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Alright, this is to help me out with an upcoming school project, so the more of you willing to answer these questions, as detailed as possible, would be wonderful.


To be fair, Ki'll post her answers in the responses, if you wish to read them. You can also e-mail me your responses, if you wish for them to not be seen, but this is for an upcoming school project, so Ki'd appreciate answers if you can be bothered to give them.

Were you read to/encouraged to read as child:

Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc):

Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television:

Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books:

Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright:

Did you have any family traditions:

Were family history/family pride/family time important:

Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc):

Was your family religious:

How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see:

Did you spend a lot of time playing video games:

What extra-curricular activities did you partake in:

What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales:

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Were you read to/encouraged to read as child: To the best of my recollection, the only time I was encouraged to read was at school. I was read to by whoever was available at the time (sometimes Jack would read to me). I did most of my reading on my own though, I didn't need encouragement...what happened?

Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): My television watching was not limited nor monitored, with the exception of MTV, in which there were times my mom banned me from watching due to questionable nature, and would allow me to watch my videos on my birthday...then eventually she didn't give a shit, heh.

Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: Originally parents until they both went nuts, many of my own morals seem to come up on their own without influence (Like I did something and it made me feel bad and in turn came to conclusion)

Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books: My parents would just buy me books and leave me to them in my room pretty much.

Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: My dad told me that farmers pee in the apple trees to get me to wash the apple before I ate it, what do you think?!

Did you have any family traditions: Inadvertently (Trying to do the fake stable happy thanksgiving family, then by the end of the day one of us is trying to kill the other), otherwise no.

Were family history/family pride/family time important: 1) on my dad's side, but probably because he didn't want me to turn out like the rest of his family, 2) see previous answer 3) It was used as a guilt trip tactic. We never really could spend time together as a family without resentment towards one another (as kids, the older members resenting each other and us not knowing what's up). We're always fighting about something.

Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): Not until I was old enough to even understand that I was Hispanic...and old enough to care. Dad tries to denounce my ethnicity, so that usually just provokes my mom and I to go into an indepth conversation for the sole purpose of pissing him off.

Was your family religious: Dad, selfishly (He said he followed the Salvation Army, yes it's a religion, because they were the only religion that gave him things), and Mom was a non-practicing catholic. My brother and I spent one month in catholic school.

How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: either Arachnophobia or Back to the Future III, in either case, both movies came out after my seventh birthday. This is the earliest I could recall.

Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: No because we only had a single Nintendo and usually my brothers beat me to it.

What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: Band, choir

What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales: Some kids might take it as an opening type thing and actively seek out the original versions of the classic fairy tales (I did.)