MilSpecs wrote: ↑Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:54 am
BjornP wrote: ↑Wed Oct 17, 2018 1:32 am
Genetics cannot tell you what
culture you belong to. Even if you knew your ancestors came from some place or tribe, that doesn't make you a part of that tribe
now. If you had some Cherokee ancestor nine generations ago, yet do not speak a word of Cherokee, know nothing of Navajo culture and were never part of a Cherokee community, how could you be - and expected to be accepted as - Cherokee?
You cannot simply declare
yourself a member of some ethnic group just by wishful thinking and a useless genetic marker.
I posted the same thing about culture earlier in the thread, and you’re misdirecting by conflating genetics with ethnicity. Warren claimed to have an Indian ancestor, not to
be a member of that tribe.
What is interesting is that Trump, who is not an ethnic American, attacked Warren, who is an ethnic American, on the basis of American ethnicity. Only in America.
(My own emphasis in bold)
Oh, so she never claimed to
be a member of a minority?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/ ... ml?camp=pm
US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said on Wednesday that she listed herself as a minority in directories of law professors in the hopes of networking with other “people like me” — meaning those with Native American roots.
...
Asked whether she considers herself to be a minority, the Democrat said, “Native American is part of my family. It’s an important part of my heritage.”
I don't conflate genetics with ethnicity. I simply argue against the fool notion that having NA ancestry - or any ancestry - means you ARE, present tense, a member of your ancestors group. If you agree with me about culture, you ought to accept that. She
IS, again emphasis on present tense, not "ethnic American" (I assume that's your word for Native American). Some distant ancestor of hers was.
Fame is not flattery. Respect is not agreement.
