Your cultural heritage?

[Romneyerica]

WHITE

[Disserbia]

WHITE

So rich and white it's like a cheesecake.

[Arumdaum]

WHITE

So rich and white it's like a cheesecake.

[Ilovebenderdotcomland]

They call me white chocolate.

[The Mataniya Islands]

WHITE

So rich and white it's like a cheesecake.

Oh vanilla cheesecake... <3

[Liege]

I live in the USA, but my family prior to my grandparents were born in Switzerland and Northern Italy on one side, and Sicily on the other. Subsequently, I am Swiss and Italian.

[The Emerald Legion]

What's this observation based on?

The fact that society was not born yesterday.

Your heritage has little to do with the machinery of society.

History is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Facts matter. Risks matter. Long dead people do not.

[Disserbia]

They call me white chocolate.

No they don't.

[Disserbia]

The fact that society was not born yesterday.

Your heritage has little to do with the machinery of society.

History is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Facts matter. Risks matter. Long dead people do not.

Are you being serious? I honestly can't tell but I really hope you're not.

[Valkalan]

The fact that society was not born yesterday.

Your heritage has little to do with the machinery of society.

History is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Facts matter. Risks matter. Long dead people do not.

Yes and no. While they are dead, the lessons learned for their experiences are worth consideration.

[The Emerald Legion]

Your heritage has little to do with the machinery of society.

History is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Facts matter. Risks matter. Long dead people do not.

Are you being serious? I honestly can't tell but I really hope you're not.

Yes.

It's interesting of course, and while it can teach lessons, it often clouds issues with past prejudices that should be allowed to die with the ones who held them.

Your heritage has little to do with the machinery of society.

History is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Facts matter. Risks matter. Long dead people do not.

Yes and no. While they are dead, the lessons learned for their experiences are worth consideration.

The problem is that all too often, the answers they learned from those lessons were incorrect. Over-attachment to the past leads to stagnation as you refuse to question anything "Learned" by your predecessors.

[Seshephe]

100% Ubaidian

[Disserbia]

Your heritage has little to do with the machinery of society.

History is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Facts matter. Risks matter. Long dead people do not.

Yes and no. While they are dead, the lessons learned for their experiences are worth consideration.

Yeah not only that, people's thoughts and actions have a lasting impact on society in general. Just because someone is dead or something that happened is over Doesnt mean it never happened or they were never born.

[Disserbia]

Are you being serious? I honestly can't tell but I really hope you're not.

Yes.

It's interesting of course, and while it can teach lessons, it often clouds issues with past prejudices that should be allowed to die with the ones who held them.

Culture is not just a bunch of prejudices it's how people live their lives.

[Valkalan]

Are you being serious? I honestly can't tell but I really hope you're not.

Yes.

It's interesting of course, and while it can teach lessons, it often clouds issues with past prejudices that should be allowed to die with the ones who held them.

I figured that your reasoning would be along these lines. And I agree that the achievements and failures of the dead should not be held by the living as a mark of status or shame. But again, history is valuable for understanding the means by which the world has arrived at its present condition, and the causes and effects of historic successes and failures.

[Ilovebenderdotcomland]

South London white British rocker...

From the rooftop shout it out

[Ilovebenderdotcomland]

They call me white chocolate.

No they don't.

You know.

"in my head they do"

[Mozzissey]

25% Serbian
25% Welsh
25% Native American
25% French (Canadian)

There's also a tiny bit of Scottish and Irish, but it's very, very tiny.

[Corrupt Sensations]

43% South Korean, 20% French, and 37% Luxembourgish.

[Arumdaum]

43% South Korean, 20% French, and 37% Luxembourgish.

what's up with all these arbitrary numbers

south korean really?

[The Emerald Legion]

Yes.

It's interesting of course, and while it can teach lessons, it often clouds issues with past prejudices that should be allowed to die with the ones who held them.

Culture is not just a bunch of prejudices it's how people live their lives.

Can you explain the difference? Culture, is little more than personal preference that multiple people have adopted and formalized to some degree.


Further if the personal preference that Cultural practices are based in isn't of use, then why keep the Cultural practice? Why should I go out of my way to buy a bushel of live crabs, boil them alive, and painstakingly pick them apart when A.) I don't like crab meat all that much. B.) I hate picking crabs. and C.) I hate the cleanup afterwards? I don't, even though that's part of the local culture, and I've been invited to take part a few times.

Yes.

It's interesting of course, and while it can teach lessons, it often clouds issues with past prejudices that should be allowed to die with the ones who held them.

I figured that your reasoning would be along these lines. And I agree that the achievements and failures of the dead should not be held by the living as a mark of status or shame. But again, history is valuable to understanding the means by which the world has arrived at its present condition, and the causes and effects of historic successes and failures.

Wouldn't it just be better to, instead of a Rote "This worked in the past so we do it this way." Use understanding of the problem and solve it?

[Corrupt Sensations]

43% South Korean, 20% French, and 37% Luxembourgish.

what's up with all these arbitrary numbers

south korean really?

Bitch are you doubting me? I got those numbers from the family history book #2. Isn't it obvious? So I'm ASIAN. Do you have a problem with that, you racist?

[Valkalan]

43% South Korean, 20% French, and 37% Luxembourgish.

I've never actually attempted to estimate the percentages. Here goes.

50% Spanish, 30% German, 20% French. Please note that these are approximations based on limited anecdotal data.

[Arumdaum]

what's up with all these arbitrary numbers

south korean really?

Bitch are you doubting me? I got those numbers from the family history book #2. Isn't it obvious? So I'm ASIAN. Do you have a problem with that, you racist?

Yeah man, I just friggin' hate Asians, did you know that?

[Ilovebenderdotcomland]

My father's like the father from that film Big Fish (2003)... My culture, not my already rich heritage, is pretty decent too, or so he claims. *shrugs... IDK, nor care. It's still my father. Still he holds his own on facebook these days so that's cool.