Talk:List of ethnic groups in Russia

Russian names
From what I can gather, all the names of the different peoples are simply Latin transliterations of what was written on the census forms. I think someone should translate them all into English. My command of the Russian language is very limited, and so really someone else should do this. But I can start it if no one else will. (I guess it's better that some are in English than none!) Static Sleepstorm 09:10, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey, check First All Union Census of the Soviet Union. In fact there is a whole transformational process involving differeing concepts of ethnicity and nationality which were played out in various bureaucratic structures - from the Imperial Russian Bureaucracy through Kerensky's government which set up KIPS, and the further career of Sergey Oldenburg, who moved from Kerensky's cabinet to cementing the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the Russian Academy of Sciences.When this is looked upon from the perspective of the role of the Ukraine in the downfall of Kerenskys government and the function of Narkomnats as the Genius loci of Stalin's rise to power, it is clear to see we are dealing with a very ticklish question here. In other words I feel transliteration is better - as often translation can accidentally lead to the intrusion of the kind original research which would do better published as a text, which us happy editors could happily refer to a reliable source. On transliteration, check the transformation of Mirsaid Sultangaliev to Mirsäyet Soltanğäliev and Mullanur Vakhitov to Mullanur Waxitov: as I undestand it, many ethnic groups chose to adopt a latinised script, and the cyrillic may well be based on Latin script primary documentation anyway. Sometimes the mind bogles before this, but I do feel it makes it easier to understand what web ontologies are.Harrypotter 16:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

how are groups difined as similar?
id like to know how groups are similar. what criteria is used its impressive list quite facinating i spent hours on it.its sad that a list like this is not for the USA cause theres no more ethnic group counting in the USA its done by race. i would fall into the American Ethnic group casue my family goes back for a coupple hundred of years in this country —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.51.212.6 (talk) 02:19, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The United States does count ancestry groups, but in the last census it was not part of the main US Census, just the American Community Survey which takes place two years before and two years after. Many people, like you, identify their ancestry as "American," but identifying as such is problematic. For one, as you're already a citizen of the United States, your identity as an American is obvious. The past few centuries that your ancestors have lived in the United States is a small drip compared to the thousands of years that the Native American or American Indian people have dwelled in this land. Our ancestors came from other countries just like everyone else's, and that our ancestors came here three hundred years does not make us more American than your coworker whose grandparents came from elsewhere, or even your newly-naturalized immigrant neighbor. There's a map of US ancestries, and the people who claim "American" ancestry usually reside in places heavily settled by English, Welsh, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish colonists around the southern Appalachian Mountains. You probably still maintain many cultural traditions from these ancestors even if you don't realize it. --222.80.175.23 (talk) 08:15, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

I wonder why the Sakha are not mentioned! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8A0:F3B6:400:69DF:691B:94E5:BD42 (talk) 19:50, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Lowercase o
I am wondering, why all ethnic groups beginning with letter 'O' have their names written with the lowercase o, whereas all other groups have their names begin with a capital letter. Is there any reason why the last group mentioned in the O-section, having a name beginning with kh-, is listed there and not within the Kh- section. noychoH (talk) 19:09, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

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