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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just do Ireland or whatever country your ancestors came from! I’d like to see PTA people questioning you lol 
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OP here- I feel like this is really inauthentic. I think some of what dd is upset about is the feeling that we don't have an exciting culture like everyone else does, but we do! Our culture just doesn't extend outside of the US. I had some really neat ancestors here. One was a well known female pioneer that my dd is named after even. [/quote]

THIS!  I tried to work with DD on her "personal culture" assignment, but it was tough.  My parents are second generation Americans and her father can trace his family back the the original settlers in West Virginia and the Mayflower.  I was tempted to send her in with a quote from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn where Francie declares that she is an "American" and everyone is shocked that she is bc her parents were born in Brooklyn and not the old country.  I appreciate the event to allow a sharing of the other cultures since we do have a diverse school with first generation or immigrant families, but I never know what we are expected to contribute to this. [/quote]

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