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Or saying that the USA wasn't racist in the Jim Crow era, because of how many blacks lived there.
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However, since I've seen this claim about 193 ethnic groups come up repeatedly, let's do a little fact-check. Their definition of "ethnic groups" seems to conflate national origin.
According to that, only 2 groups have more than 2%: "Russians" and Tartars. I think it's telling that "Russians" is one of the groups, BTW.
If we lower the threshold to 1%, the 2010 census ranks a total of 6 groups above it, 5 of which are classified as being in the European Russia area. Two of these have Slavic languages (Russians and Ukranians), 3 have Turkic, and 1 is Northeast Caucasian. Doesn't seem terribly diverse, to me.
Anyway, pursuing this a bit further, if you drop the threshold to 0.1%, then only about 36 groups make the cut. Again, that number seems inflated by splitting hairs between what's considered a distinct ethnic group. For instance, there are 41 groups from the "Caucus" region, 52 groups from "European Russia" region, 20 groups from the "Siberia" region, and 4 groups from "Moscow"!
Further inflating the total, I see 31 groups with about 1000 or fewer persons counted. The least of which had just 78 individuals! And, in spite of that, I see no groups for any African or Central/South American country or region.
So, I think we can call such claims of diversity grossly exaggerated.
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