How important is your ethnicity to you?

by **Dulce et Decorum** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:13 am

What is your claimed ethnicity?

What aspects of that ethnicity do you engage in?

How important is your claimed ethnicity?

I'm English through and through and engage in many of the expected cultural aspects of English life (the food, the sports, the music, the arts) and I couldn't imagine ever wanting to turn my back on all that over 1000 years of history has crafted. It has moulded my understanding of a fair and just society, a willingness to help those not as fortunate as I to be English, and generally I feel most comfortable and at ease amongst my own culture.

by **The Huskar Social Union** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:14 am

Generally, i dont really care about it.

by **Socialist Tera** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:15 am

My ethnicity is Polish, even though I live in Australia, born in Australia but I am not Australian, I am Polish, even though, I can't speak the language yet, I plan to learn, I already eat Polish food and celebrate Polish holidays.

by **New Aapelistan** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:16 am

I feel best in my home culture and in my home country

by **Dulce et Decorum** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:16 am

Socialist Tera wrote:My ethnicity is Polish, even though I live in Australia, born in Australia but I am not Australian, I am Polish, even though, I can't speak the language yet, I plan to learn, I already eat Polish food and celebrate Polish holidays.

Why do you identify more with your polish ethnicity?

by **Socialist Tera** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:18 am

Dulce et Decorum wrote:
Socialist Tera wrote:My ethnicity is Polish, even though I live in Australia, born in Australia but I am not Australian, I am Polish, even though, I can't speak the language yet, I plan to learn, I already eat Polish food and celebrate Polish holidays.

Why do you identify more with your polish ethnicity?

I grew up in a Polish household learning Polish traditions rather than Australian ones. I find that Australians are blunt, rude and arrogant people with no regards for other people's feelings. They only care for the short term and care little for the community.

by **Rhivalia** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:19 am

Well, my ethnicity is a mixed bag of French, English, German, Swiss and Irish. I have to say I love looking up information about some of my ancestry. But it really doesn't play a part although I find it fascinating. I just love learning about the cultures that I come from and I love the history, the myths and the Architecture!

by **Sun Lands** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:19 am

I'm half British, half Italian. I am very sensitive to those two cultures for that reason.

by **Rajnostan** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:19 am

I don't even know my native tongue yet my ethnicity is the very foundation for my identity.

by **Sun Lands** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:20 am

Rhivalia wrote:Well, my ethnicity is a mixed bag of French, English, German, Switzerlandian?(No clue what it's called) and Irish. I have to say I love looking up information about some of my ancestry. But it really doesn't play a part although I find it fascinating.

Swiss.

by **Dulce et Decorum** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:23 am

Rhivalia wrote:Well, my ethnicity is a mixed bag of French, English, German, Switzerlandian?(No clue what it's called) and Irish. I have to say I love looking up information about some of my ancestry. But it really doesn't play a part although I find it fascinating.

I'm presuming American or other colonial nation. Yes?

My Spotify Account · by **Ragnarum** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:29 am

Well, not very much, since I don't know much. All I know is that I'm pretty tall, have ginger hair and that I'm not descended from Ireland. Also, parts of my family came to the UK with the Hapsburg's as servants.

by **Dulce et Decorum** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:30 am

Ragnarum wrote:Well, not very much, since I don't know much. All I know is that I'm pretty tall, have ginger hair and that I'm not descended from Ireland. Also, parts of my family came to the UK with the Hapsburg's as servants.

So Scottish then

My Spotify Account · by **Ragnarum** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:31 am

Dulce et Decorum wrote:
Ragnarum wrote:Well, not very much, since I don't know much. All I know is that I'm pretty tall, have ginger hair and that I'm not descended from Ireland. Also, parts of my family came to the UK with the Hapsburg's as servants.

So Scottish then

Potentially.
Ginger hair is a thing on both sides of my family, however.

by **Teemant** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:32 am

I'm Estonian and it is important to me.

by **Thervingia** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:32 am

I am too mixed to care for my ethnicity.

by **Ostroeuropa** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:33 am

I don't care about it, but the history of my ancestors and such is nice to know and all that. I'm proud of being a Westerner. Being a white westerner simply means my family have been here longer, it doesn't make newer arrivals less my brethren.

by **Kaidou** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:34 am

Pure Chinese as far as I'm able to trace back.

As for whether it's important… meh, not really.

by **Giovenith** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:35 am

Not very. I'll act like it matters when it around family that cares, but other than that, I don't give much attention to it.

by **Dumb Ideologies** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:35 am

I'm English and I hate going on holiday anywhere outside the country because hearing all the "outsider speak", seeing signs in a different language and the food being different makes me anxious and unsettled at the most basic existential level.

Pull up the drawbridge, we're going full North Korea.

by **Dulce et Decorum** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:37 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:I'm English and I hate going on holiday anywhere outside the country because hearing all the "outsider speak", seeing signs in a different language and the food being different makes me anxious and unsettled at the most basic existential level.

Pull up the drawbridge, we're going full North Korea.

We're going to need Hadrian's Wall 2.0 to keep out a good chunk of the unintelligible speakers while we're at it.

by **Pulau Singapura** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:38 am

What is your claimed ethnicity?
mostly Malay but with some (alleged) Spanish blood.
What aspects of that ethnicity do you engage in?
I absolutely love Malay food and culture, but in this area of Nusantara, we had Christian influence, so Filipino Malays have different religion than those in other parts of Nusantara.
How important is your claimed ethnicity?
The Malay cuisine is very well known to the world for it's spiciness and mixture of flavour.

by **Phoaenice** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:39 am

It is, because of the language.
Wich is (the language group) basical in most things, and politics among them since the way of reasoning depends on it.
Not considered yet when this language stores an enormus cultural heritage.

by **Ostroeuropa** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:42 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:I'm English and I hate going on holiday anywhere outside the country because hearing all the "outsider speak", seeing signs in a different language and the food being different makes me anxious and unsettled at the most basic existential level.

Pull up the drawbridge, we're going full North Korea.

The British Passport is not made for showing foreign officials, it is made for beating them aside.

by **Kyrinasaj** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:45 am

What is your claimed ethnicty?

Dutch

What aspects of that ethnicity do you engage in?

I don't like Dutch food or anything related to Dutch culture. It's noet special to me.

How important is your claimed ethnicity?

Not at all. I don't think it's interesting or important

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