да, Руссиан (I hope that's proper Russian)

Heritage to me is where you come from. The countries that your ancestors lived in, until somehow they found themselves inside of you. Heritage is the blood that runs in my veins, the Russian, German, Austrian, and Welsh blood that makes me the mutt I am today. Tradition is something else. It is similar to heritage, as it is makes up who you are. The only difference is that tradition is which country’s culture you celebrate the most. Which celebrations and ways of life you honor the most. I am a third-generation American. Most of my ancestry having hailed from Russia, which inspired me to begin Russian classes so I could explore my family’s history. My parents and grandparents value this a lot, and they are very supportive of me doing this. My Russian teacher told me of how one of her students traced his DNA back to people in Russia. The past summer he and his family went to visit them, both of the families had no idea the other existed. They got to celebrate their amazing history, which is what I want to do with Russian.