I’ve been online all my life, I genuinely feel at home here. I relate more to random strangers across the world than any neighbors. Is it wrong for me to think of the (western/English) Internet as my culture?

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    4•23 hours ago

    They largely are, ethnicity is culture (tradition, language, customs, beliefs) and history.

    I do not relate culturally to the people where I live, I have far more in common in beliefs and values with the typical terminally online compared to people where I grew up. And I’ve been online since the Internet started, so I’ve got the history too.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL
      8•16 hours ago

      Ethnicity is absolutely not culture.

      For example, a buddy of mine is Asian but he was adopted by a white family at birth so he is culturally No different than any other [white] guy from the Midwest.

      Or, alternatively, there’s nothing stopping me from experiencing, learning about, and practicing cultural practices from another area of the world even though I am ethnically “just” white.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•1 hour ago

        An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people that perceives to be different from out-groups based on shared attributes. These attributes include having a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.[

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity

        Yes it is.

        You’re describing your friends genetics or ancestry being different to their ethnicity or culture. Asian or White are not ethnicities.