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Where Hard and Soft African are artificial constructs based on the sounds that occur in names, but with some correlation between Hard African with Eastern African nations. (Note that someareas, particular North-Eastern, African nations are classified as Arab). Romanian and Pakistani may be difficult to identify in some dataset datasets but do appear to be recognisably uniquein 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.
Culture Based Classifications (view source)
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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 a researcherhand) of names around the world, it appears that the following classes may be able to be identified:
*European
**BritishEnglish
**French
**German
**North Slavic
*African
**Hard East African**Soft Other African
*Asian
**Arab
**Vietnamese
The source file was not sufficiently detailed for many countries for them to be included in the classification. This does is not constitute 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 full definition file for the this classification system is here([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Culture-EganClassification.txt Culture-EganClassification.txt]) uses [[UN GeoRegion Codes | UN recognized country names]] and excludes unclassifiable countries.
==Other Classifications==
