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QOTD: #191

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What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

I’m proud of all of my family heritage and am glad I am here to talk about it.

My paternal heritage is Italian so I am half Italian and I do love Italian cooking, the art, history.

My maternal heritage is a little different. I am a quarter Armenian and a quarter Lithuanian.

I am very proud of my Armenian heritage and glad that I am talking to you now. As my great grandparents were both murdered in the 1917 genocide in Turkey. I hold no hatred towards those that killed them. If anything, I have learned the art of love and tolerance of all races and creed and beliefs. Provided they don’t hurt anybody. I’ve been that way ever since childhood. I feel that when atrocities happen we all must learn to tolerate other people and their beliefs.

Massive wars and death have resulted from intolerance. Hatred bigotry all those terrible things. That’s a lesson that I have learned from what happened to my family and my inherited trauma from what happened.

Someday the world will learn and understand that hatred is stupid. That we all bleed the same red all have the same organs and are all part of the human race.

As always, thank you for reading…

-aaa

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  2. I am descended on my mother’s side from French Huguenots who fled religious persecution in France centuries ago. My father was born in Northern Ireland and joined the British Army during World War 2. He came over to England and met and married my mum. I am very proud of my Northern Irish and my French Huguenot heritage. If we look back into our family trees/DNA profiles, we will find we are all ‘hybrids’ ❌️❤️🌹

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    • Yeah it’s kind of a sore point for me because since America is an ally with Turkey, and they want to use their airspace, whatever kind of bombing raids you wanna do they will not put this in the history books.

      In the classroom, the Armenian genocide never happened in America.

      But it’s in the books in Europe and other parts of the world. Very frustrating for me. I don’t want anything. I just want them to admit they did it and for it to be in history so we can learn from it.

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