How to determine your ethnic origin? Determine nationality from a photograph. Test to determine nationality by appearance

In 1996, within the walls of the State Duma, on the initiative of a group of the first KOB propagandists, primarily thanks to the efforts of captain 2nd rank Ivanov M.N., a permanent weekly seminar was organized on the development of a “national idea.” By default, it was supposed to be “sneakily” introduced into the minds of KOB, since the seminar attracted leaders and activists of the largest various organizations, primarily “nationally oriented”. At that time, there were very few of us, KOBa adherents.

The seminar began with the presentation to the audience of the main provisions of the COBA. In subsequent weekly meetings, all participants inevitably drifted towards the need to decide what “nationality” is, and most importantly, how to define it and who can do it.

The main speaker at this meeting was E. Limonov. He very vividly and emotionally stated something meaningless about the role of Russians, Russianness, without giving any definitions. The entire “depth” of his thought lay in the “voice of blood.” Edik could not answer the tricky question of who will conduct the blood test and make a diagnosis, and what nationality doctors will do it. I remember this meeting with the question that, after the report, reserve colonel Vartanyan asked Limonov (unfortunately, I forgot his name and patronymic). This fit, gray-haired man with elements of “Caucasian appearance” asked Limonov the following question: “Edik, I was born in 1941 in Moscow. My mother is Russian. My father is an Armenian who volunteered for the front in the winter of 1941 and died near Moscow. I didn’t see my father alive—I saw him only in photographs. I don’t know the Armenian language at all. I have never been to Armenia. Grew up in Moscow. He served in different regions of the USSR. My native Russian language. And based on my appearance, many people think that I come from the Caucasus. Edik, please tell me who I am, what nationality?”.

Hesitating a little, Edik answered in the sense that with Vartanyan “They will sort it out separately”.

As you can see, dear readers, from today’s practice, the issue of determining nationality is not as simple as it might seem at first glance. And indeed, nowhere will you find a clear and understandable methodology or instructions for determining a person’s nationality. Moreover, in Russia, democratizers removed the nationality column from passports.

So how can we determine a person’s nationality and who can do it?

The theoretical platform of KPI, based on KOB, clearly states:

1. Nationality– belonging to a historically real nation, and not a chimerical one.

2. Nationality of a person is real determined by society, based on the recognition (or denial) of national human self-determination. That is:


first the man himself must determine which nation he considers himself to be (especially children in mixed marriages),

then society must recognize it as such (or not recognize it), which depends on a person’s behavior in life, his psyche, morality, habits, etc., etc.

3. Public definition of nationality:

above the law(may or may not recognize both a person’s personal self-determination of his nationality and the “legally” established nationality of a person),

incorruptible(since this is carried out by the overwhelming majority of people who, from generation to generation, live in their national culture and do not doubt either their nationality or the geographical location of their homeland).

From this it can now be seen that here in Russia:

- "blood" non-Jews who have become Zionized and live according to the ideals of Zionist-Internationalism, society produces to Jewry,

- "blood" Jews who are free from Zionist malice, society is perceived by its majority as Russians, Ukrainians and representatives of other non-chimerical peoples.

From all of the above, it follows that with his definition of the nation-gang, T. Herzl confirmed the primacy of the public determination of a person’s nationality on its merits over his personal identity.

Conflict national relations is not determined from Above, not taken from Nature. Conflict generated by the satanic plan of life"divide and rule".

Here I was also asked at meetings the question of What should Jews do in this situation?. The answer is given a little higher. And it concerns not only Jews, but also everyone who has “problems” with their nationality. We need to define ourselves. As for the so-called “Jews by blood”, then can the Khazars be considered Jews, who, as we know from history, converted to Judaism, i.e. religion? Can the heirs of the Khazars be considered “blood Jews” after this? Those “blooded Jews” of antiquity are no longer in our modern world. They were destroyed by the Romans. Read Josephus' "The Jewish War." So the basis of modern Jewry is not “blood ties” or the culture of the ancient Jews, but the basis is Judaism. And this is nothing more than religion and the culture it carries, primarily a worldview. Now let everyone who considers himself a Jew decide: is he a Jew or not? And by posing the question in this way, all Jews are given freedom of choice!

