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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "David Russell Watson"
<liberty@...> wrote:
>
> I don't understand what an ethnic French is. Please explain
> what an ethnic French is, when living in France and when living
> in the USA.
>
> Does it mean French nationals with Vietnamese or Lebanese
> parents are not ethnically French ?
Of course not. They're citizens of France, but members of
the Vietnamese or Lebanese ethnic groups.
> Does it mean the 500 000 French Jews are not ethnically French ?
That can only be decided on a case by case basis, since the
basis of ones Jewish identity often differs from one Jew to
another. For some it is a matter of religion entirely, and
so they identify ethnically with the ethnic group to which
they belonged before conversion, but there are also atheist
Jews, Buddhist Jews, etc., and so...
> > I most certainly did NOT vote for Bush. What sort of delusion
> > are you under that you think you could know whom I voted for?
>
> That was a collective you-all and that was intoxication in
> the first place.
Please stop viewing human beings collectively, at least for
the purposes of judging morality. That mind set is precisely
what underlies racism and nationalism.
I am an individual with my own mind and heart, and my honor
is entirely my own as well. It has absolutely nothing to do
with what any other American is or is not, does or does not
do.
Also, try to stop posting when you're intoxicated.
Better yet, stop getting intoxicated altogether.
> By the way, French colonialism thought it could turn anybody
> French even a Senegalese, so that many people in colonies were
> taught "Nos ancêtres les Gaulois"...
> Rather odd, when you are Togolese or Vietnamese.
Well this is strange, because you recognize that it's odd for
Togolese or Vietnamese to be assigned French ancestors when
they're colonized by French, but you don't recognize French,
Togolese, or Vietnamese as being allowed to preserve their
respective such identities after they move to the U.S.
Apparently, for you, the dirt we're standing on at any given
moment is what gives us our ethnic identity, indifferent to
our ancestry and what we speak, eat, wear, celebrate, etc., or
even call ourselves.
David