My ethnicity

[bennyboy]

I don't if this belongs to philosophy or not but w/e.

So I've been thinking about this whenever someone asks me where I'm from. What decides which ethnicity someone belongs to? Both my parents are kurdish but I was born here in Sweden. So, if someone asks me where I'm from what is correct to respond? I was born in sweden so if we speak literally I am from sweden, am I not? But as a person am I swedish or am I kurdish? Is it correct to say both? What decides if I'm swedish or not, is it my genetics? Is it where I'm born? Is it where my parents are from?

Am I a kurd from Sweden?

Your ethnicity is kurdish.  Your nationality is Swedish.
You can identify yourself as either or both.

The question is when you think about YOURSELF, how do you see yourself?

My daughter is half Korean, half whatever I am (German, English, French, a little native American).  She's lived all her life in Korea, and gone to Canada for maybe a few weeks total.  But she clearly identifies herself as Canadian.