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Dictionaries are never good references for debates b/c they don't capture the full essence of any word. But...
We will never agree. I just don't see how you can argue that someone can move somewhere and claim that culture. If that were true since I used to live around a lot of Jamaicans and like Chicken patties w/ Coco bread and occasionally listen to reggae then I'm West Indian by culture right? Heck no and I'm sure they would let me know that.
Ethnic groups do overlap, but moving to a new country and then claiming that ethnicity is not one of the ways it does. Heinz-Kerry lived in Africa for a period of time--so what. I lived in the south for five years that doesn't make me southern.
When people say that cultural ties also make up ethnicity they are correct. You can have two Puerto Ricans of different races who have the same ethnic background because they participate in the same cultural heritage.
For Heinz-Kerry I think you are stretching.
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