RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2016 at 4:24 pm by Regina.)
We're a family of wanderers.
My mothers side are mostly Bavarian (allegedly with some distant Russian ancestry, not proven). They moved over to England some time in the early 20th century, and because of the state of affairs they quickly decided to assimilate, take on British names and live as culturally British people. I had no idea they were German for a long time, they fit in here so well.
Dad's side is easier, they're Maltese. Grandparents moved here in the 1950s. I'd love to do more research on this side and see where it leads. Malta is a country which has been colonised so many times over historically that our ancestry could lead anywhere around The Mediterranean. Our surname, like many Maltese names, is one of Arabic origin that probably dates back to The Middle Ages. At face value it sounds Italian though, since all Maltese people have been through heavy Latinization since.
My mothers side are mostly Bavarian (allegedly with some distant Russian ancestry, not proven). They moved over to England some time in the early 20th century, and because of the state of affairs they quickly decided to assimilate, take on British names and live as culturally British people. I had no idea they were German for a long time, they fit in here so well.
Dad's side is easier, they're Maltese. Grandparents moved here in the 1950s. I'd love to do more research on this side and see where it leads. Malta is a country which has been colonised so many times over historically that our ancestry could lead anywhere around The Mediterranean. Our surname, like many Maltese names, is one of Arabic origin that probably dates back to The Middle Ages. At face value it sounds Italian though, since all Maltese people have been through heavy Latinization since.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
