On 2/23/07, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/23/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on the other hand, there is such a thing as ethnicity, based on
> language and the like. But ethnicities sometimes get mixed with each
> other, as when people of different ethnicities get married.
& there are eight million stories in the Ethni City...
Interestingly, the questionnaire that Rui asked about gives you only
two choices for ethnicity and five choices for race, though you might
think that it is easier to divide and subdivide ethnicity than race,
the way people commonly understand these two terms. Maybe the idea is
that the only ethnicity that will matter in the USA is
Latino/Hispanic, for Latinos/Hispanics may be the only group who are
sizable and growing and therefore are capable of maintaining their
language, culture, etc. in the USA, all other groups and their
descendants -- Brazilians included -- already or soon to be mulched
into generic Anglo-American culture.
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