Today we discussed Greece and how important their heritage is to them. This is something that we have seen in Nigeria and Mexico as well. Tell me what you know about your heritage and what role it plays in family traditions.
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I found the Greek heritage the most interesting out of all the countries we've studied so far. I myself am mostly Polish. Apparently, Polish people like to eat a lot. The food is also extremely nasty. My family likes to get together and make these horrible foods around holidays. This is the only nationality that really affects me. I have other nationalities, but my family doesn't really celebrate them.
Bonjour, je m'appelle Ryan. Je suis Francais, et France est un tres magnifique pays.
I am largely French, and often get the ass end of French cowardice jokes from my friends due to it. My family is very proud of our French heritage, for reasons I'm unsure of, but as such a family member I, too, have merit for it. I speak French very well, as my grandmother taught it to me when I was a young boy and I have taken French in school. Other than the few reasons listed, our French heritage isn't celebrated, nor does it reflect on our family's traditions.
Like i said before my heritage isent a big part of my life, yeas im Italian and i would just LOVE to learn more about it but i just wasent raised as an Italian i was raised as and American... i know that sounds utterly stupid but its true. one day i would love to learn the language of Italy and learn about the culture and maybe even go there someday :) but as of right now im focused on my school and life just in Highland...
Im an Italian and always will be!
-Lynsey
*Sorry if its short Kay i just dont really have much to say about my background other then i dont really know much about it :(
Out of all the readings so far I though the Greek was the most interesting out of the stories and traditions. My hertiage on one side is largely Cuban and the other side is German and French Canadian. My dad's side is pretty into the Cuabn culture. For example my grandpa speaks usually in Spanish rather then English. Luckily, I took two years of Spanish so most of the time I can understand what he is saying. Other then language and food though, we don't have many Cuabn traditions. On my mom's side is basically mut so we don't really do anything special at all tradition wise.
i am German and polish. we don't really do anything with polish. We do celebrate German. at least once every other week my grandma makes some kind of German dish. the one she makes the most is German spaghetti. it's not that good but everyone else likes it. i know my great grandma spoke German but i don't know any. i don't think i even want to learn German cause i don't think it will be easy. that's all i know about my heritage.
My heritage is Polish. My grandparents always tell me stories of what there lives were like. There parents both spoke polish and they always had a good home cooked meal. Pierogies are a type of food that we always make for the holidays. My grandma has kept the recipe and has taught my family how to make them. We always get the whole family together for the holidays. We try to keep are heritage going.
I really don't know that much about my heritage. My family come's from germany. As a family we dont really celebrate the german culture. We go to church and celebrate mainly catholic holidays like christmas and easter. We just live today as today, nothing really all that special. My grandparents are never around so they havent told me any stories about our heritages. This has inspired me to learn more about my heritage and care more.
well, my heritige is about 90% german, and the other 10% is french english, and some other. none of these affect me, except for my german side. my family is steeped in german culture, seeing as they are from frankenmuth. they can handle a lot of beer, are extremely friendly and accepting. everyone in my family knows a little bit of german, and we speak a little of it at our family gatherings. also, my german family is devout lutherans. we all get along, and enjoy eachothers company. and they dont mind much if you drink a little now and then. thats why its good to be german.
I thought the Greek heritage was very interesting and education based. I don't know much about my heritage. My great grandparents came over here from Germany and we've been here in Michigan ever since. We still have big family reunions. We are a very close knit family that stays in touch a lot. My family really only celebrates the national holidays like Independece Day and Christmas and all those wide known holidays. Other than that I don't really know anything about my heritage, but I guess now I'd like to learn more.
My dad side we are German and Irish. Some holidays we would get together and my grandma make Irish food. I think the food is good. We also have a long life span in the family. My moms side I am Slovakia. We speak a little Slovakian I dont know it that much. For tradition on New Years we have pork with sauerkraut. This is all i really know about my heritage.
I think my favorite countries so far was definitely Greece, mostly because even though my family is not even greek at all, they remind me exactly of one giant greek family. So big, so loud, and loves to eat. Well my extended family because my mom and dad each have seven brothers and sisters. But I only have 2 siblings. My family has done a lot of research on our family trees, because one my uncle loves that kind of stuff and also does it for a living, and two we have a huge family and extended family. But for some reason I don't know a on about my heritage, but I do know we are scottish, french, a little bit czhech and a little italian. We don't really have too many traditions in our family that have to do with our culture. But what I have really noticed studying these countries to far is that each one are so strict on traditions and really stick to them. I think our country has definitely parted a lot from tradition, compared to most of the other countries in the world, we don't see tradition being followed so strictly these days.
I thought the most interesting country we have studied so far is Greek. It is amazing how different peoples lives can be in different countrys. My herritage is itialian I really don't know much about my heritage. We do eat a lot of spagetti. Other than that I we really don't do much. One day I would like to go to Italy and learn more about my heritage. I think it would be a great experience. I really don't have much more to say because I don't know much about my heritage.
