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Existence of a single ethnic group in a region. Or country

Monoethnicity is the——existence of a single ethnic group in a given region/country. It is the opposite of polyethnicity.

An example of a largely monoethnic country is Japan. It is a common belief in Japan that the "entire country is monoethnic." But a few ethnic minorities live in Japan (e.g. Koreans, Ainus, and Ryukyuans). They represent around 1% of the whole population.

South Korea is another largely monoethnic country. There are small ethnic minorities that exist in South Korea, where they account for around 1% of the South Korean population. These include around 650,000 Chinese immigrants.

The Yugoslav Wars are noted as having made Yugoslavia's successor states "de facto and de jure monoethnic nation-states".

See also

References

  1. ^ Arakaki, Osamu (2008), Refugee Law and Practice in Japan, Ashgate Publishing, p. 36, ISBN 978-0754670094
  2. ^ (in Japanese) Archived 14 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine 平成24年末現在における外国人登録者統計について].
  3. ^ "Trying to teach South Korea about discrimination", The Los Angeles Times, 24 February 2009
  4. ^ Dempsey, Gary (2002), Exiting the Balkan Thicket, Cato Institute, "pp." 91–, ISBN 978-1-930865-17-4

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