Five Questions

[jazzy_dave]

Nabbed from spikesgirl58 is this set of five questions -


1) Of the various cultures, ethnicities or nationalities you belong to, which most strongly do you consider yourself?

2) Is there a culture you cannot claim heritage from but which you feel quite close to?

3) What's one language you wish you knew fluently?

4) If you could move anywhere in the world and be guaranteed a job, etc, where would you go?

5) If you had a time machine, and could witness any one event without altering or disturbing it, what would you want to see?

1/ Very much English i say
2/ I feel close to French culture and philosophy
3/ Finnish
4/ Brighton - best city that i would love to go back to.
5/ The formation of our universe from the first microsecond of The Big Bang or sometime  before to see if there was a previous universe.

Now it is your turn.

Comments

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

1. I don't really, I used to be a major Celtophile (Irish/Scots ancestry),
but that's faded. I'm American, but I'm not heavily patriotic.

2. Middle Eastern, especially the coastal areas from Turkey to Egypt. As far as I know, no blood ties to anything near there, but I've always been curious.

3. Latin.

4. Don't know...I'm not all that adventurous. Probably somewhere in Northern/Western Europe if I got more adventurous. Oh what the heck, lets
call it Iceland for the win.

5. Oh gods and little fishes, so many choices. So much history that I wonder about, so many times I'd want to see first hand, but not actually live there. (A love of ancient cultures is balanced by a love of indoor plumbing, central AC, and antibiotics) Ok, to pick a very random one...Alexandria, Egypt...say within about 50 years of founding. Just watching the port on a busy day in the trading season. Nothing spectacular, well other than everything going on.

[angiereedgarner.livejournal.com]

1) urban Appalachian
2) that's a hot mess of a question
3) Arabic
4) I always thought I'd like to live in the Bay area for a year or two, except now ppl I'd like are getting priced out and scattering. I'd probably just get my sweetie a job in my hometown so we could be here full time, and we'd work the hell out of it.
5) Rosa Parks-- but the whole event, not just the moment where she refused. I'd like to witness all the planning that went into it.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

1. European.

2. Hmm. North American maybe. Evidence of a misspent youth immersed in American television!

3. Italian.

4. Part of me says somewhere along the Mediterranean coastline. Another part of me says stay here where there's the NHS. Cornwall maybe. I always did like it there.

5. I want to see a dinosaur. Preferably a big one, but I'd take a small one too. Just to see what colour it was, and what sort of noises it made, and see it as a living, breathing thing rather than a drawing.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

1) British

2) Chinese

3) Icelandic

4) I would stay put (Cornwall).

5) Cornwall during the Industrial revolution

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

A lovely part of Britain. My friend Phil goes there for a few weeks each year.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I am blessed - I am eighteen miles from Lands End. Work can be tricky, seasonal tourism dominates.

[danaewinters.livejournal.com]

1) Of the various cultures, ethnicities or nationalities you belong to, which most strongly do you consider yourself?
Irish - but mostly because it was the culture my relatives were most talkative about. I was raised with the music, the religion, the stories/folklore, and even the step dancing, when they were feeling a wee bit rowdy. There's English and Norwegian in that background as well, but I know far less of my ancestry down those lines than I do of the lines of both my grandfathers.

2) Is there a culture you cannot claim heritage from but which you feel quite close to?
Italian - just from the sheer number of my aunts/uncles that married Italians. We're not blood-related, but they're so ingrained into our personal family culture right now, that it feels as if we were.

3) What's one language you wish you knew fluently?
Spanish. My neighborhood is nearly 80% Mexican, and I speak it like I learned from binge-watching Dora the Explorer. Granted, some of it I DID learn that way, but there were a couple years worth of Spanish courses in high school too, that just didn't stick well.

4) If you could move anywhere in the world and be guaranteed a job, etc, where would you go?
A GOOD job? Honestly, I love exactly where I am. Wish I could afford it better, and I'd love to visit other places more, but as far as settling down, I'd say here is just fine. If it wasn't for wanting family closer though, then maybe Dublin or Toronto would do, too.

5) If you had a time machine, and could witness any one event without altering or disturbing it, what would you want to see? Oh, the Big Bang is tempting (as are dinosaurs), but I'm going with the creation of the very first egg. Or the very first chicken. You know - whichever comes first.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Ah the chicken and the egg - a rather tautological conundrum.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Given that the first egg would have come from a marine animal, I think you can be sure that it came before the first chicken. Unless the first chicken had gills. ;)

Anyway, chickens didn't evolve until around 5000 years ago, as a domesticated subspecies of junglefowl, which themselves probably date to around 8 million years ago. Their direct ancestors, the dinosaurs, had been laying eggs since around 230 million years ago, and their ancestors for millions of years before that, and so on back to little wiggly marine creatures, and sorry I'll shut up now. :)

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

1) I don't feel like I belong to any kind of culture at all on this planet. Not really. Maybe if I didn't feel so isolated from how so many "people" have behaved towards me all my life, I might have been able to identify with some ethnicity/culture, etc.

