Mum was daughter of an Aboriginal man who didnt like the usual life of being confined to reservations , he held jobs , married a white girl , had kids , sent them to school , even owned a few motor vehicles , being pre 64 this was all highly illegal , natives had no rights to do any of these things then , so the family had to be good at just disappearing when ever anyone figured out what was up .
Dad was Jewish kid in WWII Germany , his family had some seriously scary experiences stuck often enough between Russian and German lines . Living for extended periods in the forests when ever they feared they had been given up as Jewish .
They passed their mistrust of government and interest in self reliance on to us kids , along with a bunch of know how as if it was just what EVERY family did .. when we went camping , built a shelter out of what we found , caught what we ate , and left leaving as little trace as possible to , us it was just normal . I think to my folks tho , it was their way of kind of training us , in case we had to just vanish for whatever reason . They knew how governments can change overnight , and that civil rights can be brushed aside at a politicians whim at times .
My parents passed on a lot of stuff , I went tribal for a few years , and added to what I learned , and then discovered it was all survival stuff when Y2K was a big deal .
Till then , and even now , it is to me just being responsible for me and mine .