spacecraft
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50% Japanese, 50% German
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Post by spacecraft on Oct 28, 2003 6:24:55 GMT -5
I found out that most of you here are Half North American(and some English), who have had English education. I wonder how many of you have a European father/mother who is not from English speaking country. Somebody said that I might be one of a few EAs here who are brought up in Asia, who didn't have western education. But I assume some of you are half european-half asian in Europe or Asia, who didn't have any English education, like kyu-ree. Even if you have grown up in Europe and had what you call western education, it might be pretty different from American one. And I just want to know how EAs are treated in Europe.
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Post by MixedVietGuy on Oct 28, 2003 7:55:42 GMT -5
I don't know If I qualify since I was raised in the United States, but my mom was born and raised in Belgium for twenty years before she came to the United States. She raised me up the same way she was raised in Belgium, so in a way I feel closer to the european culture over my American culture. When I went to visited Belgium a couple of times, everyone there seemed very nice. It appeared that people in Belgium cared less about race and were less materialistic....thats the impression I got though. spacecraft, how was it like growing up in Asia? You face any obstacles because of your hapaness ?
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Post by xandra on Oct 28, 2003 11:57:03 GMT -5
my mom lived in italy until she was 25. while i'd say i turned out pretty damn canadian, i'm sure my family life was different than your average canadian kid. it's kind of funny how my mom doesn't look like a minority, but once she opens her mouth, it's pretty obvious she wasn't born in canada! we all pass for italian, so i didn't really notice anybody treating us strangely or staring when we were there. but they did all expect us to speak fluent italian...
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Post by Uncle Hank on Oct 29, 2003 13:15:58 GMT -5
My dad is as French as French can be. He's from Brittany, France which is like in the countryside. He came to the US when he was in his mid to late 20s, and he still carries a heavy accent. As for my mom's side, she's like third or fourth generation ABC. Not the norm from what I gather about most EA's parents.
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spacecraft
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Post by spacecraft on Oct 30, 2003 1:43:43 GMT -5
My mother came to japan when she married my dad. Since there is no reason to send me to American School, my parents made me go to local school, and I enjoyed it. So I think I am very different from half-american EA, who go to American School and speak English in a public places. In my opinion, as for my country, EA whose european mom/dad is from NOT english speaking country tends to fit into Japanese society. One of my friends is half French, and agreed with me. Sometimes people expect me to speak fluent English, and it irritates me a bit, though.
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Post by Moriji on Oct 30, 2003 4:40:43 GMT -5
My mother is Danish. Neither of my parents are American.
Also, I only have Japanese citizenship. But I will soon become an American citizen, unless they decide to send me off to Guantanamo concentration camp.
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Naomi
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Post by Naomi on Nov 3, 2003 15:45:35 GMT -5
My dad's Norwegian, but he spent a couple of years of his childhood in Seattle, WA. Then he travelled the world for a decade or so, that's how he met my mother.
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Post by thursday on Nov 4, 2003 1:54:37 GMT -5
My mom was born, raised and is still living in Belgium. She raised me the Belgian (Flemish) way. But because I was separated from her for 10 years after I moved to HK I became very Cantonese. However, I never lost my European touch ;D It's something I was born with.
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Post by siddhartha on Nov 7, 2003 0:45:09 GMT -5
I was born in France in the mid 50's right before the French got their ass kicked in Dien Bien Phu. My father is VN, my mother a mediteranean gal with italian and french ancestry, so we believe. My grandma was a force of nature who raised 9 kids and adopted one, who later found her original family and never came back. She never had more than a 5th grade education. An orphan, she was raised by very poor piemontese sheppards by the name of "Grillo" and "Fina" (josephine) who led huge flockes of sheep, goats and cows to graze in "la vallee des merveilles" (the valley of marvels), a high place in the french italian alps. They used to go up the mountain in summer for the "transhumance". My grand ma was a servant most of her life but spoke several languages from the mountain people's country. My grandpa was a calabrese who emigrated to France. He was an alcoholic most of his life but one of the funniest story teller I ever knew. My vietnamese grandpa was a custom officer who also had many kids (I believe 8 sons). My grandma was a meo, a tribal person, with very rigid ethics and all her sons became somewhat famous, educated or rich. Both my mom and dad are very educated and sophisticated but also distant and not very family oriented. Sort of self centered intellectuals of the left. Growing up in France in the 60's was very deep. Lots of music and alternative experience. France is a place of politics and international exposure. It is socialistic and quite civilized. France has the best cuisine in the goddamn world and that's final. Now that I don't eat meat any more, I still say that. I still experience an occasional epiphany feasting on camembert, baguette and a glass of red. What else is there. How's that for a background? Fred
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thea
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Post by thea on Jul 22, 2005 22:37:16 GMT -5
I'm an American born Filipina with an Irish husband (born and bred in Ireland), We have a two year old Eurasian son. My husband and I sometimes wonder why Americans of European descent. They commonly like to be known around the world as "plain ole American", out with the old world in with the new. Yet when an American of Irish descent many times removed meets my husband, he/she gets so excited and exclaim, "I'm Irish too!" There is Irish-Irish and there is Irish-American. Irish-Irish means speaking with the accent, having the colloquial speech patterns, and having the manners and customs. Yet Americans many times removed from their European forbears, go all nostalgic when they meet someone actually from Europe. Early Americans, (1800s) were concerned with manifest destiny, creating a new future society, and putting away old European customs, and beliefs that hindered this goal. Asian Americans on the other are expected by alot of white Americans to still speak with accents, and speak a particular Asian language. When they see an Asian-American speaking an American regional dialect they seem so surprised. Euro-Americans can drop European customs to be "plain ole American", while a person of Asian descent (accept for Eurasians who look more European), are expected to still retain Asian language, speech patterns and behaviors. Sorry, I went off on a tangent. My husband and I have observed, at least in the Bay Area that in intercultural relationships, particularly Asian-Euro. If the man is Asian/Asian American the woman is more often than not European born and bred, as opposed to born in the U.S. Now why is that? Most of the Eurasians I know have European born and bred mothers. On another note, in the U.S. interethnic relationships between African-American and Euro-American, its mostly the male that is African-American and the woman is Euro-American? Whereas, in books and in media especially in the UK and in France, you'll see alot more women of African descent with European men. For example, Iman and David Bowie. Why is that?
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Post by realityshift on Jul 23, 2005 16:45:46 GMT -5
Half German, half Japanese - raised in Japan (alos lived in HK) - living in Germany since 1987 - studied in Germany - working here
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Post by hapalicious on Jan 8, 2006 10:32:18 GMT -5
mom s french / italian...so yeah...european ^^
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Post by y2j on Jan 8, 2006 11:02:29 GMT -5
Do most of us here have a North American parent? Really? I didn't think it was that many nowadays...go figure...
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Post by muzo on Jan 8, 2006 13:27:22 GMT -5
^dad's from bavaria (bayreuth - u dont get any more bavarian lol)
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Post by dragan. on Jan 8, 2006 13:32:22 GMT -5
yup my dads a real european fob! born in serbia well so was i but im jus a lil bit of a fob
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