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We are aware that One might consider this list is as not "politically correct", but we are it does not making make statements regarding the intrinsic worth of individuals from these areas, or stereotyping stereotype these areas, etc. We Economists are merely looking for units interested in areas that would exhibit greater 'cultural' homogeneity within the area than across areas, and that are identifiable using names data. Western European should be further decomposed into English, German, French, Italian, and perhaps Portugese. It is unlikely that it is possible to distinguish Spanish from Hispanic. Furthermore, Israel (and more particularly Jewish) is likely to be very hard to distinguish in most data sources. Israel has had a large amount of immigration, particularly from Russia and Europe, and is perhaps the definitive land of immigrants. ==Classification by Egan (2009)== From an inspection (by hand) of names around the world, it appears that the following classes may be able to be identified: *European**English**French**German**Greek**Italian**Portugese**Romanian**Scandinavian**Spanish**Turk*Slavic**East-West Slavic**South Slavic**North Slavic*African**East African**Other African*Asian**Arab**Chinese**Indian**Indonesia/Philippines**Japanese**Korean**Pakistani**Polynesian**Thai**Vietnamese Note that some areas, particular North-Eastern African nations are classified as Arab. Romanian and Pakistani may be difficult to identify in some datasets but do appear to be recognisably unique in sufficient volume. The various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_peoples Slavic definitions] do not tie precisily to their accepted geographical and linguistic definitions but are suitably close as to be used. The source file was not sufficiently detailed for many countries for them to be included in the classification. This is not necessarily a problem; the remaining countries account for a very low percentage of the world's population and for most applications we are only interested in classifications that a human could make in a real world context. The definition file for this classification system ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Culture-EganClassification.txt Culture-EganClassification.txt]) uses [[UN GeoRegion Codes | UN recognized country names]] and excludes unclassifiable countries.