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Post #536960

2026-03-05 12:25 UTC

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.

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  • @may_be@thelemmy.club 2026-03-05 12:30

    Ohhhhh, I understand now. That makes sense

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  • @may_be@thelemmy.club 2026-03-05 12:39

    If someone asks what ancestry or culture, I might say Norwegian-American to an American, but I don’t consider myself a true Norwegian Norwegian so I would just say American unless that happens

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