What culture do you prefer anyway?!
By in2day
@in2day (120)
Netherlands
April 1, 2012 2:51pm CST
Born in the Philippines, but raised up in the the Netherlands.
When my parents moved to Holland they kinda kept their Filipino mentality.
You can allready guess what kind of complications this brought in my life.
I was 5 years old when I moved abroad. Speaking and understanding both languages has some advantages.
But to fully submit to both cultures is just impossible! How do you cope with that?!
2 responses
@maezee (41988)
• United States
1 Apr 12
I don't know! That sounds like a tough situation to be in. I am not in touch with my heritage at all. I was born in the US but I have Swedish & Czech roots. (My grandparents were from Czech Republic & Sweden - but emigrated to the U.S. in the '30s). Anyway, I can't imagine having two major cultures that influence your life. I guess maybe you can try to juggle both. Perhaps take what you like out of each, and kind of create your own mixed culture by doing so. Filipino-danish. He he he. Something like that.
@mariab2000 (740)
• Canada
1 Apr 12
It can be a very tough situation to be in and to try and handle two or more cultures at the same time can be very difficult. I guess you can just try your best to submit to both cultures or just take a little bit from each culture that you feel comfortable with and submit to those parts of it...
