Native Americans would be a ethnicity but the US was taken over my European settlers.

Europe the Germanic people have existed way before , a country is not tied to the ethnicity.

jandrewrogers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Native American is not an ethnicity. The tribes that occupied North America prior to the Europeans are notable for their very high cultural and linguistic diversity. Many of the pre-European languages are unrelated to each other.

	▲	mr_toad 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s amusing that the word German is an Anglicisation of a Roman word for a variety of tribes that the Roman Empire couldn’t be bothered to distinguish between.

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rayiner 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The United States is a distinct legal entity, not a label for an area of land. Native Americans have never been the dominant ethnicity of the United States.

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bluGill 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Native American is not an ethnicity unless you reduce to absurd levels. There are many different ethnicities across the continent.

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dghlsakjg 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A country is not tied to ethnicity but this thread is about how German is an ethnicity.

I’ve heard plenty of arguments about the German Volk as a distinct entity.

The argument was pretty decisively lost according to my grandfather.

Tell me, where does my Jewish German heritage fit in to Germany as an ethnicity? For some reason they didn’t feel very German when they left despite meeting all the qualifications…

	▲	kuschku 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Tell me, where does my Jewish German heritage fit in to Germany as an ethnicity? For some reason they didn’t feel very German when they left despite meeting all the qualifications… That's a good point, and personally one of the reasons I disagree with the ethnic definition of "nation". The other reason are of course the frisian, danish, sorbian, etc and many other similar minorities that have historically lived in the region of modern Germany. I think the french definition (which defines the nation almost entirely around the language, not ethnicity or origin) is a much more interesting and useful one. Language determines who you can talk to, and what media you can read or watch.