June 05, 2015

What Generation Are You? | What Am I?

  • My sister and I were both born in California.
  • Both my parents were born in the California.
  • Of my grandparents, two were born in Hawaii, one in California, and one in Utah (that's a funny one, people always look at me sideways when I tell them my 92 year old grandma grew up on a farm!). 
  • My great-grandparents: Most were born in Japan, but on my mom's side, a couple were born in Canada.
So what does that make me? 4th/5th Generation? Generation 4.5? 
At 25, I'm still not too sure!


8 comments:

  1. ice pandoraJune 5, 2015 at 12:25 PM

    Quite a generations in America c: interesting!
    Xx

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  2. RicademusJune 7, 2015 at 8:24 AM

    My parents were both born in Maryland. My dad's parents were born in Germany, but met here in the U.S. My mom's family tree has been in the US forever. One of my cousins traced the families back to the Revolutionary War. They're mostly Irish, with some English.

    I'm only 50% German, but at the same time all American. :)

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  3. RicademusJune 7, 2015 at 8:29 AM

    PS - I think if all of your great grandparents were born outside the U.S. and all of your grandparents were born inside the U.S., then the grandparent's were all first generation and patents are second generation???

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    1. RicademusJune 7, 2015 at 8:30 AM

      ..."parents" are second generation...

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    2. The Non-Asian Asian June 19, 2015 at 4:20 AM

      I guess I never thought of it as what generation I am in America, but more as how many generations removed I am from Japan. Over the years I've sort of disassociated myself (sad to think of it this way), but I've noticed I've put an emphasis on how distant I am from Japan. Not out of shame or anything, but because it explains why no one in my family speaks the language, or why I have no family in Japan.

      And I also counted the first person to leave Japan as gen 1, instead of the first person born away from Japan, if that makes sense. Lol, so confusing.

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    3. RicademusJune 23, 2015 at 7:13 AM

      haha, no that makes sense!

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  4. Laura JonesJune 8, 2015 at 9:23 AM

    haha, being half british and half finnish, i would find it impossible to calculate what i am. but i always think it's more about how you feel yourself anyway:-) x

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  5. JoJune 13, 2015 at 5:03 AM

    Hi, I saw that you are my newest follower and somehow you look familiar. I'm not sure if we have crossed paths before a few years back on blogosphere or am I getting it all wrong. It I did, I apologize for the mistake. Thank you for following me. Have a lovely weekend!

    Jo
    Jo's Jumbled Jardinière

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