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Originally Posted by Mynydd
Wouldn't that be a subracialist approach to the definition of nation? They are united by language and history (as separate states of an 'empire'). And even if individually there are culture and character differences among each other, they are all part of a bigger German idiosincracy that all together form an identity differed from other identities.
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No. I dont know about the difference in sub-race in Germany, but it wasnt that I was referring to. I am not saying I am sure I would advocate such a division, but I would perhaps find it more consistent, from a perspective of culture/nation and not subrace.
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Originally Posted by Mynydd
That doesn't sound very intelligent. It would have left Denmark like a sandwidch.
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Yes, but the "cultural" center of Denmark (well, of Scandinavia) has always been and is still the Danish Islands, where the Danes originate. Most people that visit Denmark, visit Copenhagen, then leave. It would have left them where they started out, so to say.
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Originally Posted by Mynydd
Anyway, I wonder if Jutland compares to Friesland with relation to The Netherlands.
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I doubt it. The Jutes and the Frisians (or perhaps just the Dutch) are interrelated though, and the Jutes did at a point inhabit certain parts of the Frisian coast.
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Originally Posted by stribbor
We can even ask are North Germans same as Jylland Danes?
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The Southern Jutes, below the border, are probably a mixture of North German and Jute/Dane. But no, Jylland and Northern Germany dont have the same ethnological make-up. I would call North Germany Anglo-Saxons, and perhaps slightly Prussian, whereas Jutes descend from Jutes and Danes, and modern Jutland has also been subject to migrations from Southern Germany, the Netherlands and other areas (farmers, that migrated and were given the objective to cultivate the heath).