Heritages throughout generations

I agree with earlier posts about people not being able to retain their heritage generation after generation. I think if a person had close ties with their home country, visited it often, and did not intermarry, and this happened generation after generation, that maybe a persons true heritage could be maintained. But lets face it, that is not what normally happens. If you think about a couple weeks ago when we were talking about the internment of Japanese Americans, the older generation had trouble cutting loyalties to Japan. But the younger generations that have been born in America, did not have the same difficulties. They related more with America then with Japan, although their true heritage was Japanese

Personally my heritage is pretty mixed, there is not one that I identify with more then the other. Honestly to me my heritage does not make a difference to me. I’m proud of my family, but not because where they came from, but because who they were. I know most of my friends in high school did not celebrate any certain heritage. In my opinion peoples heritages, at least in America, do not play as big of a role as they did in the past. I agree with others that celebrating heritages has become something commercial.

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