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⌈ Secret Post #2093 ⌋

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Comments

Re: ethnicity question

[(Anonymous)]

May I say as a kind of off topic that I'm always weirded out when I hear people describing ethnicities as per cents? It's a cultural thing, of course, but in my country we don't do that at all. Heck, I don't even know the difference between Hispanic and white.

I'm from South America and consider myself white, my grandparents are from Italy and Spain, does that count?

Re: ethnicity question

[(Anonymous)]

Other South American anon from upthread here, my grandparents are from Italy and Spain too! Are you Argentinian? That's pretty common here, I think. And +1 on not being able to tell between Hispanic and white.

Re: ethnicity question

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, hello there :)

Re: ethnicity question

[(Anonymous)]

"White" is actually a race, not an ethnicity. Answering "what is your ethnicity" with "white" is kind of buying into the idea that "white" is the default, while everyone else is "ethnic".

The point of "ethnicity" is to avoid the various troublesome aspects of the various models of "race" used in different societies, which tend to be constructed as if they reflected inherent inheritable traits that are objectively associated with "racial" groups, while in fact being an entirely social construct. "Ethnicity" is very openly about your culture and cultural heritage, and how you and others perceive yourself.

Yes, the percent thing is weird. It's mostly an American thing. I think it's because America has a history of people from different cultures intermarrying, but still preserving various cultural traditions, and also because many Americans don't seem to realise that there actually is an American culture that they belong to (which is not to say they aren't proud of being American).

So, if we're playing the percent thing, I could say I was 50% Irish and 50% English, or I could go back further and work out what "percent" Scots I was, exactly as legitimately as Americans who tell you they are Irish or Scottish. But in terms of ethnicity, it's really more accurate to say that I'm White British, even White English, with certain Irish influences, because my culture is actually mostly White English. "White British" is a great get-out on the census, but because they also have "White Irish" I do sometimes wonder if that means, for census purposes, I am in fact "White other" (or "mixed race", :P, but I know that's silly).

Re: ethnicity question

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, most of the people I've run across who insist American culture doesn't exist aren't American [most Americans I know will say there is such a thing, albeit they might be compelled to point out there are actually multiple of them because the various regions have sometimes vastly different cultures], are europeans. The ones who do that usually end up swearing up and down that American culture doesn't exist...then turn around and start claiming various things are just ~cultural differences~.

I always have to laugh when they do that.