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Re:Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science by JabavuAdams on Saturday February 13, 2016 @01:16PM (#11094983)
Attributing the correct ethnicity seems to matter a lot more outside of the US, Canada, and Commonwealth.

I got an earful (screenful?) for calling a historical ethnic Russian painter Ukrainian, just because he was born in current-day Ukraine. This all predates the current conflict, and was from someone I'd consider educated, too.

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Re:Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science by roywiggins on Saturday February 13, 2016 @05:23PM (#11095923)
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nikola_Tesla/Nationality_...

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Re:Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science by mavdi on Saturday February 13, 2016 @04:59PM (#11095833)
In my experience US, Canada and Commonwealth are the ones obsessed with (positively or negatively) ethnicity and race.
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Re:Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science by JabavuAdams on Saturday February 13, 2016 @07:56PM (#11096553)
Race, yes, but nobody born here asks me "where are you from?" upon first meeting, whereas I get this a lot from europeans and people from more tribal societies.
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Re:Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science by pen2l on Saturday February 13, 2016 @09:24PM (#11096857)
I'm an American, and I get asked "where are you from?" almost every time I meet a new person here (in America). I look very non-American and have an accent most people find hard to pin down, so I'm thinking that the question is just not posed to people who look and 'speak' very American.
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Re:Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science by JabavuAdams on Saturday February 13, 2016 @10:43PM (#11097039)
Well, I'm Canadian, so we can't really compare. I look brown, but have a basically Toronto / SF accent.
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