What makes an ethnicity? Why are Serbs living in Bosnia-Herzegovina

>>131141288
A common history.

>>131141564
couldn't one argue that the individuals from a single or a group states or provinces can have a common history?

>>131141722
It's different in Europe. European history is milennia old

>>131141802
Native American history is similarly as old, and the history and culture of European settlers on the continent keeps getting older. Cabot found Newfoundland 500 years ago.

>>131141991
>Native American history is similarly as old
Yes, but they are mongrelized and bastardized, that's one effective way of washing history away. About Newfoundland and John Cabot, I know little to nothing about that.

What I meant originally was, I think European people have a better "ethnic memory"(?), which really doesn't happen in the new world because as much as you'd like it, it's not the home of your or my ancestors. Serbs are ethnic serbs because they identify with that group and they are descendants of the original slav settlers in Serbia. Plus, every couple of centuries, being part of a specific ethnic group gets redefined, for example, Serbs are Orthodox Christians while Bosniaks are muslims, so the communion between those very similar groups gets broken.

sry broken englando, im really tired

>>131141288
>Does that make a person from the Southern US living in the North an ethnic Southerner
They arent native from there so no :^)