On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:18:42 -0800 (PST), JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, Gilberto, > > Okay, You are right, Baha'is are rooted in soil because Baha'u'llah had > Persian parents, and Persians are Arabs anyway because they are all in the > Middle East.
I didn't say all that. Maybe I'm just not being clear. I wasn't trying to make some generalization about all Bahais. I was just talking about Bahaullah. And I don't think "being hydroponic" is intended to be a good thing or a bad thing. Just a descriptive thing. I was born in the US but my family had only been living in the US for a few years when I was born. Both my parents are Afro-Cuban and so I grew up with that as part of my background especially in terms of family gatherings. But alot of the Cubans I grew up around were either Mexican or Puerto Rican. The Black people I grew up around were generally not Latino. To varying degrees I would feel some kind of personal connection with the United States, Cuba, Latin America in general Africa, and Spain, and now on top of that the Muslim world. At this point I'm "grown" and have sorted through my sense of ethnic/cultural identity but I've noticed alot of people's notions are different. For example, there are Mexican-Americans living in Texas who have been living there so long that that say "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us". There are indiginous groups in Latin America who don't even speak Spanish because they've maintained a pre-colombian heritage. Most "regular" Americans have been in the US alot longer than my family and even the fresh-off-the-boat immigrants will often have a strong sense of being from one specific place. Even if they are mixed in terms of what country they are from, white people could say that they are from Europe.When I think about it, the ways in which many people tell the story of where they are from is just different from how I think about my own identity. That's all I'm saying. "My people are hydroponic" __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
