

- How big a role does it play in your life?

As a kid I think I felt more British than American, as the way I was raised was much more like a Welsh child than a Texan one. I don't think there's anything particularly significant about this culturally, just little things about the way we ate and how we talked and drinking tea from an early age and stuff like this.

- How far removed are you from the immigrant generation of your family? (in the end we are all immigrants, except for the Natives)

Answered above. First-gen American.

- Do you maintain any traditions from the "old country"?

I drink a lot of tea and watch a lot of soccer. That's about it.

[pokerraja]

- What is your ethnic / cultural background?

Indian. My parents are both from India. I was born here
in the US.

- How big a role does it play in your life?

It's a big role anytime you are a 2nd generation immigrant. Both of my parents speak hindi at home, and naturally me and my siblings also learned hindi. My mom cooks almost exclusively Indian food for my dad.

- How far removed are you from the immigrant generation of your family? (in the end we are all immigrants, except for the Natives)

Actually I think being a second generation immigrant causes the most confusion. My parents are obviously very Indian and us children going to school in the US are exposed to American culture at school and then Indian at home. Looking back, it caused some weird moments throughout child hood. But as I got older I got much more comfortable with both identies and fused them into one.

- Do you maintain any traditions from the "old country"?

Yes alot.

[miajag]

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- What is your ethnic / cultural background?


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Irish/English on my mother's side, Russian Jew on my dad's side.
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- How big a role does it play in your life?


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I'm Jewish enough (mom converted before marrying my dad) that most Jewish girls won't get disowned for dating me.
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- How far removed are you from the immigrant generation of your family? (in the end we are all immigrants, except for the Natives)


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My father's grandparents came over in the early 1900s to escape pogroms/persecutions/etc. Mother's side has been here since the 1700's.
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- Do you maintain any traditions from the "old country"?

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Nope.

[Taraz]

- What is your ethnic / cultural background?
Persian/African-American. My mom was born and raised in Iran and moved here for her residency after med school. My dad grew up in Los Angeles and never left.

- How big a role does it play in your life?
Pretty big. Being black comes with a whole host of issues in society. I have a huge Persian family and I grew up 3 blocks away from my grandparents. So I can speak Persian (Farsi)and I have a lot of experience with Persian culture.

It's weird, when I'm out doing my every day activities I feel more like a black guy, but when I come home and am hanging out with all my family I feel very Persian.

- How far removed are you from the immigrant generation of your family? (in the end we are all immigrants, except for the Natives)

My mom is a first generation immigrant. I don't know much about my dad's side, but slavery kind of makes it difficult to trace things back too far.

- Do you maintain any traditions from the "old country"?

I guess. I drink tea and I like Persian food. I can cook a little too. I kiss a lot of my family on both cheeks every time I see them. There's probably more, but I can't think of anything huge at the moment.