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Old 07-12-2013, 08:52 AM
 
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Which nationalities are soo similar that they hard to tell apart from each other. And what makes em so similar.

Here's a list of nationalities I think are extremely similar.
Americans and Canadians.. similar history and culture
Mexicans and Guatemalans
British and Irish
Spanish and Portuguese
Jamaicans and Bajans
Puerto Ricans and Dominicans
Salvadorans and Hondorans
Panamanians and Costa Ricans
Haitians and French West Africans
Italians and French
Greeks and Turkish
Trinidadians and Guyanese
North Korean and Chinese
South Korean and Japanese

the bulk of those countries don't come close to America and Canada in terms is similarity , ive relatives in BC and they sound and act like americans in every way
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Old 07-12-2013, 12:13 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Errrr.......what?



I think the people of Quebec kind of fall into the AM/CAN category....no? lol
You are probably right. I am just speaking of the few Quebecois, which weren't many who were always mistaken for French people on the west coast and we see more French people here actually. I know that this is something that Quebecois really don't much appreciate.
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Old 07-12-2013, 12:16 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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US - Canada
France - Wallonia
Sweden - Norway
Finland - Estonia
The Netherlands - Denmark
Australia - New Zealand
Scotland - Ireland
Morocco - Algeria
India - Bangladesh
Singapore - Malaysia
Chile - Argentina - Uruguay
Japan - South Korea
Serbia - Croatia
Russia - Belarus
Monaco - Liechtenstein
South Africa - Zimbabwe (when it was still Rhodesia)
Germany (Bavaria) - Austria
Romania - Moldova
Greece - Cyprus
Colombia - Mexico
Czech Republic - Slovakia
Croatia - Slovenia

^ For some reason, I always group these countries together in my mind. They seem very similar.
A Colombian would slit your throat if they heard you say that. Having worked with both I can tell you that while the two speak the same language (and not even in the same way), they have little else in common.
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Old 07-12-2013, 12:19 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Despite the fact they were at war in 1991-1995?
Yes despite that. They were still part of the same country for almost a century and despite the fact that they now have specific names for their language dialects, Serbs in Croatia "speak" like their Croatian neighbors and vice-versa for Serbia.
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Old 07-12-2013, 12:22 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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I'm going to add:

Filipinos-Guamanians
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Old 07-12-2013, 12:24 PM
 
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Yes despite that. They were still part of the same country for almost a century and despite the fact that they now have specific names for their language dialects, Serbs in Croatia "speak" like their Croatian neighbors and vice-versa for Serbia.
Really, a lot of Bosniaks don't look much different than Serbians and Croatians as well... And the language is basically Serbo-Croatian. Travelling around the region you find that Serbian, Croatians, Bosnians, and Montenegrins are pretty close to each other with the exception of religion...
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Old 07-12-2013, 12:25 PM
 
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North Korean and Chinese
South Korean and Japanese
North Koreans and South Koreans are the same people. They're just all Koreans separated by a border and governments.
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Old 07-12-2013, 01:42 PM
 
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Latin American countries are kinda difficult because there is a mix of people in every country. They have mestizos, mulattos, whites, blacks, Native Americans. So for instance, a mestizo from Mexico won't look different from a mestizo from Argentina. A mulatto from Venezuela won't look much different from a mulatto in Cuba. So that's why I laugh when Latin Americans think that the rest of us are supposed to be able to differentiate them by looks. It's not like other places like Asia, Europe, and Africa where most people have been there for thousands of years. Most of the population of Latin America has ancestry from relatively recent arrivals (Europeans, Africans). The only group that will look different from country to country in Latin America are the Native Americans because they've been there for thousands of years and have evolved to look different based on where they live.

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I'm going to add:

Filipinos-Guamanians
Yea. Guamanians (Chamorros) could be one of the many ethnic groups in the Philippines.

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Old 07-12-2013, 02:21 PM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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Really, a lot of Bosniaks don't look much different than Serbians and Croatians as well... And the language is basically Serbo-Croatian. Travelling around the region you find that Serbian, Croatians, Bosnians, and Montenegrins are pretty close to each other with the exception of religion...
I'm aware of that but as I didn't mention Bosniaks...
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Old 07-12-2013, 05:12 PM
 
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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Latin American countries are kinda difficult because there is a mix of people in every country. They have mestizos, mulattos, whites, blacks, Native Americans. So for instance, a mestizo from Mexico won't look different from a mestizo from Argentina. A mulatto from Venezuela won't look much different from a mulatto in Cuba. So that's why I laugh when Latin Americans think that the rest of us are supposed to be able to differentiate them by looks. It's not like other places like Asia, Europe, and Africa where most people have been there for thousands of years. Most of the population of Latin America has ancestry from relatively recent arrivals (Europeans, Africans). The only group that will look different from country to country in Latin America are the Native Americans because they've been there for thousands of years and have evolved to look different based on where they live.
Argentina has very few mestizos, most of the people in Argentina is purely caucasian.


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