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And yet, passports said "Ethnicity: Jew". "Ukrainian". "Georgian". For a country inhabited by Soviet people, it had a surprising lack of people identified as si
by sratner 10y ago
And yet, passports said "Ethnicity: Jew". "Ukrainian". "Georgian". For a country inhabited by Soviet people, it had a surprising lack of people identified as simply Soviet in their documents; hard to have it both ways.
- ivanb 10y agoThis is a weak argument. EU and US passports also have fields for nationality. It doesn't make neither EU nor US inherently racist.
- sratner 10y agoI have a few in front of me. From a US passport: "Nationality: United States of America" From an Australian passport: "Nationality: Australian" I have not seen an EU passport, but as far as I know EU does not claim ideological erasure of any national identity in favour of some ideal "European". [Edit: No accusation of racism had been made, whether I believe it to exist or not. The point is that it is difficult to claim ethnic identity does not exist, while explicitly highlighting it at every opportunity. The two countries I single out above make a point of being "melting pots", and are much more consistent in applying that.]
- angry_octet 10y agoI have to admire the European love of sophistry as an end in itself, for surely you have not advaned the argument.
- stuaxo 10y agoA British one has: Country Code: GBR Nationality: British Citizen Along with the town of birth, which is not enough to get any more information about ethnicity than you could from the name and picture.
- vasilipupkin 10y agoSoviet passports had a field for ethnicity, not nationality. A French citizen of Arab descent doesn't have "Arab" anywhere in the passport, does she ? Soviet passports did