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Sorry but 440,000 Croats in Argentina is WAY TOO MUCH. I'm an argentine of croatian background and that numbers triples the usual estimate of about 135,000-140,000. By the way, the source cited for the 440,000 figure is dated in 1971! Ivok85 - 7 February 2008
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The reference does not state there is a total of 9 million Croats in the world. Somebody simply added the reference's statement of 4 million Croats living abroad to the 4 million census population of Croatia. Do not return this number unless the source says, specifically, that 9 million Croats live in the world. [[User:Horvat Den|Horvat Den]] 08:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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:Are you an idiot, or do you enjoy pissing people off? The number of Croatian citizens abroad '''are not''' counted twice. The number is estimated this large because it counts all people who have at least partial Croat ancestry (people such as myself since I am half Croat). - [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|22px]] <span style="font-family: viner hand itc">[[User:Ivan_Kricancic|<font color="MidnightBlue">King</font>]] [[User talk:Ivan_Kricancic|<font color="MidnightBlue">Ivan</font>]] [[Image:Flag of Croatia.svg|22px]]</span> 08:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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::You have no idea what you're talking, as most blind nationalists don't. Look at what the source says. "4.5 million Croats live abroad." This does NOT mean that we can simply add 4.5 million to the population of the coutnry of Croatia and get a random number. In the 4.5 million abroad inclue literally hundreds of thousands of people who are simply working abroad and are counted TWICE in the population abroad and the Croatian census. Furthermore, the other source, is from an ethnologue report. I don't need to reiterate for the billionth time what that means. [[User:Horvat Den|Horvat Den]] 08:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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:::You really are a [[internet troll|troll]] aren't you. This page is about an ethnic group, NOT people who are merely citizens of Croatia regardless of ethnicity, so you're argument about foreign workers is flawed since there are Croatian citizens who aren't Croats who live abroad. Also, you really need to learn how to speak English properly since it is hard to communicate with you. - [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|22px]] <span style="font-family: viner hand itc">[[User:Ivan_Kricancic|<font color="MidnightBlue">King</font>]] [[User talk:Ivan_Kricancic|<font color="MidnightBlue">Ivan</font>]] [[Image:Flag of Croatia.svg|22px]]</span> 08:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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::Everyone, please keep [[WP:CIVIL]]. I addressed the issue on my talk page once before. If one counts just the censuses and estimate numbers abroad (without Croatia and BiH), the figure is around 1.2 mil, which summed up gives 5.7 mil, roughly corresponding with Ethnologue's guesstimate of 6.2 for Croatian speakers. Like Ivan said, the remainder is attributed to persons of Croatian ancestry, chiefly in the New World—while many abroad workers in Western Europe tend to return to the country, those from New World practically always stay there.
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::The phenomenon of double counting, to which Den tries to attribute the number inflation, perhaps exists, but it's not so statistically significant. Take [http://www.statistik.at/gz/umgangssprache1.pdf Austria (page 7)] as example: counting together, there is total of 45,000 Burgenland- and "mainland"-Croats of '''Austrian citizenship''' but 105,000 ''Ausländer''. However, I'm not sure if Croatian census takes those into account at all. There might be a "double counting" error of 100-300,000 but, taking into account fuzziness of the numbers, it hardly matters. The number of Croatian '''citizens''' residing outside of Europe is very small, so that the "double counting" hardly can contribute to the numbers.
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::I see that Croatian Emmigrant Adresary [http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici/iseljenici01.html] have updated their site since the reference was added (ref 23 updated by myself), and addresses the issue "hitting the nail":
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::<blockquote>Prihvaćen je podatak da izvan granica Republike Hrvatske, u susjednim državama i diljem ostalih europskih zemalja i širokog svijeta, živi isto toliko Hrvata koliko i unutar državnih granica. Dakle, 4,5 milijuna ljudi hrvatske narodnosti ili podrijetla. Ta je procjena uvelike pretjerana, a pošto ne postoje bolje mogućnosti statističkog određivanja, prihvatljiv je kriterij da se smatra Hrvatom svaku osobu u svijetu koja po zakonu ima pravo na hrvatsko državljanstvo. A takovih osoba ima preko 1 milijun u Europi, više od 2 milijuna u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama i Kanadi, 500.000 u Južnoj Americi te 300.000 u Australiji i Novom Zelandu. Od njih oko 25 posto govori ili razumije hrvatski. </blockquote>
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::I'm lazy to translate it at the moment, but I'm willing to if requested. [[User:Duja|Duja]]<span style="font-size:70%;">[[User talk:Duja|►]]</span> 11:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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:::Duja, I appreciate your input, but one must think about this for a moment. Where would the 4 million Croats be!? There's 300,000 or so in the USA and 500,000 in Germany and probably AT MOST 500,000 in Australia. That still leaves over 2 million! So the double counting (or the counting of nonethnic Croats) is definitely not negligible. [[User:Horvat Den|Horvat Den]] 19:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
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==Pictures==
According to the picture in the infobox, all distinguished Croats are bearded and all Croats are male. Well, it should be more representative, if you know what I mean... For example, Tito wasn't bearded, and he is very known. And if you don't like Tito, you have Pavelić, Tuđman, Maček - all without beard. Also Krleža, Ujević and Ivo Andrić, who was not Serb, but Croat.

