Talk:Belarusian Americans

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message: An IP editor insists that :Wayne Gretzky be included in this article, saying he has links showing this person is an American citizen.  Nothing in the Wayne Gretzky article shows this to be the case: the sourced article shows he is a Canadian living in Canada.  So Gretzky must not be in this article  Hmains (talk) 22:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Why are you starting a new discussion, if there is a discussion on top? Again, here is a link indicating Gretzky is an Amerian citizen: . Therefore, Gretzky must be in the article. He's an American citizen, it's referenced, based on what are you saying he is not American? Do you think you have more authority to decide who is American than the American immigration office? 90.221.158.101 (talk) 08:29, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Wayne Gretzky

message: An IP editor insists that :Scarlett Johansson not be included in this article saying she is not Belarusian.  The Scarlett Johansson shows this is not true: the sourced article shows she is an American and her ancestors came from Minsk in what is now Belorussia.  According to the WP rules for ancestry, this means she is a Belarusian American.   So Johansson can be in this article.   Hmains (talk) 23:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Her ancestors came from Minsk when Belarus didn't exist yet, and they were Jewish, which means they saw themselves either as Russian Jews or Polish Jews, since that's between who Belarus was split at the time. Calling her Belarusian is like calling Sholem Aleichem Ukrainian, sounds ridiculous, right? My point exactly. She herself never referred to herself as Belarusian and never even mentioned it (which makes sense, because she had only one great-grandparent from Belarus, and that great-grandparent probably didn't even "know" they were "Belarusian"). You can't add people in the collage who never actually saw themselves as Belarusians in any way and whose ancestors never saw themselves this way. It makes much more sense to add Lisa Kudrow to the article because at least she has a grandparent who lived in the Belarusian SSR (and still I can bet they haven't seen themselves as Belarusian but as Soviet Jews, but at least they lived on a territory that was recognized as Belarus). 90.221.158.101 (talk) 08:35, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Both Scarlett Johansson and  Lisa Kudrow should be removed from the list IMO. They don't identify themselves as Belarussians, they don't speak any of the languages spoken there. There is nothing in their image that associates them with Belarus in any way. There is just no need to feature people as Belarussians when they are clearly not by any reasonable standard, with all due respect. 24.6.216.114 (talk) 00:29, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Scarlett Johansson

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