I’ve been online all my life, I genuinely feel at home here. I relate more to random strangers across the world than any neighbors. Is it wrong for me to think of the (western/English) Internet as my culture?

  • funnyBunny@ani.socialOPEnglish
    73·
    1 day ago

    They largely are, ethnicity is culture (tradition, language, customs, beliefs) and history.

    I do not relate culturally to the people where I live, I have far more in common in beliefs and values with the typical terminally online compared to people where I grew up. And I’ve been online since the Internet started, so I’ve got the history too.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
      91·
      1 day ago

      Ethnicity is absolutely not culture.

      For example, a buddy of mine is Asian but he was adopted by a white family at birth so he is culturally No different than any other [white] guy from the Midwest.

      Or, alternatively, there’s nothing stopping me from experiencing, learning about, and practicing cultural practices from another area of the world even though I am ethnically “just” white.

      • funnyBunny@ani.socialOPEnglish
        11·
        13 hours ago

        An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people that perceives to be different from out-groups based on shared attributes. These attributes include having a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.[

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity

        Yes it is.

        You’re describing your friends genetics or ancestry being different to their ethnicity or culture. Asian or White are not ethnicities.

          • funnyBunny@ani.socialOPEnglish
            11·
            59 minutes ago

            First off that page is literally titled “About the Topic of Race”, clearly not ethnicity.

            And why are you linking to an American census bureau if you want a real one? We all know America uses words differently to the rest of the world.