So apparently if you practice all of a culture's customs and hold the same values and observe the same holidays/etc. you're not of that culture even if you are literally 100% from it by both blood and by practice, but not born and raised there.
Yeah, fuck that. Especially after we get told our whole lives what we can and cannot do specifically because of that ethnic background. Nah, that's fucked.
Here's what I want you to consider. By calling them team africa, choosing their identity for them, you are implying that they "practice all of a culture's customs and hold the same values and observe the same holidays/etc." of their heritage.
You don't get to do that to other people. All of those posters are just as wrong as Trevor on a different note.
I work right next to this girl who joined us for dinner and said she was shit at chopsticks and made a note that she wasn't very "cultured". She tried to go Hong Kong but was a fish out of water. At the end, because I'm from London, I commented on how she is the most Mancunian person I've ever met (the city Manchester) and she had to say:
"I'm happy you said that... People don't tend to see me as if I'm from here..."
Shit Trevor says can directly cause people to feel like they can't be what it says on their birth certificate. And they are singled out and obvious because they are PoCs.
Now if this girl, who doesn't speak a word of Chinese ever wished to say she was Chinese then yes she should be able to. But it starts with what she identifies as.
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Not that China would ever really let her but w/e. We had that discussion too. These are all valid and real things that can exist at the same time.
Calling them Team Africa is fucked. No matter what.