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bucolic_frolic

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5. Generally

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Wed Dec 29, 2021, 07:21 PM

Dec 2021

it only applies to non-wasp citizens, or at least non-western European. People will say just about any (enter your ethnicity-American), but you'll never hear English-American, French-American, Dutch-American, Swedish-American for example.

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y is it in this country we have to refer to someone as their ethnicity? [View all] AllaN01Bear Dec 2021 OP

Who is saying you have to? WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2021 #1

You don't have to, but sometimes it's relevant, Ocelot II Dec 2021 #2

I, for one, am deeply offended when people call me Whit(e) American, its like my true heritage Hugh_Lebowski Dec 2021 #3

I believe the preferred term for Drunk Whit American is Irish. NT cinematicdiversions Dec 2021 #8

sorta a central theme of the whole shibang, we're all from somewhere else. mopinko Dec 2021 #4

Generally bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #5

It's generally considered racist to identify someone by their race or ethnicity if it's Gaugamela Dec 2021 #6

I am American, born and raised. Lived in California all my life. Caliman73 Dec 2021 #7

Well, as DNA test show, most of us are part everything LakeArenal Dec 2021 #9

Some people are programmed to hate any ethnicity/skin color/culture except their own. abqtommy Dec 2021 #10