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(12-22-2015, 03:32 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Not true at all.

Someone can be born anywhere in the world, grow up somewhere else and identify themselves as such because they associate more with the culture where they grew up, and not where they were born.

While they are often used interchangeably, you're speaking more towards someone's citizenship or nationality as opposed to which ethnic group they're born into.

I will never be part of the Arab ethnic group.

Quote:Your "Race" is determined collectively by the most dominant race and then is used to determine your social level status with in that society.

And it is determined based on the biological characteristics you are born with.

Quote:And technically, you are born into a gender, gender roles are initially based off of your sex at birth.

False. You're born with a sex and you are socialized as you grow up. Part of that socialization is learning those gender roles. The one you are taught is almost always the one that is associated with your sex, but you are still taught it. Boys don't come out of the womb preferring blue over pink.