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well, i mean your genetics would know. I'm not sure you would, unless you can read your own DNA.
- ethnicity isn't genetics
  
  and dogs aren't genetics, neither are nuclear reactors, or vacuums.
  
  this is a nonsequitur.
  
  you made it first. You said that ethnicity isn't genetics. Which is true, because ethnicity != genetics. In order for your statement to be properly true it would have to something more like ethnic heritage = genetics, because heritage is genetics.
  
  it's also culture. my family has been here longer than the USA. we predate the revolution by generations. I'm Pennsylvanian.
  
  so you're part native american then?
  
  there is family lore that I have a Dakota great grandma but obviously she would have had to move east and that's only 20th century anyway
  regardless, though, I am pennsylvanian
  
  yeah, anyway, while you are technically pennsylavnian, that's not ethnic, that's a demonym, ethnically you would be american/native american, and whatever flavors you have kicking around in your lineage going into the past.
  Sometimes they're vaguely related, but they're still distinct concepts and not directly intertwined. It's analogous to the concept of state and country pride, you might be proud of your state, and also your country, in different though familiar respects.
  
  I'm ethnically pennsylvanian, and you can't define my ethnicity out of existence.
  
  i'm not defining it out of existence, you're the one defining it into existence, i don't think there is such thing as an ethnic Pennsylvanian.
  I'm not even sure the state has been around long enough that you could even start to approach that term. This is why it's a demonym.
  Ethnicity is generally related to long running family heritage. Which also means that it's generally some form of mixed, Caucasian being the most generous group category of all of them, ironically.
  Speaking of ethnicity, the origin behind the term Caucasian, is literally that humanity started in the Caucasus mountains. Which is definitely bullshit, now technically Caucasian is referring to race, but it's used to refer to ethnicity these days, since race is kind of, bullshit anyway.
  i mean your family might originate from what is now Pennsylvania, but that doesn't make them Pennsylvanian, that would make them natives of a specific descent, most of which is likely gone from your modern lineage, unless you kept it all within the group somehow. American expansion was one hell of a history lesson.

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