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Originally Posted by Halx
I am a firm believer in the notion that the most beautiful people are the ones who come from mixed parents. Its hard to find someone like that who isnt attractive and alluring. With that said. My kids are going to be HOT.
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I LOVE hybrid babies. My best friend is half Japanese, and so is her cousin. Her cousin has an 18-month-old who is just adorable. He is only 1/4 Japanese, so he looks exotic. Very cute!
I wish I could have a hybrid baby. As it is, I'm doomed to have boring white babies.
I want to get the genetic testing done to find out the background of my DNA, just because I think it would be cool. Plus, there is a part of my family tree that has a huge genealogical question mark on it, because that branch of the family got chased out of Virginia for being too wild, and we have no records of what the family did in Virginia to know who they married, or who we are descended from. We have genetic markers that indicate we might be descended from a mixed marriage, but otherwise, we're clueless about what we could be. Our last name on that side is German, but that is really about all we know for sure.
I think it's important to know where we come from, but I think it's also important to blend cultures and develop new traditions. I grew up in a household with close ties to the Netherlands, with one parent being an immigrant. My mother is your typical American mutt, as indicated above. We had an interesting melange of traditions. A Dutch Christmas is different from American Christmas, but to blend things together we sort of hybridized the holidays. Normally, Dutch children receive gifts on Sinterklaasdag, not Christmas. Christmas is a religious holiday (despite the rampant secularism of Dutch culture) and for sharing with family, not for gift-giving. In respect of that, we do our gift-giving on Christmas Eve, and spend Christmas Day with the family, doing family things. Interestingly, Thanksgiving is actually more important to my Dutch-American family than Christmas--it is the one holiday where both sides of the family have consistently gotten together every year (with one or two exceptions) since I was a small child. Both my Dutch grandfather and American grandfather loved Thanksgiving.
Let's go mix things up so I can start celebrating other holidays! I've already added Obon to my list.