Yeah this person is unhinged, but to answer your question, it mattered up until like 80 years ago and we're riding the momentum. Being a settler state with a lot of immigration and segregation means peoples' ethnic background was more important than their citizenship. "I'm half Italian half Polish" was actually useful information to partially understand someone's cultural practices, religion, attitudes, relationships, and so on. I mean I know some Dutch people who live in a German area and they eat all different shit from everyone around them and have different traditions, still.
That's what Americans mean by that- in my experience they would never be like, oh did you hear about the sports game between Switzerland and Germany? Switzerland got owned! Fuck you I'm Swiss you German bastard! That's not it, it's not the nationality.
But for the most part now, white people are all like 4th 5th 6th 7th generation or more, and that shit doesn't matter, but they're used to their parents or grandparents talking about it, so they sometimes think it still matters. I mean people do talk about that a lot less than they used to. Kids aren't like, "oh, Brayden's one of those god damn 6% Scottish 6% Filipino 12% Japanese 12% Italian 12% English 12% French 12% Spanish 25% German kids, you know how they can fuckin be"
Yeah this person is unhinged, but to answer your question, it mattered up until like 80 years ago and we're riding the momentum. Being a settler state with a lot of immigration and segregation means peoples' ethnic background was more important than their citizenship. "I'm half Italian half Polish" was actually useful information to partially understand someone's cultural practices, religion, attitudes, relationships, and so on. I mean I know some Dutch people who live in a German area and they eat all different shit from everyone around them and have different traditions, still.
That's what Americans mean by that- in my experience they would never be like, oh did you hear about the sports game between Switzerland and Germany? Switzerland got owned! Fuck you I'm Swiss you German bastard! That's not it, it's not the nationality.
But for the most part now, white people are all like 4th 5th 6th 7th generation or more, and that shit doesn't matter, but they're used to their parents or grandparents talking about it, so they sometimes think it still matters. I mean people do talk about that a lot less than they used to. Kids aren't like, "oh, Brayden's one of those god damn 6% Scottish 6% Filipino 12% Japanese 12% Italian 12% English 12% French 12% Spanish 25% German kids, you know how they can fuckin be"