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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"My ancestors are English, and French, and Scottish, and Dutch, but they've all been here long enough that none of the original traditions remain."

Do you speak English, moron?[/quote]

Language is not a tradition.  :roll: [/quote]

Whether you call is traditions or language or ethnicity, the traditions do remain, from religion to language, from Chrismas Carols to Halloween, fairy tales to colloquialisms to nursery rhymes and lullabys.  We are steeped in those traditions.  [/quote]

My ancestors from England were pilgrims, they would have been horrified by Christmas Carols.  Santa Claus didn't really exist at the time they emigrated. And Halloween, at least the way we celebrate it here, is a pretty uniquely American thing.

I'm not saying that England didn't contribute to my family traditions, of course it did.  But not because my particular ancestors brought it over.  The traditions and practices I celebrate are a mix of things brought over by my ancestors, things brought over by other cultures and appropriated here (Santa Claus, Spaghetti) and things that developed here.  [/quote]

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