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**GECEDEANY** · 06-10-2011, 01:15 PM

From my experience, Amerikan youth are very concerned with "Race" but not "Ethnicity". People in the US really do not care about ethnicity but rather racial mixtures. Because things are more generalized here. People break it down into white, black, latin, or (native) indian. People really have mixed a lot from place-to-place. Race is a regional identity in the New World. Ethnicity is for the more 'refined' anthropologists.

As for most interested in ethnicity & race… it seems Middle Aged people are. In the US, people really have yet to fully develop an "Amerikan" Mentality, a culture of our own. So people (like me) search into their past to see where we came from, how we got here, and where we're all going to… As I've learned on ABF… Europeans and other Eurasians/Asians have very, very fixed mentalities regarding society, culture, religion, and most importantly speaking of all, Ethnicity. Ethnicity in the old world essentially is a post-modern 'tribe' mentality. Ethnicity = Tribe of people, for Europeans, Asians, and Afrikans, etc.

New Worlders really don't have proper "Ethnicities" due to our fresh, more recent, (lack of) History.

06-10-2011, 01:15 PM	#33
GECEDEANY Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 480 Senior Member	From my experience, Amerikan youth are very concerned with "Race" but not "Ethnicity". People in the US really do not care about ethnicity but rather racial mixtures. Because things are more generalized here. People break it down into white, black, latin, or (native) indian. People really have mixed a lot from place-to-place. Race is a regional identity in the New World. Ethnicity is for the more 'refined' anthropologists. As for most interested in ethnicity & race… it seems Middle Aged people are. In the US, people really have yet to fully develop an "Amerikan" Mentality, a culture of our own. So people (like me) search into their past to see where we came from, how we got here, and where we're all going to… As I've learned on ABF… Europeans and other Eurasians/Asians have very, very fixed mentalities regarding society, culture, religion, and most importantly speaking of all, Ethnicity. Ethnicity in the old world essentially is a post-modern 'tribe' mentality. Ethnicity = Tribe of people, for Europeans, Asians, and Afrikans, etc. New Worlders really don't have proper "Ethnicities" due to our fresh, more recent, (lack of) History.
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