cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/50452800
St. Patrick’s Day parade cancled in florida because of anti-inclusivity law (DEI)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/50452800
St. Patrick’s Day parade cancled in florida because of anti-inclusivity law (DEI)
Amazing. Wouldn’t this law, in fact, prohibit local governments from funding Independence Day celebrations, since that is associated with American ethnicity?
The US doesn’t recognize an American ethnicity, it’s only a nationality officially.
The way the US recognizes (or doesn’t) different people is always ass backwards and reeks of xenophobia. Signed, a tan latina who never knows how TF to respond to those forms.
It’s primarily because the US was not designed to be tied to ethnicity (on paper) unlike most other countries at the time. Like The United Kingdom, it was a collection of peoples, not its own people. It’s like the difference between being British and being English. The former is a nationality that includes practically all subjects of the United Kingdom in the British isles, regardless of ethnicity, whereas English is an ethnicity from the Kingdom of England.
No one’s ethnicity is American, your ethnicity is whatever you (or your family) were before you were American. Hence the temporarily PC term of ‘African American.’
So we can do nationalities, not ethnicities 🤔
Any holiday of any kind should be banned