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America is still obsessed with racial segregation
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<blockquote data-quote="Tuur" data-source="post: 77490660" data-attributes="member: 445885"><p>In our <em>blood?</em> Ah, no. Not even close. This really came to light when ours were in Middle School and faced the dreaded "What is your culture?" essay. This was in conjunction with genealogy, and I think the point was to help children to connect to their roots. The problem the first time we ran into this is that we didn't even know how long we'd been in the US. Some of my wife's ancestors were already here, and there's a possibility that some of mine were as well. Our surnames didn't matter one whit, as what ancestors we knew of hailed from all sorts of places. The only culture we had was the one we grew up in, rural farming, and even that was radically different from my great-grandfathers day.</p><p></p><p>It turned out that all of our ancestors had been in what's now the US before there even was a US. Whatever culture they brought with them was long since forgotten. The culture we have now is an amalgam from different influences, including changes in technology and industry. Even the order of worship is different than it was in the 19th or even early 20th centuries. Culture changes, perhaps more rapidly than we realize.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuur, post: 77490660, member: 445885"] In our [I]blood?[/I] Ah, no. Not even close. This really came to light when ours were in Middle School and faced the dreaded "What is your culture?" essay. This was in conjunction with genealogy, and I think the point was to help children to connect to their roots. The problem the first time we ran into this is that we didn't even know how long we'd been in the US. Some of my wife's ancestors were already here, and there's a possibility that some of mine were as well. Our surnames didn't matter one whit, as what ancestors we knew of hailed from all sorts of places. The only culture we had was the one we grew up in, rural farming, and even that was radically different from my great-grandfathers day. It turned out that all of our ancestors had been in what's now the US before there even was a US. Whatever culture they brought with them was long since forgotten. The culture we have now is an amalgam from different influences, including changes in technology and industry. Even the order of worship is different than it was in the 19th or even early 20th centuries. Culture changes, perhaps more rapidly than we realize. [/QUOTE]
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