That’s liberal claptrap.
Sorry, you lose.
You labeled my point, you didn’t disprove it.
If you’re interested in presenting counter-arguments, I’m quite willing to consider them.
There is a well-known sociological phenomenon by which a group begins to think of itself as “a people,” and in the process become one. Every “people” on earth has gone through this process at one time or another, the only difference being when.
Ethnogenesis can be internal or imposed by outsiders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnogenesis