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Because ethnicity isn't determined by skin colour. It's determined by a shared language, shared customs, shared ancestry and shared culture.
Ethnicity is also a social construct like race and is not biologically meaningful. It is also fluid. If ethnicity wasn't fluid, then Northern Russians wouldn't be "Russian" because they're more akin to Finns than to Russians elsewhere. But because they were Russified, they ceased to be Uralic and became Russian. So they are Russian despite their genetics.
"Greeks" are also similar. There is a lot more genetic diversity in Greece than in the UK for example. In fact, the Peloponnese alone has more diversity than the whole of the UK. A Dodecanese "Greek" has ~3.5% Slavic ancestry. A Macedonian "Greek" has ~40% Slavic ancestry. These are obviously distinguished. Then there are the so-called "Greeks" of Cyprus who at BEST are intermediate between Southeast Europe and the Levant but are likely to be firmly within the Levantine Core. Even culturally, Cypriots are intermediate between Greece and Lebanon as opposed to being a clone of Greece. Yet they're called "Greek" due to their LANGUAGE.
Only Anglosphere concepts of ethnicity are essentialist.
Ethnicity is also a social construct like race and is not biologically meaningful. It is also fluid. If ethnicity wasn't fluid, then Northern Russians wouldn't be "Russian" because they're more akin to Finns than to Russians elsewhere. But because they were Russified, they ceased to be Uralic and became Russian. So they are Russian despite their genetics.
"Greeks" are also similar. There is a lot more genetic diversity in Greece than in the UK for example. In fact, the Peloponnese alone has more diversity than the whole of the UK. A Dodecanese "Greek" has ~3.5% Slavic ancestry. A Macedonian "Greek" has ~40% Slavic ancestry. These are obviously distinguished. Then there are the so-called "Greeks" of Cyprus who at BEST are intermediate between Southeast Europe and the Levant but are likely to be firmly within the Levantine Core. Even culturally, Cypriots are intermediate between Greece and Lebanon as opposed to being a clone of Greece. Yet they're called "Greek" due to their LANGUAGE.
Only Anglosphere concepts of ethnicity are essentialist.
