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An Americanism
Chavster:
Many people living in a town in Argentina (I cant remember the name of the town) are purely Welsh, as their bloodline has never been mixed with either the Spanish population of Argentina or the native population.
Puerto Madryn.
MikeM:
--- Quote from: Chavster on October 10, 2011, 07:48:57 PM ---
As X Man mentioned, 'British' isnt a race. English is a race, Scottish is a race, Irish is a race, and Welsh is a race, but British is an umbrella term for citizens of the UK, and that includes Northern Ireland.
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In American English, these are ethnicities, not races.
Chavster:
In American English, these are ethnicities, not races.
Perhaps, but America is just one country out of many, and just about everywhere else, they're races, as defined by their DNA. America is also a country that uses the term African American, which is also totally inaccurate in the overwhelming number of cases.
Mike:
So a slight way to relate over here in the states are the Native Americans. They are all divided into various tribes. Most of the tribes have different languages and cultures (some nomadic, some stationary) and they even vary within their skeletal strucures.
Chavster:
They're different races. There will be some similarities between some of them (ie, two tribes living close together are more than likely to be the same race), whereas one tribe based in the midwest is likely to be a different race from a tribe based on the west coast.
As I said, race is defined by a person's genes, not by which passport they happen to carry at any given moment.
From my viewpoint the '-American' thing has two uses. In the case of black people, its used to be politically correct. In the case of others (ie Irish-American or Italian-American) its a nod to the fact that they're equally proud of being a US citizen as they are being Italian. I can understand that, but I still have trouble understanding African American. Partially because American isnt a race, and partially because there are so many races within Africa that to describe someone as 'African American' does an injustice to a whole lot of people.
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