OOC:Tyreseia
Ethnic Groups
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Calculating ethnic groups in Tyreseia is often difficult given the cosmopolitan nature of the country. Use of language, especially, complicates the matter: for many Tyreseians, ethnic background, culture and language are seen as a spectrum, rather than as a system of distinctly-defined categories. Nevertheless, the government of Tyreseia attempts to determine the approximate size of ethnic groups across the nation with every decennial census. As of the 2020 census, the largest self-identified ethnic group was "Tyrian," at around 41% of the population. The census defines "Tyrian" as "identifying one's heritage as primarily coming from the Tyrian civilization or post-Latin maritime city-states." Of these Tyrians, around 91% were fully bilingual in both the Latin and Tyrian languages. An illustration of the difficulty involved in surveying the ethnic identities of Tyreseia comes from the 52% of self-identified Tyrians who marked "Latin" or "Latin and Tyrian" as their primary language of daily use (compared to 43% of Latins who marked "Tyrian" or "Latin and Tyrian" as their primary language). The second-largest ethnic group are the Latins, with a self-identified 30% of the population in 2020. The questionnaire defined "Latin" as "identifying one's heritage as primarily coming from the Latin Empire, or post-Latin maritime city-states with Latin culture." Of these Latins, around 88% are fully bilingual in both Latin and Tyrian.