inherited anger

[blunt_trauma]

do you feel angry over past injustices that affected your ancestors?

 

[thør]

do you feel angry over past injustices that affected your ancestors?

The Swedes were always a PITA.

 

[CandiCame]

Nope. But then again, my dad's white (originally his family hails from the Germanic) and my mom's Blue Cat Clan of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation (I had to know that- *sigh*) so what on Earth could I find to bitch about?

Honestly, though, no. I'm not angry- I'd have to be angry at myself. I'm my own oppressor. It's actually a pretty sweet gig if you can get it. Plus, none of that shit happened to me. I never walked the Trail of Tears. I was never kidnapped and forced into Americanization school. That happened to my grandparents. And though I love them, I don't think I get anything because life sucked for them. That's kinda on them.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

Are you saying it has trickled down to effect you?

 

[sweepthefloor]

I eat this pierogy and dance highland flings happy in my gillies wearing a babushka.

 

[Love_Puppy]

Long answer? No.

 

[TexasWife25]

I think you can go back far enough, or dig deep enough and find injustice, somewhere in everyones family tree.

*shrug*

Seems silly to carry on someone elses anger/pain
Also, I cant really see a purpose to it.


So no
Not angry

 

[fairyqueen]

Anger

I'm not angry for myself. I'm angry that any person (whether now or my ancestors) should deal with any kind of injustice. (My ancestors dealt with the whole religious persecution crap)

 

[CandiCame]

Are you saying it has trickled down to effect you?

Nope- I'm saying it stayed with them. Those Americanization schools were apparently pretty intense. Keeps the elderly pretty moody and quiet when you ask them about it. They give you ceramic squirrels and that's the last you hear about it.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

I eat this pierogy and dance highland flings happy in my gillies wearing a babushka.

You wear a Russian grandmother when you dance?

 

[Love_Puppy]

All my ancestors are all dead along with their injustices.

 

[thør]

You wear a Russian grandmother when you dance?

The new accessory!

 

[sweepthefloor]

You wear a Russian grandmother when you dance?

Nope.

The new accessory!

I am the accessory.

 

[BloodyMascara]

I myself am not carrying anger over it, they had tough pasts but people as A COLLECTIVE GROUP make mistakes.

I am mainly Scott-Irish and German and my family has fled from everywhere away from religious persecution and made a decent life here in America. Also my part Native American ancestors had hardships themselves here, but none of it was done to me. And there is no way to go back and punish anyone for it. Why would I want to yell out injustic now, I am not the one being killed off because of my religion or even skintone right now.

So I guess all that fluff aside, my answer is simply a no.

 

[warrior queen]

No. I feel some sadness that my family went through the Holocaust, but I don't carry it within me.
Of the 181 extended family that went into camps that I know of, 143 died or were exterminated.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

The new accessory!

It was not in the new Life Line or Viagra commercials. "Help, I've fallen and I can't get it up!

 

[thør]

I am the accessory.

Pierogi? You'll make them, of course.

And can you translate some Russian papers for me?

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

Nope- I'm saying it stayed with them. Those Americanization schools were apparently pretty intense. Keeps the elderly pretty moody and quiet when you ask them about it. They give you ceramic squirrels and that's the last you hear about it.

She is European. Besides, I think the elderly use those ceramic squirrels to hide their 38 Specials. (nods)

 

[CandiCame]

She is European. Besides, I think the elderly use those ceramic squirrels to hide their 38 Specials. (nods)

lol, she's so not European.

But she's a nice lady. Except she has way to many kids. 13. WTF? She says that as soon as one was big enough to move around she wanted another baby. I was like: ?

 

[thør]

lol, she's so not European.

But she's a nice lady. Except she has way to many kids. 13. WTF? She says that as soon as one was big enough to move around she wanted another baby. I was like: ?

Catholic? Or farmers?

 

[sweepthefloor]

It was not in the new Life Line or Viagra commercials. "Help, I've fallen and I can't get it up!

Call bells, ding.

Pierogi? You'll make them, of course.

And can you translate some Russian papers for me?

At the same time? You are cruel.

 

[thør]

At the same time? You are cruel.

I'm nicer than Stalin.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

Long answer? No.

What she sain.

 

[shoulderblade]

All my ancestors are all dead along with their injustices.

Right. Better to live in today rather than try to drag dusty centuries along behind you.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Someone showed you up?