What separate ethnonyms/demonyms can you name? - DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate

**truttyMab** · 02-21-2009, 04:59 PM

What?

**goatteatromiag** · 02-21-2009, 05:13 PM

nm

**boffincash** · 02-21-2009, 06:45 PM

Well, Singapore is an interesting case. While citizens of the country consider themselves Singaporeans, no one regards "Singaporean" as an ethnicity. The closest thing to a native ethnicity (as opposed to Malay, Tamil, and Hokkien -- the dominant immigrant ethnicities) is "Peranakan."

**xiaoselangone** · 02-21-2009, 08:36 PM

Jewish isn't so much an ethnicity as it is a religion. You can become a Jew but you can't become an ethnic Italian.

I guess Jews do have some ethnic aspects, because the Romans exiled the Israelis from their homeland, yet the Jews managed for 2,000 years to maintain their identities and didn't melt into the local populations, like, say, the Vandals and Visigoths did.

**baronaaba** · 02-21-2009, 11:46 PM

Besides the principalities? I'd say Flemish in Belgium and Russian in Belorussia and Estonia. I don't know about Moldova.

It's good we don't have Estonian posters, BK, because you'd become a target of boiling RAGE.

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