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Re:Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Said She Wasn’t by masonic on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:27AM (#18501055) 

  Technically it is an ethnicity
No, it's defined by geography only. Someone of pure Spanish blood and another of purely Mayan blood can both be "Hispanic".

"African" is similarly vague. A pure Bantu, an Egyptian, and an Amazight from Morocco are all African.

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Re:Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Said She Wasn’t by Nasrudith on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:59AM (#18502312)
I realized afterwards that I had meant nationality but that wouldn't be quite accurate either - unless you count former ones like "was once a part of the USSR". And even that would probably be pushing it.
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