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Originally Posted by LWJ
How about this?
My buddy was born in South Africa.
He is white, and ethnically Jewish.
He is a US citizen now.
Is he African American? White? Jewish?
I think the labels don't work and he is a perfect example.
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The assumptions behind these labels (at least in the US) is that time froze in 1776.
If you go back far enough, ALL of us are African. Native Americans came from Asia. The Aryans (remember the Nazi master race?), came from India. The truth is, people have been migrating en masse for all of humanity. So to say your ancestry is from a specific area is kind of misleading. And what the heck does Latino mean? Yes, I know what it is intended to mean, but there you encompass everything from purebred Spaniards (European) to people who have nothing but Native American ancestry, but somehow it is distinct from both of those categories just because they speak Spanish.