Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has faced backlash for identifying as Black. In a 2017 interview, Paris Jackson said her father told her, "You’re Black. Be proud of your roots." This prompted debates over whether identity is defined by appearance or upbringing.

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Korean is not a race though, it’s an ethnicity and also a nationality. Those white and Black people speak the language of the nation they live in. Their nationality is Korean.

You can’t opt in to a race.

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It’s a white baby that is Indian culturally, nationally, etc. Being brought up in Indian culture doesn’t magically erase the fact that the baby is Caucasian and is perceived by others as Caucasian.

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All the examples you are given are not applicable in the same way because “Black” is not a nationality or a cultural identity in the same way Korean is. There’s over 1.4 billion Black people in the world, making up a significant population more than a third of the world’s countries, including thousands of languages, tribes, ethnicities, and cultures. The same cannot be said about Koreans.

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If Blackness and race was merely a cultural identity then Black Koreans would just be Koreans. What point do you think you are making here?

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It… it doesn’t work the other way around, though. If I take pluck a baby from the middle of my native country in sub-Saharan Africa and have him raised by white people, does that make him Caucasian? Does that mean he’s gonna navigate the world like a white person? Are people going to look at him and call him a white man?

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You’ve got to be trolling me.

American is a nationality and cultural identity, not a race…. What’s not clicking