Currently, there is no column "nationality" in the passport, although there is such a column in the birth certificate and marriage certificate. Are there any other ways to determine a person's nationality without referring to official documents?
Instructions
Step 1
In the West, after World War II, it is not customary to mention the term "nationality" in relation to a person. Instead, if they want to emphasize a person's belonging to a particular ethnic group, they say “ethnicity”. However, in Russia and other countries of the former USSR, the concept of "nationality" remains.
Step 2
Ask the person you are interested in directly about this. Oddly enough, but many people are absolutely not ashamed of their ethnicity, and can answer you this question without much suspicion of you.
Step 3
Listen to his speech, even if he speaks Russian. So, in order to distinguish the guttural speech of the representatives of the peoples of the Caucasus from the drawn-out speech of the Balts or from the grazing of the French, one does not need to have an absolute ear.
Step 4
If you do not want (or - which is not surprising in the modern world - are afraid) to ask about it directly, try to determine the nationality of the person you are interested in "by eye". However, in this way it is difficult to accurately determine the nationality, especially if you do not have sufficient experience or you do not know the characteristic features of your appearance (hair color, eye color and shape, facial features, skull structure) not only of any particular nationality, but at least of each of varieties of existing races. After all, Caucasians, Negroids, Mongoloids, Australoids, are subdivided, in turn, into several more types.
Step 5
You can very, very approximately determine the nationality of a person, without even seeing him, but knowing only his last name and first name. Although, for example, there may be different interpretations here. So, if the surname "Dubinin" (ending in "-in") is considered native Russian, then the surname "Dvorkin" is Jewish (derived from the diminutive form of the name "Dvoira" - "Deborah"). The same can be said about Belarusian, Polish and Jewish surnames ending in "-skiy / tskiy").
Step 6
Nevertheless, if the surname "Aliev" or "Mukhametov" caught your eye, then, most likely, their owners belong to the speakers of the Turkic languages, and the surnames in "-uk / yuk", "-ko" - to the Ukrainians or Belarusians … Although among Belarusians, the already mentioned "-skiy / tskiy" or "-vich" (with certain assumptions towards other nationalities - from Serbs to Jews) is more common. Therefore, sometimes it is worth paying attention to the first part of the surname. So, Ivashkevich will almost certainly be a Belarusian, while Rabinovich will be a Jew.
Step 7
Pay attention to what tastes the person you are interested in, how he looks at the world and what his priorities are. In some cases, this method can also lead you to the correct answer, despite the fact that the culture of different peoples is still closely related to religion and traditions that people of different nationalities can adhere to.
