# Bakers Dozen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46326 "2016-09-15T20:20:28Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46327 "2016-09-15T20:24:39Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46328 "2016-09-15T21:16:38Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu
7. The Quebecois

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46329 "2016-09-15T23:45:24Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu
7. The Quebecois
8. The Sentinelese

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46330 "2016-09-16T00:04:17Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu
7. The Quebecois
8. The Sentinels
9. The Bretons

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46331 "2016-09-16T01:07:40Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu
7. The Quebecois
8. The Sentinelese
9. The Bretons
10. The Hmong

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46332 "2016-09-16T02:14:06Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu
7. The Quebecois
8. The Sentinelese
9. The Bretons
10. The Hmong
11. The Tibetans

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46333 "2016-09-16T03:56:34Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu
7. The Quebecois
8. The Sentinelese
9. The Bretons
10. The Hmong
11. The Tibetans
12. The Uyghurs

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46334 "2016-09-16T04:29:02Z")

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An ethnic group/nation/tribe that doesn’t have a country of its own:

1. The Kurds
2. The Hawaiians
3. The Lakota
4. The Palestinians
5. The Shoshone
6. The Ainu
7. The Quebecois
8. The Sentinelese
9. The Bretons
10. The Hmong
11. The Tibetans
12. The Uyghurs
13. The Karen

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46335 "2016-09-16T05:05:19Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46336 "2016-09-16T05:10:25Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic

It was higher. But labor shortages have led to a lot of immigration.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46337 "2016-09-16T05:22:21Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46338 "2016-09-16T13:29:26Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46339 "2016-09-16T14:02:41Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46340 "2016-09-16T14:07:09Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese
7. China - 91.51% Han Chinese

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46341 "2016-09-16T14:18:11Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese
7. China - 91.51% Han Chinese
8. Rwanda - 85% Hutu _before_ the Tutsi genocide of the 90’s

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46342 "2016-09-16T15:40:41Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese
7. China - 91.51% Han Chinese
8. Rwanda - 85% Hutu _before_ the Tutsi genocide of the 90s
9. Tajikistan : 84% Tajik

Not as huge a majority as the others but still quite a majority

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46343 "2016-09-16T15:51:21Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese
7. China - 91.51% Han Chinese
8. Rwanda - 85% Hutu before the Tutsi genocide of the 90s
9. Tajikistan : 84% Tajik
10. Portugal

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46344 "2016-09-16T17:43:03Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese
7. China - 91.51% Han Chinese
8. Rwanda - 85% Hutu before the Tutsi genocide of the 90s
9. Tajikistan : 84% Tajik
10. Portugal
11. Haiti - probably \>99% African slave ancestry.

There has never been a reliable census in Haiti. 95% are declared black, and most of the rest of Mulatto ancestry.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/46345 "2016-09-16T18:41:21Z")

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Monocultural Countries, where a great majority of the population comes from a single ethnic group

1. Armenia - 98% ethnic Armenian
2. North Korea - 99.998% ethnic Korean
3. Iceland - 93% ethnic Icelandic
4. Guinea-Conakry - 99.1% African tribal ethnicity.
5. Tunisia - 98% self-identify as “Arabs”
6. Japan- 98.5% ethnic Japanese
7. China - 91.51% Han Chinese
8. Rwanda - 85% Hutu before the Tutsi genocide of the 90s
9. Tajikistan - 84% Tajik
10. Portugal - 96.3% Portuguese
11. Haiti - probably \>99% African slave ancestry
12. Greenland - 88% Greenlandic Inuit

Added the Portuguese figure, per Wiki.

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