Yay, someone else who celebrates the Moon Festival! We made homemade mooncakes since my sister has allergies, but those and the store-bought ones are long gone. How do you still have some??? I love red bean mooncakes, they're probably my favorite. we also had mong bean, which was meh, and in the store-bought ones was and egg yolk which I didn't like. The salty didn't go well.

I celebrate the Moon Festival because my dad's side is Asian. He's technically from Canada, but his parents are from China. I can speak a little Chinese, but not much. My Chinese name is Li Ming, there's also a Chinese grocery store with that name. 

My mom's side is Haitian, both of my grandparents from that side are from Haiti. My mom grew up in New York, we used to go there all the time before my Grandma moved so she could be with us, she should be coming here later this year! Whenever it snows, we make akasan, a Haitian beverage made from  milk, corn flour, star anise, vanilla, and cinnamon. It is really delicious and perfect for a winter's day!

One day I hope to visit both China and Hati, maybe after COVID. I don't have any religions, but I do speak a little Spanish as well. We also celebrate Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year. That's the one with all the dragons. I don't think we celebrate any Haitian holidays, but we do celebrate New Years Day, Valentines Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. 

Well, that's my culture, I look forward to seeing other people's cultures!

Heyyyyy, mooncake buddies! XD my entire family is Chinese, like literally everyone, and I can speak Chinese okay and write and read a little, but I'm not really good :p I've been thinking of practicing a lot more recently ... mainly because I want to be able to sing C-pop songs XD

I'm orthodox Jewish and Ashkenazi. We are actually currently celabrating the holiday Succos. On Succos there are two main things that we do: shake a lulav and esrog, which are plants, as well as eat and sleep in the Succah, which is kind of a hut, I guess? Ours has (slightly moldy XD) wooden walls and bamboo for the roof. Right now it's Chol Hamoed, which is different than the rest of the holiday, so that's why I can be on the computer. I can speak Hebrew well enough and hope to someday, be'ezras Hashem, move to Israel. 

The Moon Festival sounds really cool! I don't really know anyone from East Asia, so it's interesting to hear about.

THIS IS SUCH A COOL THREAD IDEA. I love learning about different countries and cultures and all that! I actually only learned about the Moon Festival this year, but now it seems to be popping up everywhere! I think I've had moon cakes before at a dim sum restaurant and they were good. 

I am part Japanese, part Mexican, and part European (I live in the U.S.) My family doesn't really use a lot of traditions from any of those cultures but we have celebrated Japanese New Year with my dad's family before, which was really fun. It coincides with the American new year, I think. All I really remember about the celebration was that we made sushi and had these little mochi stacks. Japanese food is amazing. I'm also taking Japanese as a language at school this year, which is really cool but also pretty hard.

I feel like my family is kind of more into Japanese-American culture and history than Japanese culture (and yes, they're different). A few years ago we went to Angel Island, which is this island off the coast of San Francisco that has a lot of history relating to the Japanese interment camps in World War II. My grandparents were interned when they were kids, and I've read some books about it too (The Journey to Topaz is really good if you want to check it out). So yeah! That ended up a little more depressing than I had intended, sorry. Again, this thread is amazing, I can't wait to hear more about everyone's cultures! <3 (Also, Fidelity, I think you've made me start using text hearts).

Aw, darn it! I had the idea to make a thread like this, but completely forgot! Oh well. I love learning about different cultures.

So, my dad is from Puerto Rico, and my mom is white but speaks fluent Spanish, but somehow they never taught me much Spanish! So for most of my life my parents just spoke Spanish whenever they wanted to have a private conversation, even if I was in the room! I've been learning it through school with help from my mom, but I still can't really speak Spanish :/ Since we don't celebrate any different holidays or whatever, I guess I don't have that much of a different culture in my everyday life, except for listening to salsa music and sometimes eating Puerto Rican food. It's apparently a stereotype that Puerto Ricans talk loudly, and my family (and me sometimes) definitely fit in to that!

On my mom's side there's not much to say other than "typical white Southern Presbyterian Americans", although my grandma does love to tell about her great-grandfather(?) who was a whaler and got stuck on some island for a long time before they rescued him.

I don't really know what cultures I would be from. But I was born, raised, and currently live in the USA, and some of my dad's relatives (grandparents, great aunts and uncles I think, etc.) were Mexican so I live to say I have some pretty close Mexican heritage. Now that y'all mention cultures, I might try to find out more about my heritage outside of American and Mexican. I've heard about a website that can tell you your ancestors, I might look into that kind of thing. 

