| I know you're only following a source, but your source has a severe flaw. It seems to count only people who are descended from immigrants from within the current borders of Germany. The 7 or 8 million German-speakers of Austria are no less "ethnically German", and yet they are not counted. It's only by accident of history (1871 and all that) that Austria became separated from the rest of Germany. Up to that point, a German-speaker from Vienna would have identified him or herself as "German" every bit as much as a German-speaker from Berlin. Accidents of political history do not affect people's ethnicity. |