I am not all one thing or even broken into quarters, I'm just two things; 50% Russian and 50% Czech. My mom follows Judaism and so do I even though my dad is Protestant. We are not orthodox or even conservative but reform. I still eat pork, don't go to services save for high holidays and have had a bar mitzvah. My mom supported mine, my brother's and my sister's decision to leave hebrew school after we had our bar and bat mitzvahs.
For holidays we celebrate birthdays, bar/bat mitzvahs, Christmas, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover, Mother's/Father's day and 4th of July.
Even though these things are a part of me I do not identify myself with them. I can't speak either of my ethnic languages nor do I have intimate knowledge of my family's life in those lands. Judaism does not play a major role in my life; I can't tell you many of its tenants nor can I even read the language anymore.
No one in my family has been harassed due to their ethnic or religious backgrounds and neither have I. In fact most of the people I have encountered in my life including school do not even know I'm jewish because I only tell when asked about my religion.
Instead of the above I have come to identify with the gaming culture. I am a game design major and hope to either open my own studio or join the ranks of an established company. I own, play and have beaten every game that I have had a desire to play; much to my parents chagrin. I watch anime/cartoons when I can and even meet up with friends to game and watch.
Unfortunately I came to embrace games because throughout school I had no social life to speak of. On the weekends my plans were always solitary in nature because I just didn't have other people to rely on for fun. Due to this I didn't have friends who had to cross barriers or handle social problems due to their beliefs. In a way this is my source of tension because imagine being in a situation where you had few people to rely on, that day by day you had lunch in silence.
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