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I was talking to a (modern) Greek friend of mine[1] the other day about Giannis Antetokounmpo, and whether he would be considered "Greek". The cultural ties wer
by JshWright 8y ago
I was talking to a (modern) Greek friend of mine[1] the other day about Giannis Antetokounmpo, and whether he would be considered "Greek". The cultural ties were certainly more important than skin color (or even recent ancestry).
[1] Hi Stavros!
- coldtea 8y agoHe could be considered Greek by nationality (he was born there and was a citizen of the country), and Greek by culture (he was raised there, spokes the language, etc), just not Greek by ethinicity (he doesn't share a generational lineage or has shared history with the ancestors of most people living in Greece). This is often difficult to be understood in a place like the US, where everybody is from somewhere else and only came there recently-ish (even the arrival of Columbus is not much in European, Asian, etc historical terms), and thus there's not much of any collective ethnicity -- and people soon learn to shred their prior (pre-immigration) ethnic traits and norms in order to fit.