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OUR CULTURE, MOTHERFUCKERS
Brolo
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So you have your genetic ancestry.
The societal norms of your geographic region.
Your economic class.
The religious expectations of your family and peers.
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
The gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
Yeah, it looks like this right here is a thread about culture, damn. Yet another in a long and horrible series of threads where I get to know you better, SE++.
The societal norms of your geographic region.
Your economic class.
The religious expectations of your family and peers.
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
The gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
Yeah, it looks like this right here is a thread about culture, damn. Yet another in a long and horrible series of threads where I get to know you better, SE++.
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So you have your genetic ancestry.
Oh crap, where to start - well my father's father was from China. His name was Pong Si Quak, and we have no idea how or why, but he decided to leave China in the 30s or 40s to come to Trinidad. When he arrived, they asked his family name, and since he barely spoke English, replied "ahhh..... Pong" (this mistake is responsible for my surname, Apong). He met my grandmother, Flora, although nobody knows anything about her either - she apparently half-Trinidadian and half South-American. Despite Grandfather's inability to speak English, he somehow romanced my Grandmother, and produced nine children in about fifteen years, one of which was my father. Promptly after my father was born they both died, and the nine orphaned Apongs were taken in by Aunt Flora, who raised my dad until he could move to Canada, where he married
My mom, who was the eldest daughter of Roy Francis, a half-British half-Jamaican doctor. He married Joyce, who apparently had blood ancestry in Jamaica dating back to its roots as a slave colony. Then my mom moved to Canada and met my dad, and here I am, a kind of mongrel mix from three different continents, living in a fourth continent.
The societal norms of your geographic region.
Toronto is a liberal, left-leaning city. While there are little cultural districts (little italy, chinatown, etc.), the city intermingles so much that everyone grows up interracially. I can't tell you what the average Torontonian looks like, a random cross section will give you a bunch of every race, with an increasing amount of mixes, like myself.
Your economic class.
Well personally I'm a penniless student. As the son of first-generation immigrants though, I grew up in relative middle-class comfort. They didn't have enough to buy me a car or pay my tuition or anything, but we weren't exactly worrying about not having money to buy groceries or rent either.
The religious expectations of your family and peers.
Well my family is barely anglican, although only my sister and father ever go to church. My brother and mother still believe, so I'm the only outspoken agnostic. None of my friends, or any of my peers, really, are particularly religious. I don't even think any of my co-workers are religious. I have no idea why this is.
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
I used to think of myself as a nerd, but now everyone seems to think they're some kind of nerd as long as they're interested in something and have a facebook account. So instead I'm merely intelligent. I enjoy working with computers, but I also enjoy drawing and painting. Really you guys are probably better at coming up with a label or group for me than I am.
Except for 1/16th.
That's Cherokee.
sup long lost brother we are genetically the same.
except i'm 1/8th cherokee i believe.
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I'm Polish, was born there. So were my parents. So were my grandparents. Not sure how far it stretches beyond that. My distant ancestors were probably fuckin' potato farmers or some shit.
Geography:
Live in Australia - have been since 1992 (16 yrs, going on 17). Currently have been in Sydney for 10-11 of those years. Sydney is pretty mutlicultural and has as many asians and indians as white people (if not more) in certain suburbs. There is also a Chinatown and large Italian community.
Economic class:
Eh, middle I guess. We worked our way up from next to nothing, back when we arrived 17 years ago. I'd say we are pretty well off. Not well off enough to have a huge house and flashy cars and holidays in the Caribbean every 6 months, but quite comfortable.
Religion:
Being Polish, I was naturally born a Roman Catholic. Hah. We don't practice any religion here currently. Not saying I don't believe in anything, but I don't really care so much.
Stereotypes:
Dunno, guess I was kinda nerd-ish, what with my interest in Web, Graphics (and design thereof). But 'm pretty average in that sense, dabbling in everything.
