Confessions of Mixed Identity Peeps in Munich

Im jealous of all these groups in Munich. I gotta fess up. I am a mutt. I am a muttley mutt. I am a little bit of everything and from a little bit of everywhere. My bidness card says one thing but the mental daydreams say another. Am I the only one? Where are all the Mutts?

Are you a techy on the outside pornstar on the inside, white on the outside ghetto black on the inside. Dutch on the passport, deutsch in the heart? Do your clothes say ralph lauren but your lining say burberry chav? Buddha hiding in your rosary beads? Hindi on the tounge but steak on the fork?

Just curious.

Not sure that I ever did a Hindi, but I could go for a slab of Prime Rib right about now with a twice cooked stuffed potato, Texas toast and a chef salad with chunky blue cheese dressing.

My business card used to say, " Jack of all trades, master of a few" and my spirit is most definitely international.

@jml
You are NOT a mutt. You a true citizen of the world!

jml, I'm reminded of what my (Bavarian) boss said about where I was born:
"ein Pferd, was in 'nen Kühstall geboren würde, is immanoch a Pferd"
("A horse is still a horse even if it is born in a cow-shed")
He's not wrong.

@jml

Trust me, I am more muttier than you are. I don't even know where to start but I will get back to it later.


Nah, I am a pornstar both inside and outside so confusion there

I have done both and more.

... what about H&M trying to be Chanel?

Ralph is a little too pricey for us interns on the outside, but millionaires on the inside...

White and Blue surgical scrubs with red toenails and black lingerie underneath.

Oh, if our patients knew what for lingerie we wear!!!

I'm a mutt! i'm a mutt! (or a MIPinMu?) and i would't have it any other way.

Something along those lines... really not sure what I am. German, English, American, Indian – at least I've gotten away w/ unchallenged claims of being either of those. It very much depends on where I am - I tend to adapt to the immediate region/people/atmosphere. Such a life certainly has its moments, though sometimes I envy people who can say "this is home, this is what I'm like, this is where I belong".

Strangely, I was born in Germany, by German parents, have always lived in Germany, and when I open my mouth this Irish gibberish comes out. Something's wrong here but dunno what.

@badger but oooh if you have kids, they could be german irish (bavarian gaelic?)mutts born in sweden

@katrina...your boss is very wise but what would he call someone genetically half horse/half zebra and half horse/half mule born in a horse shed, raised in a cow barn and living in the circus tent

never ever!!

Hey you, that's not "Irish gibberish", that's "QUALITY Irish gibberish", so it is and don't you forget it!

@JML, born in Sweden, I think not love. They'll be proper Irish/German mutts (or German/Irish mutts) so they will, t'be sure t'be sure.

Just listen to Sting's Englishman in New York:

"Whoaah, alien I'm an illegal alien, I'm a Welshman in Munich"

Not so poetic.

I'm an American in Germany and have picked up saying such things as "jumper" and "brekkie". That said, I'm not a mutt, but my kids definitely will be - albeit still English-speaking mutts. I guess they'll be cultural mutts.

Birth father Dutch
Birth mother New Zealander of mostly scottish ancestry
Father Australian of german ancestry
Mother New Zealander of mostly english ancestry.

But Identity? Cant really say the different coloured blotches on the map have anything to do with my identity. I guess my identity is best thought of in terms of my attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and preferences, which are only partially influenced by my heritage or the places of birth of my family members.

I know what you mean. Mexican and German passports, have lived in both, plus Asia and Australia. I think a little bit of each country stuck with me, but my heart's still in Australia and I hope I'll be able to move there one day.

Racist! Speciesist!


See earlier posts.

woof.

Mother - German born in Czech
Father - Indian from Punjab

Me - born in Germany, moved to Australia at age 4 - Consider myself Australian...

Me dad's from Herne Hill way and me mum's from Tooting. Does that count?

You know what they say about mutts - we have the strongest genes!

father - German born in Brazil
mother - Japanese born in Brazil
me - born in Munich, moved to Brazil at the age of 1... I consider myself to be confused, and confusing...