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What's your culture?
What's your culture? <3
I'm writing this while eating some leftover mooncakes because it was just Mid Autumn Festival! <3 Mid Autumn Festival (also called the Moon Festival) has been celebrated in East Asia for more than 3000 years! The original legend goes that the day of Mid Autumn Festival is the only day that Chang'e (the moon goddess) and Hou Yi (her lover), can meet. It's also a celebration of the harvest. Mid Autumn Festival is kind of similar to Thanksgiving. The most important food is mooncakes, but you also eat other round foods like pomelo, pumpkin, and tong yuen (glutunous rice balls, kind of like a hot, filled, mochi).
I celebrate the Moon Festival because my family is from East Asia! My mom's family is Taiwanese and my dad's family is Chinese. They immigrated to the US when they were kids, so I was born and raised in the US. Unfortunately, I never learned how to speak Chinese. I'm kind of ashamed by this, but I was too embarrassed to learn because I thought the other kids at school would make fun of me. I'm learning Chinese at school now though! I'm pretty bad, but maybe I can talk to my grandparents in Chinese one day. <3
I'd love to hear about your culture! What kind of holidays do you celebrate? Do you speak any other languages? Do you practice a religion? What about you, Admins?
Reminder: Please be respectful! Cultural diversity is awesome. <3
<3 Fidelity
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(October 6, 2020 - 4:44 am)
(October 6, 2020 - 4:44 am)
Cool! I love Middle Eastern food too, although I have no heritage there.
(October 10, 2020 - 1:12 pm)
I agree that spanakopita and baklava are super good. Baklava is probably my favorite dessert, although it can be hard to get good baklava in the US, a lot of it is pretty dry. Also one time I was at the store with my mom and we saw spanakopita and I got really excited, and the worker at the store was like "that's the most excited I've ever seen anyone get over spinach." I also love pastitsio, cheese pie, moussaka, and tzatziki.
(October 10, 2020 - 3:01 pm)
Ok, I have a ton of ancestors from different cultures. My mom is half Scottish, and her mother migrated from Scotland as a girl. I'm 1/8 Italian, 1/128 Native American (more than Elizabeth Warren, but not by that much) then my last name is Dutch, so the logical conclusion is that I get Dutch from my father, and then we have my mother's Irish/Newfounlander grandfather. So I have a LOT of different things mixed in there. Not much of anything, really. But it's still cool. Oh, and sorry for the weird location. missed the cb so much.
(October 10, 2020 - 3:42 pm)
I'm just half Japanese and half Swedish- I come from a looooooooooooooooong line of Sweds, did you guys know Sweden has free college?! And it kinda explains my love for strudels.
My name is French, and somehow, we ended up with the last name that's the most COMMON in the U.S. I'm also a Cherokee Indian from my birth father's side. (I'm adopted, but still know my lineage)
(October 14, 2020 - 10:32 am)
I'm jewish, and truthfully, other then the holidays we don't have much culture. Mainly because we move all the time.
If you look at my family tree it looks somthing like this:
My 3G-grandparents: Lithuania, Germany, Iraq, Russia
My 2G-grandparents: Poland, Germany, Iraq
My great-grandparents: Poland, Russia, Israel, Germany, Iraq, England, America
My grandparents: Israel
My parents: Israel, France
Me and my siblings: Israel, America
About langueges, we all speak a lot of them. For me its Hebrew, English, Yiddish, and ASL. The record in my family is my great-grandmother. She spoke Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, German, English, Russian, and French.
Point is, a obsessed as judism is with purity, we pick things up from all other the place.
A big thing in Israel is the Scouts. Unlike the US in Israel there is a whole bunch of scout group and practicly ever kid goes to one. Some examples are the Tofim (Main Scouts), Ha'shomer Hatzahir (The Young Guard), Ha'nahar Ha' oved (The Working Minors). On Tuesdays schools even end an hour minutes early, so that everyone can get to the scouts on time.
(October 16, 2020 - 3:43 pm)
(October 17, 2020 - 10:47 pm)
I've lived in the Northeastern United States my entire life. My ancestry is mostly Norwegian (which is why I'm learning bokmål (( I think that's how you spell it, it's the most common form of Norwegian))), Scottish, and English, with a little Irish and German mixed in. Though, all of that is about four or five generations in the past. I was raised Christian (specifically, Methodist) though I'm not Christian, I'm an atheist, along with several of my other family members. Which means we don't go to church, or say grace, or anything like that. We live in a rural area, and in the area I live in we have Buck Day (first day of deer hunting season) off from school and stuff. Vension (deer meat) is a regular food around here, which as I recently discovered isn't something that's common everywhere in the US. The area I live in also takes Halloween VERY seriously. It's, like, a crime to not celebrate the holiday.
(October 18, 2020 - 8:03 pm)