Ethnicity, GEOG Blog #4

I feel ethnicity isn’t overly important to me, but it definitely plays a role with my relationships, politics, etc.  I have to argue that it is extremely important to separate the terms ethnicity and race in this sense.  I believe having pride in one’s ethnic culture, and background, is extremely important.  Individuals need to have an understanding of who they are and where they actually come from.  In this sense race has nothing to do with ethnicity.  One of my roommates this past year was fifty percent asian, but he also celebrates his Irish and German background.  The first generation of my family in America came over on the Mayflower.  I believe I am the seventeenth generation of my family living in America.  My background is rooted in the formation of this country, but that doesn’t change the fact that my ethnic background will always be a combination of Welsh, Irish, English, and Scottish culture.  I am a member of the catholic church, and my family has probably been catholic for hundreds of years.  When it comes to relationships it definitely helps to share an ethnic background.  Many of my friends are Irish, and I love finding out that a peer of mine has a similar ethnic background.  I think an individual’s ethnic background plays a huge role on how that individual lives their life.  Take holidays for example, I love St. Patrick’s Day and St. David’s Day, but I don’t blink twice at the thought of Cinco De Mayo.

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