Cultural Heritage

[teehee100]

Just curious as to what culture people are. I am British, Irish, French, and Japanese. I live in America and is what my grandmother believed was true, I'm related to a samurai.

[physicssquid]

I'm British, my mother was born in North Wales, and my Dad's family came from Scotland. I don't really know any more than that, other than the fact that my grandparents on my mum's side grew up in Leicestershire and my Dad's parents grew up in Merseyside.

[Chameleon]

I'm from Faroe Island, and as far I can count my family have been living here for really long time. We've got a few members living in other countries, but most of them stay here.

I've been thinking of figure out how long time my family has stayed here, but well... I guess they've all lived here. All my great-grandparents have lived in Faroe Islands, and they've all got Faroese names.

[eskimoRock]

Me and my parents were born in england, but my dads family were Irish and my grandma moved to England from Scotland after the war

[G. Novella]

I live in Canada, but all my family originates from India or Pakistan. I can trace my ancestry back like 11 generations and they all lived in India... pretty cool stuff

[Kitty279]

Just three quarter German and one quarter British.

[brokenquill92]

Well lets see I'm American but my racial and cultural heritage consist of African-American, French, Sioux Native American, Cuban, Irish, Wyandot Native American. So what I equal out to is a freckly brown person with frizzy curls. So what the family history is that my great grandmother (Sioux) married a half Irish farmer from a cotton farm in Arkansas. My father's grandfather came from Cuba and got rich on tobacco farming in the twenties and ended up being caught in a garden shed with a Creole maid (ggmother on my father's side) blah blah and here I am a 20 year old African American stuck in the suburbs of Tennessee trying to learn Braille

[Ithiarel]

German - on all sides.

My family on my father's side is half East Frisian and half Silesian (back then, it was still part of Germany). My mother's side comes also from East Frisia (same tribe actually) and East Prussia (back then, it was still part of Germany, too).

So, technically: East Frisian / German mix.

[melodypottersnape]

Irish, British, Germain on my mother's side.

I mainly only know of British and Native American on my dad's.

My Dad's grandmother was full blooded Cherokee.

[Chameleon]

I get all jealous of you guys with different roots, whereas I'm a full blooded Faroese... I bet all my ancestors did was fishing. All my uncles on my paternal side, they have on some point fished. I think two are still doing that job.

[G. Novella]

Haha, I know the feeling Chammy! I'm just so, plain in comparison to everyone. Though, my ancestors did some pretty wild stuff... mostly involving joining the army and hunting on my dad's side since they were military men or farmers. My mum's side was involved in trading and were pretty rich, but they've also been huge gamblers (fucking crazy gamblers more like) since even before my grandma was born, so most of the money slips in and out.

[Chameleon]

Ooh, that's an interesting background. My parents or any of my family wouldn't dare to even gamble or anything like that. And since we don't have an army here, unless they join in Denmark, so it's seldom with that kind of stuff. We don't even have a casino or something like that...

Does it count for a pretty Christian family, that my father was the only one who was married with a girl who wasn't pregnant. All his four sisters were either pregnant or had a child, when they got married. Hm. I can use that as a excuse, if I ever should get a baby out of wedlock.

[G. Novella]

LOL! That's great Chammy x)

My grandfather was in the Navy, he had a ton of medals. He was in WW2 in Burma when the Japanese surrendered, which is pretty awesome.

My other grandfather was an alcoholic... meh... But his wife (my grandmother) was a part of the biggest gambling family I've ever seen. These people use religious holidays to set up tables in the 'main house' which is this giant home that belonged to my great grandparents, and play cards. They have different tables for different stakes and games. It's like, a temp casino. And they gamble until they're about to pass out from exhaustion and cheat like anything.

[Chameleon]

I think getting children before marriage is the only 'scandal' in our family ... And my maternal aunt got divorced, and remarried. That's our few 'scandals' in our Christian family.

Ooh, that sounds really interesting, Gnovvy...

[G. Novella]

My family is riddled with scandal... They'd make a great soap opera, it's not funny but it is. They're just ridiculous people.

And it's fun to watch. The most I've ever gambled with is about a hundred bucks. But some of my aunts and uncles will blow 10 grand in a night. It's terrifying. Even my aunt who doesn't gamble married a gambler. It's like, in every couple, one has to gamble. Or they both do.

[melodypottersnape]

My uncle's first wife cheated on him and end up the kid wasn't his. From what i hear he doesn't get to or want to see the kid.

My dad's first wife cheated on him. He was the second man ever in the county we live in to gain full custody of his kids(My oldest siblings)

Everyone of my dad's brother's and sister has gotten divorced.