One's belonging to a particular nation can be determined by many factors.

  • Here, a person’s appearance, his speech, and even the nationality of his parents can play a role.
  • But the main thing is how a person understands himself.
  • That is, if someone was born in Tatarstan, but realizes and behaves like a Russian, he will be Russian, and not a Tatar.

How to determine the nationality of women and men by appearance is a serious problem. Unfortunately, now the blood of the average person contains at least two or three nations - the Tatar-Mongol yoke, the Great Patriotic War, and the multinationality of the country have an effect. The signs are blurred. But you can try to highlight individual parameters - the shape and position of the eyes, the shape of the body, skull and nose, the color type of the skin, eyes, hair, type of hair growth, and so on. It is quite possible to find summary tables about each nation.

But the question of how to determine the nationality of a child is much more difficult. It depends on what state he is in now. For example, in Russia, nationality is determined solely by the father. As in most other countries. And only in Israel - through the mother. That is, if a child was conceived from a man of any other nationality and a Jewish woman, then he will be a Jew in Israel and have the nationality of the father in his homeland.

How to determine nationality by last name

To correctly determine your nationality by last name, you will have to partially remember the school morphology course. Because the presence of one or another morpheme in a word depends on what language it belongs to.

It is necessary to carry out the following procedure to determine nationality by last name.

  • Write it down on a piece of paper and break it down into morphemes.
  • Pay attention to the suffix. For example, Ukrainian suffixes include - ko, ochko, enko, ovsk, evsk. Tatar - in, ov, ev.
  • Study the root. If at the root of a word there is some kind of business or animal, it is worth looking for what language this word came from. If there are two roots, then in most cases the surname is Slavic.
  • If you feel the sound of another language, you need to study each morpheme separately to determine whether it belongs to a particular language.

We determine the color type of appearance: winter, spring, summer, autumn

How to determine your color type?

Probably, at least once in your life you have heard about the so-called “appearance color type”. And I’ve already used this term a couple of times in articles on makeup. What kind of thing is this - color type?

Color type- this is a set of certain signs of a person’s appearance, depending on his eye, hair, and skin color. And depending on this, you can select the most suitable colors when choosing clothes or shades of cosmetics. There are 4 types of appearance: winter, spring, summer and autumn. Spring and autumn have warm shades, summer and winter have cold shades.

To determine which of the 4 types you belong to, you can take a color type test online.

Before this, we wash off all our makeup, look at ourselves in the mirror and carefully study the reflection in it. Do you remember everything? Now let's start taking the test to determine the color type.

What did we see in the mirror?

Appearance color type: winter, spring, summer, autumn

To determine your color type, take this simple test.

1. Which of the following statements suits you best?

The whites of the eyes are pure white

The skin has a bluish tint on the bend of the elbow, on the inside of the wrist and forearm

The knuckles of the fingers often turn red

There are golden sparkles in the eyes

2. How do you tan?

I tan quickly, tan color is light or olive

I burn easily, the tan shade is light or red

I tan very quickly, the tan color is golden, carrot.

There are no problems with tanning, the tan color is olive-ashy.

