Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity?
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Cultural background isn’t the same as ethnicity. But yeah I’d say online spaces can act as sort of a secondary cultural background. Where you live will still most likely have an impact on your preferences, general knowledge, belief system and so on but there are numerous factors that make up a person’s cultural background.
They 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.
Ethnicity is absolutely not culture.
For example, a buddy of mine is Asian but he was adopted by a white family at birth so he is culturally No different than any other [white] guy from the Midwest.
Or, alternatively, there’s nothing stopping me from experiencing, learning about, and practicing cultural practices from another area of the world even though I am ethnically “just” white.
An 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.[
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.
Asian or white are not ethnicities
Not according to any real Census Bureau
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Not to mention determine which watch list you’d get put on.