I’ve been online all my life, I genuinely feel at home here. I relate more to random strangers across the world than any neighbors. Is it wrong for me to think of the (western/English) Internet as my culture?

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    I find the concept of ethnicity to be weird and fuzzy at best. Like, even within my own country there’s a whole bunch of different cultural sub-divisions (not talking about the russian army, obviously). West of Ukraine almost speaks a completely different language from Kyiv residents and might have more in common with Poles or Hungarians in terms of cultural background.

    I think it’s absolutely valid to claim Internet as your cultural background, but the label of “ethnicity” is not defined well enough to use it that way and people love to argue semantics.