Lemiex and mattysse putting france on the boxing map

Some of the sh!t you people come up with. Matthysse is South American. He's from Argentina. He's of the same blood as Martinez and Maidana who are both from his native Argentina. I mean Maidana looks like a damn Chinaman, but he's Argentinian.

 

Matthysse lives in the Argentinian mountains eating iguana

Not in a field eating frogs.

 

The island of Haiti was like 90% slaves, dude. Rigondeaux represents Cuba, but his last name makes me think his family emigrated from Haiti, which isn't unusual.

 

Yes, that is what I'm saying. One is Argentinian and the other is Canadian.

 

Remember that French dude Roy Jones Jr. fought? He went three rounds and then took a knee.

 

LOL at OP. this thread is so fail.

 

Let's put it this way. I'm not a Brit, a Frenchie, a Scottie, Irish, or German. I'm American.

 

Matthysse looks like he has indigenous ancestry as well

 

Yup, as are many of the great Cubans

Felix Savon (means "soap" in French)
Teofilo Stevenson (same as Adonis)
Peter Quillin's dad is Hatian-Cuban
Rances Bartolome,

etc.

 

I was mocking this thread and ethnic nationalism by saying hey yeah Rigo with a French name is surely French too. But no, Matthysse isn't 'more French' than Takam and N'Dam who both live in and represent France. You're taking French as an ethnicity, which it's not. Lemieux doesn't speak French because he 'loves being French', just like you speaking English doesn't make you ethnically English. Lemieux is Canadian, he speaks French because he was born in Quebec, Canada, which has been independent from France for longer than the US has been independent from Britain, and is as linguistically and socially distinct from France as the US is from Britain. It doesn't matter whether Lemieux can trace his origins to France 300 years ago or his parents recently immigrated to Canada, he's Canadian, and no more French than I as an English-Canadian am. A French-speaking Canadian who identifies as French-Canadian isn't claiming attachment to France, like an Italian-Canadian or Italian-American might, but to to Quebec and French Canada as a society and culture.

Black Americans also don't identify or have any attachment to Africa, but stress their identity as African-American to embrace their shared experience and culture and to distinguish themselves from white America that's oppressed them. Really, the ethnic purity that you're assuming doesn't exist at all. You kind of contradicted your first paragraph with your second: you're right enough to say European is an ethnicity, but Irish, English, German, Russian are not ethnicities.