Pavelic? I noticed Adolf is not on the [[Germans]] article, nor Benito on [[Italians]]. Is there the need to make an exception here? Macek and Tudjman might be good examples, despite their controversial characters... but Tito and Andric simply do not belong there. --[[User:PaxEquilibrium|PaxEquilibrium]] 23:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

:A Macek is even more controversial personality than Tudjman, considering he is not an ethnic Croat at all. --[[User:PaxEquilibrium|PaxEquilibrium]] 23:45, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

About those pictures, there could be more, Croats gave many famous people to the world.

I disagree. Macek was a Croat. It is a Croatian name. Andric maybe not, with the fact he was raised by a Bosnian Serb family, but Tito was Croatian. Unfortunately, but he was. Josip is a name common to only one nation, Broz a last name common to only that nation as well.

btw. I know why you write these things. And I think Croats themselves are a better judge who is Croatian and who isn't.

:Afrika, like I said - Vladko Macek was a Croatian patriot/nationalist, regardless of the fact that he's not an "ethnic" Croat. His father was Slovene and mother Czech. --[[User:PaxEquilibrium|PaxEquilibrium]] 09:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

PaxEquilibrium: I don;t think Tito should be compared to Musolini and Hitler. Totally different characters

== Iranian theory ==

The Origins section of the article currently reads "''The "Iranian" theory suggests that the Croats are descendants of ancient Persia (cf. Alans), this theory is based purely on linguistic correlation and development of the Croatian name.''" However, to my knowledge, the Iranian theory doesn't say that the Croats are descendants of an Iranian tribe, only that the name is of Iranian origin, because the Slavic tribe which settled modern day Croatia putatively had a Iranian ruling caste, which lent its name to the entire tribe/people. So, the text should be changed. Cheers [[User:Osli73|Osli73]] 01:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

== Diaspora is not the correct word ==

To refer to people of Croatian ancestry outside of Croatia as a "diaspora" is incorrect. Diaspora is used to refer to peoples who have been forced to leave their homelands. Wikipedia defines [[diaspora]] "to refer to any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands". To say that people of Croatian descent living abroad have been forced to leave their country is POV and should be changed. Better to use something neutral like "Croats around the world" or other. Please don't take offence, I'm only trying to avoid an incorrect and POV use of words. Regards [[User:Osli73|Osli73]] 01:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

:No, a diaspora does not just include people who have been forced to leave their homeland, but also people who have left by choice and the descendant of those who have left <font style="background:none" size="3">&mdash;[[User:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkblue" face="Vivaldi">King</font>]][[User talk:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkred" face="Times New Roman">'''Ivan'''</font>]]</font> 01:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Ivan, please read the definition of [[diaspora]] (see my quote from Wikipedia above). [[User:Osli73|Osli73]] 01:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

:Yes, it says "forced '''or''' ''induced''" - meaning they don't have to be forced to leave, but were "induced" into leaving for economic reasons and so on. <font style="background:none" size="3">&mdash;[[User:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkblue" face="Vivaldi">King</font>]][[User talk:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkred" face="Times New Roman">'''Ivan'''</font>]]</font> 08:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

==Image==

I don't think [[Eric Bana]] is a legitimate representative of the Croat people. He's Australian and only half Croat ethnically. [[User:Horvat Den|Horvat Den]] 15:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
:Well, I think he's a pretty good example of the Croat diaspora, but if you truly do believe he shouldn't be included, you could edit the image and replace him with someone else - it's a free image. (I pretty much added him to the image, because I thought it was a bit dull in all black and white, and he was one of the few I could find a free colour image for). <font style="background:none" size="3">&mdash;[[User:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkblue" face="Vivaldi">King</font>]][[User talk:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkred" face="Times New Roman">'''Ivan'''</font>]]</font> 02:24, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

::We should place Nikola Tesla on the images.

