I’m Officially A Person Of Color!
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Not to defend this absolute jackass, but maybe he meant "Polish people 80 years ago had a hard time, but by this time, they're integrated and sheeeeit, so now they don't. But Slavs immigrating today have those same issues."
80 years ago….. when The NY Times said Poland invaded Germany?
It’s still utter nonsense, though…
Though I guess I see your point. “Poles and other Slavs” just sounds really weird, I guess…
Oddly, though, I live in a place with lots of Poles and more than a few Hungarians (or descendants thereof), and my own family did not know what Slavic meant, despite my dating not one but two Polish-descendant women in the last decade…
So clearly even here people do not see those two things as being “one and the same”…
I think both women would find this whole “POC” thing, in the US, completely absurd, though, frankly…
And yes, I know Hungarians are not Slavic, before anyone points that out…
There’s just more of them here than other groups, so I think my point still stands…
There’s tonnes of “Eastern European” descendants here. Some Slavic, some not, so it is just… Weird, that anyone here could not know that word/it’s meaning/origin, frankly… Unless they were deliberately ignorant.
By definition and genetics Hungarians are Slavic, same as Albanians. Slavs are categorized to cover the majority of Eastern Europe by race.
Isn’t “Slavic” purely based on language roots, though..??
I know this is dubious (Hungarians seem much more similar, culturally and linguistically, to, say, Poland, than Bohemians do), but if we’re going by the “conventional” definition, Hungary is not Slavic, while the Czech Republic is…
Odd, I know.
Much like how Lithuania is sort of “not Slavic”, while modern Belarus (traditionally, rump Lithuania) is…
Because the whole thing is fairly arbitrary…
Basically, for moi: Slavic language ✅
White AF ✅
(Very) Hot women ✅✅
Generally fucked with in WW2 by the Nazis, but also not Jewish, and white, and east of Berlin/the Oder? ✅
It’s more complicated than that, I know, but these definitions are just… Not that easy to pin down, lol…
Apart from the pasty-ness, and the language group thing, lol…