Your Heritage Describe How You Are Now

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Does your heritage describe how you are now? Mine does. And my heritage involves my German culture and how I am German and how my family comes from Germany and has the German places that I would want to go and to see. My heritage affects me in two ways, but I want to try some new German things and see new things that will or the are related to my kind of heritage. My culture comes from my mom’s side of her heritage, my Aunt Kaylah’s heritage, and the German places that I want to visit.

My mom’s heritage includes me to be German because long before any of my parents or any of my family were even born, there were my ancestors that were German farmers and they owned the corn field and they still do today. No one in our family is Irish but some of the people in my family are Scottish and they do some Scottish traditions almost every year. Some of the Scottish traditions that they do are they sometimes go out and wear kilts like most people do in Scotland. Most of our ancestors came from Germany to America to work in the corn field and after they had worked so hard they finally saved up enough money to buy the corn field and they still own it today.
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My aunt doesn’t really do anything to celebrate that she is Indian but her great-grandfather was Indian and he served in World War 2 and so did my mom’s great-grandfather. Most of my family has been in the wars and have died from the past years\ but I at least know that they served for something that was right. Most of my family is half German and half British, and most people in my family have never ever known anything about their

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