3. What kind of skin do you have?

transparent, light pink, with a bluish cold tint

light beige, ivory. Warm skin tone

ivory, peach, beige-yellowish, light golden

either light porcelain white or dark

4. The shade of your blush

bright red or salmon

cold with an olive tint, or not at all

5. What color is your hair? (natural hair color is taken into account)

red, golden, with a copper tint, dark brown. Warm shades

light brown, golden, red, chestnut. Warm shades

black, dark hair sometimes with a silver or blue tint

ash, blond hair, light brown, dark brown. Cool tones

6. What color are your eyes?

brown, with slight yellowness

black, dark brown, dark green, cold, dark blue

dim, gray, yellowish

light green, amber, light olive, blue

7. What color are your eyebrows and eyelashes?

dark brown, red, with a golden tint

cool pink with olive undertones

By the way, determining the color type can sometimes be difficult. Well, first of all, not everyone can clearly say whether their skin/eyes are warm or cold. Secondly, there are exceptions to all rules. And it could be you. Thirdly, you may not be a “pure” color type, but a mixed one. This very often occurs due to the mixing of blood of residents of different latitudes and nationalities. As a result, you will have a unique color type. In this case, you need to decide what type, what tones (cold or warm) prevail in you. And depending on this, select the makeup palette and clothing colors.

At home, you can also try to determine which color type you belong to. To do this, also wash off all your makeup, choose pieces of fabric (or just plain clothes) of different shades, cold or warm. And gradually apply these fabrics to your face. Important! The lighting in the room should be natural, but not direct sunlight. By applying the fabric to your face, you will notice that the face either acquires a certain glow, a fresher look (that is, this shade suits you) or the face takes on an unhealthy tone, becomes tired, or older (which means this shade does not suit you). Having decided which tones suit you (warm or cool), you can understand that you fit one of two color types. Warm - this is autumn and spring. and cold ones mean winter. summer. After reading the descriptions of each type of appearance, you can decide which type you fit best.

Especially for readers of the site Beauty for Everyone, I found a video “how to determine your color type.” Take a look, maybe it suits you

Just a few years ago in the Soviet Union, a lot depended on a person’s nationality, for example, getting a job or entering a higher educational institution. Now we live in a democratic country, where a person’s nationality essentially does not play any role, as indeed throughout the world, because, regardless of a person’s place of birth and his “blood,” everyone has equal rights.

However, the question of nationality is quite interesting, because every person is interested in finding out what kind of family this or that person or he himself comes from, so in this article we will try to figure out how to determine nationality, especially since this can be useful, for example, for emigration. There are many ways to determine nationality, let's look at each of them.

How to determine nationality - method one

Ask your parents if mom and dad are Kazakhs, then you will belong to this nationality, but it often happens that parents of different nationalities are married, for example, the mother is Tatar and the father is Ukrainian. Then you must determine your nationality based on the general rules of a particular nation, for example, in Russia, nationality is determined by the father, while in Israel, nationality is determined by the mother.

How to determine nationality - the second method

It happens that a person does not know his true parents, for example, he was adopted or raised in an orphanage. Then the nationality of this person will depend on his place of residence, following the traditions of this people and perfect knowledge of the language of the country in which this person lives. For example, you live in Germany, but your native language is Hebrew, you also honor the traditions of Israel, observe all Jewish holidays, for example, Hanukkah, then you are a Jew.

How to determine nationality - the third method

You can determine your nationality based on physiological characteristics, although, most likely, this method may be subjective and not objective, because, for example, if you had a distant great-grandfather who was Armenian, and your mother and father are Russian, then you may still experience facial features inherited from a distant relative, such as eye color and nose shape. Below are the most common features of certain nationalities.
First, let's remember school biology courses and consider the existing classifications of people's races, which are determined by place of residence: for example, dark skin contains more melanin, which protects from the sweltering sun.

  • Caucasian race - about half of the planet's population belongs to this type. Distinctive features: fair skin, soft or slightly wavy hair, narrow nose, thin lips, eye color may vary. The Caucasian race includes residents of Europe, Armenians, Tajiks, Ukrainians and others.
  • The Negroid race is most often found in Africa and America. People are distinguished by their dark skin, wide lips and nose, brown eyes (there are exceptions) and dark curly hair.
  • The Mongoloid race makes up about 40 percent of the world's population. It is distinguished by its yellowish skin color, straight forehead, wide nose and narrow eyes. The Mongoloid race includes the inhabitants of China, Japan, Koreans and other Asian peoples.
  • Australoid race - inhabits Australia and the island of New Guinea. It is distinguished by its dark skin color, wide nose, brown eyes and well-developed hair.

