Yapreayan people

Yapreayan people

Yàҧréayhwa (Yapreayan Latin) ㄧㄚˋㄆㄖㄝˊㄞㄏㄨㄚ (Yapreayan Zhuyin)
Flag of Community of Yapreayan
Total population
5,383,819
Regions with significant populations
Straits Settlements	40,140
Maritime Kachi Kochi	66,049
Territory of Extraterritorial Authority of the Refugee Camp and Immigrant Settlements Area	10,760
Tri-State Area of Mutiara Makmur	3,520
Cyberaya Special Self-Governing City	4,620
Territory of Kota Hilir	3,929
Oriental Hispanioéire Srieapska	2,900
Sanpantul	2,000~
Plazas de Irian	106,405
Languages
Yapreayan, Pyeongrang, Úyvidék, Maritime PP-TR Taesongean, Llanito, Minionese, Pior Japanese, Abkhazian, Catalan, Spanish
Religion
Predominantly Yapreayan Orthodox Nazarene, Shintoism and Judaism, Atheists with Yapreay 'native' pagan minority
Related ethnic groups
LGBT rights in Phinbella

Yapreayan people are a multiracial ethnic group and LGBT community in Phinbella who have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region and share a common LGBT culture and social movements, and speak Yapreayan, Hokkien, Pyeongrang Phineaner, or Catalan as a mother tongue, is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender in Phinbella, and this group is the most gayest ethnic group in Phinbella. Yapreayan people may also refer to individuals who either claim or are imputed cultural identity focused on areas under the control of the Yapreayan Autonomous Settlement Collectivities since RP 2600 and Yapreay, Hukien, Pratas and Tepen Islands. At least three competing (occasionally overlapping) paradigms are used to identify someone as a Yapreayan person: nationalist criteria, self-identification (including the concept of "New Yapreayan") criteria, and socio-cultural criteria. These standards are fluid, and result from evolving social and political issues. During the provisional government in RP 2608 to RP 2615, virtually all of the Yapreayan population was repatriated back to Yapreay, Hukien, Pratas and Tepen Islands, although people of Yapreayan of mixed Sangunese-Abkhazian descent were allowed to remain behind. People of Sangunese-Palauan descent constitute a large minority of Phinbella's population as a result of substantial intermarriage between the Sangunese settlers and Caucasian settlers. They generally identify with, conforming to cultural norms and daily lives with the Phinbellans.

The Yapreayan community is divided into three groups namely Alpha, Beta and Omega. According to national census data, 76 percent of the Yapreayan community is of mixed descent, while 15.7% are of Caucasian descent, 4.8% are of Taemhwanian or Sangunese descent, 2.1% of Gogobugians, Xenovians and Cubulus descent and 1.4% of Jewish descent. However, acculturation, intermarriage and assimilation have resulted in some degree of mixing of the Caucasian, Sangunese, Gogobugians, Xenovians, Cubulus and Jewish blood lines. The relationships between the Yapreayan peoples have been in a constant state of convergence and negotiation for centuries. The continuing process of cross-ethnic mixing with ethnicities from within and outside Yapreay area, combined with the disappearance of ethnic barriers due to a shared socio-political experience, has led to the emergence of "Yapreayan" as a larger ethnic group, except on the island of Angilapon whose populace consider themselves as Angilaponese or Jewish and Gay, and as well as inhabitant of Matsu Islands whereby they also consider themselves as Matsunese or Jewish and Gay.

Definitions of Yapreayan

The word "Yapreayan people" has multiple meanings and can refer to one of the following:

• All gay and lesbian refugees residing and becoming citizens with a household registration in Phinbella or Plazas de Irian. This definition includes gay and lesbian refugees, and their descendants living on remote islands and new settlements in the Phinbellan Maritime Territories and Phinbellan autonomous territories, as well as in the Yap, Kinmen, Matchu, Pratas and Tepen islands in Plazas de Irian. The remote islands in the Phinbellan Maritime Territories and Phinbellan autonomous territories which inhabited by the Yapreayan refugee community are also inhabited by other Cubulus and Gogobugians groups.

The history of Yapreayan identity

Early identification of Yapreayan ethnic identity emerged in the form of group identity following the occupation of the Immigrants Nah'yok Bouki and Straits Company in the Langkasupriadi Agreement in -30BP. While becoming part of Phinbella, Yapreayan people developed relationships based on class unity and social ties rather than ethnic identity. Although the Gogobugians often deceived the Sangunese, they also married and supported each other against other peoples from the same ethnic background. The archipelago inhabited by the Yapreayan community (which a remote islands in Phinbellan Maritime Territories) is a site of frequent disputes based on ethnicity, ancestry and place of origin.