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Nationalities
So, Mene, what nationality are you?
Do you participate in your heritage/traditions? Do you match your nationality's stereotypes? Personally, I'm Native, and I find my heritage really fascinating! My aana tells me the coolest stories, and lately I've been trying really hard to learn more and participate in the traditions that run in my family. |
I'm Dutch. Not much left of traditions and things like that, sadly. However I do participate in National Holidays, such as 4th and 5th of May and Koninginnendag.
I'm getting close to being a stereotype "Rotterdammer", which I'm quite proud of. |
I'm American, so I don't really have a heritage (you know, aside from raping and pillaging across the continent and such). My ancestors were descended from Scottish people and Vikings, and other than kilts, bagpipes, and haggus I don't know anything about them and I feel that growing up in a desert and being afraid the ocean and wide open spaces I'm the last person to try to emulate them. xD
So... Yeah. Had a great great great aunt that was a famous Opera singer back in the day. First woman to sing the national anthem at the Olympics, if I remember correctly. That's something. xD |
I'm a mutt. A bit of Native, German, and French from what I know of. I don't really have any traditions or anything which is a shame because I miss that kind of stuff. When I was married, my husband, who is Cree would always take me to Native get together. It's interesting.
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Well.... I'm one quarter Dutch, one quarter English and half Scottish as far as I know. However, I managed to be naturally tanned, so a lot of people assume I'm part Maori. :yes:
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Im a New Zealander. I personally have no interest in the Maori culture at all. But I do celebrate some of the new Zealand holiday's like children's day for example.
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My nationality is Australia.
I don't look it. We don't really have any notable traditions just yet being so young. Despite my ethnicity, and relative to most people of my ethnic group in the area that retains a bit of their ethnic accent even if they lived here their whole life, I have a fairly strong Australian accent. |
I'm actually not human. I don't know what I am exactly, but I know I'm not human.
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I'm a mutt, too xD
I'm British, but in reality I'm only a quarter Brit. My mum is half Irish and half British. My Dad is half French, a quarter Swiss and a quarter Italian. So I suppose I should call myself European o.o I don't participate in any weird UK traditions, like morris dancing and so forth :lol: But maybe there's stuff that I do that seems totally normal to me, but people from another country would think was weird :O Same with the stereotypes really. Sure I have bad British teeth! If by that people mean I haven't spent half my life in braces and am not whitened so much that I blind people at 20 paces. It both amuses and offends me that the US makes fun of the Brits about their teeth, as the only reason that we don't all get expensive orthodontic work is because we can't afford it. The wages in the US and the UK are fairly comparable, but the cost of living in the UK is far higher, so there's no money for cosmetic stuff like that, so I kind of want to punch people who joke about British teeth :sweat: |
I am mostly welsh, I honestly do not know any traditions of my culture except for ebblesckemer... don't even know how to spell it but it is like donut.
Cool things in my hertiage - I related to who Frankistein's creator was based off of. Also one of my ancestors was one of the first to be born here after coming here on the mayflower(or possibly one of the other ships) |
I'm Asian-American, I am born in America and my parents were immigrated onto this land. I don't really follow our tradition, since I was little my parents never really shown me a religion. Though they do talk about their land quite fondly, but only my grandma has shown me a religion which is Christian. I'm not a Christan and she has told me stories of the land she came from. My mom recently has started getting into her tradition after my brother died from cancer, she goes to temple and such. I do not but I find it interesting that things transcend that way. I don't think I match my nationality stereotype and it's why it's called a stereotype. Though if I have notice from my nationality, they have horrible grammar and it's really shameful to see. What really is shameful is my cousins are all horrible as well and it's not really regretful but it's shameful to know that they're easily influence in all these" azn pride" thing.
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My ancestors were Chinese so I look Chinese even though neither my parents nor I were born in China. Chinese traditions have been passed down though, we eat rice and other Asian foods most days for dinner. We speak Chinese, my parents know a lot more than me though. And we also celebrate most Chinese festivals/events for example Chinese New Year, Dragon boat festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.
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Kraven: HAHAHAHA Ohmygod :XD
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I'm a European mutt. As far as I know, I'm Polish, British, German, Czech, Danish, and a tiny, tiny, tiny bit Native American. There's a rumor that there's some French in there, but we have no proof of that one.