But, thanks to the rapid growth of the Earth's population, there has now been a mixture of different races, which makes humans unique. It is enough to read about this or that nationality so that you can identify yourself with it.


In general, it is not only interesting to study your own or someone else’s nationality, it is also quite cool to learn the traditions of certain nationalities, for example, what holidays are celebrated by residents of different countries. As you can see, nationality is sometimes difficult to determine, since in modern life people have a lot of “mixed” blood.

A person's nationality can be very difficult to determine in some cases. There are several ways to determine a person’s nationality, naturally, firstly by appearance, and secondly by the language he speaks. Nationality is also determined by manners, the accent with which a person speaks, his citizenship, surname and many other factors. I will explain with some examples how to determine nationality by appearance, and which by internal characteristics of a person.

The Negroid race is considered the lightest type in the world. It is very easy to determine the nationality of a person if he comes from Africa or is African American. He will naturally have very dark skin or just very tanned skin. No white person or Asian will ever be able to tan to such an extent in his life, either in a solarium or in the Sun, that he can look like a black person. Almost one hundred percent of the time, black people have dark brown eyes, or almost completely black ones. The Negroid race has distinctly large noses with large nostrils. The eyes are also very large and larger than those of other races and nations. Also the structure of the skull is slightly different. What causes large noses and nostrils? Because Africa has a very warm climate and historically it has happened that such hot air, such as in the desert, is very harmful to humans. Therefore, nature adapted the Negroid race and gave them large noses so that they could filter and cool the air. Also, blacks tolerate heat more easily than white people, this is because of their special black skin, which has more pigment, they are better adapted to sunstroke, but still, just like whites and Asians, they cannot be in the open sun without drinking and dousing water for more than eight hours. Also, the majority of blacks have very large and thick lips, I don’t know exactly why this is different, but this is also due to the hot climate in Africa. They also have a slightly different build than white people, with squarer shoulders and are generally taller. Their accent may be different, but for example, a Negroid who grew up in Russia will speak pure Russian, so it’s not always possible to determine by accent.

Asians, that is, Chinese, can be specifically identified by the following factors. The Chinese are very short, almost always 160 centimeters. They also have darker skin than white people, but not as dark as Negroids. Basically it has yellowish tints, but not the same as with jaundice. The Chinese have very narrow eyes, small noses and thin lips. The majority of the Chinese, like Negroids, have dark brown eyes; you rarely see Chinese with gray or blue eyes, only if they have parents of different races, for example, their mother was European.

Many cannot determine whether a Kazakh or a Kyrgyz is standing in front of them. But there are also different factors here. All nations of the post-Soviet space are different from each other. For example, the Kyrgyz have smoother and more correctly proportioned faces than the Kazakhs. Although the eyes of both peoples are narrow. This is due to the steppes, nature did it there so that dust does not get into the eyes and the wind does not blow too much. Also, all the nations of this region, that is: Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Mongols, Uzbeks and Turkmens, have dark hair and dark eye color. But there are also exceptions, red-haired Kazakhs, for example, with blue eyes.

Now about the Thais and those who live in Southeast Asia. People from these regions are short like the Chinese, have the same narrow eyes, but their lips are thicker. There is something from the Negroids, because the climate there is similar to some latitudes in Africa. Thais and Vietnamese have darker skin than the Chinese, they look like Negroids, some are just like two peas in a pod, if not for their height and narrow eyes. Women from these areas are very similar to children even at the age of twenty-five. Men and women have very little body hair and their hair is dark in color. Men almost never wear beards, and if they do, it only grows on their chins, under their noses, and on their sideburns. Their accent will be simply terrible. The languages ​​of Southeast Asia lack most of the sounds that we pronounce in everyday life. These languages ​​are softer. For example, I heard the fact that Asians have a hard time pronouncing the letter L. It’s strange, but this happens.

