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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.

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funnyBunny@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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.

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- Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Asian or white are not ethnicities
  
  Not according to any real Census Bureau
  
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  - funnyBunny@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    First 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.
    
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