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should have an accurate name as it will direct people to the correct sub-ethnicity term (not the one which I prefer much less the correct, the one that
Knowledge (XXG) uses). You can also try to make that article refer specifically to Okinawan people, or make another one instead just for the Okinawans, but that is the business of people of WikiProject Japan rather than business of people of WikiProject Brazil. I am just "being bossed" because it is an obvious guideline. We aren't talking about a geographic place, we are talking about a specific identity; if you are so sure about it being wrong, be bold (either here or there, but not just on the template).
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Toohokuan dialect was seen as not Japanese (but then most ancestors of Japanese Brazilians AFAIK came from the region between Kansai and Okinawa). Your source is not disputable and your reasoning that immigration was mostly an Okinawan thing is correct, but there's no reason to believe that other Ryukyan subgroups wouldn't feel alienated from the mainstream Japanese as well.
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The next question is which article we should link "Okinawan" to. I think ] is the best solution. The assumption that "Okinawan" is about ethnicity is wrong, in terms of self-recognition. It exactly refers to the geographic entity, Okinawa
Prefecture. That is what the referent identifies with. This is
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Okinawa Island. As you know, Okinawa can refer to Okinawa Prefecture but that is a modern Japanese usage. Okinawa is in origin the name of a relatively large island and by extension includes some small islands around it. In other words, Okinawa does not often cover the Miyako and
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Brazilian name you want to. But for now, the only sub-ethnicity article for this Japanese subgroup is Ryukyuan rather than Okinawan, and the link
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Ryukyuan Brazilian. Good. Now that we accept the fact that people in question do not identify themselves as Ryukyuans, we have no choice but to erase that phrase from this template. Whatever local rules WikiProject Brazil has, they cannot come before
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Ryukyuan in reality. Ryukyu is the name of the Okinawa-centered kingdom. It was a pre-modern polity that never attempted to build a nation state. In terns of self-recognition, it was nothing more than an aggregate of numerous, astonishingly diversified local
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Indigenous or mixed Indigenous as those of us of Atlanto-South American heritage, we can get immigrants from other countries and continents who could also identify with all of the different terms Brazilian Portuguese has for people
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and the different types of race-mixing. What I'm saying is, one can't just pretend these groups of people listed in "Mixed-race" are all exclusively a
Brazilian mix. After all, as we say here, raça pura não existe (no such thing as a non-racially-admixed human).
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However, it is totally wrong to assume that they represent the whole prefecture. In reality the Okinawa Kenjin only represent Okinawa Island. They are Okinawans in a narrower sense. Their hometowns were (in descending order):
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