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no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee

no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee proverb: one's blood quantum (percentage of person's ancestors who are full-blooded indigenous people) does not negate indigenous identity.

Proverb

no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) One's blood quantum (percentage of person's ancestors who are full-blooded indigenous people) does not negate indigenous identity.
    • There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea'.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian

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What does no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee mean?
No matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee means one's blood quantum (percentage of person's ancestors who are full-blooded indigenous people) does not negate indigenous identity.
What part of speech is no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee?
No matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee is a proverb.

Words near no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee in the dictionary

  1. no man's lands
  2. no mark
  3. no marks
  4. no mas
  5. no matter
  6. no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee
  7. no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea
  8. no matter how one slices it
  9. no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
  10. no matter how thin you slice it, it's still boloney
  11. no matter how you slice it, it's still the same old baloney

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