I guess my mom's side of the family can trace their ancestors back to the famous canadian colonist Samuel De Champlain (I recently honoured my relative by smoking a joint at the base of the statue of him in quebec city!)
My dad's side of the family is Norwegian/Scottish but both sides of my family have been living in canada for many, many, many generations.
I suppose my parents are upper-middle class nowadays (all 5 members of my family used to live in a tiny 2 room bungalow) so I definitely respect what hard work can get you.
I guess around here you just work. You drive to work to pay for your car and you work so you can afford to drive.
Middle class! We're not wanting but we don't have grills on our teeth either.
My dad is a Lutheran pastor. He's accepting of other religions and doesn't judge, but he still believes he has the right to his beliefs as well. The province in Canada that I live in is very conservative, but we rarely get fanatics.
I guess that I am priveleged and that I don't have to work for anything might be one (rare) stereotype I deal with.
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One side england/ireland/scotland/wales
Other side belgian/luxembourgen, a little italy in both
The societal norms of your geographic region.
Australia, big engines, big drinking, big censorship
Your economic class.
Lower-middle
The religious expectations of your family and peers.
Grandfolks on one side are catholic, the rest dont much care
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
A couple friends in every group, but not enough to be invited anywhere
The gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
Not being a homophobe
I don't have a car, or much money, so I'm going to have to scrimp and save the whole way.
My mother's side of the family has some very strong and old roots in Arkham.
What? No. That place isn't real. We do not live in the D.C. universe.
You are crazy.
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Massachusetts.
although there are some who came later, like my grandpa who escaped from Russia during the Russian Revolution
I come from Russian, German, English and French, though I'm mainly French
You first
Start with the part where you don't have to worry about choking ever again
Near Innsmouth
They have a pretty famous university, the Miskatonic
Nothing fancy, but pretty cool
I'll do this tomorrow.
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Your genetic ancestry.
My dad's maternal grandparents immigrated to Connecticut from Sicily (my great-grandfather was in the mob!). His paternal grandfather was a German Mennonite and his paternal grandmother was English (and part East Indian, somehow). My mother's grandfather was Spanish and everyone else as far as I know was filipino.
The societal norms of your geographic region.
Here in Idaho everyone gets married at a young age. I didn't really pay much attention to societal norms when I lived anywhere else.
Your economic class.
My parents are members of the bourgeoisie, I suppose. I'm pretty spoiled, not having to pay for my education and living expenses.
The religious expectations of your family and peers.
My family's pretty much all various degrees of Roman Catholic. I have some crazy religious aunts and uncles (well just one aunt and her husband). My parents are gradually more accepting of me not being so religious.
Peers? Most of my friends at college are in the same boat as I am. Everyone around here, practically, is Mormon.
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
I've pretty much stopped paying attention to social stereotypes since no one can ever place me. I was your typical ostracized youth due to that in elementary, middle and high school but I've more or less moved on from that.
The gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
I haven't really thought about this.
I read feminist international politics literature?
Societal norms: The city mostly grew when there was a gold rush further inland, so I think that has some influence in it being a fairly liberal place. Fun fact: It was originally settled (well, after the few indigenous settlements which were used for pig breeding) by Protestants (I think) who were trying to make a perfect society for the second coming. The streets have 2 concentric octagons in the middle, and a sort of square grid outside of there. Problem is that the city's all on top of old volcanoes, so it is very hilly. Wiki: "In many parts of Dunedin, and indeed New Zealand, streets were laid out in a grid pattern with no consideration for the terrain, usually by planners in London." It has one of the steepest streets in the world too, but it used to be thought steeper: "Baldwin Street's claim to fame has caused some controversy after it emerged that the original entry in the Guinness Book of Records was based on a typographical error, claiming a maximum gradient of 1:1.266 (38° or 79%). This would be impossible to walk up, and appears to be an error for 1:2.66, which itself is slightly steeper than the currently accepted figure of 1:2.86."
Oh, there's also a hell of a lot of underage binge drinking which is hells of fun, and no one really gives a shit about weed.
