eli5: Who would be the indigenous peoples of Europe?
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Europeans are the indigenous people of Europe.
‘Indingenous’ does not imply that they can’t be the dominant cultural group.
But there is no clear boundary between indiginous groups. The UK has been invaded or inhabited by many foreign groups over the centuries, and so it doesn’t really make sense to claim any demarcation between indigenous British and non-indigenous British.
Talking about Indigineous groups really only makes sense when there’s a clear separation between one group and another, as there is for the indigenous people of Australia or North America, among others.
In Europe, these groups largely do not exist, because everyone has been intermingling with everyone else for centuries.
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