Islanders. It's like a separate nation. They can be identified by their dark skin color and dark eye and hair color. They have everything almost similar to Negroids, the only thing is that their facial features are very regular and in general, for the most part, they have a very beautiful face. They are short in stature and will have an accent similar to that of Southeast Asians.

Germans and residents of northern and central Europe can be identified by their faces. Mostly they have gray eyes and light hair color, but not white; only thirty percent of them are blonde. The Germans are naturally easy to identify by their language. Native Germans speak German very badly; it will not be very pleasant for our people to listen to it, because the phonetics there are quite rough and they frankly mumble some sounds. Germans, unlike Russians, for example, have squarer faces and more disproportionate facial features. German girls are generally not as beautiful as our girls. Their physique is quite average, their height rarely exceeds two meters. Just like all Europeans, they have light eyes and small noses and lips. This is due to the fact that the air in Europe is mostly cool and favorable for the human body; it does not need to be cooled down like in Africa and nature has done everything for this. Also, the sun does not hit as strongly as in Africa, the skin is light and not tanned by nature.

Scandinavians can be identified by their light hair and eyes. Their skin is the whitest of all nations in the world, because they live in the most northern latitudes, where the sun is never as hot as in Africa. Their accent in Russian will be the same as that of all Europeans, or maybe not at all, since in principle our languages ​​have similar alphabets and phonetics. The physique is the same as that of all Europeans, but the height can be a bit tall, unlike our nation.

Defining Latins. More precisely, residents of Latin America. These are Mexicans, Panamanians, residents of Honduras, Colombia. These are the descendants of the Spaniards and Portuguese. Therefore, I will immediately talk about everyone who lives in South America, Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Naturally excluding Negroids, who live there in large numbers. Mostly Latinos have smooth features, their faces are very pleasant, although sometimes their noses are quite large. They love to wear a mustache, shaving off everything else, it is a national trait and a stereotype that a Mexican should have a characteristic black mustache. Their eyes and hair color are mostly brown and dark. But there are also searing green eyes and blue and gray ones. Their language is very beautiful; they will speak Russian without an accent if they have learned it. Basically they are very temperamental and everything is based on feelings. After a few days of communicating with such a person, you can make a very accurate conclusion that he is either from Latin America, or from Spain or Portugal.

It is very difficult to define an American. And all because Americans are descendants of Europeans. Their blood is very mixed. There are French and Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards there. For a long time, Negroids were brought to North America as slaves, so after the abolition of slavery, a mixture of white and black populations began. Of course, if the husband or wife is Negroid and the second parent is white, then 90 percent of the time the child will be born Negroid, but if he was born white he will still have some Negroid facial features or have black eyes and black hair. An American can be identified by his accent only if he was not born in a Russian-speaking country. In principle, one can say that they are a universal nation or not a nation at all, because so many things are mixed in their blood. The USA is a country of immigrants, there are absolutely all nations there and everyone who was born there can consider themselves an American, it will be very difficult to say. The only other way to determine this is that Americans love money and business very much, but this is most likely useless information for determining the nation.

Of course, a person’s surname also mainly determines his nationality. For example, Chinese surnames are very short, from two to four letters. Their surname Li is the most popular. If a person has the surname Chen, Xian, Li, Huan, then most likely he is Chinese. But Koreans have surnames such as Park, Kim, and, in principle, their surname Lee is also very common.

The same applies to residents of Southeast Asia and residents of some islands where Asians live.

It will be very difficult to confuse American surnames with others. Only if with other English-speaking nations. Usually, their surname, like ours, contains the name of a grandfather or great-grandfather. Surnames such as Anderson, Johnson, Thomson. At the end, most of them add "son" which means son in English, that is, John's son is Johnson.

