Which is more important for a nation: cultural or ethnic identity?

Which is more important for a nation: cultural or ethnic identity?

For example, if Japan was to become completely muslim, or if Japan was to keep all its traditions forever but its people be replaced all by whites, which Japan would be the more Japanese?

Cultural

Cultural

ethnic

Cultural

Cultural

Cultural. It's the culture that shapes the ethnic groups, not the other way around.

Both are important but of course cultural.

Ethnicity is tied to culture, and vice versa
Prove me wrong

Seems the example says cultural identity is

Cultural
also
>Japan was to keep all its traditions forever but its people be replaced all by whites
That would be heaven.

cultural
replaced by all whieeaboos

Cultural, but ethnicity is also important regarding intelligence. Groups with similar intelligence levels are able to assimilate and integrate between each other, while groups with divergent intelligence levels will not be able to assimilate with each other. The state of Rio Grande do Sul is a good example of that, think of how Gaúchos were able to assimilate and integrate Germanics, Italians and essentially any other foreign group in the Gaúcho society, and how our culture has prevailed over the centuries without being diluted. It's probably the best example you could think of.

Not only these two as others have integrated very well the country's culture

Hi there Ken Sama

both

Not at all. Rio Grande do Sul is the only state in Brazil with a unique ethnocultural identity that still lives on despite the Empire of Brazil's failed attempt to dilute and annihilate our cultural identity, in order to prevent further revolts, as they did in Santa Catarina by Germanizing the whole state. What they referred to as "whitening", trying to hide the truth behind the cultural genocide they imposed against Gaúchos, something that still isn't taught in schools today outside of RS.

And the main reason those outsiders were able to assimilate and become fully fledged Gaúchos was the culture. Gaúcho was never an ethnicity on its own, but an idea, and we have always been a multi-ethnic society since our very foundation when the Charrúas/Guaranís first met the Azoreans, and later the Leonese Spaniards.

There's also a whole spirituality and mysticism in that idea, like "a Gaúcho is someone who's born with a Gaúcho soul, longing to return to querência", which also facilitates the process of integration and assimilation, cause you know you don't need to be born in Rio Grande do Sul to be a Gaúcho, as it's a matter of heart and soul. So you had Fritz and his family, and they didn't really emigrate to Rio Grande do Sul, they simply came back home. It's very similar to the Jewish idea of Aliyah, or "the soul's fulfillment of return", which is an extremely powerful idea and the very core of assimilation.

when traveling by Brazil, discover the diversity of the people

Gaucho is no exception in sao paulo, several colonies were integrated and assimilated local things with their traditions

in Bahia, several African etinias teamed up and formed their own cultural identity or you will say that they are less proud of being what they are

I was in Bethlehem, the Portuguese presence is quite influential, along with the Amazon culture, as you drink mate, they take daily açai

traveling in Brazil, one discovers several Brazils

São Paulo has no culture, it's a globalized state. Any region with such a large influx of migrants and a weak culture becomes a multicultural globalized state, without a single ethnocultural identity that's exclusive to the region.

Both.

according to anthropology current depends on the culture
an Indian descendant may or may not be indio
It will depend on whether he feels belonging to this people