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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
It's more that US-Americans are weird about ethnicity, to the point of hyper-fixating on it. Someone's ethnicity is rarely relevant.
gpt
It's not though, people who have a shared heritage often have similar experiences, ate the same foods growing up, hold similar values. It doesn't need to be all of nothing, you don't need to leave your culture at customs when you gain residence