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what is your heritage? (what nationality are you?)

I'm Australian, and so are my parents and grandparents.

My ancestors from my fathers side were Italian, they settled up at Eildon, and even have a lookout named after them. Heh I guess if anyone related to me was reading this, then they'd have a fair idea on who I am. Some more from that side of the family came from Scotland, and also there's apparently links to them coming from other places as well, but I am unsure of where exactly.

On my mothers side they came from the Ireland, and England. Also my Great Grandmother came from Boston. She was African American. No one actually believes that until they see a photo of her. Apparently my Grandfather was quite dark skinned when he was younger, but I wouldn't know that.

In other words I'm a mutt....
 
1/2 German 1/2 Average Australian (Combination of british, Irish, French etc.)...

But I was born here and have never lived anywhere else... so I'm going to tick the boring aussie box...
 
Australian Born.

I'd love to understand how it is to live in another culture and understand how it works. I've lived in Canada (Quebec) and that was still reasonably similar to our own (being so heavily influenced by american culture).

i'd love to live in a totally diferent culture, like Japanese, or Basilian, or Indian... it's just be something increadible to experience... :)
 
mobj said:
I'm an Australian citizen, but was born in Poland, emigrating here with my Polish-born mother and father when i was 3 years old. I speak fairly fluent Polish, as we often speak it at home, but more often tend to speak in a sort of hybrid English/Polish combination. It's actually quite funny as my lil sister was born here and her polish is pretty atrocious, she switches from Polish to English pretty frequently in a sentence :)
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I'm an Australian citizen, but was born in Prague (Czech Republic), emigrating here with my Czech mother and Danish father when i was 2 and a half. I speak fairly fluent Czech, as we often speak it at home, but more often tend to speak in a sort of hybrid English/Czech combination. It's actually quiet funny as my little brother was born here and his Czech is pretty average, he switches from Czech to English frequently in a sentence =)

^ LOL Jacob =)
 
I'm 1/4 irish and 3/4 English - which is really odd as so many people think I look slightly italian or spanish cos I've got dark features.

On official forms and whatever my nationality is British and thats how its gotta be until i get citizenship, and lose the english accent (not that i wanna lose it, its kinda nice to be different, not that it really is that different in Sydney lets face it)
 
killarava2day said:
I'm a citizen of planet earth first and foremost... I reject the false notion of nationality.
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I tend to feel the same way....I see patriotism as a bad thing, and though I do think it's important to recognise what various cultures have contributed to our world and way of life, I will always think of myself as a person first and an "Australian" waaaaay second. I think there would be far more peace in the world if there were no artificial boundaries between humanity...
 
Raz said:
I tend to feel the same way....I see patriotism as a bad thing, and though I do think it's important to recognise what various cultures have contributed to our world and way of life, I will always think of myself as a person first and an "Australian" waaaaay second. I think there would be far more peace in the world if there were no artificial boundaries between humanity...
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I totally agree - I hate patriotism it really sucks. When people brag about certain things their country has to offer it's as if they are making out they caused/made them themselves! I find it a total turn off. Through my experiences, I think patriotism is quite strong here in Australia compared to Europe.
 
mobj said:
I'm an Australian citizen, but was born in Poland, emigrating here with my Polish-born mother and father when i was 3 years old. I speak fairly fluent Polish, as we often speak it at home, but more often tend to speak in a sort of hybrid English/Polish combination. It's actually quite funny as my lil sister was born here and her polish is pretty atrocious, she switches from Polish to English pretty frequently in a sentence :)
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My littlest sister was like that when she started Kindy. My grandparents lived with us then and they only spoke polish so she was speaking polish and english all mumbled up when she started school because it was all one and the same to her. Pity she barely understand it now at age 14 :(

I try and teach my son polish but it's really difficult when i have no one to speak it to every day so he is listening to it all the time. He can communicate with my grandparents though and speaks a little of it. I should send him to pilsh school to learn it properly :)
 
^^^That just reminded me....one of my friends all through school came over from Uruguay with his family when he was a wee bairn....and it used to drive our Spanish teacher nuts that he was the worst student in her class cause he refused to speak Spanish at home and barely knew a word of it....
 
Raz said:
I tend to feel the same way....I see patriotism as a bad thing, and though I do think it's important to recognise what various cultures have contributed to our world and way of life, I will always think of myself as a person first and an "Australian" waaaaay second. I think there would be far more peace in the world if there were no artificial boundaries between humanity...
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Patriotism and nationality are completely different concepts from my understanding of the two. It is completely possible to be of Australian nationality and have no patriotism for the country at all.

I also feel that the 2nd thread that was merged in the same question was asking the 'heritage' question as well. I hate it when people ask my nationality and they often get agitated when i deliberately just answer 'australian' as this was not the question they were asking at all. When someone asks my 'nationality' to me it implies that i'm not aussie - the two words are not interchngeable - just a pet hate that's all.. =D

As to this I think there would be far more peace in the world if there were no artificial boundaries between humanity...

You have far more faith in humans than i do!! :)

People will always find thngs to seperate themselves and their groups from other groups.. it's what we do best!! If it's not nationality then it will be because they're from a different place, or that they have a funny nose, or that they speak a bit different or that they wear red or they have sugar in their tea..anything really it doesn't really matter - it's all about belonging ot a 'tribe' of sorts but i'm taking this off topic myself so i'll just go back to finishing this job app. and then sleep and stop procrastinating ;)
 
British / Irish

I have SHARP teeth !

I think Blood type is a MUCH better judge of ancestory !
 
Originally posted by ozbreaker
Patriotism and nationality are completely different concepts from my understanding of the two. It is completely possible to be of Australian nationality and have no patriotism for the country at all.

I also feel that the 2nd thread that was merged in the same question was asking the 'heritage' question as well. I hate it when people ask my nationality and they often get agitated when i deliberately just answer 'australian' as this was not the question they were asking at all. When someone asks my 'nationality' to me it implies that i'm not aussie - the two words are not interchngeable - just a pet hate that's all.. =D


this is of course entirely true. however, it's not worth splitting the two topics up over semantics - it seems far more logical (and easy) to cover both the issues in the one thread. valid point though :)
 
my grandparents on my mom's side are from mainland cantonese chinese while my dad's a native of brunei. dont really know if i look more like a native or a chinese.. lolz... =D
 
British / Irish

I have SHARP teeth !

^^^
Winsom


hehehehe.....i was born in Transylvania...I have sharp teeth!

but yeh, its good to hear someone knows about the shit that happened in Romania, thanks jammer.

its actually the biggest fluke that my family is even here. like i said in the refugees thread, the woman that sponsored us picked my dads name off a list.

dad got accepted into the US first but he took a chance and refused it in the hope that he will eventually get australian citizenship. the reason he turned it down was cos he would've had to live in New York for 6 months and he cant stand cities.
 
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