Ethnogenesis (From Greek: ethnos(nation)+"genesis(birth), Greek: Εθνογένεσις) is the process by which a group of human beings comes to be understood or to understand themselves as ethnically distinct from the wider social landscape from which their grouping emerges. By self-reinvention ethnic groups are "present at their own creation", in the phrase of E. P. Thompson, setting traditional teleological nation-building nar… (More on Ethnogenesis)