This is a very nationalistic view of ethnicity. I had a ... conversation? with a guy I know who was born in Russia and moved to the US as a kid who wanted to define "ethnic Americans" as basically white people of Northern European ancestry, which is, let me be quite honest here, utterly bullshit, because there's no such thing as a phenotypally ethnic American (unless you're a Tr*mp supporter).
Because there have been black people living in the British Isles since Roman times, I would certainly count them as "ethnically" British, for whatever nationalistic definition of ethnic one wants to use.
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Date: 2016-09-19 12:57 am (UTC)Because there have been black people living in the British Isles since Roman times, I would certainly count them as "ethnically" British, for whatever nationalistic definition of ethnic one wants to use.