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The result was delete. ♠
PMC♠
(talk) 06:16, 14 March 2021 (UTC)reply
See
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwestern European people These articles are based novel synthesis and totally pointless. "Northwest european ancestry" is not specified in the official demographic surveys of these countries, and the included material is better covered in the articles of the more specific ancestries that constitute the synthesised concept of "Northwest european".
Hemiauchenia (
talk) 06:33, 7 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom and
WP:NEO. The term "northwestern Europeans" gets a paltry scattering of hits,
in 1910,
1977 and
2009, so it's obvious it hasn't caught on.
Clarityfiend (
talk) 04:12, 8 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete This describes exactly the same kind of
WP:SYNTH and
WP:FRINGE as
Northwestern European people. I see several other AfD notices on the creator's talk page, including one on
Brown Canadians, another made-up racial/ethnic term; plus
Whiteshift, an OR-loaded article discussing a neologism from the book of the same name. –
LaundryPizza03 (
dc̄) 02:25, 10 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete. This obviously isn't the first time, either on here or in the real world, that people have tried to reify whiteness into a unifying cultural identity that transcends nationality, but it's not working. As I've pointed out before, white people don't need to cling to our Europeanness as a central principle of our identities per se, because we largely get the privilege of already knowing exactly where our ancestors came from. We know if our ancestors were French or British or Irish or German or Polish or Swedish or Italian or Croatian. African-Americans, conversely, mostly don't have the luxury of knowing whether their ancestors came from Nigeria or Mali or the Congo or South Africa or Uganda, because slavery took that connection to their heritage away from them. So the generic label "African" is all that's actually available for most African-Americans to hang on to about their roots — but you don't need to cling to "European" as your central identity if you already know that your ancestors were specifically Dutch or Italian or Danish. So it's a false equivalency to insist that the existence of a thing called "African-American" mandates the parallel creation of a thing called "European-American", because "European" Americans already have easy access to much more specific and concrete details about our exact ancestral heritages than most African Americans ever will. White fragility sucks, and I'm a white guy saying that.
Bearcat (
talk) 19:57, 10 March 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete all per nom, this concept does not exist.
Ivar the Boneful (
talk) 08:37, 13 March 2021 (UTC)reply
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