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funnyBunny@ani.socialto memes@lemmy.world•We are way overdue for an open source 2d printerEnglish6·2 months agoWe could probably print one with a 3d printer.
funnyBunny@ani.socialOPto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can the Internet be an ethnicity?English11·2 months agoFirst off that page is literally titled “About the Topic of Race”, clearly not ethnicity.
And why are you linking to an American census bureau if you want a real one? We all know America uses words differently to the rest of the world.
funnyBunny@ani.socialOPto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can the Internet be an ethnicity?English11·2 months agoAn ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people that perceives to be different from out-groups based on shared attributes. These attributes include having a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity
Yes it is.
You’re describing your friends genetics or ancestry being different to their ethnicity or culture. Asian or White are not ethnicities.
funnyBunny@ani.socialOPto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can the Internet be an ethnicity?English41·2 months agoEthnicity is not ancestry or “race”. And yes I know Americans like to call different looking people ethnic.
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people that perceives themselves to be different from other groups based on shared attributes. These attributes include having a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.[1][2] The term ethnicity is sometimes used interchangeably with the term nation, particularly in cases of ethnic nationalism. It is also used interchangeably with race.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity
You are that third minor sometimes used footnote, not the norm.
funnyBunny@ani.socialOPto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can the Internet be an ethnicity?English73·2 months agoThey largely are, ethnicity is culture (tradition, language, customs, beliefs) and history.
I do not relate culturally to the people where I live, I have far more in common in beliefs and values with the typical terminally online compared to people where I grew up. And I’ve been online since the Internet started, so I’ve got the history too.
Sadly it seems to be at the same time Western nations are reversing even being slightly critical and starting to back Israel more again.