Modern definition of "ethnicity"

[reboun]

In my opinion, the modern definition of the word "ethnicity" is: The group of people that someone has strong social, cultural and linguistic ties/connections.

It means, if a person is considered as a part of an ethnicity by at least half of the other members of that ethnic group, he or she is also a part of that ethnicity.

Do you agree?

[Tooting Carmen]

Sort of. But to paraphrase Germaine Greer: "Whiteness is real and it is race. Englishness, Frenchness, Germanness etc. are unreal and they are ethnicity". While there is definitely a biological/genetic European (and to an extent Caucasoid) race, ethnicity is entirely a social construct.

[ecptr]

Sort of. But to paraphrase Germaine Greer: "Whiteness is real and it is race. Englishness, Frenchness, Germanness etc. are unreal and they are ethnicity". While there is definitely a biological European (and to an extent Caucasoid) race, ethnicity is entirely a social construct.

People of the same ethnicity come from the same reproduction pool and have much higher IBD sharing (genetic markers) with each other than with people from other ethnicities.

[Tooting Carmen]

People of the same ethnicity come from the same reproduction pool and have much higher IBD sharing (genetic markers) with each other than with people from other ethnicities.

Sometimes yes. But if you take Jews for example: are Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim and even Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews all genetically that similar to one another?

[ecptr]

Sometimes yes. But if you take Jews for example: are Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim and even Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews all genetically that similar to one another?

These are separate ethnic groups with internal racism between them.

[Tooting Carmen]

These are separate ethnic groups with internal racism between them.

Aren't the first three at least genetically quite similar?

[reboun]

People of the same ethnicity come from the same reproduction pool and have much higher IBD sharing (genetic markers) with each other than with people from other ethnicities.

The genetic markers which mark the ethnic groups are still questionable.

[reboun]

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[Aldaris]

Your definition completely omits the concept of common ancestry. If an alien were to interpret the term solely based on this definition, he might conclude that there is no connection between ancestry and ethnicity, but that's not how we use the term.

[Flashball]

Genealogy, genetic.