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To: LindyBill who wrote (124977)	7/13/2005 10:28:43 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

I have an "ethnic Japanese" son-in law. And you would appropriately do so. Japanese is an ethnicity as well as a nationality, as is Swedish, in contrast with Pakistani or American, which are solely nationalities. Were you to refer to your son-in-law as Japanese, one might conclude that he was a citizen of Japan rather than the US because Japanese, the ethnicity, spans national borders, so your phrasing is clarifying. In the case of Pakistan, Pakistan contains multiple ethnicities, which, in turn, exist in multiple nations. So the notion of an ethnic Pakistani has no meaning. And I don't want to exchange ten more posts about it. :>) Me neither.