Culture and traditions

I am originally fome Scotland. My family moved to Canada when I was 10 and when I was 12 we moved to US. One of our traditions is called first footing. That is when you are the first visiter to someones house just after the bells (new year). You should always have a bottle in your hand for the home.

My great-grandparents came to the US from Russia and they would not conform with America at all. I remember being a child and they still only spoke Russian. No American foods that sort of stuff. My mother continues to carry on a family tradition that came from my great grandmother which is cooking this certain food on New Years Eve to ring in the new year. I lived out West for a number of years and it was so cool because there were people from all over the world and lots of Native Americans, there was so much culture. Now, that I am in the midwest it's so boring with very limited culture and so much discrimination against other cultures. It seems like the people here were born, raised, and have NEVER left the area .

Some of my family has been in the US since like around the time of the Revolutionary War so we are pretty americanized however, My great grandmother who'se family was swedish taught us to say "Skoal" when we were making a toast. We also said a swedish prayer at Christmastime. It was called Shadagut

I agree with you, I learned that in school an was introduce to it again when my son did history time. America like a melting pot, with so many traditions that mingle together. I am fascinated about all the different religion and practices that goes on around here. I love it when my son has a history project, I help him out and I learn something new or be reminded of something I learned before, but forgotten. So it is a new learning experience for me again.