Comment on Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does"
shawn1122@lemm.ee 3 days ago
US compartmentalizes based on race. It’s apparent in essentially all of the media they export to the rest of the world.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And they do it even if there’s not much difference between people. When I lived in Scranton I’d get asked what ethnic group I was a part of - Irish, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, Welsh, etc.
To someone who didn’t grow up there I didn’t know what they were asking, but there was still in the early 00s different parts of town for different communities.
This all stopped when a significant Hispanic population moved in, and they stopped being Poles or Estonians and became “American” and the newcomers weren’t.