someone_else12

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   by someone_else12 4y ago

   In daily life maybe, but doesn't mean that German ethnicity doesn't exist, see Law of Return, where the state quite explicitly judges on who is German or not, based on ethnicity. I know a few Germans whose ancestors were from Volg
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   by someone_else12 4y ago

   German ethnicities existed before and outside Germany, it is not the same as in the US, where Americans didn't exist before it was founded. In Europe peoples' ethnicities are not tied to the state the same way as it is in the US.
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   by someone_else12 4y ago

   German is also ethnicity, as I mentioned above, there are Germans e.g. in Kazakhstan and other countries, who are not German citizens.
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   by someone_else12 4y ago

   German is both nationality and ethnicity. There are ethnic Germans outside of Germany. For example, Germans in Kazakhstan, they report their ethnicity as "German", despite being Kazakh citizens.