They are ethnicities *in America*. In all of those countries / nation states ethnicity is not the sole determinant of identity, because they are states not ethnic groups: all have non-white citizens going back several to many generations. Which isn’t to say they don’t have racists as well, obvs.
I think this highlights the fact that ethnicity is a social construct and that Americans have a strong construction of it. But one that falls apart when actually applied elsewhere. Swiss as a single ethnic identity is just utterly absurd to apply to Switzerland.
Yes, exactly - I didn’t even get to the existence of multiple ‘ethnicities’ even within whiteness, which could apply to the UK and other European states as well as to Switzerland…
I agree and it’s where the inherent racism in this shows itself. A white kid with Swiss parents who was born/grew up in Germany & has German citizenship would never be included in what he says is the issue of “non-Germans” who are German citizens.