Religion? I'm Catholic, although there are some things about it that make me sooooo mad. As in they're annoying, not as in I disbelieve them. I celebrate New Years Eve, we acknowledge Valentine's Day and occasionally go to a party, we celebrate Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Versus celebrating Halloween, we do All Saints Day and All Souls Day (November 1st and 2nd). I wish we did all three though. I've never gotten to dress up as anything other than a saint, and we don't trick-or-treat anymore. We also celebrate Christmas. 

I speak English primarily, and I'm learning Spanish and Hawaiian. My dad wants me to learn Greek.

I think that Japanese and Chinese culture (what I know of them, don't assume I know much) is really cool, and hearing about you guys' holidays in those areas, I now want to look more into it.  

This is so cool! 

My mom's family is Taiwanese, my grandparents immigrated to New York around the time they got married. 

My dad's family is a bit more complicated. His mom's family is from Sicily, Italy, and they came to the U.S. about one hundred years before I was born. His dad's father's family came from Ukraine when it was a part of the Soviet Union and his dad's mother's familly came from somewhere else in Europe.

I don't really celebrate any Chinese holdays, except Chinese New Year. I was born in the Year of the Rat, how about you? (And I'm turning 12. It's my second Year of the Rat this year!)

I keep trying to find Chinese mythology books but it's strangely hard. Does anyone have recommendations?

On the subject of learning the Chinese language, my grandmother on my mom's side is teaching my brother and me Mandarin for the first time, and I keep confusing it with Spanish because I'm learning that in school XD 

What dialect are you learning, Fidelity? I'm learning Mandarin. 

Mandarin is extremely hard to speak because it's a tonal language (like other dialects, I think.). That means the same sound can mean several different things depending on how you say it! For example, the sound "ma" can mean horse, mother, scold, or it can make your sentence into a question. 

There are four different tones in Mandarin, plus soft tones, which are used when you add a syllable to make a word plural, possesive, or a question.  

One of my favorite Chinese foods is cong you bing. (pronounced, tsong yo bing, with some accents I don't know how to type). It's also known as scallion pancake, and it's made with dough, scallions, and oil. Hence the name, which translates to scallion (cong) oil (you) bread (bing, roughly). 

That is kind of a random comment but I really enjoyed writing it and I really enjoyed reading all yours!

You guys all have really cool cultures. I'm mostly Dutch and a little bit English. I live in a area that is mainly Dutch. I'm Christian, so we celebrate Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving. And most of the smaller American holidays. What I like most about being Dutch is the food. We eat mostly american food, but also some traditional Dutch food. On special occasions we have stroop waffles, which are like thin wafers with caramel in between. Also Wilhelmina peppermints which are really good and have a picture of the Dutch queen Wilhelmina on them. The Netherlands are also known for tulips and every year a city called Holland (another name for the Netherlands) near me has a tulip festival where the city streets are lined with tulips everywhere and people dress up in traditional Dutch clothing. Some other cool things about my family is my grandparents lived in Germany for a time, and a few years ago we went to Germany and visited their landlords there. When I was younger I learned a bit of German but I don't remember it anymore. My other grandparents lived in Greece for a while and my dad grew up there. We also visited where they had lived in Greece. I learned a few Greek phrases like hello, no, and please, I also learned how to say can we have the bill please. A few times a year and for our Christmas party, we eat Greek food for dinner. There's also a cool Dutch holiday, which I've never celebrated, but my aunt and uncle do, is called Sinterklaas and is on December 5. You open your presents on that day instead of on Christmas. This is so that on Christmas day instead of focusing on presents, you focus on the true meaning of Christmas. That was a lot longer than I thought it would be, but basically that's my culture.

I am approximately 1/4 Greek, 1/4 Jewish, Ukranian, and possibly some Russian on my dad's side. I am approximately 3/8 German and I think 1/8 Irish on the my mom's side. My mom lived in Japan for three years as a teacher, so I know yes, no, and the song Jesus Loves Me in Japanese. I also know a couple words in German.

I am a protestant Christian and we celebrate Christmas, Easter, along with most other common holidays. I love Middle Eastern food including, Tsoureki, (Greek Easter bread) Spanakopita, Baklava, and pretty much all other Greek food. My mom's German almond cake is also fantastic. My mom will also make Asian food fairly often.

I know my great great grandmother migrated fro Ukraine to the US and one of my great great great grandmothers migrated from Greece to the US but I don't really know about anyone else.