There are no ethnic Mandalorians anymore. The original Mandalorians were a species called the Taung, who formed a coalition with other species. Their culture was the basis for the Mandalorian culture, named for their adopted homeworld, that being of course Mandalore. The Taung later went extinct, in large part due to the Mandalorians getting it in their heads to pick a fight with the Republic.
By the Clone Wars era, the last Taung have been gone for maybe 3000 years, their culture surviving through their cultural descendants on Mandalore, who are mostly humans of no specific ethnicity. Hence the assertion in The Mandalorian that being Mandalorian is a creed, not a race or species.
As for the 'cultural identity' of the Clones, they honestly have their own. They are Humans, most born and raised on Kamino, but there's very little overwhelmingly Kaminoan about their 'culture'. They're Clone Troopers. That's their culture.
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u/HellbirdVT 2d ago edited 2d ago
There are no ethnic Mandalorians anymore. The original Mandalorians were a species called the Taung, who formed a coalition with other species. Their culture was the basis for the Mandalorian culture, named for their adopted homeworld, that being of course Mandalore. The Taung later went extinct, in large part due to the Mandalorians getting it in their heads to pick a fight with the Republic.
By the Clone Wars era, the last Taung have been gone for maybe 3000 years, their culture surviving through their cultural descendants on Mandalore, who are mostly humans of no specific ethnicity. Hence the assertion in The Mandalorian that being Mandalorian is a creed, not a race or species.
As for the 'cultural identity' of the Clones, they honestly have their own. They are Humans, most born and raised on Kamino, but there's very little overwhelmingly Kaminoan about their 'culture'. They're Clone Troopers. That's their culture.