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?

  • funnyBunny@ani.socialOPEnglish
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    6 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.