Quinceañera

[aramia]

So tonight I went with Cristina and little Luna to my first Quinceañera. A Quinceañera, apparently, is a celebration of a Latina girl's 15th birthday/womanhood/dedication to god. This one was held in LaBelle, 30 minutes outside of Immokalee. It was all fancy, with the girl-of-honor in a formal bridal-type dress, and white tableclothes with lavender

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[manicfrog]

Luna is, by far, the coolest little kid ever.

i have often felt the same about my own lack of culture... which is probably why i tend to latch on so tightly to that of others'.
maybe we should start some kind of eastern european/whatever else culture block in which we celebrate the traditions that our ancestors once had, but which we no longer practice due to the ugly face of forced assimilation and unacceptance? long live the melting pot?

[aramia]

Totally, yo. Except I was adopted, so I don't know my own culture, which sux (to put it more very mildly). They State told me my father was Native American but what if they just made that up? I look so white (although Oannes was all up in arms about that statement, and talked about not generalizing how Native people look cause Hollywood's done enough of that. Word). Where the heck are you from, Meghan? Let's find some trads for ya! We'll research.

[manicfrog]

hmmm... dude you could totally be a fair-skinned native american beauty. okay so you get to celebrate those traditions, and i will look into being more irish & scottish (& therefore will stereotype by getting drunk on Guinness and playing the bagpipes). my dad was adopted, too, so i only know about one side.

maybe somewhere waaay back there i have some kind of Latino roots.

[aramia]

There's an open-the-adoption-records advocacy group called "Bastard Nation" (isn't that great?), they even have sperm and egg t-shirts http://www.bastards.org/
Cool, you are a Briton! Let's find you a tartan -- it will be a new game! We'll make you a coat of (no)arms.