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{{Infobox Ethnic group Julius Caesar • Plato • Adolf Hitler {{{!}} class="wikitable sortable" style="line-height: 0.9em; border:1px #000000;" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="margin-left: 1em; text-align:right;" {{!}}- ! width="40px" {{!}} Language ! width="40px" {{!}} Mother tongue{{!}}L1 ! width="40px" {{!}} Total {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}English language{{!}}English {{!}}13% {{!}}51% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}German language{{!}}German {{!}}18% {{!}}32% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}French language{{!}}French {{!}}12% {{!}}26% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Italian language{{!}}Italian {{!}}13% {{!}}16% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Spanish language{{!}}Spanish {{!}}9% {{!}}15% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Polish language{{!}}Polish {{!}}9% {{!}}10% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Romanian language{{!}}Romanian {{!}}7% {{!}}7% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Dutch language{{!}}Dutch {{!}}5% {{!}}6% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Greek language{{!}}Greek {{!}}3% {{!}}3% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Swedish language{{!}}Swedish {{!}}2% {{!}}3% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Czech language{{!}}Czech {{!}}2% {{!}}3% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Portuguese language{{!}}Portuguese {{!}}2% {{!}}2% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" {{!}}align=left {{!}}Hungarian language{{!}}Hungarian {{!}}2% {{!}}2% {{!}}- style="line-height: 1.1em" class="sortbottom" class="sortbottom" {{!}} align=left colspan="2"{{!}}Minority Languages {{!}} ~16% {{!}}}
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 * group       = European people
 * population  = roughly 720,000,000 (in Europe)
 * region1     = {{flagcountry|EU}}
 * pop1        = 495,128,529
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 * region2     = {{flagcountry|USA}}
 * pop2        = 171,000,000
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 * region3 = {{flagcountry|RUS}}
 * pop3   = 103,806,000
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 * region4    = {{flagcountry|UKR}}
 * pop4       = 46,490,400
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 * region5    = {{flagcountry|ARG}}
 * pop5       = 38,000,000
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 * religions   = Predominantly Christian with a significant secular minority
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Diasporas in Europe
Populations of non-European origin in Europe (approx. 25 - 30+ million, or approx. 3.42 - 4.11+% [depending on definition of non-European origin], out of a total population of approx. 730 million):
 * Turks: approx. 5 million, mostly in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden
 * North Africans (Arabs and Berbers): approx. 5 million, mostly in France, the Netherlands and Sweden
 * Horn Africans: approx. 200,000 Somalis, mostly in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the UK
 * Sub-Saharan Africans (many ethnicities including Afro-Caribbeans and others by descent): approx. 5 million, mostly in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany
 * Latin Americans (mainly Mestizos): approx. 2.2 million, with the largest groups in Spain and Italy
 * Plus Latin American Britons number around 1 million and are of European, African, Native South American and many other races
 * South Asians (many ethnicities): approx. 3 million, mostly in the UK
 * Pakistanis: approx. 1,000,000, mostly in the UK
 * Tamils: approx. 250,000
 * Armenians (sometimes considered European, see above): approx. 1.5 million
 * Kurds: approx. 1.5 million, mostly in Germany and Sweden
 * Chinese: approx. 1 million, mostly in France, the UK and the Netherlands
 * Filipinos: approx. 500,000, mostly in the UK, France, Germany and Italy
 * Syriacs: approx. 130,000, mostly in Sweden
 * Japanese: ca. 100,000, mostly in the UK
 * Lebanese diaspora: especially in France and the UK.

Identity and culture
The culture of Europe might better be described as a series of overlapping cultures. Whether it is a question of West as opposed to East; Christianity as opposed to Islam; many have claimed to identify cultural fault lines across the continent.

European culture also has a broad influence beyond the continent of Europe due to the legacy of colonialism. In this broader sense it is sometimes referred to as Western Civilization. Nearly all of the Americas and all of Africa were ruled by European powers at one time or another, and some parts of the New World, such as French Guiana, still are. The vast majority of the population of the Americas speak European languages, specifically Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and to a much lesser extent Dutch. Additionally the cultures of the European colonial powers (Spain, Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium and France) exert a strong influence.

Pan-European identity refers to both the sense of personal identification with Europe, and to the identity possessed by 'Europe' as a whole. 'Europe' is widely used as a synonym for the European Union even though there are millions of people living on the European continent in non-EU Member States. The prefix "pan" implies that the identity applies throughout Europe, and especially in an EU context, 'pan-European' is often contrasted with national.

Religion
Since the High Middle Ages, most of Europe has been dominated by Christianity. There are three major denominations, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox, with Protestantism restricted mostly to Germanic regions, and Orthodoxy to Slavic regions, Greece and Georgia. Catholicism, while centered in the Latin parts, has a significant following also in Germanic, Slavic and Celtic regions.

Islam has some tradition in the Balkans (the European dominions of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th to 19th centuries), in Albania, Former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkish East Thrace. European Russia has the largest Muslim community, including the Tatars of the Middle Volga and multiple groups in the Caucasus, including Chechens, Avars, Ingush and others. With 20th century migrations, Muslims in Western Europe have become a noticeable minority.

Judaism has a long history in Europe, but is a small minority religion, with France (1%) the only European country with a Jewish population in excess of 0.5%. The Jewish population of Europe is comprised primarily of two groups, the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi. Ashkenazi Jews migrated to Europe as early as the 8th century, while Sephardi Jews established themselves in Spain and Portugal at least one thousand years before that. Jewish European history was notably affected by the Holocaust and resulting emigration in the 20th century.

In modern times, significant secularization has taken place, notably in laicist France in the 19th century and in Communist Eastern Europe in the 20th century. Currently, distribution of theism in Europe is very heterogeneous, with more than 95% in Poland, and less than 20% in the Czech Republic. On average, the 2005 Eurobarometer poll found that 52% of the citizens of EU member state that they believe in God.