Re: The History of Latvia

P=E7teris Cedri=F2=F0 wrote:
> The passage regards ethnic Russian soldiers, not ethnic Russians. And
> again -- nationality is not ethnicity.

Please reveal the difference!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity
sez:
> The sociologist Max Weber once remarked that "the whole conception of
ethn=
ic groups
> is so complex and so vague that it might be good to abandon it
altogether.=
"
> Anthropologist Ronald Cohen, in a review of anthropological and
sociologic=
al studies of
> ethnic groups since Weber, claimed that the identification of "ethnic
grou=
ps" by social
> scientists often reflected inaccurate labels more than indigenous
realitie=
s:
> ... the named ethnic identities we accept, often unthinkingly, as basic
gi=
vens in the
> literature are often arbitrarily, or even worse inaccurately, imposed.