When you don't inherit your ethnic culture anymore

Culture is very important to some people, but I don't think it's a big deal if you don't identify with yours in any real way. If I hailed from a culture I was proud of or was deeply affected by, I might identify with it, but I don't. I come from an amalgam of generic European white people, and my family no longer has any real cultural traits (unless you count being white trash as a cultural trait). Therefore, I don't have any real identity outside of myself and basic parameters I can't avoid being affected by (being white, female, etc). Being American is especially confusing because either your family has been here for 400 years and is just like everyone else's, or you're newer and will soon be assimilated from the culture of your home country.

Things that confuse me: people that are very patriotic and sentimental about hailing from a certain place. I don't identify strongly with being American or from my certain state either. I don't feel that anyone should owe their family or their country allegiance just because they were born there. If they're legitimately proud of it, sure. But if you hail from a place or a family that's shitty, I see no problem with losing the guilt and forging your own new identity that you pass on to your family. This doesn't mean I don't like my country or my family. It just seems pointless for me to think it's so much better than being Chinese or Angolan. It's just a place and an ethnicity.

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