Urgh, I gots a migraine but I'm trying to push through it for youuuuu...
Three hundred years is a LONG time. A LOOOoooong time.
Super long. Unless there's an active effort made by a community/family to preserve their cultural roots they will eventually fade out. You might even find that a family who DOES still know all that stuff about their roots would be sort of oddballs, especially in a society where most people identify with the place they were born into.
I'm from a pretty mixed ethnic background, I'm third generation Canadian by the newest immigrants in my family, and my family-specific traditions carried down from the 'old country' only include opening a single gift on Christmas Eve and eating 'granny pancakes' and rollkuchen.
Nothing from the Icelandic roots (5th generation) except my last name, nothing from the First Nations roots (great granny) at all, nothing from the English roots (no clue how far back)... really, the only traditions come from my granny who was first or second generation Canadian and whose parents were both pure Dutch.
Really, it's been less than 150 years and already I'm really not identifying with where my family came from.
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Date: 2010-10-11 06:16 pm (UTC)From:Three hundred years is a LONG time.
A LOOOoooong time.
Super long. Unless there's an active effort made by a community/family to preserve their cultural roots they will eventually fade out. You might even find that a family who DOES still know all that stuff about their roots would be sort of oddballs, especially in a society where most people identify with the place they were born into.
I'm from a pretty mixed ethnic background, I'm third generation Canadian by the newest immigrants in my family, and my family-specific traditions carried down from the 'old country' only include opening a single gift on Christmas Eve and eating 'granny pancakes' and rollkuchen.
Nothing from the Icelandic roots (5th generation) except my last name, nothing from the First Nations roots (great granny) at all, nothing from the English roots (no clue how far back)... really, the only traditions come from my granny who was first or second generation Canadian and whose parents were both pure Dutch.
Really, it's been less than 150 years and already I'm really not identifying with where my family came from.
Hope that helps!