Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ethnic groups with a larger diaspora population than their countries of origin
per nom. There is massive amounts of literature about how the drawing of borders affects ethnic identity, but this is a completely flawed approach based on an imaginary world of pure nation-states. Without a firm definition of which cross-border ethnic groups "belong" to which countries, this is inevitably . For example, why should Tajikistan be considered the "motherland" and Afghanistan the "diaspora" for Tajiks? Simply because the former has "Tajik" in its name? Why not Uzbekistan, since the Tajik Persian|standard language of Tajikistan is based on the Bukhara dialect? And are the Sarikoli language|non-Persian-speaking Tajiks of Xinjiang part of that "diaspora"? What do you do with ethnic groups like the Nanai people whose urheimat is split across the boundaries of two multi-ethnic countries, in neither of which they are the "titular nationality"? Which Mongolic languages|Mongolic-speaking groups "belong" to Mongolia? Which Turkic languages|Turkic-speaking groups pan-Turkism|"belong" to Turkey? Et cetera
— User:CaliforniaAliBaba, 03:48, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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