Historically, new ethnic groups have been formed by the merging of otherwise different ethnicities that were geographically close to each other. For example, the Azerbaijanis were formed by the mixture of Oghuz Turks, Medes, Mannaeans, Scythians, and Caucasian Albanians (not to be confused with Balkanic Albanians, a completely different people), the Normans by a mixture of Norsemen, Franks, and Gallo-Romans in what is now Normandy, the French in general were a mixture of Celtic (Gauls), Italic (Romans), and Germanic (Franks, Visigoths, Suebi, and Burgundians) peoples, and the Bulgarians from a combination of Early South Slavs, Thracians, and the Turko-Iranian Bulgars.
Similarly, larger ethnic groups ("larger" meaning "greater in population") have absorbed smaller ethnic groups since likely the dawn of the homo sapiens. This has happened with the Goths and Early East Slavs absorbing the Scythians and Sarmatians, the Turkic ethnicities absorbing the Iranian peoples of Central Asia, the Bantu peoples absorbing various Pygmy and Khoisan peoples during their expansion, and the Han Chinese absorbing the Baiyue.
I'm wondering what kind of new ethnic groups will be formed this century, and which will end up absorbed by others.
Similarly, larger ethnic groups ("larger" meaning "greater in population") have absorbed smaller ethnic groups since likely the dawn of the homo sapiens. This has happened with the Goths and Early East Slavs absorbing the Scythians and Sarmatians, the Turkic ethnicities absorbing the Iranian peoples of Central Asia, the Bantu peoples absorbing various Pygmy and Khoisan peoples during their expansion, and the Han Chinese absorbing the Baiyue.
I'm wondering what kind of new ethnic groups will be formed this century, and which will end up absorbed by others.
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