My heritage is rather simple. I'm a mix of Hungarian and Polish influences. Personally, however, I identify much more with my Hungarian side as I speak Hungarian fluently and find the traditions much more colourful and simply much more fun. The majority of the Polish family traditions are carried out through my mother who forces us to celebrate most Catholic holidays. Being non-religious and Atheist, I don't exactly enjoy going through the holidays, and look upon them instead as family gatherings rather than holidays with religious purpose. A big non-religious part, however, is the food. My mother always makes her food from scratch. She's passed that ideal on to me, and I've become a rather non-humble yet proficient cook. We make the Polish staple, pierogi (basically ravioli, but WAY better) as well as gołompki (stuffed cabbage).
For my Hungarian side, we have the afore-mentioned tradition of the first harvest which we don't do anymore because we don't trust American meat. But, we get some really good raw pork loin that you just put on a slice of bread and salt it and eat it with some sliced tomatoes, yummmm. Needless to say Hungarian cooking is a HUGE tradition in our family. There's cirke-paprikas, porkolt, tojasleves, huszafeleves, kapusta, and my favourite, madar tej. (That's chicken paprikas, pork stew, egg soup, Szegedi fish soup, stuffed cabbage and a dessert called bird's milk). Then, there's the bizzare stuff, like headcheese, blood sausage, meat-gelatin, veal livers, duck-blood soup, and my favourite, langos which is a heart-attack on a piece of bread. My father, being as irrilegious as me, didn't bring any holidays or things like that to our family, instead though, there's the tradition that when someone dies, we all drink something called barakpalinka (apricot brandy) in their name.
There are not many American traditions in our family. We don't want to become "Americanized". We don't have any SUVs, we don't have a dog, we only own German cars, we haven't gone to Disney Land, we rarely go to McDonalds or any other fast-food joint, we don't do fireworks for Independence Day, we don't do Halloween, we don't do big birthdays, (in fact, we do the European name-days instead,) and we don't go shopping unless we need too.
While some of you may seem this as conceited, and you'd be right. I consider myself lucky though, to be different in my culture and I would never have it any other way.
my heritage does not play a big part in my life to be honist. I really dont kno that much about it. but as far as treditions, my family every christmas my family and i go to my grand paws house to see my cuzans and have a big dinner.
The greek heritage was interesting to me. I would find going to work from 5 to 10 every day very weird and annoying. It is also weird how they come home from work for an afternoon nap, and then they eat dinner at around 10. My heritage does not play a big part in my life. For my heritage I am mostly italian. There really isn't anything cool about being italian. We eat italian foods sometimes. This is pretty much all I know about my heritage.
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I found the Greek heritage the most interesting out of all the countries we've studied so far. I myself am mostly Polish. Apparently, Polish people like to eat a lot. The food is also extremely nasty. My family likes to get together and make these horrible foods around holidays. This is the only nationality that really affects me. I have other nationalities, but my family doesn't really celebrate them.
Bonjour, je m'appelle Ryan. Je suis Francais, et France est un tres magnifique pays.
I am largely French, and often get the ass end of French cowardice jokes from my friends due to it. My family is very proud of our French heritage, for reasons I'm unsure of, but as such a family member I, too, have merit for it. I speak French very well, as my grandmother taught it to me when I was a young boy and I have taken French in school. Other than the few reasons listed, our French heritage isn't celebrated, nor does it reflect on our family's traditions.
- Ryan Moore.
Like i said before my heritage isent a big part of my life, yeas im Italian and i would just LOVE to learn more about it but i just wasent raised as an Italian i was raised as and American... i know that sounds utterly stupid but its true. one day i would love to learn the language of Italy and learn about the culture and maybe even go there someday :) but as of right now im focused on my school and life just in Highland...
Im an Italian and always will be!
-Lynsey
*Sorry if its short Kay i just dont really have much to say about my background other then i dont really know much about it :(
Out of all the readings so far I though the Greek was the most interesting out of the stories and traditions. My hertiage on one side is largely Cuban and the other side is German and French Canadian. My dad's side is pretty into the Cuabn culture. For example my grandpa speaks usually in Spanish rather then English. Luckily, I took two years of Spanish so most of the time I can understand what he is saying. Other then language and food though, we don't have many Cuabn traditions. On my mom's side is basically mut so we don't really do anything special at all tradition wise.
-Rachel Duelo
i am German and polish. we don't really do anything with polish. We do celebrate German. at least once every other week my grandma makes some kind of German dish. the one she makes the most is German spaghetti. it's not that good but everyone else likes it. i know my great grandma spoke German but i don't know any. i don't think i even want to learn German cause i don't think it will be easy. that's all i know about my heritage.
My heritage is Polish. My grandparents always tell me stories of what there lives were like. There parents both spoke polish and they always had a good home cooked meal. Pierogies are a type of food that we always make for the holidays. My grandma has kept the recipe and has taught my family how to make them. We always get the whole family together for the holidays. We try to keep are heritage going.
Chelsea Gray
I really don't know that much about my heritage. My family come's from germany. As a family we dont really celebrate the german culture. We go to church and celebrate mainly catholic holidays like christmas and easter. We just live today as today, nothing really all that special. My grandparents are never around so they havent told me any stories about our heritages. This has inspired me to learn more about my heritage and care more.
