Cultures & Ethnicities
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The population of Earth, both human and spirit, is comprised of many distinct ethnic and cultural groups that have developed, proliferated, appeared, and disappeared throughout history. Today, ethnicity is typically associated primarily with the ancestry and culture of the many nations and states of the world, but archaeological discoveries dated between 2000 and 3000 years old have shown that the many distinct groups that exist today all diverged from seven major ethnic groups.
World population by major ethnic groups
Average skin tone distribution of indigenous peoples and early generation first settlers
The seven major ethnic groups are as follows.
- Chiya, originating from central Sangyon
- Ciraza, originating from eastern Destrea
- Exilan, originating from northern Corstaea
- Farodet, originating from central Grenneria
- Irovell, originating from northern Osun Tanum
- Shisuya, originating from southern Shinzen
- Yinsha, originating from western Shaohou
While these seven groups have existed as distinctly separate groups for all of known history, with most people part of a given group typically sharing some common physical features, the scientific consensus on these groups is that their separateness is a social construct, and not a biological attribute, with identities formed through the natural development of new cultures that tended to remain grouped together throughout history, especially with the development of new languages, and that the apparent physical features shared by some smaller, more recently developed ethnic groups being features that were always present, but had become more localized to these new ethnic groups over time due to societal rules and preferences.
History¶
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