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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
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Shared history requires shared ancestry, otherwise it's not your history lol.
A recently immigrated person from Guatemala in Texas doesn't have civil war history in his identity , so no shared history with people whose ancestors where there during the civil war.
Same for Palestine which has recently (last 200 years) huge waves of emigration and immigration, people residing there currently don't share the same ancestors, don't share the same history, so aren't an ethnicity