Original sentence: Germans () are defined as an ethnic group,  in the sense of sharing a common German culture, citizenship,  speaking the German language as a mother tongue and being born in Germany.Germans are also defined by their national citizenship, which had, in the course of German history, varying relations to the above (German culture), according to the influence of subcultures and society in general (also refer to Imperial Germans, Federal Germans etc.Out of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, about 75 million consider themselves Germans.The late 19th century saw a strong movement among the Jewry in Germany and Austria to assimilate and define themselves as à priori Germans, i.There are an additional 70 million people of German ancestry (mainly in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Kazakhstan and Canada) who are not native speakers of German but who may still consider themselves ethnic Germans, so that the total number of Germans worldwide lies between 75 and 160 million, depending to the criteria applied (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans or partial German ancestry)
Edited sentence: Germans () are an ethnic group identified with Germany, in the sense of sharing a common culture, citizenship, language and being born in Germany.Germans are also defined by their national citizenship , which had, in the course of German history, varying relations to the above (German culture), according to the influence of subcultures and society in general (also refer to Imperial Germans, Federal Germans etc.Out of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, about 75 million consider themselves descended from German ancestors.The late 19th century saw a strong movement among the Jews in Germany and Austria to assimilate and define themselves as à priori Germans, i.There are an additional 70 million people of German ancestry (mainly in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Kazakhstan and Canada) who are not native speakers of German but who may still consider themselves related Germans, so that the total number of German descendants worldwide lies between 75 and 160 million , depending to the criteria applied (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans or partial German ancestry)