Visser people

Visser people
Typical flag design symbolising the Visser identity, displaying the popular Visser colours of red and gold and the acorn of Necrism
Total population	~11,500,000-15,000,000+
Regions with significant populations	Virassia 3,500,000-10,000,000 Bzkavia 300,000-1,000,000 Craerelcy 300,000-1,000,000 Frevannd 200,000-500,000
Languages	Virassian language, Visser language
Religion	Necrism
Related ethnic groups	Barvalese, Tassiese
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The Visser people are an ethnic group of indigenous Amleians who reside primarily in regions ruled or formerly ruled by the nation of Virassia.

History

Origin

Modern genetic studies have isolated the Visser people as a unique ethnic group more closely related to the Barvalese and Tassiese peoples than that of the Virassian people, the latter of whom exhibit a mixed northern and eastern Amulndian descent. The Visser people are believed to be the first group of humans to live in the plains of central Amlei, and were dislodged and assimilated following their conquest by the Amulndian Empire. With the Empire's collapse in the years leading up to 1 CE, the Visser people would continue to be ruled by former Amulndian nobility - whose ethnic classification would later become the modern Virassians - with their dominion continuing well beyond the foundation of the Kingdom of Virassia unto the present date.

Discrimination

Throughout Virassia's history, the Visser people have suffered a long history of discrimination, with anti-Visser practices having been especially endemic in the century following the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism, and features common symptoms of ethnic discrimination including denied or hyper-exploitative employment, suppression of culture and language, police brutality, apartheid-like separation in public and domestic life, and in recent history genocide.

According to the narrative presented by mainstream history, Virassian-Visser hostility harks much further back to the days of the first Kingdom of Virassia, where traditional Ewigic people and Amulndians of Ewigic descent fought bitterly for the right to the Virassian namesake.

Due to their rampant poverty and unemployment forcing them into substance abuse, violence and severe disenfranchisement with the system, Vissers have become to be stereotypically seen and portrayed as short-tempered, illiterate, spouse abusing, rebellious, uncivilised brutes with alcoholic tendencies and little regard for the great Virassian traditions of nationalism, military-like discipline and respect for family. The Visser people's attachment to Ewigic cultures and traditions also often allows them to be portayed as backward traditionalists, and further reinforces their stereotypical dislike of Virassian culture.