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

For the most part, I know where my family comes from. One side is mostly Hungarian/German/Eastern European, and the other is English/Scottish/Welsh/etc. but my family doesn’t identify itself in ways that can be distinctly tied to any one of those backgrounds.

In that regard, I’m disconnected from any sort of cultural heritage outside of the United States, and even here I don’t recognize any “culture” that my family would be associated with here.

Culture is meant to be something that brings people together, something that they share and can rally around that helps distinguish them from other cultures. Music. Food. Art. Those kinds of things that make them stand out. My family doesn’t really have anything like that. For all intents and purposes, I’m just another “white dude in America” and I take no pride in the way things have been going in this country for the last couple decades. So much hate, intolerance, violence, and regression.

So, truly, I feel disconnected from the idea of “cultural heritage” because I don’t want to be associated with the things that my country, as a whole, have become predominantly known for to the rest of the world.