You notice Oger didn’t include “black” on that, which, like French, is a term which is not self-identified? (Also woman, since that is a biological function, regardless of what some wish to believe, and has an actual meaning above ‘I feel like I am’). The trans-activists like to pretend black is somehow different than woman, because one is born black and one is assigned woman. But that gets it scientifically skewed.
When I was little, I used to read English books and when I would read about life there, it felt more right to me than my American life. Does that mean I am English? Nope. Even the fact that my great-great-???-grandparents once lived in England and were English does not make me English. Just like my other sets of great-something-grandparents living in Ireland and Sweden does not make me Irish or Swedish. I can no more travel to Sweden without a passport and be assumed to be a citizen than I can to some country, say Japan, in which I have no known roots.
guest, I’m living in Nebraska, and have been for 13 years. I’m pretty sure I’m not, and never will be, Nebraskan. Nebraska doesn’t like me, and I don’t like it, and in a few years, I’ll retire and leave it happy in its red state nastiness. While I find somewhere else to live, preferably one that isn’t as far as you can get from the ocean without getting closer to the other ocean.
You notice Oger didn’t include “black” on that, which, like French, is a term which is not self-identified? (Also woman, since that is a biological function, regardless of what some wish to believe, and has an actual meaning above ‘I feel like I am’). The trans-activists like to pretend black is somehow different than woman, because one is born black and one is assigned woman. But that gets it scientifically skewed.
When I was little, I used to read English books and when I would read about life there, it felt more right to me than my American life. Does that mean I am English? Nope. Even the fact that my great-great-???-grandparents once lived in England and were English does not make me English. Just like my other sets of great-something-grandparents living in Ireland and Sweden does not make me Irish or Swedish. I can no more travel to Sweden without a passport and be assumed to be a citizen than I can to some country, say Japan, in which I have no known roots.
Ha–I’ve lived in England for 15 years now and counting, and I will NEVER be English.
guest, I’m living in Nebraska, and have been for 13 years. I’m pretty sure I’m not, and never will be, Nebraskan. Nebraska doesn’t like me, and I don’t like it, and in a few years, I’ll retire and leave it happy in its red state nastiness. While I find somewhere else to live, preferably one that isn’t as far as you can get from the ocean without getting closer to the other ocean.