Smith is a very common surname in the UK. The surnames there are the same as in the USA, because they have the same language, but the names there are more complicated. For example, people like Gerard. It is possible, if possible, to distinguish by the surname of an Englishman and an American. Also, when many Americans became, let’s say, Americans, they sailed from Europe to colonize America and took the surnames they wanted. For example Brown or Snipes. These were both prisoners and criminals, they took very pretentious surnames, for example Gold, which means gold.

Residents of Central Asia also generally differ in their surname. They sound very rude in Russian. For example Aldarbekov or Nurbekbaev. Everything here is determined by the prefix at the end of the surname. Bek or bai can be added, or maybe both at once. These surnames end in -ov and -ev, as well as -in. But in some countries of the post-Soviet space they abandoned the Russian heritage and removed the prefixes. The resulting surnames were Aryn, Baltabay, Zhanbyrbay. Also, the names may be the same, that is, Nurbay Boltabek. This is the first and last name. And the patronymic is appended with -uly or -kyzy. For example, Boranbay Ahmed Saibolatuly. This is the name of some Kazakh or Kyrgyz.

But for Caucasians, everything is generally wonderful. Georgians add -shvili or -dze to the end of their surname. For example, Garadze or Dzhugashvili (by the way, the surname of the Georgian Stalin). Armenians add -yan, for example Gasparyan, Harutyunyan. Maybe the name is Harutyun and the surname is Harutyunyan, that is, logically, the son of Harutyun. For Azerbaijanis, the surname cannot be determined so easily, like for other Caucasians.

For example, until recently I thought that the surname Pirov was a Russian surname, derived from the word “pir”, that is, a holiday. But no, this is a Dagestan surname. In Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan, the surname is usually based on the name of the teip. These are surnames similar to Basayev, Pugoev, Tsechoev. They mainly differ from Russian ones in that their meaning will not be clear to us.

A Ukrainian surname must end with the letter O. These are Glushko, Shmatko, Timoshenko, Yushchenko. And also, for example, Yanukovych is a Ukrainian surname, that is, there are also variations.

The surnames of residents of Latin America and Spain, Portugal are easy to distinguish. This is Sanchez, Perez, Luis. All their surnames sound very beautiful, like their names, as well as their smooth language.

Well, it is simply impossible to confuse the names of, for example, Arabs with some others. There will be a very long last name that lists all seven generations that came before this person. Ibn will definitely be present there, which means the son of so-and-so. For example, if we had Arabic surnames, we would say Alexey Ibn Gavrila. That is, the son of Gavrila. But they don’t have surnames as such, they have a pedigree.

Jewish surnames in the Russian version will end in -vsky and -vich. These are Abramovich, Zhirinovsky, Khodorkovsky, Yavlinsky. All these are Jewish surnames and these surnames naturally indicate Jewish roots.

Man has always been interested in the origins of his family, the history of his ancestors, and the search for his national roots. It will help to answer these questions DNA test for origin, which is offered by the Lab-DNK laboratory. Today, genetics can accurately determine race, ethnicity, and even the place of residence of a person’s distant ancestors when nationalities and states were just being formed. This information is embedded in the genes of each individual and does not change over time.

How is ethnicity determined by DNA?

If a person wants himself or his relatives, he must submit biological material to a genetic laboratory for research. At the same time, a woman submitting her own material for analysis can only find out her ethnicity through her mother’s side. To clarify this parameter on the father’s side, you will need to take biomaterial from him. But for a man, his own DNA is enough for this. What will a DNA test give? Firstly, it will classify the test taker into one of four ethnic groups and allow you to clarify where they come from. For example, representatives of the European group can live both in Europe and in India or in the countries of the South East. Based on some features, it is possible to narrow down the geographic area in which the ancestors of the person being studied probably lived. Also, DNA testing will answer the question of what race a person belongs to. As you know, there are three known races: Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. These are very large groups. But, they are quite well divided into various subgroups, which makes it possible to more accurately determine the customer’s belonging to a particular nation. However, it should not be understood that genetic analysis will indicate a specific nationality. After all, such a term is more political. It unites people according to cultural, historical, economic and geographical characteristics, and not according to the presence of certain genes. Therefore, the ethnicity test can only roughly indicate the possible nationality of the object, based on the analysis of the data obtained. So the answer to the question is, how to find out your grandmother's nationality, will not be complete without comparing the results of DNA analysis with the actual history of its kind.
Interesting! There are 23 thousand different genes in the human body, which make up the hereditary information of DNA.

