Bryce
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Post by Bryce on Oct 16, 2005 9:25:48 GMT -5
What's funny is that most of us in France wouldn't engage in these subtleties if we talked about American friends, we would actually understand the word "ethnicity" in this question as "meta-ethnicity". Of course, I know it's a short-cut because if a US citizen introduced a bunch (including myself) of variegated French nationals as "my French friends", I'd wince at the over-simplification, even though the phrase "my French friends" were technically valid.
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Post by Josh on Oct 16, 2005 23:16:28 GMT -5
I'm an American of mostly European descent with some Amerindian admixture. Most of my friends are white, but I'm good friends with two Vietnamese girls, and I have some Mexican friends (one is a dark mestizo, another is a light mestiza, and another is a dark mestiza). The girl who is the closest person I have to a girlfriend right now (its rather complex, don't ask, hehe) is 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Athabascan (Alaskan native).
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Post by Ilmatar on Oct 17, 2005 5:07:02 GMT -5
I'm a pure Finn who is stunned by the number of friends people have here. But maybe it's only a question of degrees. I know and like a lot of people, but would call only handful of them friends. However, my closest friends include: - Some Italians, from different regions - a Czech - a Brazilian of mainly Portuguese-Italian heritage People I have hanged around with or still hang around with include: - some "indigenious" Irish people - more or less "white" Americans - an African-American - Canadian girl - Italians, whose mothers were from Liverpool - Swedes - Danes - a Norwegian guy who later became a celebrity in his country (my claim for fame ) - Peruvian siblings - a Mexican - some Dutch people - Spaniards from Spain - a Portuguese girl - some Taiwanese business partners who became friends - Hungarians - a member of the Senegalese elite ... and many more.
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