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?

[azureline**]

Australian 5th generation English ancestry.

[i-need-a-martini]

And if someone asked you what your background was you would say...?

[azureline**]

Not sure what you are asking

[poison_ivys_pen]

I consider myself Australian and that to be my culture, a 5th generation Australian of English, Scottish, Irish, Spanish, German and Danish ancestry so I couldn't really pic one of those as one I'd identify with other than being Australian.

It's an interesting point Martini, at what point do we stop thinking of ourselves of being one of those cultures of our ancestry and just consider ourselves Australian first and foremost.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

And if someone asked you what your background was you would say...?

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If someone asked you what your background is, you wouldn't say "Australia" cause that's not really your background. Australian is your culture as it is now.

You would say English I assume?

[azureline**]

No I would say Australian

[the_bob_delusion]

We are all Africans.

[cherry*135]

4th generation New Zealander - French descent (my mothers maternal side) Great Grandma born in NZ 1857 and mothers paternal side  Australian of English Descent.

3rd or 4th Gen NZ'er - Fathers side - Scottish descent.

I would say born in NZ, and no more unless anyone was more interested than that. A few of my relatives play the French card.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@azureline** wrote:
No I would say Australian

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Wouldn't that make you indigenous?

(I'm not arguing - just thrashing around some thoughts)