[rayiner]

It’s not a “whistle.” Culture is virtually co-extensive with ethnicity in most places in the world. I come from a country whose name literally just translates into “country of $ethnic_group.” To the point where the largest country in the world, China, has lumped myriad different populations into the ethnic grouping of “Han Chinese” to cultivate cultural uniformity.

[yetanother12345]

> a country whose name literally just translates into “country of $ethnic_group.”

FYI, this is the case with Denmark as well (as long as you permit Dane to be an ethnic group)

[dctoedt]

And "England" - land of the Angles (whence is derived the Anglo- part of Anglo-Saxon).

[rayiner]

Is Denmark named after Danes or are Danes named after Denmark.