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Originally Posted by SoCalGirl
I agree with the thought that the longer your family has been in the states the more likely that you're not ethnic any more.
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I'm thinking this is really only an option for people who are of European stock. At some point in American history, folks of European descent were just lumped together under the more generic "white" banner, and therefore they may be less likely to identify with their original ethnic heritage.
But for those of us of a duskier hue, it becomes a little more difficult to disassociate oneself from your ethnic heritage. Like I said earlier, my folks have been in the US since at least 1800, and I still consider myself Black.
People of color can assimilate into a culture, but unless they intermarry with whites and "bleach out" (for lack of a better term), they can't ever really stop being ethnic.