:I agree. Not only this but could someone tell me who is the person in the first picture? I don't recognize it. Also the 'King Tomislav' picture is of very bad quality, there are images of far better quality such as this http://www.croatianhistory.net/gif/krek24.jpg (painting of Kreković) or a better scan of current picture http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-3/1157859/tomislav.jpg
:Anyway I think there are people who deserve to be up there far more, people like nobel prize winners Prelog and Ružička. People like Penkala, Gundulić, Bošković...
:Also I looked on Google and I have found better quality images for Vrančić http://www.nsk.hr/UserFiles/Image/Bastina/Portreti%20autora/vrancic-portret(1).jpg http://www.nsk.hr/UserFiles/Image/Bastina/Portreti%20autora/vrancic-portret.jpg, Meštrović (portrait of his when he was younger) http://www.mdc.hr/mestrovic/grafika/fundacija/media/aktivnosti/izlozbena/04-ivan-mestrovic-gtdr.jpg
:In the end I think the best composite should be made of: Jelačić, Gundulić, Bošković, Ružička, Prelog, Mohorvičić, Vrančić, Meštrović. I don't know about Klović, but maybe he could be squeezed in as well, maybe making a composite of ten people, like 5 upper and lower line instead of four with a bit smaller sized images. --[[User:Tar-Elenion|Tar-Elenion]] 17:18, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Look, if you can find good quality, '''free''' images of people whom you consider notable enough to be in the picture, then add them to it. I still think all of the current ones should remain, and if you can find some free images of the people mentioned above, then add them to the pic. (P.S, I also have no idea who the first person is, but he was there when I added more people, and I felt uncomfortable removing someone that someone else considers worthy to be on the main picture.) <font style="background:none" size="3">&mdash;[[User:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkblue" face="Vivaldi">King</font>]][[User talk:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkred" face="Times New Roman">'''Ivan'''</font>]]</font> 07:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

:I think we should put [[Goran Višnjić]] in place of Bana. In my opinion, we should stick to just Croats with ties to Croatia (i.e. more than just ethnicity.) Like Penkala is not an ethnic Croat, yet he represents Croatia more than Bana (who is seen as more Australian). And same with Tesla (who has more ties to Serbia than Croatia) so he shouldn't be there either. I don't know how to change the pictures, but if someone agrees with me, than please do. --[[User:Jesuislafete|Jesuislafete]] 03:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

:I'll replace Bana with Višnjić if you can provide a free/public domain image of him. I currently cannot find a free image of him, but if you can, please direct me to it and I'll add him. <font style="background:none" size="3">&mdash;[[User:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkblue" face="Vivaldi">King</font>]][[User talk:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkred" face="Times New Roman">'''Ivan'''</font>]]</font> 06:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I think that the image is far too overloading. Do you see any other ethic group-related article with so many images? With all due respect to Klovic's life achievements, I don't think that he can ''even closely'' be compared to King Tomislav, Miroslav Krleza, Andrija Mohorovicic, Ivan Mestrovic, Josip Jelacic and Ante Starcevic.

I also suggest removing Ante Starcevic from the pics. I think that we should take ''as positive as possible'' people and put there. We'll end up nowhere putting highly controversial figures. --[[User:PaxEquilibrium|PaxEquilibrium]] 18:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

:Yeah, it probably should be cut down to no more than six. I think the following should stay:
*[[Ivan Gundulić]]
*[[King Tomislav]]
*[[Ivan Meštrović]]
*[[Miroslav Krleža]]
*[[Josip Jelačić]]
*[[Andrija Mohorovičić]]
If no one disagrees with this, I'll make the change. <font style="background:none" size="3">&mdash;[[User:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkblue" face="Vivaldi">King</font>]][[User talk:Ivan Kricancic|<font color="darkred" face="Times New Roman">'''Ivan'''</font>]]</font> 07:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

:Fine with me. I also agree that we have too many people up there as it is. But I would suggest removing [[King Tomislav]] from your list and leaving [[Faust Vrančić]]. [[User:Tar-Elenion|Tar-Elenion]] 11:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

== "related groups" info removed from infobox ==

For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{tl|Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left on the '''[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups#.22related groups.22 info removed from infobox|Ethnic groups talk page]]'''. [[User:Ling.Nut|Ling.Nut]] 23:43, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

== 17.85% Croat ==

What's this about being 'half Croat'. It means someone should be a 100% Croat to actually be a Croat? I suppose there are people like that but then we would create a national body of a few hundred thousand Croats, maybe even less. Take for example Robert De Niro. He is like more Irish than Italian by antcestry but we would still describe him as a man of Italian roots. And he is '''Italian by origin''', not Irish.

== Why is there... ==

... a large space left between the intro and rest of the text? <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/89.172.197.146|89.172.197.146]] ([[User talk:89.172.197.146|talk]]) 19:01, 26 November 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Twice ==
All three groups migrated to Europe during the upper paleolithic around 30,000-20,000 BC. Later, neolithic lineages, originating in the Middle East and that brought agriculture to Europe, are present in surprisingly low numbers.
- This excerpt occurs twice in "Origins"[[User:Nnhorgan|Norgy]] ([[User talk:Nnhorgan|talk]]) 09:35, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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