Wednesday, November 05, 2014
a religious conversion is nothing trivial
In fact, perhaps it be said that no life changing conversions should be taken lightly. And a religious conversion is life changing, especially if you're converting outside of your entire family's main religion.
I used to think it was nothing, that there isn't really much impact. But now that I've had first hand experience in it, I cannot say the same anymore.
Perhaps more so if you're a woman.
In a generation or two, I think my descendants will not know the other side of their heritage. My side. My side seems to be the minority side, and because I married over to the majority side, some of them thinks I ought to have change to be just like them. Forget your original identity, immerse completely and be just like us!
But in a few more generations, maybe we would have all inter-marrid that there would only be one globalized race anyway.
Should I even bother? Does this matter? Why do I feel a bit offended?
Maybe I'm just selfish.
I used to think it was nothing, that there isn't really much impact. But now that I've had first hand experience in it, I cannot say the same anymore.
Perhaps more so if you're a woman.
In a generation or two, I think my descendants will not know the other side of their heritage. My side. My side seems to be the minority side, and because I married over to the majority side, some of them thinks I ought to have change to be just like them. Forget your original identity, immerse completely and be just like us!
But in a few more generations, maybe we would have all inter-marrid that there would only be one globalized race anyway.
Should I even bother? Does this matter? Why do I feel a bit offended?
Maybe I'm just selfish.
