Me and a friend are in a debate and after many 1 hour plus runs/arguments we cannot decide on who is right as we both stubbornly refuse to give up ground. We have agreed to abide by the decision of Letsrun, and that decision will be final.
[bold] The Argument [/bold] The disagreement is over a nationality/ethnicity. Whenever somebody asks him what he is (as in German/Dutch/British) He claims that he is African American. Now for clarity His skin is very white and his ancestors originally came from the Netherlands. Yet some of his family moved to south Africa in the 1500’s and lived there until the early 1900’s.
This is where our argument is, he claims that he can call himself African American because his forefathers lived in Africa even though they were not “African”. During his ancestors time in South Africa they only married other Dutch people and there is no African blood in his veins. We constantly argue whether or not he is in the “right” when he claims he is african. However they were citizens of SA, for almost 400 years
I say that since originally his family is from the Netherlands that he is Dutch, just as I am German but for a period my family lived in Britain.
So Letsrun, who is right?
PS. AS I said before, whatever the conclusion to this thread is we have agreed to abide by because we are sick of arguing but neither of us will back down.