- Houghtaling
well, my heritige is about 90% german, and the other 10% is french english, and some other. none of these affect me, except for my german side. my family is steeped in german culture, seeing as they are from frankenmuth. they can handle a lot of beer, are extremely friendly and accepting. everyone in my family knows a little bit of german, and we speak a little of it at our family gatherings. also, my german family is devout lutherans. we all get along, and enjoy eachothers company. and they dont mind much if you drink a little now and then. thats why its good to be german.
I thought the Greek heritage was very interesting and education based. I don't know much about my heritage. My great grandparents came over here from Germany and we've been here in Michigan ever since. We still have big family reunions. We are a very close knit family that stays in touch a lot. My family really only celebrates the national holidays like Independece Day and Christmas and all those wide known holidays. Other than that I don't really know anything about my heritage, but I guess now I'd like to learn more.
-Dick Nehring
My dad side we are German and Irish. Some holidays we would get together and my grandma make Irish food. I think the food is good. We also have a long life span in the family. My moms side I am Slovakia. We speak a little Slovakian I dont know it that much. For tradition on New Years we have pork with sauerkraut. This is all i really know about my heritage.
- Christina Newman
I think my favorite countries so far was definitely Greece, mostly because even though my family is not even greek at all, they remind me exactly of one giant greek family. So big, so loud, and loves to eat. Well my extended family because my mom and dad each have seven brothers and sisters. But I only have 2 siblings.
My family has done a lot of research on our family trees, because one my uncle loves that kind of stuff and also does it for a living, and two we have a huge family and extended family. But for some reason I don't know a on about my heritage, but I do know we are scottish, french, a little bit czhech and a little italian. We don't really have too many traditions in our family that have to do with our culture. But what I have really noticed studying these countries to far is that each one are so strict on traditions and really stick to them. I think our country has definitely parted a lot from tradition, compared to most of the other countries in the world, we don't see tradition being followed so strictly these days.
I thought the most interesting country we have studied so far is Greek. It is amazing how different peoples lives can be in different countrys. My herritage is itialian I really don't know much about my heritage. We do eat a lot of spagetti. Other than that I we really don't do much. One day I would like to go to Italy and learn more about my heritage. I think it would be a great experience. I really don't have much more to say because I don't know much about my heritage.
My heritage is rather simple. I'm a mix of Hungarian and Polish influences. Personally, however, I identify much more with my Hungarian side as I speak Hungarian fluently and find the traditions much more colourful and simply much more fun. The majority of the Polish family traditions are carried out through my mother who forces us to celebrate most Catholic holidays. Being non-religious and Atheist, I don't exactly enjoy going through the holidays, and look upon them instead as family gatherings rather than holidays with religious purpose. A big non-religious part, however, is the food. My mother always makes her food from scratch. She's passed that ideal on to me, and I've become a rather non-humble yet proficient cook. We make the Polish staple, pierogi (basically ravioli, but WAY better) as well as gołompki (stuffed cabbage).
For my Hungarian side, we have the afore-mentioned tradition of the first harvest which we don't do anymore because we don't trust American meat. But, we get some really good raw pork loin that you just put on a slice of bread and salt it and eat it with some sliced tomatoes, yummmm. Needless to say Hungarian cooking is a HUGE tradition in our family. There's cirke-paprikas, porkolt, tojasleves, huszafeleves, kapusta, and my favourite, madar tej. (That's chicken paprikas, pork stew, egg soup, Szegedi fish soup, stuffed cabbage and a dessert called bird's milk). Then, there's the bizzare stuff, like headcheese, blood sausage, meat-gelatin, veal livers, duck-blood soup, and my favourite, langos which is a heart-attack on a piece of bread. My father, being as irrilegious as me, didn't bring any holidays or things like that to our family, instead though, there's the tradition that when someone dies, we all drink something called barakpalinka (apricot brandy) in their name.
There are not many American traditions in our family. We don't want to become "Americanized". We don't have any SUVs, we don't have a dog, we only own German cars, we haven't gone to Disney Land, we rarely go to McDonalds or any other fast-food joint, we don't do fireworks for Independence Day, we don't do Halloween, we don't do big birthdays, (in fact, we do the European name-days instead,) and we don't go shopping unless we need too.
While some of you may seem this as conceited, and you'd be right. I consider myself lucky though, to be different in my culture and I would never have it any other way.
Oh, BTW, Christina, pork with sauerkraut is called Begos (bee-g-oss) and it's really good stuff.
Szia!
my heritage does not play a big part in my life to be honist. I really dont kno that much about it. but as far as treditions, my family every christmas my family and i go to my grand paws house to see my cuzans and have a big dinner.
The greek heritage was interesting to me. I would find going to work from 5 to 10 every day very weird and annoying. It is also weird how they come home from work for an afternoon nap, and then they eat dinner at around 10.
My heritage does not play a big part in my life. For my heritage I am mostly italian. There really isn't anything cool about being italian. We eat italian foods sometimes. This is pretty much all I know about my heritage.
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