The 13-year-old Belgian boy fighting in Syria http://fw.to/6poUF5j pic.twitter.com/EZ74vbvS0P
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@hbdchick I read it as someone who has been exposed to all of Belgian culture, someone culturally Belgian, went to fight for ISIS—shocking!
@Billare ...someone looking japanese? you might think that it could be anybody who was raised in japan?
@hbdchick Japan is obv. very sui generis in that regard. But really, if you said "German" I would not automatically assume a Teuton...
@hbdchick Maybe we need to resurrect the really old ethnolinguistic labels pre-nation state, if that concerns you ;)
@Billare well, isn't it *useful* to have *words* to describe ethnic groups?! up until *very* recently (feels like yesterday)...
@hbdchick Well sure it's useful. But ur problem isn't just with Euro countries then. Plenty of Brit nationals considered themselves "Kenyan"
@hbdchick Like our man Dawkins. People really do adopt cultural identities separate from their actual ethnogenesis.
@Billare ...meant they were ethnically belgian. now ethnic belgians have *lost* their designation. how should i refer to them?
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