Economic class: Middle to upper middle I suppose
Religion: Mum's sparingly some non-catholic denomination (goes to church around christmas and that's about it), Dad is pretty strongly atheist.
Social stereotypes: Bogan/westie (although I am totally not)
Gender role: Hetero male, gonna get either a science or engineering degree so not really going against the grain there.
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100% Korean, both parents were immigrants. My dad has a PhD in medicine but due to his alcoholism, can't keep a job for more than a few months. This is worsened by the fact that Seoul has the most PhDs per capita, but there simply aren't enough jobs to go around. My mom works in Los Angeles' Koreatown, in the Korean radio station. As such, she barely speaks English.
My grandparents were peasants, due to South Korea being a 3rd world country until roughly around the 1970s. I have pictures of my grandparents on my dad's side living in a hut with a thatched grass roof. My grandparents on my mother's side both came here, and live in a swank apartment building for old people. My grandpa fought in the Korean War, where he lost a thumb and a kidney to rifle fire.
The North Korean soldier who shot him would've kept on going, but luckily, his crappy Russian gun jammed on him, and my grandpa whipped off his helmet and beat him to death with it. My grandma, over 80 years old, goes swing dancing every weekend, and loves to make fun of my fat cousin for being fat.
Being raised in America means my parents and I tend to disagree on a lot of things. I want to move out after college, probably with some friends of mine. However, and I didn't know this, but the sons in a Korean family are expected to live at home with the parents until he gets married. I can understand how that might be logical in a country that's as jam-packed as Korea, but here, goddamnit, that does not fly.
Also Koreans as a whole are huge racists and bigots. The Korean word for black people literally translates to "dirt colored". I shit you not.
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An European mutt consisting primarily of German and Polish ancestors.
Geographic region
Oh man.
So I grew up and went to school in the American Southeast, an area not exactly known for its progressiveness. (Specifically, I grew up in Huntsville, AL and went to college in Atlanta.) While neither of those areas are exactly stereotypical redneck country, it's definitely more conservative than where I live now - the southern San Francisco Bay area.
Economic class
Because of cost of living (see above), I'm going to go with "solidly middle class".
Religion
In my immediate family, my Dad is the only one who is really religious and he doesn't exert any pressure on us to start going to church again. My peers out here are also non-religion. Back in the South it was a little different, but most of my peers there were still non-religious though there were a few who went to church regularly.
I did know some Southern Baptists though, and man......... let's just move on.
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
Most people would consider myself and my peers pretty nerdy, but within my peer groups I'm usually seen as slightly nerdier than the rest. I am a little shy and have difficultly meeting and talking to members of the opposite gender. I mean, I am sitting here on a Friday night filling out a survey, so...yeah.
The gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
I may not be the world's most passionate man
But I'm a man and I know what I am
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my father's side of the family has ties to texas and mexico
gramps was have indian and have mexican and brown as all hell
he married a woman of english/irish descent and had children of various skin tones
my father was the whitest, though he had many of his father's features such as a large nose and crazy eyes/eyebrows
my mother's side was flat polish folks coming to america to bootleg and leave prior to hitler's blitz
my great grandfather fought in d-day
they came together to make the most angry lookin' clumsy guy ever
The societal norms of your geographic region.
in michigan i lived in a rural area adjacent to many dairy and soy farms, and as such i've lived more country than most "country" folks have
in tennessee i live at the mercy of the fucking retarded, who live to consume and buy and do many drugs
fat obese people abound, son
Your economic class.
POOR POOR POOR FUCKING POOR
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The religious expectations of your family and peers.
born into a catholic family, and fuck if do that again
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
poor nerd
i've also been called a hillbilly
stop calling me a fuckin' hillbilly
The gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
straight, though i've never went ahead and got into a meaningful relationship with anybody
i need to get my own life together before i get other people in on this
made any alcohol in your bathtub lately?
gonna go cow tipping after you finish posting tonight?
