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And if so, would you see them as one of your kind?
Or do you think that innate genetic traits of their race would color their views, tastes, and personality, and make it impossible for them to be like you.
Or perhaps in theory they could be one of your kind, but most people of your culture would not accept them and these identity issues would set them apart from everyone else.
Of course someone of another race or ethnicity can have another culture, just like someone of the same race can be extremely different.
"Culture" is ill-defined, and physical anthropologists say that there is essentially no such thing as race. So this is akin to asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin if the pin can be any size.
Nonetheless the answer has to be yes. Iamme puts it well here. If the same race can have a different culture, then it logically follows that different races can have the same culture.
Culture can be overlapping. And there are subsets of culture.
There is for example the welfare culture that includes lazy people of all races and ethnic backgrounds, including millions from other countries who believe they are entitled to a free living and nothing is expected of them, they may not believe in anything else American but they've quickly adapted to the American welfare culture.
And since culture includes music and food, there can be people who are in the middle class culture but overlap into subcultures of music and art and religion.
Obviously the same ethnic group can be split culturally -- that's often what leads to civil war and division of a country.
Racially I am Asian American, but culturally, in terms of my preference in food, music, hobbies, my religion, and my voting patterns I am most similar to working class whites. Most of my friends come from this group. Most Asian Americans live in areas like NY, California but I was raised in the South and am most comfortable around the culture I grew up in. My family is also very anti-socialist because of our family history escaping from communism. I have a very Southern, small town worldview and believe very strongly in traditional American values like God, hard work, and independence and despise the culture of welfare, dependency, and atheism that dominates America today. Nobody has ever wondered if I was born in the USA like some Asian Americans have been asked. When people meet me its always obvious to them that I was born and raised here.
I also really dislike the urban ghetto culture, rap music, and hip hop and the sense of entitlement and welfare that dominates that culture.
I notice its usually liberals especially the yuppie type liberals and the very ethnic Democrats who just can't accept me.
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