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idk if this is just an asian experience
but you ever have a big family gathering, theres tons of people there (like 3 and a half big circle dimsum tables worth of people)
and you think they’re all family
but youre not actually sure whos family and whos not
so your parent is saying come say hi, and you have to say hi to this person youve never met. “do you remember him? this is your fifth cousins 3rd uncle”
and you just stand there “i have a fifth cousin???”Apr 7, 2022
but you ever have a big family gathering, theres tons of people there (like 3 and a half big circle dimsum tables worth of people)
and you think they’re all family
but youre not actually sure whos family and whos not
so your parent is saying come say hi, and you have to say hi to this person youve never met. “do you remember him? this is your fifth cousins 3rd uncle”
and you just stand there “i have a fifth cousin???”Apr 7, 2022
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I can relate, most of my cousins already have children and their chidren are now about the same age as me
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•I sort of have that (I'm white not Asian). I have a large extended family on my father's side I see for stuff like Christmas. It's always the same people so like I know who they are I just don't know how half of them are actually related to me. I think I've figured out most of them by now but i spent years going "So [name], my... Uh i actually don't how she's related to me" when talking about several people". I still don't know everyone though. Like my "cousin" who is actually my second cousin I think? Idk how her family connects to mine lmao I also keep forgetting who is married to who and who's kids are who's
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OMG YES YES I'm SEAsian but not a chinese so mostly my family gathering events happen on eid and usually neighbors come too??? Like it's a weird mix of stranger?? But from what i heard from chinese-indonesians usually their family gatherings are family exclusive especially on CNY
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drawing family trees in school was always a struggleOh definitely, that especially happens to me on New Year’s (before covid) because basically my entire father’s side of the extended family would go to one house on the countryside and celebrate for the whole day
Not Asian tho, I’m Puerto Rican
Not Asian tho, I’m Puerto Rican
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Am white, but that's kinda a bit like my family. I'm only really close with my mother's siblings and their kids (my cousins). But my mum has 6 siblings, there's like... 15 of us cousins. Then at family gatherings there's my mum's aunts and uncles, their children, their children's spouses... Their grandchildren. Who are like... My age... 30... . For a proper family gathering, we literally have to rent a hall.
I honestly couldn't point to 90% of my extended family in the street, let alone tell you their names or how many there are
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You could say I'm related to any white person and I'd be like "yup, that's believable".
I honestly couldn't point to 90% of my extended family in the street, let alone tell you their names or how many there are
. You could say I'm related to any white person and I'd be like "yup, that's believable".
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I'm not asian but this used to happen a lot at birthdays when I was a kid and sometimes during christmas, but as the years went by the number of people attending our gatherings have diminished.
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