And Llama, it's not Japanese because their word means outside person.
Genetic ancestry: 1/4 Romanian ( and possibly gyspy), Irish, 1/4 Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian, and some English. I didn't realize how strong the Romanian part was until I went to the Romania section at the 2005 World's Fair and I saw a woman that looked just like my mom. Despite this heritage, i still have some of the whitest skin of anyone I know.
Geographic region: I spent most of my life in northern Idaho in the town of Kellogg, population 2000. It was a big mining area, but the mines closed when I was young. It's been decaying ever since. We moved to California for about two years, and then to Colorado for a year and then back to Kellogg. This was like 1st-3rd grade. Because I got out, I at least had some more perspective on the rest of the country. I went to school in Moscow, a small college town in Idaho. And then I made the big move and went to live in Nagoya, Japan. There I hung out with people from all over and learned fun slang and accents from anywhere that speaks English.
Economic class: Soon hopefully upper middle class. I just got my Master's and I'm applying all over. Right now I'm dirt poor.
Religion: No one in my family is that religious. My parents did listen to the Mormon missionaries and got baptized and I did too, but I was in 3rd grade. My mom is now married to a beer drinking Buddhist. We only went to church when my dad got a bug up his ass. I have some pretty conservative Christians friends, but they're cool about it.
Social stereotypes: I'd say geek or nerd. I have a lot of esoteric hobbies, but I have hobby ADHD and rarely stick with anything for too long at a stretch. I'm at the age where what other people think doesn't really matter, so my geekiness is more pronounced. I like being social and getting out too. I am shy, but once I know someone, I tend to talk too much.
Gender role: I grew out of the small town homophobia and I feel a much better person for it.
Mother Swedish, father Irish
The societal norms of your geographic region.
I am not aware of any norms
I guess Seattle is fairly liberal though my family is fairly conservative
Your economic class.
fairly well off
The religious expectations of your family and peers.
I was raised and continue to be catholic
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
In high school I was classed into the "idiot jock" category because I am fairly athletic, although I doubt that these stereotypes still apply
gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
heterosexual male, I accepted this rather easily
I'm a Goddamn mess of things, really. My dad is just under half native american, so that makes me roughly a quarter. We're Ojibwe - card carrying members. My father's mum is French-Canadian, and on my mother's side its all German and English. I have strong German legs which are good for subjugating lesser nations that border the Reich.
The societal norms of your geographic region.
I live in Olympia, the capital of Washington State. Its pretty Goddamn liberal, any category you pick. In 2001 after the invasion of Afghanistan this girl came into school with a cloth sign pinned to the back of her hoodie that said "Fighting for Peace is the like Fucking For Virginity."
Your economic class.
My dad works for the state now, worked for the indian tribes before that, we've been roughly middle class all our lives, on the lower end of the spectrum when I was younger. I am personally what we'd call borderline poverty right now? I don't make much money.
The religious expectations of your family and peers.
My family is hardcore Roman Catholic. My mother is very devout, and actually a convert. My Grandmother prays novenas and rosaries all the time, my sister and her husband are super devout, ect ect. I am the black sheep because I am a declared agnostic.
Apparently my grandmother prays for me.
Social stereotypes that you've adopted or are grouped into.
I dunno... my friends give me shit for being a quarter indian? Lots of redskin and firewater jokes. Mostly firewater drinks because I do confess to enjoying whiskey. Okay so I drink alot what of it.
At least I don't use my tribal ID card for a coaster.
The gender role that you either accepted or challenged.
I'm a male. Its pretty much expected I get married, have kids, and continue the family name. However, its not like I resist this. I do sincerely want kids and horrible little Volyu Jrs to run around and cause mayhem - in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. God forbid I don't baptize my kids.
what is this thread; why would you want to know more about people?
I already feel like I know you all way too much.
Why would you intentionally parse your information in a way that screams "Please, please give me a cursory glance before rolling your eyes and skipping over me?"