LL-L: "Names" LOWLANDS-L, 20.AUG.2000 (01) [E]

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Names

Ian wrote:

>Saturday's session at the DIALECT 2000 conference in Belfast was
interesting on this. The point was raised that only 10% of nations on
Earth are ethnically homogenous (the fact that the Irish Republic is
one of them ...<

I was a bit puzzled by this statistic so I looked through my World Almanac.

I found only 5 countries which might be considered "ethnically
homogeneous" - North Korea, South Korea, Iceland, Portugal, Tuvalu - but it

may be that these countries do not collect the necessary data.  I also
noticed, however,  that there was no simple, consistent definition of
ethnicity. The Irish Republic has its tinkers and the residue of the
Protestant Ascendancy. Are they "ethnic minorities"?

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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