What is considered European?

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Europeans are people who live on the continent of Europe.

That's it.

If your European heritage is mixed then it's mixed, nothing wrong with that.

Being European is not the same as being white. The British idea of being white is not the same as the Spanish idea of being white, racial categories are culturally specific.

[–]theytookourjerbs[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

While I agree with Europeans being from Europe, what I meant was people with Aboriginal European ancestry and not being a European in the sense of living there. Like Europeans colonised almost all of the world, so there'll be a lot of Americans with European ancestry, Africans with European ancestry, Asians with European ancestry, and Austronesians with European ancestry, because of that.