Post #526895
2026-03-04 22:46 UTC
Thank you. A lot of people (not on Lemmy) have just made fun of me for identifying as American with Norwegian roots. It’s not like I said I was more Norwegian than Norwegians born in Norway though or said I was just American and couldn’t be Norwegian-American
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@huf@hexbear.net 2026-03-05 12:25
the thing is, how does this norwegian background actually affect your day to day life? do you speak norwegian? do you follow norwegian politics? do you eat norwegian dishes? decorate your home like a norwegian (whatever that might be)? cos like, tons of people in europe have ancestry from other european countries but pretty much nobody keeps track of it. eg, a hungarian with of slovak or german ancestry (there are literally millions of them) would not consider themselves to be a slovak or a german at all. not even a hungarian-slovak or whatever. this is generally why europeans are puzzled by the white hyphenated americans.