Message from @Somedudewithaname

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2018-09-22 05:29:51 UTC  

Polish and French people who have roots dated back at least 100 years @Outboarduniform

2018-09-22 05:29:55 UTC  

but if you look at Irish-Americans, they certainly struggled with assimilation in the beginning

2018-09-22 05:29:58 UTC  

the same with Italians

2018-09-22 05:30:08 UTC  

France has a ton of african citizens from the colonial era

2018-09-22 05:30:13 UTC  

who consider themselves french

2018-09-22 05:30:14 UTC  

But they are not French @Somedudewithaname

2018-09-22 05:30:17 UTC  

and played for the french team

2018-09-22 05:30:18 UTC  

@Mord how do you define French and Polish people though

2018-09-22 05:30:20 UTC  

they think they are.

2018-09-22 05:30:27 UTC  

would Polish Jews who've been there longer than 100 years be Polish

2018-09-22 05:30:31 UTC  

@Mord what makes someone who’s family has been in Poland for 30 years any less deserving of living in Poland than the ones who have been there for 100 years

2018-09-22 05:30:35 UTC  

l used it as an example, l don't want to argue semantics on it

2018-09-22 05:30:45 UTC  

Well I don't mean to gang up on you

2018-09-22 05:31:01 UTC  

And if you feel overwhelmed lmk lol

2018-09-22 05:31:08 UTC  

I think that the example itself is flawed though

2018-09-22 05:31:28 UTC  

So far you've shown common identiy to be what unifies a nation

2018-09-22 05:31:39 UTC  

what's a French person? Before the French government essentially committed linguicide there were many different minority groups in France

2018-09-22 05:31:40 UTC  

but you haven't proven where race matters in all this

2018-09-22 05:31:42 UTC  

The point is, what is wrong with a nation wanting to keep to themselves and unite their people as one culture, ethnicity, identity, religion if any, etc..

2018-09-22 05:31:47 UTC  

Occitans, Normans, Basques, Bretons, etc.

2018-09-22 05:32:00 UTC  

Welly your idenity is an arbitrary cut off

2018-09-22 05:32:06 UTC  

the same in Germany

2018-09-22 05:32:11 UTC  

Cause different fench people will have different idenitits

2018-09-22 05:32:20 UTC  

I don't see what the overall unifier even is

2018-09-22 05:32:26 UTC  

Because ethnicity does not determine culture, identity, and religion if said person has assimilated into that society

2018-09-22 05:32:28 UTC  

would you not see identity politics between a Saxon and a Bavarian or a Norman and an Occitan

2018-09-22 05:32:34 UTC  

I'm not sure what the french socalist and the right wingerswould have in common

2018-09-22 05:32:38 UTC  

Culture, race, background, etc.. @Somedudewithaname

2018-09-22 05:32:43 UTC  

BUt dude

2018-09-22 05:32:52 UTC  

Okay im an american fro ma generally liberal area

2018-09-22 05:33:00 UTC  

Likewise

2018-09-22 05:33:02 UTC  

do i share anything in common with some dude from the rural south?

2018-09-22 05:33:04 UTC  

Nope.

2018-09-22 05:33:18 UTC  

But we still both consider ourselves american

2018-09-22 05:33:21 UTC  

that's a pretty destructive attitude

2018-09-22 05:33:22 UTC  

we both have a common idenity

2018-09-22 05:33:29 UTC  

you do share many things in common with some dude from the rural south

2018-09-22 05:33:33 UTC  

@agag me?

2018-09-22 05:33:34 UTC  

You are both American, you are both white presumably, you both may share the same religion, etc..

2018-09-22 05:33:41 UTC  

nope not white

2018-09-22 05:33:46 UTC  

though we may share the same religio