What is needed to conduct a nationality test?

To understand your ethnic roots, nationality and race, you need to turn to geneticists. Where can I get a DNA test for nationality? For example, in a licensed laboratory Lab-DNK, which has everything necessary to carry out this procedure. To organize the examination, biological material of the person being tested will be required. Such material is obtained from human cells containing genetic information. This:
  • epithelial cells;
  • blood;
  • nails;
  • hair;
  • bones;
  • human waste products.
It is also possible to extract DNA suitable for testing from non-standard samples: personal hygiene items, used napkins, cocktail straws, etc. The main thing is that biological traces of the user remain on them. The submitted material is examined in special devices, and the result obtained is deciphered and handed over to the customer in the form of a text document, tables and graphs. Today every person has the opportunity to take a DNA test for ethnic origin. It is enough to submit an application to the genetic laboratory and go through simple procedures.

This question can be interpreted in two ways:

1. "How to choose which nationality to write down on your official document?"

Article 26 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation states: “Everyone has the right to determine and indicate his nationality. No one can be forced to determine and indicate his nationality.”

In case you yourself want to indicate your nationality or the official believes that Article 26 does not apply to his department, there is an “Alphabetical list of possible options for the population’s answers for coding the answer to question 7 of the census form L of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census,” approved by order Rosstat No. 74 of January 27, 2010. It contains 1840 nationalities, including “man of the earth”, “man of the world”, “Americans”, “Orthodox Estonians”, “hooligans”, “cosmopolitans”, “Bukhara Jews” , “Great Russians”, “crossbreeds”, “Brest residents”, “inhabitants of the universe”, “Bulbash” and “Khokhols”. Citizens of the Russian Federation are not obliged to choose the nationality of one of their parents and not change it until their death. We can only hope that the local authorities in your locality are aware of these “innovations”.

2. "How to determine your nationality for yourself?"

Perhaps you are not ready to identify yourself with one word, mom or dad. If so, then it's okay. Self-identification is a deeply personal matter, and the concept of nationality in its Russian version was invented by the Russian state bureaucracy more than a hundred years ago for its own benefit. Therefore, it is better to free your consciousness and not confuse these things - after all, this is exactly what Leviathan wants from you.

Any state is a machine of subordination and coercion. The concept of nationality is one of the tools this machine uses to control the population of Russia. There have been few cases in the history of the USSR and Russia when people or ethnic groups received prizes for “good” nationality. In 99% of cases, nationality does not affect a person’s life. But in the 1% of cases when it plays a role, this role is almost always negative:
a person is deported because he is Latvian or Korean;
he is made a vassal of Kadyrov because he is a Chechen;
he is not given security clearance because he is Jewish;
he is arrested on charges of extremism because he is Russian and has spoken about it publicly too many times;
they call him names at school because he is Tajik;
he is suspected of treason because he is Ukrainian.

Even if you have a real sense of community with people of a certain ethnic group, remember that the state will never allow this group to really defend their interests. After all, this is a zero-sum game: if an ethnic group has more rights and opportunities, then the official has lost them. The maximum that they will give you is an official from your ethnic group, so that he robs you with an understanding of local specifics and in national costume.

Therefore, my advice is: define yourself as who you feel you are. If who you feel like is not on the list of 1840 nationalities and this sense of self does not fit into 2-3 words, it doesn’t matter. I, for example, define myself as a “Russian American, non-religious half-breed Jew from Latvia,” and am not worried that there are not enough people with such self-identification to lead round dances or fill a cattle car.