User:Skakkle/ethnic groups

This is pasted from a google sheets spreadsheet. At one point it was an article on wikipedia. I can't find a trace of that old article.

The concept was basically a "List of all ethnic groups in the world by population". This was of course really problematic. That is if you know linguistics, anthropology & nationalism, you know that defining all these groups is thorny, ambiguous, imprecise, etc.

Many of the numbers were way off because the article was considering anyone who was at least partly descended from German, Italian, Spanish or Irish people to be included in those groups. Nationalism gets in the way of ethnic identity again. I did a bunch of separate searches to get better info for the ones that looked off to me. But despite the issues, I love the ambition of making a list like this & haggling over it with other worthy pseudo-experts

I can provide a link to my spreadsheet if desired, where I indicated which numbers I changed with my own research.