What are you?

[i-need-a-martini]

I was just watching Hannah Gadsbys (brilliant!) show on the ABC on Australian Art and they brought up some interesting ideas about indigenous culture. It was particularly interesting given the debate on Q&A last night about Bolts "white aborigines" tirade.

So how many generations can pass before you shed your culture? 

I am a first generation Italian and my kids are second generation. But we all call ourselves Italian if asked what culture we are. I imagine my grand and great grand kids will also refer to their Italian culture. Not sure beyond that.

My husband embraces his dads Canadian culture and his mothers Englishness. Yet his mothers ancestors came out from England in the early 1900s. Can he still really claim that his culture is English?

How would you relate your culture if asked what your background is?

[i-need-a-martini]

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@**bob_bless_you** wrote:

We are all Africans.

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But I wonder how long it took to stop considering ourselves as Africans and started considering ourselves as part of the country we stopped in?

How many generations? How many decades?

[poison_ivys_pen]

Honestly I'd say no to English because even the English as we know our ancesters to be weren't really English as then I'd have to go back to the Celts, and Anglo Saxons, neither of which originated there.  People of the Earth have roamed for well over a Millienia it would take to long to say which is our exact background so I stick with Australian is my background.

[boris1gary]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I was just watching Hannah Gadsbys (brilliant!) show on the ABC on Australian Art and they brought up some interesting ideas about indigenous culture. It was particularly interesting given the debate on Q&A last night about Bolts "white aborigines" tirade.

So how many generations can pass before you shed your culture? 

I am a first generation Italian and my kids are second generation. But we all call ourselves Italian if asked what culture we are. I imagine my grand and great grand kids will also refer to their Italian culture. Not sure beyond that.

My husband embraces his dads Canadian culture and his mothers Englishness. Yet his mothers ancestors came out from England in the early 1900s. Can he still really claim that his culture is English?

How would you relate your culture if asked what your background is?

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How horrible was Brandis on Q&A last night, gutsy journo from the australian though - sorry. I would say nothing.

[chuk_77]

I was born here so Im an Aussie?

[i-need-a-martini]

Then perhaps the answer is that we stop referring to our culture once we forget where we came from?

Or simply when we have lost (or chosen to lose) our links to specific cultures?

[azureline**]

No. As far as I know we have no aboriginal ancestry. Just boring English ones.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

I was born here so Im an Aussie?

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I was born here too but my culture and my race is Italian. My nationality and way of life (mainly) is Australian.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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How horrible was Brandis on Q&A last night, gutsy journo from the australian though - sorry. I would say nothing.

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That episode was fantastic last night. I though Marcia Langton was going to kill the boof headed idiot.

[punch*drunk]

I'm Australian too.

[cherry*135]

We don't really have a 'culture' & traditions though?  People of English/UK descent?