[Yismymindblank12]

I love culture. It's all my life is about where I am from and who I am. I'm mostly white american male, but I'd Identify myself as European since I'm first generation of not being Scottish. My mother was born there and lived there for 2 years. I love being involved with many races and diverse people from religious or small secular town perspectives to different cities in my own country.

I love how I like to meet people from different races and cultures rather my own in america, because I don't find it that exciting.

It's embedded in me, because I'm born with so many types of heritage I'd just make a joke I was a big orgy baby or a melting pot and here I am. I have many family trees married in and permanently apart of my family and I have no idea how they got here, but it's lovely, and I find them family to me.

I have almost everything except romantic nations and middle eastern in my blood. Mainly I'm bluntly be called just white, but I found out so many people are black in my family or from the phillipines. It's amazing, I love it.

I want to keep the cycle going, I do like the thought of living abroad and making my life and homestead there instead of america. I'd visit the UK first and get my EU citizenship, because I love to find out more about all my family is all put in the UK more than anywhere else in the world including america.

If I had the job as Anthony Bourdain. I'd take it, I'd love to spend so many times off on adventures traveling the world.. Checking out the Euphrates and himalayas. Learn, Japanese, Arabic, and languages of places I'm planning on going to visit.

Most of my friends are from different cultures. I like most of my food natural and home grown and unique to the area.

I am happy of the idea of being immersed in an area the good and bad, and just learn and observe and live through it. Just to say you were apart of it is so cool to me.

What do you think? I find it amazing and it fills me with the sense of wanting to learn and adventure even for someone as young as me. You can never be too old or young to learn about the world around you.

I, too love this. Yes. Anthony Bourdain is good in every way
I believe that travel is a great education in lots of ways.

Did you know that you can get a UK passport? You are considered a British citizen....just an fyi.

[Nammu]

I think that is fantasic! More people should embrace the different cultures that are in thier DNA.

[BubonicPlague]

I'm starting take a liking to the Middle East. I don't care what Americans think.

I'm so infatuated with their mythology and their strange way with words in writing (almost everything they write about has some sort of symbolic meaning).

I would like to see Babylon one day, but it's located in a dangerous place. I'm going to have to be extra careful with what I wear!

[eskielover]

I spent 5 weeks in Rome years ago (sure it's changed since then)....but it was an amazing trip. My H was working there during that time & I just took off from our hotel in EUR & walked up to the Metro....they each day I would get off at a different stop & just wander & meet people & talk. Took some wonderful tours with wonderful Italian guides who basically spoke Italian. I rented a car after a few weeks because there were things that I wanted to see that I couldn't get to from the metro.....that was a fun challenge but got to see so many of the outlying areas around Rome....& we picnicked with another family at Ostia Antiqua & met an arciologist who was restoring frescoes. Again he only knew Italian...but he took us on a wonderful tour.

Actually those of us who have all nationalities in our background here in America call ourselves the All American Mix-up....or the MUT.

Most of us here in America have a lot of German, Irish, Scotch, (I even have a little Italian)......& of course that is changing constantly & adding many other nations. My neighbor who moved here the same year that I did onto our farms, they came from South Africa.....so even in a small town of only 8000, there is quite a mix of where people came from.

Personally, the one area that I would LOVE to see is Jerusalem....but I'm the kind of person who likes to go somewhere & stay for a little while & really get into the local culture & really meet the people & learn the language (I already knew spanish so learning Italian wasn't difficult & when I couldn't figure out the Italian word, I threw out the Spanish & they knew what I was trying to say)

Traveling is fun....but no money....so that's something that will never happen again.....but I'm happy on my little farm....so that's a good thing at this point in my life

[Yismymindblank12]

Originally Posted by sophiesmom

I, too love this. Yes. Anthony Bourdain is good in every way
I believe that travel is a great education in lots of ways.

Did you know that you can get a UK passport? You are considered a British citizen....just an fyi.

No I have not, my mother is one, my grandparents, and my aunt are considered british citizens. Even though my grandpa is american. My grandmother is scottish, my mom is, my aunt is, but through my mother I can get it no problem. I plan to move there.

[Yismymindblank12]

I know more about middle eastern culture than many of my friends. When an arab man invites you into his home at the door. You don't question, you say thank you and go right on in at the same time. I know lot of polite and impolite things to do there at the same time, I know lots of the culture first hand from a friend who is from there. We smoke hookah together he got me one from egypt on one of his trips home in jeddah.

[Koko2]

I understand the sentiment, but have never had the money to travel abroad. There's ways to do it for low cost or even get paid, but I'm not gregarious enough to pursue those options.