My vassals think I'm a foreigner

[cthr1981]

I'm a Polish duke... I'm taking a -10 opinion hit I suppose because my mom is Bohemian and my vassals identify me as a foregner. My real question is; what will the vassals think about my heir when he takes over? His mom (my wife) is 100% Polish, so if I'm half a foreigner, I suppose he is 25% a foreigner, but what will the vassals think about it?

[Mr. Hanky]

it depends entirely on who raises your heir as guardian. Children will usually (not ALWAYS) gain the culture of their guardian. For instance, I was scottish and once had one of my sons go to a mongol, who raised him. When he came of age, he also had a mongolian culture though he was white and had a large, red, scottish beard. He was considered a foreigner until the day he died. However, I also took saxon children that I raised, and a couple years in, their culture changed to scottish.

[cthr1981]

Ah, that explains it, I've been having my children raised by any random courtier that has stats and traits I like. I guess I need to start paying attention to things like culture

[NinjaPepper]

It is also possible to change a culture back to the original (or to another new one). For instance, playing as a female italian duchess, I gave my youngest child to my Danish husband to raise as I was already educating our two eldest children. A couple years later I noticed that she had taken to his foreign ways, so I sent one of the other children to be raised by a properly italian diplomat, while I took the youngest away from my husband and tried to teach her right from wrong. Sure enough, a few years later, she learned to act like a proper italian.

[eXistenZ]

Good guardianship is quite crucial to survive in the long run