2) Native Americans. My beliefs are similar to theirs, although I am not native American.

3) I wish I could speak Russian. My neighborhood and a large part of the area I live in is very heavily populated by Russians.

4) I would want to live in England, because they have free healthcare there. From what I've heard, it's a much more efficient and caring system than the sad joke that is American healthcare.

5) Tough call! I can't decide between wanting to see a dinosaur or three, The Big bang, a parallel universe, the crucifixion of Jesus, or the day the first early humans formed language.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Very cool answer to No.5. :)
For No. 3 I would love to know American Sign Language. I think it is so cool to watch people speak it.
Hugs, Jon

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

1) I'm a second generation American, but I grew up in a heavily Slovak family in an area of Ohio very steeped in central European heritage, so I feel very rooted to that ethnicity.
2) Not so much, although it depends on the most recent foodways that I'm hooked on. Right now, it's Japan.
3) Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Chiefly because I find them intriguing.
4) Hmm. I don't know. I really don't have an answer for this one.
5) Either to see Dinosaurs or early humans.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

1. The last few years, I've enjoyed the Scottish, but I can't say I identify with any of it. Particularly the isolationist and violent tendencies. I identify more with the Danish part of me. Of course it's a much larger part.

3. American Spanish would be pretty convenient, but I guess I'd say French, in case I ever go to France. It seems like the place you'd most want to speak the native language.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

1. I've got a lot to choose from, but I'd say the assorted British/Irish/Scots blood that I've got.

2. Japan. And/or China. The closest I come to either of them is the Philippines, but I know more about Japanese and Chinese culture than I do about the PI even though that is where my mom was from.

3. Hmm. Probably French, just because so many rose names etc are French and I'd like to stop butchering them when I say them.

4. Somewhere in England; preferably in or close to London.

5. Hmmm. That's a tough one. I'm going to go with the original spark of life- provided I have the instruments to detect it and the wit to figure it out.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

1 Cherokee

2 Italian

3 Latin

4) Two counties north of where I live now.

5) There are some really good answers to this one, and I have to say I would like to have a "hall pass" on this one and use it multiple times. But if I had to choose one, I would say the circumstances of my conception. No, not the ACT, but what led to my creation.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

1. Australian. Mum thought of herself as English, so I identify with that culture as well and like to have English friends. (I also have friends from a lot of nationalities, especially New Zealanders). By heritage I am English, Scottish, Irish, German and Rumanian/Hungarian in genes.

2. I identified with the Aboriginal culture for quite a while, but that has waned.

3. French, because I learnt a bit in school and wish I had learned more. Now I want to know my Latin so that I can understand English better. (I am a sucker for etymology.)

4. I would love to go to a tropical place, not to work, but to paint or do social work, so long as there were no problems eg political or pollution or disease or social problems. Also, I kind of feel 'at home' when I watch Indian programs, and strangely documentaries of Turkey. I think the Mediterranean islands and coastlines are also very beautiful. But I would only want to visit there.

5. The first event I thought of was Phar Lap winning the Melbourne Cup. I would like to see an aurora, though probably from a protected bubble so that I wasn't cold! Also, it would have been awesome to be at Woodstock, although I have been at many Folk Festivals, so I have probably experienced something similar.

[postingwhore.livejournal.com]

Why Finnish?

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

My DJ friend Mestari (aka DJ Abo) is fronm Finland and he has asked me on numerous accessions to visit when he goes back there for hols.

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

1)English of some Irish heritage.
2)No
3)Welsh
4) Probably North Wales coast.
5)John Dee speaking to Enochian Angels.

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

1/ Irish, though there is English mixed in.
2/ Italian, because my MIL and Hubby are Italian descent.
3/ I do not have any gift for languages, but if I had to choose it might be Italian.
4/ Ireland
5/ Almost any of my childhood Christmases, but especially the year I got a Ginny doll.

[blessed-oak.livejournal.com]

1/ American, I suppose, though I do identify with Italian-American and Slovak-American.

2/ English. I lived in Abingdon for the year I was eleven, and part of me always misses it.

3/ French. I was very good at it in school. My final year, the textbook was an anthology of French literature that I could read quite well, but then when I got out of school I forgot almost all of the language.

4/ Somewhere in Britain. (See q. 2)

5/ To choose an answer that hasn't already been said, I'll go with the time of the Neanderthals, to see what all that was like at a time when there was more than one human species. But I'd love to see the Big Bang and some dinosaurs as well.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Okay, I ADORE these answers!!

*HUGS*

[cartimandua.livejournal.com]

1)Irish. More as a default option, because I don't feel close at all to any of the other areas of my heritage.
2)Wales. I can play the harp and everything.
3)See previous answer.
4)Base One, South Pole. Which would mean pretty much by definition that I'm working on the physics of ice cores with the Antarctic Survey.
5)I'm a romantic, so I want to go into the future and see mankind travel to the stars. Ad astra per ardua!