#i dunno why i wasnt taught it growing up considering everyone on the greek side of my family speaks it at home | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ei-mugi · 2 years ago

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while i do identify with being australian im not actually aussie by blood in any way and for a long time ive been wanting to get more in touch with my greekness.... i feel like i dont know anything about it. i just dont know how to go about learning. sigh

#i guess i could try asking my family but somehow i feel like itd be awkward to ask #i should really continue learning the language #i dunno why i wasnt taught it growing up considering everyone on the greek side of my family speaks it at home #its up to me now tho #it feels like really bad in a way. my family was discriminated against for being greek upon coming here #& currently nobody in the youngest generation of our family (including myself) knows how to speak greek #its not nearly the same crisis as it is for other cultures greeks arent dying out or anything but yknow still #i dont see my extended family nearly as much as i used to (things happened). at least were still on good terms #im english too lol but i dont feel as strongly about that half of myself #i guess probably because it doesnt feel as different from being aussie as being greek does #my feelings towards all this are actually a bit more complicated than what ive been saying. greece is hardly a paradise #but eh. tumblr post

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