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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 9:23 am
(November 8, 2023 at 7:59 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: (November 8, 2023 at 7:56 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Rarely think about it
Do you think you might gain something from thinking about it more?
No
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 9:42 am
4th generation USian, that's my heritage.
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 9:48 am
Even the First Nations immigrated to North America and then on. We're all from somewhere else, starting with and around Olduvai Gorge (as an easy pick for an origin point, not entirely accurate of course.)
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 9:53 am
I know about it but not connected all that much.
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 10:38 am
Do you feel that you're part of the living tradition you were by fortune born into.
For example, I am very much English. Do I feel English? Do I feel some commonality with my immediate ancestors, or my wider culture, my history, my nation, my ethnicity etc.?
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 10:45 am
All my ancestors are dead, therefore not interesting!
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 1:36 pm
(November 8, 2023 at 7:58 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: (November 8, 2023 at 6:02 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: My heritage is the lens through which I view everything. So...a little connected, yeah.
Boru
Can you expand, please?
I can, but I won’t.
Boru
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 1:53 pm
In all honesty, if you are a decent person, I don't really care about your heritage. It did not make you who you are.
Sure, a snippet of you is shaped by it, (if you were vested in it in the first place.) but, that can be said of where you grew up as well.
For me, not a single oz/ml of my heritage was fundamental in the journey that has led me here.
