What gets me is what to do if you really don't particularly care for your ethnic heritage, whereas you have a fascination with some other heritage.
I've never particularly cared for my Italian heritage, I think because I see a cultural line back to the Romans, and I don't care for the Romans much. The Renaissance is interesting, I guess--and sovay's musings about an alternative Venice has made me see more potential in that area. But I've always been more interested in the Scottish stuff I inherited from my mother--and then in places and cultures I have no genetic connection to, like Japan or India or Mongolia, etc.
I'm grateful to you and to traditional folk music for making me discover U.S. history as a place to look for stories. I never used to care for U.S. history--an aversion born of too much of it in grade school, I think--so I'm very glad to have it now in the yes!interesting! category.
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I've never particularly cared for my Italian heritage, I think because I see a cultural line back to the Romans, and I don't care for the Romans much. The Renaissance is interesting, I guess--and
I'm grateful to you and to traditional folk music for making me discover U.S. history as a place to look for stories. I never used to care for U.S. history--an aversion born of too much of it in grade school, I think--so I'm very glad to have it now in the yes!interesting! category.