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It isn't, but OP doesn't say it is either. I think it's a worthwhile point to make that exceedingly few nations, cultures, ethnicites etc. correspond cleanly to
by vintermann 3mo ago
It isn't, but OP doesn't say it is either. I think it's a worthwhile point to make that exceedingly few nations, cultures, ethnicites etc. correspond cleanly to equivalent groups that existed ~2000 years ago.
Identity-building projects need simple stories, genetics (or history generally) rarely gives them.
- pm3003 3mo agoProbably Georgia as a political entity, Armenia, Cambodia and Vietnam as nations probably. I know other examples of relative ethnic stability: most of Northern Europe broadly has the same ethnic geographic boundaries as 1500 years ago (excepting the slavic / proto slavic things), the Basque, the Sardinians, Bretons and Bearnese, Tirolians, Kabyles, Laz "Greeks" (vanishing since WWII). By some measures also Egypt (coastal cities excepted) and Iran.