Questions tagged [ethnicity]
For questions relating to the ethnicity and nations, incl. historic policies regarding these concepts.
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Are there statistics on Soviet Jews, Germans and other groups dissimulating their ethnic origins?
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence regarding Jews and Germans (and possibly other stigmatized ethnic groups) in the USSR trying to dissimulate their ethnic origins: e.g., children issued from mixed ...
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Did Palestinians form a distinct ethnically/culturally/linguistically homogeneous group in pre-Mandate period?
Note: this is not a question about whether a Palestinian state ought to be established. Yes or no to this question is not relevant to that one
Did Palestinians form a distinct ethnically/culturally/...
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What was the ethnic composition of the Castilian army and Muslim Spain (al-Andalus) army in Middle Ages? [closed]
I have been searching for the ethnic composition of the armies of the Iberian Christian kingdoms (mainly Castile) during the middle ages but I couldn’t find any source mentioning anything about it. I ...
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Karl Marx's usage of "Moor"
Karl Marx, writing for the Herald Tribune in 1854, says the following:
the sedentary population of Jerusalem numbers about 15,500 souls, of whom 4,000 are Mussulmans and 8,000 Jews. The Mussulmans, ...
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What is the origin of the idea of "people's republics"?
How did the idea of the "Soviet Union" (a union of councils) mutated/evolved into a “people's republic” (a certain ethnofederalism) with the ethnicities as the main building blocks?
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How common were ethnically mixed villages in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia?
I was trying to find out whether the treaties that determined the post-war borders of Czechoslovakia were partly motivated as a punishment for the history of oppression by the German and Hungarian ...
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Were there any attempts at a federation or commonwealth to save Austria-Hungary from breaking up after ww1?
As known, the population of Austria-Hungary was made up of 11 major ethnic identities.. When the war ended, A-H broke up as it was instead of forming a new federation of Austria, Hungary with an ...
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Why does Retsö claim that only members/clients of Arabian tribes were considered "real Muslims" in the Umayyad Caliphate before 750?
In his book "The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads", Professor Jan Retsö writes:
The conflicts were aggravated by the fact that the tribes identified
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When and why have the Neo-nazi view of Slavic peoples changed?
Hitler's views on Slavs were unambiguous. He considered them to be Untermensch and wanted them exterminated so that Germans could take their place. For more on Hitler's hostility to the Slavs, see ...
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Were there cases where an ethnic newspaper had the highest circulation in a country?
Were there cases where a locally-published newspaper catering to, and read by an ethnic minority group had a circulation exceeding that of any other newspaper in a country?
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Are there recommended practices for writing about oppressed peoples?
This question is about responsible historiography. History as written by winners tends to devalue and misrepresent the experiences of subordinate groups (see Textbooks: Zinn People’s History; Labour: ...
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In view of the widespread use of the term "Semitic", which groups of people are classified as being of Hamitic ethnicity? [closed]
I am aware of the curse of Ham. It is a myth deriving from Abrahamic religions. It was used as moral justification by European and Arab slave traders.
The etymology of the word Ham is associated ...
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Are the Sabean people of Cushitic or Ethiopian origin?
The Sabeans are widely acknowledged to be of Semitic or south Arabian origin. Historical sources like Josephus Flavius and sections of the Bible seem to create conflicts about their origin.
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How likely would it have been for a rural Bohemian to encounter someone with darker skin?
Recently a new video game was released called Kingdom Come: Deliverance, claiming to be a somewhat authentic representation of life in medieval Bohemia. However at the same time the game has courted ...
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What do we currently know about the ethnic origins of Jews? [closed]
Putting aside the Old Testament, which details a story (perhaps true) of the origins of peoples including Jews, what has anthropology and genetics revealed so far about the origins of Jews?
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