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⌈ Secret Post #2565 ⌋

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Comments

"Be proud of your heritage"

[(Anonymous)]

What does this even mean.

I see it thrown around a lot in relation to interracial couples, and adopted kids. But it seems essentialist as hell, as though where your parents were born should be a fundamnetal part of your identity when you've lived all your life in Alaska and never stepped foot in Africa.

Re: "Be proud of your heritage"

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of think it should be. Or at least, there are some people for whom it is, and that's fine and good.

Re: "Be proud of your heritage"

[(Anonymous)]

Do you honestly not understand what the phrase means or are you just venting?

Re: "Be proud of your heritage"

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're probably trolling, but here's a response anyway.

I'm not adopted or part of an interracial family, so I can't comment on that, but I've always thought of the phrase as a variation on "everyone's beautiful" or "nobody's perfect" - mild non-committal encouragement you say to people because you don't really know what else to say or how to help them through their struggle.

Personally I dislike being told what I should be proud of. There's a part of my heritage that's so, so very Not For Me. I've lived immersed in that particular culture for over a decade and it's just about diametrically opposed to how I want to live - and so I can't take people seriously when they say "But you should be proud to be from X!" There are plenty of things I'm proud of. My career, my artwork, my friends - I don't see the need to be proud of an accident of birth.

Re: "Be proud of your heritage"

[darkmanifest]

I've always taken "be proud of your heritage" as more like "know and don't be ashamed of your heritage, because there are people who will do everything in their power to misinform and shame you for it". It's a preemptory defense mechanism for kids who are growing up as minorities in any place that has a long history of mistreating people of a certain racial descent, because they run the high risk of running into bigotry in their lives.

Re: "Be proud of your heritage"

[nyxelestia]

This. I pretty much consider myself "American" through and through, and honestly feel much more connected to the ethnic culture I grew up around (Latino/Mexican) than my actual heritage (Indian/Bengali). I don't really care much about my heritage, but I understand why I probably could and why many say I should.

I can kind of see certain people's objections to anyone being proud of any heritage by virtue of the "pride is for accomplishments, being born to someone isn't an accomplishment" argument, to which I would say the whole "take pride in your heritage" argument implies that openly celebrating and participating in one's minority heritage in the fact of a majority that discriminates against you for that heritage is a type of accomplishment, one of endurance.