My dad didn't walk my oldest sister down the aisle because he thought she was marrying because the boy got her pregnant and not cause they loved eachother. He doesn't agree with marrying a person if you don't love them.

[Kitty279]

Somehow my own family seems so plain and simple in comparison. No exotic roots, and no interesting jobs. Though admittedly, I know very little about my grandfathers and next to nothing about the great-grandparents or anything before them, due to circumstances. So, maybe there's something interesting hidden. Though I doubt it.

[G. Novella]

Divorce... most of my family hasn't gotten divorced as such. However, they do separate when they aren't in love. My aunt (mom's cousin) separated from her husband, but took care of him when he had cancer and was best friend's with his ex-girlfriend who he was seeing throughout their marriage.

My great-aunt was separated from her husband and they were best friends for a while, she took care of him and knew his girlfriend. Her daughter ended up marrying a man who ran away with her money. My dad's sister married twice, and both men abandoned her eventually. Her youngest daughter was either born out of wedlock, or my grandmother hated her father, but for one of those reasons, my grandmother didn't like my cousin.

My uncle has dated three women as serious relationships, his first girlfriend who's both married and pregnant is still very much in love with him, and visits him when she's in town, and has come to stay with my mum and aunt while married and is their best friend. His second girlfriend was insane. His third girlfriend I don't know well enough to judge.

[melodypottersnape]

If I make a good sum of money I plan to sign one of those prenups. Do you think it's bad to sign one of those but say you love and trust the other person?

My dad and mom have recently seperated though they are on good terms and talk often. From my understanding they both have decided to date other people if they like them but do not wish to get married.

[Chameleon]

Oh... I feel even more plain now. You can't really cheat here, because then it spreads around like spitfire in our little town. And I'm not saying I know everyone, because I don't, but it gets quickly around. "Did you hear that Mary's John cheated on Suzy's Laura," or something like that.

[G. Novella]

Ohhh, small town stuff. Yeah, that's like my family, a small town due to the sheer size of it..

But a prenup isn't bad, I mean, it's just a smarter way of doing things. Love isn't always forever, and heck, I've watched people in my family, specifically that aunt, get screwed over without one.

[Chameleon]

I think all this has suddenly made me even more paranoid, since I saw a picture my cousin put out on Facebook of her boyfriend and a girl, and suddenly thought : "Have they broken up?" since he had his arm around her.

[brokenquill92]

Sept 12, 2012 14:00:42 GMT -5 G. Novella said:

Haha, I know the feeling Chammy! I'm just so, plain in comparison to everyone. Though, my ancestors did some pretty wild stuff... mostly involving joining the army and hunting on my dad's side since they were military men or farmers. My mum's side was involved in trading and were pretty rich, but they've also been huge gamblers (fucking crazy gamblers more like) since even before my grandma was born, so most of the money slips in and out.

At least those scandals aren't embarrassing my family is one giant sex scandal with secret adopted babies and murder on the side we're like a living saop opera

[G. Novella]

Meh, mine's riddled with people stealing each other's money, and then having sex scandals in the background or gambling away money and going on drugs...

[Chameleon]

Maybe a tv will one day pick your lives up and make a soap show out of it. Could be interesting. Indian gamblers.

[G. Novella]

Might be great. Seriously though, they were the fourth richest family in Asia at one point! And then they were poor, and now they're millionaires in the States -_-

[physicssquid]

My family isn't all that interesting. My grandfather on my dad's side was in the signals corp in Egypt during WW2. I can't remember what my grandmother did.
My mum''s side were too young to get involved, being 13 and 14 when the war started, and when they were old enough to start working, became teachers.

Further back, on my dad's side, I know that my great-grandmother kept travelling across the Atlantic, from Liverpool to New York and back, I don't know how many times in the space of about five years. And one of my other ancestors, my grandfather's grandfather, married and had two children with a woman, then after she died, married her sister, having four children with her. That's about it for interest in my family.

[dracosfairmaiden]

I am American but my grandma is half-Irish half Italian. I may have some Cherokee blood but only really distantly. I actually don't know what my mom's family is.

[MySecretSecondChance]

I was born in australia and so were my parents, both my mother and her motherdont know who my mothers father is ( she was a result of a one night stand) i know my great great grandma on my mthers side is from newzealand and great great grampa on my mothers side was polish and on my dads side i know there german , english, irish and a tiny bit of scot so yeah thats me .

[jaffaninja]

Both me and my parents were born in New Zealand, and my grandparents on my Dad's side. Everyone before that was British. My family sounds boring compared to all yours - we haven't had any scandals that I know of, or anything like that...