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There was a time when people from Finnland were discriminated against in US as they were not considered “white” because of their language being of Uralic origin
by geraneum 3y ago
There was a time when people from Finnland were discriminated against in US as they were not considered “white” because of their language being of Uralic origins and not Indo-European.
That’s how ridiculous it was/is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_...
edit: typo