February 19, 2009 07:56AM
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Guess what? I'm not Celtic. I don't identify AT ALL with Celtic traditions or lore or its people. In case you missed the memo, all "white" people are not the same. It's like saying Muslim Arabs in the Middle East should be happy and adopt the history and traditions of the Jews in Israel because they both have sorta brownish skin color. It's ignorant nonsense.
Why do you think of all "whites" as the same? Who taught you this?
I identify myself as an American and a Southerner, and by the hobbies & interests I have. Sure, I have been influenced by European culture, but I don't identify with it excluding the tiny pieces I can directly trace my lineage to. Even then, it's sorta like, "Oh, if I follow my last name back I get to the area around Zurich, Switzerland. Neat." Too bad I know absolutely nothing about people from that region. Oh, the Swiss make good watches. I know that much, though I don't think they taught that in the school I attended. :-(
If we're going to do Black History month, we should also have a Swiss History month. Just for fun, I edited your piece replacing "black" with "Swiss":
As for the 'line in the sand' that line was drawn ALREADY by the very LACK of anything BUT non-Swiss history in schools. As mentioned there is more to Swiss history than watches. Celebrating Swiss history is an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT that we HAVE a history because for most of us if we didn't happen to have progressive parenting we wouldn't be exposed to it quite as naturally as non-Swiss people are EVERY DAY.
Everything from TV shows, to movies, to comic books, to even this MUD...is a byproduct of other European culture and influences. The mythology this mud is based off...dwarves, elves, faeries...etc....where does that COME from? Celtic mythology if im correct. It is SAD for alot of Swiss people that we don't HAVE THAT. We simply don't. We don't have anything to point back at and say 'thats ours'. We dont have dwarves or elves or faeries.
For Swiss americans ALL we have is HERE...and its all a mishmash of what was left over from Switzerland and what we had imprinted onto us by other Europeans. Its not a HISTORY. A proper history has depth and weight and is FELT through multiple mediums and isn't something that is just TAUGHT but LIVED as a cultural expression.
You will likely never understand what its like to watch something as AWESOME as the Lord of the Rings trilogy and feel this deep sense of LOSS knowing that your people don't have the sheer depth of history and cultural knowledge of self to create something like that because it was STOLEN. Swiss History Month should be a REMINDER to SWISS not something necessarily focused on or about whites. Something that hopefully sparks enough interest in Swiss to somehow keep that fire alive so we can RECONNECT with our own ancient mythologies and sense of self SOMEHOW....personally one of my long term ideas when I get the time is to reserach Swiss mythology and to see exactly what kinds of varients they have on mythical races (if any) they have.
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