Ethnic Groups A-Z

Yeah, it's interesting that the Yamato so overwhelm the Japanese population that we just call them "Japanese." I'm quite a Japanophile, and I'd never heard that term until this quiz.

^loved that book but don't remember the reference to Yamato people.

I just happened to watch a series about the history of Japan.

I would assume because of the Erzya subgroup of Mordvins that live in Mordovia, Russia.

particularly when referencing their sauce.

Okay, seems like I was wrong:

Tartar: a member of the combined forces of central Asian peoples, including Mongols and Turks, who under the leadership of Genghis Khan conquered much of Asia and eastern Europe in the early 13th century, and under Tamerlane (14th century) established an empire with its capital at Samarkand.

Tatar: a member of a Turkic people living in Tatarstan and various other parts of Russia and Ukraine. They are the descendants of the Tartars who ruled central Asia in the 14th century.

I wonder how many more -stan countries would emerge if Russia gave them independence.

ethnicity is not exactly the same as race. Though both are social constructs, the chief difference is that the concept of "race" asserts that there is some objective underlying genetic reason to divide people into very large, mostly discrete groups dissimilar from other large, discrete groups. There is not. Ethnicity, on the other hand, does objectively exist as all that is required to belong to an ethnicity, by definition, is to identify that you do. It's really about how people label, sort, and identify themselves. The concept of ethnicity makes no assertions about people other than the fact that we tend to sort ourselves and others into tribes. Ethnicity can be about a perceived common culture, history, language, geography, religion, or nationality as easily as it can be about skin color or biology. You can identify as belonging to multiple different ethnicities, or you can reject them all and belong to none. And ethnicities can also be subdivided.

You're free to prove your position

In fact, to not stall the conversation:

On count 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Egypt

"The vast majority of the population of Egypt consists of Egyptians including Copts, Egyptians make up 95% of the population. The vast majority of Egyptians are native speakers of modern Egyptian Arabic. "

"Minorities in Egypt include the Copts who represent around 10% of the entire population and live all over the country,..."

Copts identify as Egyptian on government censuses.

On count 2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people

"... From the Bronze Age the Sámi occupied the area off the coast of Finnmark and the Kola peninsula..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_peoples

"The Battle Axe culture, a local variant of the Corded Ware culture, which was itself an offshoot of the Yamnaya culture, emerged in southern Scandinavia in the early 3rd millennium BC..."

What's your case?