Project 2: Background Information

Ethnically I am an American but such is the American way to identify us from each other within this country by our ancestors. On my father’s side is German, from both sides of his family having come over 3-4 generations ago to America. On my mother’s side from her mother is Irish further separated coming from her grandmother from both sides of Ireland (United Kingdom and Ireland), on her father’s side is Polish. So going by that qualification I am 50% German, 25% Irish mix and 25% Polish. The only real connection I have to this lineage is through the German side with food, some self-taught German and culture. I don’t know what sect exactly my parents’ come from all I know is that I was baptized as a baby, and that we do not actively practice any religion in the household. My parents’ believe that if my brothers or me feel the need for spiritual guidance we can go for that on our own without them directing us. I personally practice a form of “Tibetan” Buddhism. Personally I don’t identify with one culture I have an unnatural thirst for knowledge and love to learn about how other people live and their culture, or their practices, if it was possible I would want to live my life roaming meeting people sharing experiences and enlightening myself to the ways and reasoning’s of others. This only becomes an issue when I run into people who are not as open minded about learning and respecting other’s cultures and practices, but you can’t change others, you can only change yourself.