My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.
Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.
People like to trace their ancestry.
I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.