Heritage LARPing -

[Rand /pol/]

Am I the only one who finds heritage LARPing incredibly cringe? Especially when someone with no ties to the country they claim to have "heritage" from, and doesn't even know their language. I see this all the time in my country and occasionally online from Brazilians or Argentinians or whatever.

 

[Recoil]

A sense of belonging is vital to the human animal. Most of the meaning that drives us is derived from it.

 

[Rand /pol/]

A sense of belonging is vital to the human animal. Most of the meaning that drives us is derived from it.

"Belonging" in the sense of the town you live in or your DnD club I get but "muh 1/68th german ancestry, I'm descended from some retard who may or not have done something notable centuries ago" is just cringe.

 

[HeyYou]

Everyone does it. Two sides of the same coin are American neckbeards who think they're crusaders despite almost certainly being agnostic and completely un-Christian and Turk Roaches thinking that their shitty country matters because of the Ottomans, who got cucked in World War I.

Personally despite the memes I've never had a problem with it unless they're obnoxious about it. Let them be proud of something.

 

[PL 001]

Most of my family's heritage is German and Russian. We have a miniscule amount of Irish, nowhere near enough to actually refer to ourselves as having Irish heritage. Apparently it's good enough for my brother, just so he can claim sympathy with the IRA and have an excuse to hate the English. It's no different than those idiots who are like 1/64 Cherokee and claim to be Native American.

 

[ES 195]

Yes, I too am tired of Americans with some semblance of Italian ancestry reminding me they're Italian. They're worse than vegans.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I think those DNA heritage testing commercials are some of the douchiest I've ever seen.

"i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt"
Douchbag

 

[The Shadow]

There are more Americans that are proud of their "Cherokee" heritage than there ever have been Cherokees, and that's if you include Jeep Cherokee vehicles.

Irish-Americans that pretend to have some big tie to modern Ireland are weird too.

 

[MediocreMilt]

There's nothing wrong with it. In fact such stories can be quite fascinating.

Have I ever told you Kiwis about the night my Great-Great-Grandfather coined the term "ménage à trois" ?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Yes, I too am tired of Americans with some semblance of Italian ancestry reminding me they're Italian. They're worse than vegans.

Youse wanna fight?!

 

[Marco Fucko]

Some members of my family do that with being southern/"country". They came over to Cali because of the dust bowl, fast forward to the Boomers and Gen Xers and they're still trying to act like they're "country".

 

[Syaoran Li]

I do find studying my family history and heritage to be interesting, but I don't get all obnoxious about it.

My heritage is a mix of Irish, German, Italian, and Scots-Irish but for the most part, my ancestors weren't nobility or great esteemed men. They were poor working class Joes and Janes like everyone else. The closest thing to fame in my ancestry and heritage is that a lot of the men in my family were in the military historically speaking.

Based on the documentation I've been able to look up, I've had one ancestor that served in the American Revolution, two ancestors who were brothers who fought for the Union in the American Civil War, a great-grandfather on my Dad's side and a great-uncle on my Mom's who both fought in World War II.

The great-grandfather served in North Africa and was awarded a Silver Star when he saved his squad by taking out a German machine gun nest, while the great-uncle served in France and Belgium and was killed at the Battle of the Bulge.

Another great-grandfather of mine fought in the Korean War as a combat engineer and was awarded the Bronze Star.

My Dad served in the Army in the 1990's and my Uncle on my Mom's side served in Afghanistan in the early 2000's.

With that being said, I'm not some war hero and I just find family history to be a fun subject to research than anything else.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Heritage stuff like that isn’t bad if it’s kind of subdued and you have a meaningful amount.

People should also differentiate being of descent from a group and being that thing when such a distinction would be relevant.

For example, I self identify as British, Irish, and German, but primarily Scottish because I’m patrilineal Scottish, have a Scottish name, family has red beards, and I live in Appalachia. If I were in the Midwest, I’d might care more about the German or Irish side.

I have 1% Italian blood but I only mention it as a curiosity because it’s obviously so insignificant that it doesn’t matter in any way.

And my pet of the country doesn’t really do those ethnic parades, so there’s really no way to express Scottishness here like the Irish and Italians do in the Northeast.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

I saw an uptick in flaunting "Nordic" heritage a few years back, it was fairly cringeworthy.

 

[User names must be unique]

It annoys me when people whose grandparents were born in USA/Stralia/Canadian say they're X,Y,Z. There are more people that call themselves Scottish in the USA than there are Scots in Scotland.

My dad is Scottish as are at least 10 generations of his fathers forbears, my mother is from northern England and has a Scottish reiver family name. I spend at least a week or two in Fife every single year, Yet I'd never call myself a Scot.

By all means celebrate your heritage but you are not Scottish, your ancestors may have been but you are not.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

If all you have to be proud of is some immutable characteristic then I say go for it, you sad bastard.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

It annoys me when people whose grandparents were born in USA/Stralia/Canadian say they're X,Y,Z. There are more people that call themselves Scottish in the USA than there are Scots in Scotland.

My dad is Scottish as are at least 10 generations of his fathers forbears, my mother is from northern England and has a Scottish reiver family name. I spend at least a week or two in Fife every single year, Yet I'd never call myself a Scot.

By all means celebrate your heritage but you are not Scottish, your ancestors may have been but you are not.

In the US it's mostly used as shorthand for "-American." When somebody calls themselves Italian they mean "Italian-descended." When they say German, they mean "German-descended."

That's been a pretty common practice here for a long time. It only becomes confusing when you start mixing people who are "-descended" or "-American" with people who are actually from that nation.

If all you have to be proud of is some immutable characteristic then I say go for it, you sad bastard.

You can have more than one characteristic to be proud of. I feel so sorry for you that you apparently don't.

 

[GreenJacket]

I'm an Anglo, I speak English and I eat onions with mustard, so I'm not really LARPing.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

I think those DNA heritage testing commercials are some of the douchiest I've ever seen.

"i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt"
Douchbag

This one's pretty good, though: