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Well, I thought you’d have noticed by NOW. So, I’m making it now. Also, here.
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You denied Polish is an ethnicity, which makes me doubt your claim, unless you’re quibbling that they are rightly Poles instead of Polish, in which case I apologize for using an incorrect term while I suspect you of being disingenuous again.
No, I am not being disingenuous and no, Polish is NOT an ethnicity. SLAVIC is an ethnicity. Polish is a nationality and to some extent a culture, but it is part of a larger Slavic ethnicity.
Oh, you are quibbling. Gotcha.
Hate to shatter your ego, but the smaller group, Polish, is a specific ethnicity because the larger group, Slavs, contains many other ethnic groups. 
MLK would be ashamed of me.
Fraid not. You made the distinction and made it your argument, thus the quibbling is yours. Can’t help it if you are unable to distinguish between an ethnicity and a culture.
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That’s between you and him.
>> Just shakin’ my head. <<
MUST. STOP. DEBATING. TANGENTIAL. PICAYUNE. MINUTIAE.
MUST. LET. GO… NOW!
:smack:
Phew.
The important thing to remember here is that RikWriter suckered me in gooooooood but my cites back ME up, Rodgers01 has it right, and we all look forward to DrDeth’s non-racist racial joke.
The grandparents, the bar mitzva, the Suzuki and the three rabbis. 
You are wrong. I live in Niles, IL. The greater metropolitan area that I live in has the second highest population of Polish people in the world, second to Warsaw itself. Having observed the Polish people around here I can tell you that yes, many seem to have common physical characteristics. Although most of these characteristics are not as easily labeled as dark skin, or curly hair, they exist. Monobrow is one of the characteristics, and there are many others. They certainly seem to have common culture too, and a cuisine; ethnic Polish restaurants are common in my neighborhood as are signs claiming, “Mowimy po polsku!” Also, most of the Polish people that I have met are proud to be Americans. Just why do you think that Polish is not an ethnicity?
In poor taste, but not racist:
person one (reading the paper): Did you hear that <prominent black person who has just died>'s funeral is tomorrow.
person two: No, what does the paper say?
person one: Well, <names of 6 prominent citizens> are the pall bearers. And <name of some younger prominent person> is carrying the bucket.
person two: What bucket? The bucket you kick when you die? What are you talking about?
person one: Have some sense, how can anyone go black burying without a bucket?
WAH wah wah.
The only thing you cited was a dictionary definition of “disingenuous,” which should, apparently, have had your screen name included with it.
Because it isn’t, your assertions notwithstanding. Polish is a nationality. Slavic is the ethnicity.
Dude. Polish is a nationality and an ethnicity.
Yeesh, enough! As if the Polskis haven’t been fought over enough already. :smack: Substitute whatever ethnicity/nationality/culture/racial group you want, the point is the same.
Sorry, but a throwaway line in a State Department website doesn’t convince me that my European History courses in college were incorrect.
Must. Let. Go… Now!
You keep saying that, yet you keep posting in this thread.
I find this willful ignorance of yours fascinating.
Any minute now someone else is going to take a stab at this and I’m either going to be a) embarrassed or b) vindicated.
C’mon, “vindicated!”
I’m a white guy.
Am I allowed to say that I laughed a lot at the show, enjoyed it a great deal, and yet felt a little sad at Huey’s and Martin’s Sysiphean struggle?
'Cause that’s how I felt.
And how fascinating that you were the first to cry “personal insult!” :rolleyes:
If we’re not allowed, then I’ve been on the wrong side of this show since it premiered. Huey’s always appealed to my inner black revolutionary.
-Marley
White since birth, still searching for a cure 