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How connected to your heritage do you feel?

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How connected to your heritage do you feel?
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How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 4:28 am
Do you feel connected to your heritage?
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November 8, 2023 at 5:28 am
Nope.

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November 8, 2023 at 5:50 am (This post was last modified: November 8, 2023 at 5:51 am by Rev. Rye.)
In the interest of keeping this short because I should probably be going to bed soon, here's a post I made five years ago basically covering my heritage in food pics. The two I'm most connected to are, ironically, the largest (German: 40.5%) and the smallest (Britain, 3.125%) nationalities.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 6:02 am
My heritage is the lens through which I view everything. So...a little connected, yeah.

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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 7:56 am
Rarely think about it
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 7:58 am
(November 8, 2023 at 6:02 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: My heritage is the lens through which I view everything. So...a little connected, yeah.

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Can you expand, please?
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 7:59 am
I'm directly descended from eight couples who left Ireland around 1890. (Never looked up the exact date, not something I worry about.)

I have no interest in visiting the old country, and the most blatantly obvious thing about me is my temper. I do (did) like a good fight.

Erin go Bragh! Or something.
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 7:59 am
(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?
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 8:24 am
Not much. My paternal grandfather came to the US from Germany. He was the only one of a large family to do so. He didn't talk about why he left and was pretty stoic so I don't know that anyone in the family (here in the US) ever knew the reason(s). My paternal grandmother was from the US but of German stock. That side of the family is all German.

The other side is a bit of a mystery...English, Irish, Scottish have all been mentioned. They lived in an area that was first settled in American in a quite unique area of the county. Since they were so remote they all had a distinct accent that I have never heard anywhere else. Lots of redheads.

I was/am more attached to the concept that one side were farmers and the other fishermen and sailors. It was an interesting contrast between the two sides. I didn't have to go far back in the family tree to find unique traits.
  
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RE: How connected to your heritage do you feel?
November 8, 2023 at 9:20 am
My mom's side of the family is from Portugal (a long time ago) and my dad's side of the family is from Spain (a long time ago). I know some Spanish, it's a cool language. I don't know any Portuguese. My mom said I got my cute butt from her side of the family.
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