Is identifying as bicultural or multicultural common today?

[Anonymous]

This means relating and/or assimulating 2 or more cultures or ethnic groups within a society. You're don't completely follow your family's culture nor traditions but you haven't completely abandoned it either.

I'm a living example of that. My ethnicity is both hispanic and Latino. However, unlike most of my family members I'm a non-believer (atheist), prefer doing gentle parenting over old-school type with my son, not into honoring dead ancestors, don't like indigenous dances nor songs (prefer English songs) and like English names over Spanish ones. My son's first and middle names are in English and can't be translated in Spanish.

However, the things I've still hold on too is big family celebrations on b-days or other major social events, being family-oriented, spoiling my husband with large meals and being a stay-home mother as I'm very distrustful of babysitters and daycare. Besides my husband, I only trust my parents with my son. I guess I'm a mixture of cultures. Is this common nowadays? I don't identify with one culture completely nor the other. I'm westernized in some aspects but hold part of my roots in other areas.

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4 mo

I won't be doing any baptism ceremony on my son either. He'll be raised without religion. Though since my mother wanted to be my son's godmother, I'll just do a short family reunion. It'll be a verbal, personal baptism type; just no church involved. Just emotional connection.

[Lliam]

Your explanation did a great job of clarifying the question.

My parents were descendants of Irish Catholics who immigrated to the U. S. around 1850. They were raised in the mid-west before moving to California and were good Catholics like their ancestors but were otherwise as American as apple pie. We had no particularly Irish traditions.

I was born in 1954, so was influenced by the cultural changes of the '60s and '70s, which diverged from my dad's buttoned down, WWII vet attitudes. I was forced to become kind of rebellious even though I remained close to my parents and grandparents.
After much research into the subject, I also became non-religious.

I'm American, my parents and grandparents were American. So I didn't really change cultures, I just evolved with the times.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I believe it is common today and I'm pretty sure it was common 30 years ago already, looking at how many people fitting this category I met throughout my life.

[Asker]

yeah nowadays it's like no one really gets surprised about that anymore. I thought I was a rare atheist Latina (nope, it's spreading more) that's against harsh punishment on kids but others are also into gentle parenting too.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Definitely

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone put this much thought into the subject?

[Asker]

It's everything that describes me. I've always felt different from most of my family members. I wonder if others feel the same way too. Some days I feel as if I could've been born in the Pacific North West (Washington or Oregon) or in certain European countries such as Germany since that's where more non-believers and westernized people are found.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

• How are you not into honouring dead ancestors? The baseline if spirituality. Hail Woden, true god of the English.

[Asker]

I don't place candles on dead ancestors nor pray (aka talking to imaginary beings). If anything, I think you should love and honor someone when they're still alive, when you have them right there... not when they're dead. The only thing you can do when they're dead is simply keeping the good memories in your mind.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

So you're an atheist who feels certain there's no afterlife. But even still, it's worth honouring the dead you care about as they helped shape your soul.

[Asker]

Yes I'm an atheist and it's correct I don't believe in any afterlife and will not be baptizing my son either. My grandma said I sounded as cold (as in emotionally detached, lacking warmth) as one of my mother's uncle, who was also an atheist. It's not new. We can and have been viewed in that manner among the other Latinos just because most happen to be very religious.

[Asker]

Yet you don't need to be religious to have basic empathy. I've sent money to a couple people that suffered a tragedy, such as the time a mother's 3 year-old boy suffered serious burns after a scalding incident with a pot. I did wish her son a speedy recovery. Hopefully the great surgeons and doctors did a fantastic job. That wouldn't be someone cold. I can still be warm. I just don't believe in a god nor afterlife.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

What makes you so sure that rationality & maths explains the universe entirely for us? Just because we can map something out into a spreadsheet it doesn't disprove all that much honestly.
I think the reason why people have more faith in science (something civilisations used to do without turning to atheism) is because we're mostly putting up with moralising, obviously human invented religions that are founded on a text which can easily be scrutinised using science. However I find as I research mythology a shocking understanding of physics & insights into the origins of things that can usually only be explained by science.
If you treat a lot of this stuff as metaphorical you'll see with awe & wonder what our ancestors passed down, who basically make up who you are.

[exitseven]

I think i will identify as a racoon instead.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Yes.