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Originally Posted by Seekers
The Germanic meta-ethnicity exists independently of the truth of any theory that might have acted as an agent in the formulation of it, in my opinion. A nation within it has ethnically more important things in common with each of the other nations within it, compared to the nation outside the meta-ethnicity with which it has the most in common. It's rather straightforward and indisputable, isn't it?
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I disagree.
You dont even specify exactly what you mean with the Germanic meta-ethnicity. What is it? Which countries in specific? Do all the countries identify as "Germanic"? For an example, in Denmark, Germanic is a strictly linguistic term. Probably the same with the rest of Scandinavia. The only ones who self-designate as Germanic up here are mostly white supremacist nutjobs and such types. Meta-ethnicities are abstract classifications of various languages and the associated cultures (which, however, are not always associated - i.e. there are instances of mixed Celtic/Germanic cultures, such as in Denmark), they are not real, they are something non-existant to the individual cultures.