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2025-12-25 06:54 UTC
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@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 07:01
Oh yeah that's a common question about ethnicity usually an optional question filled out in case there's some legal process in the future trying to determine if there's underlying discrimination from poor treatment/service to a specific group when a legal complaint has been lodged. I'm talking about the weird obsession some Americans have with determining what % of their genes originated from other countries. The closest it's gotten for me is usually a conversation about family history which most of the time is usually "A country on my father's side and B country on my mother's side". But they've never broken it down into percentages before like it's some sort of eugenic recipe.
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@ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2025-12-25 14:18
Half is fair enough as that implies some cultural mixing, but fractions lower than that are just “look at me” bullshit.