What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

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What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

Although my ancestors came to this country from multiple European countries, it was too long ago. I have no knowledge of anything beyond which country they came from.

My family fought on both sides of the Civil War. I don’t take sides; I learn from history.

There are some things I can’t change. I was born White and a man. I’m good with it and don’t want to be anything else.

I loved my parents and some of my family. I put up with the rest and avoid some with vigor.

I guess I don’t take it too seriously, as my heritage is a mish-mash of so many things, I could fit into most categories, except the obvious. I’m also too old now to change anything, so I am who I am. I’m interested in the timeline at this point, and who died early or late that is closely related to me. I’m headed to the finish line at some point in the future.

What about you?

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2 thoughts on “What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?”

  1. Essentially not much interested in the heritage.  Scots/Irish/English from Campbells & McCoys & Hickses and a German grandfather who married a French/Irish girl.

    Just happy to have been born during the ascendancy and Happy Days of Murkan culture, 1940 to 1960.

    Appreciate German classical music, British dry humor, Italian intrigue, Spanish arrogance, French romance, and Filipino food.

    Point is, I’m in a society which not only allows but promotes those things, celebrates those gifts, enjoys those legacies.

    Don’t hafta be a bloke to appreciate Monty Python, or a kraut to be transported by Mozart, or a frog to enjoy good french wine with fine cuisine, or a paisano to feel pumped up by il factotum della cita della cita della cita . . . DE LA CI-TAaaaaa. 

    And whose soul doesn’t resonate when Callas sings Un Bel Di, or Trio Los Panchos tells us to “Canta y no llores . . . porque cantando se alegran los corazones”?

    Nah . . . I’m happy to take it from anybody — EXCEPT RAPPERS — just live in the moments they make possible.  Who cares if an Italian wrote the opera for a Japanese aria sung by a Spanish lady or a German wrote Figaro for Italian tenors?

    Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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  2. The cultural heritage that I value the most is valuing the individual. A number of cultures, past and present, consider the individual expendable and the tribe everything. That is at the heart of stating “the United States was founded on Christian values.” Both Christianity and the founding documents valued the individual.

    This could easily turn into a full blown essay, but I’m on my phone with a tiny keyboard…

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