# If parliament effectively runs the UK.....what governing body runs England, Scotland etc

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> [@Dr.Drake](#):
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> “Ethnicity” isn’t genetic, it’s cultural, and needs to be practiced to count. You absolutely can have two Polish parents from Poland and be ethnically English.

IANA expert, but that is a radically different way of defining that term from what I’ve ever understood, read, or heard anyone else say.

IME = “Ethnicity” is genes, “culture” is what you behave or learned or practice. So in the terminology I’ve familiar with, your exemplar kid would be 100% indelibly ethnically Polish, but could possibly be culturally English if he really assimilated far more than most and affirmatively rejected the culture of his parents.

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