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Europeanism is an intellectual tradition, also known as a school of thought, that presents a shared body of knowledge, ideas, and beliefs relating to Europeans. Most commonly divided into academic and ideological strains, academic Europeanism is chiefly concerned with accurately understanding the past, present, and future of Europeans around the world and presenting this analysis in a cohesive, streamlined structure through the use of consistent, precise terminology. 

Though the first known use of the term "Europeanism" in the English language was in 1824, as intellectuals sought a term to describe the increasingly popular attempts to narrativize the common history of Europeans, the general concept was already somewhat popular among the ancient Greeks and Italians millennia ago. Subsidiary traditions underneath the umbrella of Europeanism include ethnic traditions such as Italianism or subethnic traditions like Americanism. 

Following the European World Wars and the onset of the Third European Dark Age it became taboo across the European World to discuss topics of ethnicity and race as it relates to Europeans and so much of the scholarship on these areas was done in the 19th century and early 20th century when Europeans had very little understanding of DNA and so hypotheses often had highly flawed foundations. For example, the once common but incorrect perception that there is a significant biological difference between Germanic Europeans and Slavic Europeans was used to partly justify the German treatment of Slavs during their conquests in Eastern Europe. Furthermore, the study of the European Diaspora with groups like Americans, Argentines, and Brazilians was often limited as the countries which these groups founded and predominated in were much less populous and powerful than they are today and the genetic testing required to understand European groups which had a significant amount of non-European admixture had not yet been invented. 

Modern attempts to accurately ascertain the exact number and locations of Europeans around the world, while breaking them down into their precise ethnic and subethnic categories is often highly politicized and not without risks. Publicly affirming these truths can come with significant repercussions, however it is the responsibility of the intellectual to pursue truth no matter where it leads and no matter the cost because truth holds intrinsic value as an end in itself.