A person born in the city of Novosibirsk is an European or an Asian? (population, ethnicity)

[MalaMan]

A person who was born in the city of Novosibirsk, in Siberia, Russian Federation, is considered to be an European?

Or an Asian?

To make the question a little more tricky, suppose the person in question has blonde hair and is an Orthodox Christian...

So, European or Asian?

[Davy-040]

Where were the parents and grandparents born?

[erasure]

Originally Posted by MalaMan

A person who was born in the city of Novosibirsk, in Siberia, Russian Federation, is considered to be an European?

Or an Asian?

To make the question a little more tricky, suppose the person in question has blonde hair and is an Orthodox Christian...

So, European or Asian?

European.
The ethnicity doesn't really change because of geography.

[grega94]

Originally Posted by MalaMan

A person who was born in the city of Novosibirsk, in Siberia, Russian Federation, is considered to be an European?

Or an Asian?

To make the question a little more tricky, suppose the person in question has blonde hair and is an Orthodox Christian...

So, European or Asian?

The person could only claim Asian, if he had Asian/Siberian heritage. It would be like asking, if a person is born in the US, with blue eyes and blond hair. Is he Native American or white? Well most likely white.

[Marmel]

First and foremost this person is Russian. But Novosibirsk is in Asia so technically he has a right to call himself an Asian however I guess in practice they hardly refer to themselves as such

[MalaMan]

Originally Posted by erasure

European.
The ethnicity doesn't really change because of geography.

So, a person born and raised in the USA, being the son of parents who came from Norway, is an European, and not American?

[MalaMan]

Originally Posted by Davy-040

Where were the parents and grandparents born?

Well, considering that the city of Novosibirsk already had a population of 80,000 people before 1917, let's assume that the person that we are talking about has both parents born in Novosibirsk, as well as all four grandparents also born in Novosibirsk.

A bonde haired person whose two parents and four grandparents were born in Novosibirsk.

Asian or European?

[Maksim_Frolov]

European.

[Davy-040]

Originally Posted by MalaMan

A bonde haired person whose two parents and four grandparents were born in Novosibirsk.

Asian or European?

European-looking Asian.

[EVANGELISTTI]

Europe and Asia are the same continent geographically. Eurasia.

The reason they are divided in two continents is just by culture, history and race.

All then are Eurasian.