I am stereotypically American. We don't follow any traditions from our heritages in my family, unfortunately. They got lost somewhere along the way. We do enjoy German foods in my house, though. At least my father and I do--we pull out the sauerkraut every once in awhile, and we like those heavy sauces. |
I'm Israeli and Polish...
I don't really, I'm not very religious, but I celebrate the holidays, as well as traditional american holidays too. Lol, the only stereotype i really match is that I like money. Hahahah. My nose isn't very big, I don't collect coupons, lol, but yeah. That's about it. |
I'm an American. I don't look too deep into my own heritage or traditions, just the superficial aspect of holidays. It would appear that my ancestors came from Africa, but I feel no connection to it, especially when I meet Africans or interact with other "African-Americans" who have no direct link to any African people.
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I AM CANADIAN!
Yup, Pancakes and bacon for dinner is tres awesome! I speak both french and English...poorly, as well as a multitude of other languages. Or bits an pieces of them. Since we're a multi-cultural country I like to at least know what the insults are so I know if they're being mean to me. XD I'm polite normally. I'll defend my sovereignty as an individual like no bodies business. I do like hiking and outdoors, and can build a fire and fish. That would be the short answer. The long one would include such cultures/nations as: Scottish, French, Welsh, German, Austrian and Metis. O.o (My daughter has Italian and Ukrainian added to the mix OI!) I like looking back to the past with the traditions of the pagan Europeans before the Holy Roman Empire came in and...well forced certain things. As much as I respect my cultures I also look forward and hope that the internet connects the whole world and we unite under one human language. . .Mandarin XD Wut? The space Aliens don't want to translate to all those different human dialects. Think of how many arguments will be solved that much easier when we all speak HUMAN! |
Thank you for your syrup. I enjoy pancakes and bacon at any time of day myself. Especially these days when I'm running out of food and pancake mix is just about all I have left that only requires water.
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I'm American. My ancestors came from England and other Northern European countries as far as I know. I don't really know if I match any stereotypes or not.
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I thought this would be fun to post in this thread so that people can compare stereotypes and see if any of them carried over in their blood:
55 Nations – Stereotypes that will Ruin or Make your Day » nomad4ever |
ElysiumFate: Hahaha that's a pretty amusing list!! I'm from Germany, and most of that is true (I do secretly want to invade and control Europe...), but I have NEVER heard of being mechanical as a stereotype. I guess I have to pay attention more :P
I live in America, however, but I don't think I'm many of those things. I think some of those things are for rednecks :( Any traditions that I uphold are American holidays, and Catholic holidays... I am no longer religious, but I do so for the sake of my parents who still very much are. |
I knew that "mechanical" stereotype about Germany, but I never called it that. That German stereotype in my brain was always a "holier than thou" complex about their engineering smarts. Those VW commercials drive me crazy: "why is this car good? It's German." *sighs*
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I'm half Japanese, a quarter Russian and a quarter something European, I'm not really sure what *shrug* I grew up in Japan, and while we celebrated the important holidays, we really didn't partake in a lot of them for some reason. I live in a US now and I mainly celebrate Wiccan holidays but I have kept the Japanese traditions regarding Shogatsu(New years) and Tanabata, the star festival. ^^
I really have no idea about the stereotypes of my father's side (Russian/something), but I can say I really don't follow Japanese stereotypes at all. I'm 6'4", very open person and horrible at math, lol. |
I'm fourth generation Canadian. All my great grandparents are from across Europe. I'm Irish, Scottish, Polish, and Ukrainian. Out of all of them, I'd say I'm closest to my Ukrainian roots, mostly because my grandfather's parents were from the Ukraine, and since he's my only grandparent left, we spend a lot of time with him. Granted, the most I do to honour my roots is eat a lot of Ukrainian food :P
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I am a mutt but I am mostly Chinese.... so I guess I am Asian-American.
I do partake in the normal traditions since my grandmother tries to keep me in the culture. I don't mind since I enjoy celebrating and learning about the history and things like that. I practice more Japanese culture than Chinese culture. My grandmother lived in Japan for some time so she tried to teach me some of their traditions as well. Then my grandfather is 100% american :lol: Soooo He basically taught me the way of the cheeseburger and country music! I do fit the stereotype somewhat xD I am short (VERY) Small feet compared to some people. I have coarse hair (But since I am mixed it is REALLY thick and naturally curls.) Against stereotypes: I am chubby HORRIBLE at math I am to tired to think of any more :XD |
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