Please H...don´t take me for a simplton...Kurdistan IS an ethnic definition...as..stan is a suffix ...you know, like Pakis STAN...Afghanis STAN....Uzbekis STAN....Boratis STAN

is Catalonia an ethnic definition? like ItalIA...RomanIA? if your answer is yes, have you ever searched about rights of Catalans in Spain?

When considering ethnicity, it is worth bearing in the mind definition, so considering this definition, when trying to decide if a particular group of people can be declared an ethinic group.

ethnicity (n) a term which represents social groups with a shared history, sense of identity, geography and cultural roots which may occur despite racial difference

Let´s consider Puerto Ricans as an example of an ethnicity. Many Puerto Ricans represent various blends of White, Red and/or Black races and yet they refer to themselves collectively as Boricuas

. Despite color difference, Puerto Ricans share an ethnicity. Ethnicity shapes a group´s culture - the food, language, music, and customs.

Source: about.com

 Why do you refer to her as Accident and Emergency?

Just another reminder about off-topic please....... several posts have already been deleted from this thread.

But turkey is not proud of you man.

We belive the unity of turkey, not like you,

you are a toy of big powers, like ur leaders (Apo, etc)

they wrote a scenario and u are playing it, and they say human rights, peace, kurdish, turkish, alevi, sunni.

It was played in other countries too, we know the game.

Ur kurdistan dream will never come true.

u do this intentionally, most of ur messagesare are in one way.

dont try to be different just be yourself, if you are kurdish tell us the truth,

dont play innocent here.

I swear you coz u deserve it,

this thoughts are not only mine, Turkish youth is aware of everything!!!

"Different classifications, both formal and informal, are used in the UK. Perhaps the most accepted is the National Statistics classification (identical to that used in the 2001 Census in England and Wales) which contains the following groups." (see wiki link below)

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity_(United_Kingdom)

Most official forms I have filled in seem to use these categories.  Often the word "heritage" is used to distinguish individuals or groups eg.  describing someone as "Asian Heritage"

The following article looked quite interesting too but the Anthropological perspective is only one of quite a number.  In other words the field of ethnicity is not quite as straight forward as it might first appear.

Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives

"Words like "ethnic groups", "ethnicity" and "ethnic conflict" have become quite common terms in the English language, and they keep cropping up in the press, in TV news, in political programmes and in casual conversations. The same can be said for "nation" and "nationalism", and many of us have to admit that the meaning of these terms frequently seems ambiguous and vague. "

http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Ethnicity.html#Chapter1

 +1 and i deleted the new off topics ones, please let´s keep it to the topic.

I may sound like to some

But

when I say

We tried to assimilate them (assimilation itself is a crime against humanity);(I have given you the document/s)

We burnt their villages;(I have shown you the proof)

We killed thousands of them unlawfully..(I have given you the news articles or numbers to prove it)

We took their thousands from their homes or streets and tortured them then killed them.. (same as above)

If you still do not want to understand and if you still do not come here with showing us that ´the things I said  DID NOT HAPPEN´ , what do you want me to say?

If necessary, I will repeat them again..

btw..avalon?

Can thehandsom please clarify something for me?

I can´t find the post yet but I´m sure I read today that you said you didn´t believe a Kurdistan should be formed (sorry if I am wrong).

Please can you tell me what your thought behind the title of this thread is? Is it a belief for the future? A sarcastic remark? A taunt to your adversaries here?  What is it?

 I would be grateful too.But I think you expect too much from thehandsom,he is perfect at posting articles but not speaking his mind.What a pity!