lol ic. my best friend in high school was like you, asian, but american was his only language and culture. he was practically waspy.
andy, did your family endure the armenian holocaust of '15-'17? it's something that all people should edumacate themselves about, since genocide is still going on around the world.
for me, i am 1/2 irish, and 1/2 norwegian.
dad was born here but raised in ireland. my grandfather, from co. cavan, emigrated to the u.s. just before the first world war. he fought in france for the u.s., getting 2 purple hearts (mean cavan bastid that he was). after the war, he married another emigre from co. mayo, had my dad, and moved back to ireland to live on a small farm, having several more children. they were actually well off with the disability $$ from the u.s gov't., and running a successful farm. my father remembers being the first family in his town with electricity, and indoor plumbing, a maid, and a car. towards the end of the 30's, my grandfather saw wwii coming, so he moved the family back to brooklyn, just in time for my dad to fight in wwii.
my mom's family moved to the states from oslo, norway in the '20's, and my mom was born and raised in brooklyn with 3 brothers and 3 sisters. some of the family went back to norway, living in oslo and places so far north you'd see russian submarines passing by on their way home on nice days.
i still have cousins there, mostly in oslo. i really should make the effort to contact them someday.
