My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives.
I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.
My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.