Editing Sharchops (section)

==Ethnicity==
The Sharchops are an Indo-Mongoloid{{Dubious|date=December 2023|reason=I'm pretty sure this is scientific racist nonsense.}} people who migrated from [[Assam]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]], or possibly [[Burma]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|isbn=1-57958-468-3|editor-last=Skutsch|editor-first=Carl|location=New York|pages=218}}</ref> c. 1200 – c. 800 BC.<ref>{{cite web|title=Culture of Bhutan|url=http://www.everyculture.com/A-Bo/Bhutan.html|work=Countries and Their Cultures|publisher=Advameg, Inc.|access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref>  [[George van Driem|Van Driem]] (1993) indicates that Sharchops are closely related to the [[Monpa people|Mönpa]] and that both are descendants of the indigenous Tibetic peoples (pre-[[Ngalop people|Ngalop]]) of Bhutan. Due to the societal prominence and political power of Dzongkha-speaking Bhutanese, however, Sharchops are marginalized in Bhutan.<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Committee for Refugees World Refugee Survey 1999 - Bhutan|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a8c413.html|work=United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants|access-date=29 September 2013|date=1 January 1999}}</ref>  The Sharchops are the largest ethnic group in Bhutan.<ref name=vanDriem93>{{cite web|url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003 |format=PDF |last=van Driem |first=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |title=Language Policy in Bhutan |publisher=[[School of Oriental and African Studies|SOAS]] |location=[[London]] |year=1993 |access-date=2011-01-18}}</ref><ref name=vanDriem1>{{cite book|first=George |last=van Driem |year=2001 |title=Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region |publisher=Brill |page=915 ''et seq.''}}</ref>