how important is it to you that culture and ancestry should be passed down to your kids?

[Rory786]

Just that really.

What do you do to facilitate it?

We are British living in the USA, British culture and heritage isn’t important to us, we don’t facilitate.

Northern Irish. Quite happy to forget a lot of my heritage and wish a lot of my contempories would too.

Jewish but irreligious. Yes, important. He will have a bar mitzvah, then it’s up to him.

I'm adopted. I don't know anything about my ancestry

look forwards not back

Am English, living in Scotland. Most of our culture is the same but I also love and welcome the differences.

The children are fiddle playing, bagpipe loving Highlanders but they are also proud of their English and Welsh roots.

Very. I had my children in the UK, and resolve that before they were 5 I would take them to our heritage country so they get more of a sense about our culture and language. I always did maintain cultural traditions and speak our language with them though.

Theyre in their 20s now and go back home on holiday without me sometimes. Speak the language fluently and they appreciate both there, and here.

I feel quite sad at times that I don't speak my Dad's first language. My parents have now both passed away, and I wish I could speak their language, which they didn't feel was important enough to teach us as children.

Very, especially the information regarding the family tree.
I must get on with the book of my life...I started it and packed in about 6 years ago when mum went into a care home

Must get cracking.

I don’t want the grand children showing pictures of me to their grandchildren and knowing nothing about my early life

I have a picture aged 2 sat on my great grandmothers knee. The penny only dropped a few months ago that this was the lady I was exactly named after...what was she like...I don’t know.
She was born about 1870..I’d love to hear her stories.

I need to get cracking...I’m 66

Irish - pretty important considering there's been centuries long efforts to try and wipe us, our language and culture out - including by people who call themselves Irish but are just Anglo really. They thought they were king of the heap after WW2 with their NWO shite.

Also Irish. Living in Ireland. VERY important to pass down.

Also Irish, living in South Africa. I think it's very important to maintain that cultural link. My kids have Irish names and I speak mainly Irish to them. I make sure they have their little green rugby shirts and that they shout for the right teams!

It's important to me, living in Wales, that my children speak Cymraeg, know the history and mythology of Cymru and enjoy aspects of a Cymreig culture. If I didn't pass on these things they would simply be British. If you (like me since the referendum) think too deeply about British culture, you'll come to realise that British just means English for most people.

At the moment, I feel ashamed to call myself British.

Well it all depends. If you are from a dominant world culture, a colonizing power, you probably don't have to invest a lot of time and effort in it.

If you are from a colonized place, an indigenous culture, a culture which the dominant forces have tried to wipe out, probably a little more relevant.

Well said MrsTerryPratcett

We’re white English, prior to 1950s a farming family.
I'm not bothered by “culture” as such or location but it’s important that ds knows how to grow stuff, to enjoy the weather and understand the calm that comes from the outdoors.

Well said MrsTerryPratcett

Well I spent last night listening to a First Nations elder talking about the attempts to kill her and her culture. It sunk in.

MrsTerryPratcett I've seen similar programmes about the native Americans and the Aborigines. They are in such a dire predicament in terms of mental health and drug use.

Travel to America or Australia doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. I would be travelling thousands of miles to experience much the same culture as London, just the accents would be a little different.

I have a great deal of sympathy for these indigenous peoples.

Whilst I am white, none of my ancestry is British. However my parents didn't put any emphasis on passing on their cultures to me and preferred us to assimilate. I know that some of their desire for us to assimilate rather than identify with our heritage was due to their own experiences of prejudice. My mother was strongly against us using any names for our DCs that related to our ancestry as she felt that we have grown up British, and it therefore wouldn't be right to use names from "another culture", despite the culture being hers or my dad's.

As a result of my parents' attitudes I don't really identify with my cultural heritage and I am not passing any of it on to my DC other than an awareness of where our ancestors came from. Given that they have another set of cultures/ancestry from DH it would get quite tricky to try to pass it down anyway as there are so many different strands now.

As a Catholic, nationalist from NI with a now British name, spouse and address - very. It's important to me to show my children their Irish heritage. I would like them to be familiar and comfortable with the sport, music, language and traditions from my side as well as their other parent's.

I find most people have in born desire to pass down how they were brought up.

So if that's a sparse Christmas... They pass that on... 'we didn't do santa it was still magic'

'I worship God... Allah, so will my children'

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I am socialist... So my dc will be raised as socialists.

I believe in education.... So I will raise my dc to belive in education.

No education never did me No harm... So it won't do my kids harm neither.

I try and think.. About traditions.. Culture I pass on rather than blindly brain washed passing on 😂 and still I do pass stuff on.

love I understand your reasoning but it was whilst on oz soil, on a beach late one night that I really felt the aboriginal spirit there... And their ties to the land!

I’m Protestant northern Irish, dh is a catholic Scot, both of us grew up in England.
My family comes from a very long line of farming and I try to teach my dc about the land and that side of my heritage but the fighting and orange order and 12th July not so much.
Dh comes from a military family and I don’t want them to sign up either, purely for selfish reasons.

Meh, I’m me and I’m a combination of a million different things and experiences. I’m also a product of sheer luck to have the culture and nationality I do. I don’t think I’m any better than any other human so national pride etc. is if no interest to me. I don’t need an ancestry or country to identify as me. I’ll be dead in a while, remembered by my kids and hopefully grandkids. They don’t need to be tied to anything either to have an identity if their own.

Not important to me at all. Look forwards not back. Then again, my family is from South Wales, which isn’t much to be proud of; coal mines singing festivals and these days, drugs and deprivation. Not much of a ‘heritage,’ that. I couldn’t wait to escape and don’t really want to tie my child to that history if I can help.