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Originally Posted by Susi
I know this but as they were referred as somewhat separate groups in the original post, I continued this trend. And don't call me sweetheart, it's patronising to me.
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And with good reason. Scandinavians are not by definition Germanic, unless you are going to claim that Finland is a Germanic nation. And we cannot objectively debunk Finland as a part of Scandinavia, all though I bet a lot of Germanic nationalists would love to. But they are not Scandinavian, and I suggest they stick to dealing with the States, where they usually come from. Whats more, when it comes to ancestry and explaining the spreading of genetics (e.g. R1b) in terms of ethnolinguistics, Denmark was not spawned entirely by Germanic tribes. To avoid confusion, and to simplify everything, Scandinavians therefore deserve a group of their own. It is both relevant as a meta-identity and meta-cultural term, because Scandinavia and the Nordic countries usually follow certain cultural trends across meta-ethnicity (Germanic versus Finno-Ugrian) or simply identify with each other on a non-meta-ethnic basis. That is not always the case though, and we shouldnt forget that each country and more importantly region has their own culture and make-up that also deserves to be taken into the equation independently of any categories.