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cimoreneyour background comes from everything that happens around you when you grow up. i'm a firm nurture-supporter in the nature/nurture debate, even down to artisitic and writing skills to a large extent, and it matters how many friends you had and who they were and what your parents thought about everything and how hot it was and how often you played outside. but the thing is that when you have good parents to whom you're very close they're like half of your nurture all together because they color how you take in EVERYTHING else.
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guinevere33 and i, as the lovely (if bitter and old) wax_jism can attest, do not have southern accents despite growing up in the heart of dixie--why? because my father's parents grew up in nyc, so he doesn't, and my mother grew up in kansas. why? because even though her mother was bred in the carolinas, is named betty gail and gan sound like katherine tucker windham on a good day, her father is from maryland. confederate battle flags? jesus fish? the word 'y'all'? ignorance of evolution? an inexplicable distaste for biracial marriage, or, hm, a desire to see the ten commandmants on the wall? move right along, folks, because you're not going to find them here. we're alabamians, not southerners, transplants, not fucking natives. no one in 18 years has assumed either of us was from tuscaloosa, but in less than 12 months, people can't tell she's not pure la and i'm not pure massachusetts, so yeah.
your heritage, your upbringing, your background? those are in your home. not around your house.
guinevere33 and i, as the lovely (if bitter and old) wax_jism can attest, do not have southern accents despite growing up in the heart of dixie--why? because my father's parents grew up in nyc, so he doesn't, and my mother grew up in kansas. why? because even though her mother was bred in the carolinas, is named betty gail and gan sound like katherine tucker windham on a good day, her father is from maryland. confederate battle flags? jesus fish? the word 'y'all'? ignorance of evolution? an inexplicable distaste for biracial marriage, or, hm, a desire to see the ten commandmants on the wall? move right along, folks, because you're not going to find them here. we're alabamians, not southerners, transplants, not fucking natives. no one in 18 years has assumed either of us was from tuscaloosa, but in less than 12 months, people can't tell she's not pure la and i'm not pure massachusetts, so yeah. your heritage, your upbringing, your background? those are in your home. not around your house.
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Date: 4 Aug 2002 10:53 am (UTC)I dont have any problems with Newfies, though the "dumb Newfie" jokes suck a lot, it's just that I'm not from there. You dont say to someone in Scotland "Oh, youre English right?" because they live near the border. Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are separated by wuite a bit of ocean, they arent that close!
People also say that because I live in Ontario, I'm not a Cape Bretoner, but I spend 1/3 of my life there, and the rest of my life raised around their way of life. I have way more in common with the people down there than I do up here, thats my family, and if they consider me to be one of them, everyone else should too.