# Are you ethnic?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ethnic/916086 "2020-07-23T07:53:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ethnic/916086/125 "2020-07-25T20:58:29Z")

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> [@Brayne\_Ded](#):
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> f they live in the UK and are British citizens, yes. People with, for example, a Scottish background who are US citizens? No.

So my brother-ln-law who is of Scottish heritage, took to learning the bagpipes, marches in parades wearing a kilt, took the family to Scotland, is not ethnically Scottish?

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