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?

  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    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.

    • funnyBunny@ani.socialOPEnglish
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      4 hours 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.[

      https://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.