Science Fair Project Encyclopedia - This article is about modern
Germanic peoples. For the history of Germanic peoples before the
middle ages, see Germanic tribes. The list of present day
Germanic peoples includes: - Austrians (the term Austrian
Germans was frequently used up to World War II, but is today
usually associated with a right-wing extremist point of view) -
Germans (including Ethnic Germans in other countries) - Swiss
Germans Not every genetic descendent of the old Germanic tribes
considers themselves to be Germanic, for the simple reason that
all people around the world tend to identify themselves more by
their culture then by the combination of their genes. From the
Migrations Period and forth, Germanic peoples are often referred
to as quick to assimilate into foreign cultures. Established
examples include the Romanized Norsemen in Normandie, and the
societal elite in medieval Russia among whom many were the
descendents of Slavified Norsemen (a theory, however, contested
by some Slavic scholars i