I used to spend summers in the Czech Republic with my grandmother. I'd watch Czech cartoons.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.
Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.
When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.
I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.
If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
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