Why Your Ethnic Identity And Heritage Matters And Why You Should Care (Page 2)

[JustCallMeLeon]

Sorry but i will always place myself and my happiness above my narrow minded relatives. In other words, id rather be happy with whom im with than being miserable just for the sake of acting all ethnic and pride and shit.

[Cheetah23]

Well said. I love my culture and heritage, but the proud people who wanna stereotype or reject other cultures due to their own really bothers me. Like let me love my culture but still be able to choose a man, a friend, hell even a species despite their race😂

[Deathraider]

Ehhhh... I honestly don't want to practice certain traditions because I just don't want to. I mean I'm more of an individualistic thinker.

I do have some pride, not too prideful. I also have self love and I care about my family.

I also am supportive of interracial marriage. I mean if two people of different race love each other, go ahead.

[MidnightCerise]

Uh, I'm biracial, it does make me feel kinda alone in the world, but that's because I never met my dad. I'm half Burmese, half white, and my boyfriend, of 1 year, is half Japanese, and half Taiwanese. We're head over heels, and our cultural differences don't really matter. It's emotions, and interests, that define how things will work out.

[Arborialhedgehog]

My ancestors used to wank a pig off, collect the seamen in a mrter, put wkde flowers in, grind them up with a petal to produce torwuoise body paint, get naked, smear it all over the self's then go into battle naked, no wonder the Romans conquered us. My point is, some traditions are a bit silly.

[RIVERTAY888]

Great take l am from scotland and so proud of scotland

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Be proud! 💪💪💪

[RIVERTAY888]

Thanks man

[Stockton]

I love my identity my heritage. After all I am 100% American my ethnic tree is the rest of the world you can claim one branch I claim the whole tree. I celebrate Chinese New Year as well as Cinco de Mayo. My history is the history of the world

[Salmon4056]

Good mytake. I sometimes think whether or not I should mostly stick with or identify myself as antiguan or Jamaican from my dad's side of family or black American from my mom.

[Anonymous]

Agree with u. I dont want my partner/children to be different.

They never respect our culture and traditions or religion truly.

[Opinion Owner]

To the peopke who are saying it's "racism".

Its not racism as i dont hate people from any other race

I want expect my partner and children to love my country, race and religion just like me and they should have a particular bias about it.

[Trollfather]

There are many unique cultures throughout the world.

It would be a pretty boring one if they all vanished or if they were all absorbed to create only a few, right?

I say preserve your identity, songs, books, languages - these are all key.

[jacquesvol]

I married a girl raised in another language than mine.
It made no difference. We're both multilingual

[bubble_tea]

Can you explain how watering down ethnic pride will make division easier?

[Muhammad1999]

well as an indo european we are somehow similar with western white people with little difference and different culture , im ok being with someone with different culture as far as they have the same religion.

[Jager66]

[LegateLanius]

Someone needs to punch wikipedia in the face

[Jager66]

@LegateLanius yeah pretty much.. College offers credit to students to enter Feminist thinking into wikkipedia

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5028
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon

They even have Feminist activist groups that get together regularly to edit wikkipedia in "edit a thons" to make wikkipedia more "Feminist" and "diverse", which is dog whistle code for "anti male" and "anti white people".

Even the worst edit war on wikki was between radical Feminists trying to paint Gamergate as a sexist hate movement, when in reality it was a grass roots protest about the lack of ethics in gaming journalism.
www.theguardian.com/.../wikipedia-bans-editors-from-gender-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy

[Tohhhru]

I looked it up and surprised that bullshit is actually there, what the fuck

[Anonymous]

I agree. It's why I won't marry outside of the white race and why I had an abortion after sleeping with a black man.

[Dinklex3]

I don't care about my ethnic identity and I love myself very much.
:)
Interesting take though.

[Lurazua]

Being biracial is hella fun, best of both worlds amirght?😁

[Arborialhedgehog]

I'm biracial, most of my ancestors were cromagnon, a few were neanderthals. Australian aborigines and New Zealand Maoris are biracial too, mostly cromagnon with a bit of floresian. I can't live like my ancestors, they hunted wooly mammoths and used their tusks as frames for their houses.

[Lurazua]

@Arborialhedgehog its not practical nor is it expected of your to live as your ancestors have, you may not even be able to embrace the cultures at all. From my experience, without having to dig deep into history books, I learn and embrace my cultures from my parents and grandparents. Culture isn't always tangible either, values can be learned as well.

[watchmen]

You have a point, but celebrating heritage can be hard. It is harder for some than it is for others.

[JackJPershing]

Love of Ethnicity = tribalism = collectivism. No thanks. I judge individuals, not groups.

[joelkc]

So you're telling that you are gonna marry someone based on their race, everything else about is meaningless, right?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yep. I stick to my own only.

[joelkc]

good for you, but whoever is destined for me regardless of race is for me. If I need approval from other people, then I'd rather stay single for life or commit suicide.

[DiegoO]

Well, from someone who have two ethnic identities, I celebrate ethnic and cultural diversity.