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theatrical_muse
Oct. 21st, 2006 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hardhitter_njName : Michael Jacob-Francis *
fandom: Original Character
Topic: What do your ancestors mean to you?
Word count : 297
[ooc--All posts are for player not character knowledge only – not for your character to use in game –unless agreed upon– which is ok because all replies to challenges are meta. The bio sheet-a work in progress and not on front page yet( will be more than just current bio page). ALL comments are considered meta- but he is available for specific in game rp -- if needed]
Hmm, well I know that I was born in the year of the rooster, my mother’s parents were Chinese and my father’s parents were of French decent. I could tell you the entire history of China and France, what it means to be born the year of the Rooster. I could quote statistical and geographical facts on both countries and I still wouldn’t be able to tell you more than what my parents have told me about their own parents. It wasn’t a lot to be honest. .Ancestry has been a hush-hush issue in my household for as long as I can remember, as are a lot of other subjects.
I tried doing a family tree once and my mother and father went all kinds of quiet on me. Out of respect for them, I don’t push.
But honestly? It would be nice to feel a closer connection with those who came before me, other than just a passing reference at the dinner table by slip of tongue. Must be nice to know who your great-great grandparents were or even great-great-great. *shrug*
In some Chinese families, ancestor worship still abounds. Excusing the fact that I am Catholic, even if I wasn’t, I have no names to set up on high and revere.
On a larger scale, I come from two very different nations, two very different racial profiles and you know what, it’s all good. In reality, God watches over us all. We’re all from the same family, in some way, shape, or form. I can look to you, you , or even you, and see your family tree to get a glimpse of what my own could have been –or maybe not. I don’t know.
Sorry, some days, getting a handle on my ancestors, is tricky business.
fandom: Original Character
Topic: What do your ancestors mean to you?
Word count : 297
[ooc--All posts are for player not character knowledge only – not for your character to use in game –unless agreed upon– which is ok because all replies to challenges are meta. The bio sheet-a work in progress and not on front page yet( will be more than just current bio page). ALL comments are considered meta- but he is available for specific in game rp -- if needed]
Hmm, well I know that I was born in the year of the rooster, my mother’s parents were Chinese and my father’s parents were of French decent. I could tell you the entire history of China and France, what it means to be born the year of the Rooster. I could quote statistical and geographical facts on both countries and I still wouldn’t be able to tell you more than what my parents have told me about their own parents. It wasn’t a lot to be honest. .Ancestry has been a hush-hush issue in my household for as long as I can remember, as are a lot of other subjects.
I tried doing a family tree once and my mother and father went all kinds of quiet on me. Out of respect for them, I don’t push.
But honestly? It would be nice to feel a closer connection with those who came before me, other than just a passing reference at the dinner table by slip of tongue. Must be nice to know who your great-great grandparents were or even great-great-great. *shrug*
In some Chinese families, ancestor worship still abounds. Excusing the fact that I am Catholic, even if I wasn’t, I have no names to set up on high and revere.
On a larger scale, I come from two very different nations, two very different racial profiles and you know what, it’s all good. In reality, God watches over us all. We’re all from the same family, in some way, shape, or form. I can look to you, you , or even you, and see your family tree to get a glimpse of what my own could have been –or maybe not. I don’t know.
Sorry, some days, getting a handle on my ancestors, is tricky business.
