Is Polish-Lithuanian one ethnic group?

[Peterski]

It seems that we mixed so much during 400+ years of our Union, that we are one Ethnos now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibu-XGHUWYY

Check my updated Living DNA: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?240185-Ethnic-Polish-LivingDNA-results&p=5846297&viewfull=1#post5846297

https://i.imgur.com/xpFbfpb.png

https://i.imgur.com/AFvuXQc.png

Also check my thread "Polish-Belarusian Commonwealth", should we re-unite once agian?:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?280491-Polish-Belarusian-Commonwealth

[TheMaestro]

Nope

[Peterski]

Nope

Based on what?

[Dandelion]

When a Lithuanian stubs his toe, he also says 'pierdole'.

[Peterski]

When a Lithuanian stubs his toe, he also says 'pierdole'.

Especially szlachta (the nobility) in both areas spoke the same language.

[Figaro]

Good question, kind of sort of rings similar to my conondrum with my maternal grandmother's ethnicity (perhaps claling it a conundrum is a bit strong), that is, the identity of the Poles in Belarus. My own Polish-Belarusian ancestros called themselves Russian, and it was common place among pre-WW1 Poles there to basically call themselves white russians. How's the saying go...Belarusian by birth, Polish by ethnicity/choice? I dunno.

[Cumansky]

Yes.

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

no

[Cumansky]

no

Hahah I read your family history you posted in that family origin thread, you are Hungarian Polak self hating that got Yugoslavized. It all makes sense now.

[Satem]

I don't think so. We are close but not one ethnicity. Mixing was popular in szlachta(several percent of population), most of people living in villages were married with people from their area.

[Dragoon]

No because of different languages.
Even the dna which might be similar (because of neighbours) is different.

Ethnicity:

shared descent (ὅμαιμον - homaimon, "of the same blood"),[8]
shared language (ὁμόγλωσσον - homoglōsson, "speaking the same language")[9]
shared sanctuaries and sacrifices (Greek: θεῶν ἱδρύματά τε κοινὰ καὶ θυσίαι - theōn hidrumata te koina kai thusiai)[10]
shared customs (Greek: ἤθεα ὁμότροπα - ēthea homotropa, "customs of like fashion").[11][12][13]

[simple user]

Based on what?


https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?284934-Which-is-more-common-Baltic-looking-or-Alpine-looking-Poles

[Matxe92]

Nah i don't think so.

Well i get 2-6% baltic aswell on ancestry, out of 25% possible.

But It's just like any other border zone in the world, there is a gradient between the borders. But one ethnicity is taking it too far.