Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?

I am not proud of my roots, nor am I ashamed. I was a council house kid who left the village school at fifteen with practically no education and went to work in a factory office. I am working class and make no attempt to hide it, why should I?

Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?

If our roots decided how successful we would be in life, then all our siblings would be on a par with us!
I do accept that, if you are brought up in a wealthier background, achieving success may be a bit easier, but it isn't guaranteed.
The only things that helps you do well in life are the attitudes you were brought up with and your own determination.....no matter where you lived as a child.

I do sometimes wonder what my life would have been like if I had made different decisions though!

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I have no idea, they are covered in soil.

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My roots are somewhat like an impacted wisdom tooth, tangled. Half of them are French, that should make me popular with the French haters, half of them are English and I was brought up by a unmarried woman and her father, who loved me much more than my own parents and who was, and always will be, my mum.

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Me too!

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Annie, I think, l might have referred to hair roots as re-growth?

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I'm like CeeCee I wouldn't say I was proud but I'm not ashamed either. I was brought up in a one parent family in inner city Leeds. Mum suffered badly with mental health issues so we often stayed with my gran who lived in a council house.

Have to say it does annoy me when people start bragging about their ancestry, how well your ancestors did is their success not yours. I was taught to make my own way in life which is just as well... no glass slipper here

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When I was a child, I was convinced that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth but had to be "given away" because I had been conceived on the wrong side of the sheets - I had been told that my mother had been sent "elsewhere" and I was left on the steps of an orphanage at 3 days old, wrapped in a blanket .....

Luckily, 7 days later, I was selected for adoption by a passing sailor and his wife ..... but I never found that silver spoon and my coat of arms still bears the "bend sinister" .....

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Mixed bag for me Art. I have traced mine back to 1700.
Very proud of the Paternal side, a bit iffy on the Maternal side.

Re: Are You Proud Of Your Roots?

Tsk Tsk Bruce !