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Ethnicity

Ethnicity is an identifier which connotes a group with a common national or cultural tradition. Some ethnicities are massive with billions of members, such as Han Chinese, and others are small clans with fewer than 100 individuals. Some countries are almost mono-ethnic, like North Korea, and others have hundreds of indigenous ethnicities, like Nigeria. Come explore the history and culture of ethnicities in this category.

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What ethnicity is Vanessa laine Bryant?

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Yes, she is Hispanic. She was born in California to Mexican Parents.

What is Victoria Justice ethnicity?

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Victoria is American. Her parents are of English, German, Irish and Puerto Rican descent.

What ethnicity is Angelina Jolie?

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Angelina Jolie's Mother is French Canadian, Dutch, and German. Her Father is German and Slovak.

Her exotic good looks may derive from her mixed ancestry which is Czech, French-Canadian, Iroquois and English.

Which ethnic group is most likely to get prostate cancer?

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Prostate cancer affects African-American men twice as often as white men; the mortality rate among African-Americans is also two times higher. African-Americans have the highest rate of prostate cancer of any world population group.

What ethnicity are most Israelis?

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Israelis are from a variety of different places around the world, similar to Americans. There is also a lot intermarriage between Jews from different areas, which makes the demographics difficult to hash out. However, the most common ethnicities in Israel are listed below:

1) Endemically Palestinian: The largest ethnicity of Israeli citizens (approximately 1.7 million Israelis) are those who can trace their ancestry to the territory of the former Mandate of Palestine while it was still under Ottoman occupation. The majority of these citizens are non-Jewish and are identified as Israeli Arabs.

2) Russian: After the Russian mass immigration to Israel in the early 1990s, Russians make up the largest Jewish ethnicity (at approximately 1.4 million Israelis).

3) Moroccan: Due to the large Moroccan Jewish immigration in the early 1950s and continuing trickle into the 1970s, the Moroccan Jewish community in Israel is still very large (at approximately 1.2 million Israelis).

The remainder of Israelis hail mostly from Europe, North America, the Arab World, and small minorities from Africa, South America, and East Asia.

What is the first largest ethnic group in China?

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The biggest ethnic group in China would be Han.

African ethnic group was the majority in Rwanda?

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The Hutus, making up 84% of the population in Rwanda.

What ethnic groups live in Brazil?

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Portugese, Spanish, German, Italian, Mulatto and Amerindian.

What is the name of the ethnic group that live in the mountainous region of mount Everest?

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The group of people who live around Mount Everest is called Sherpa's

Ethnicity of Toronto?

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The official Census stats go something like this 52.6% mostly of British, Irish, Italian, and French origins Five largest visible minority groups in Toronto are South Asian/Indo-Caribbean (12.0%), Chinese (11.4%) Black/Afro-Caribbean (8.4%) Filipino (4.1%) Latin American (2.6%)

What ethnicity are most Russians?

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The ethnic makeup of Russia is as follows:

Russia's population: 143 million people.

80.0% Russians

3.9% Tatars

2.0% Ukrainians

1.1% Bashkirs

1.0% Chuvash

12.0% others

Russians - originated from east Slavic tribes, and are not genetically different from Ukrainians and Poles. Most of them have light hair, light eyes and light skin color. Most Russians are Orthodox Christians.

Tatars - Turkic ethic group that migrated from north-eastern Gobi region in the 5th century, and mixed with local population. Current day Tatars comprise a spectrum of physical appearance, ranking from Mongoloid to Caucasoid. They are mostly Muslim.

Bashkir - another Turkic ethic group. Bashkirs are concentrated on the slopes of the southern Ural Mountains. Until the 13th century when they were first recorded, they were nomadic cattle breeders. They are Sunni Muslims. They also range from from Mongoloid to Caucasoid in appearance.

Chuvash - a Turkic ethic group, predominantly Orthodox Christians. In the 15th-16th centuries, Chuvash lands were incorporated into the Khanate of Kazan, and then in 1550 annexed by Russia.

Others - including Armenians (0,8% of the population), Chechens (0,9%) and Belorussians. In all, 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples live in Russia.

Answer 2A broader classification would be to say that the two main Russian ethnic groups are
  • Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians and others) - about 83%
  • Turkic (Tatars, Bashkirs, Chucash, Chechens and others) - about 10%

How many Black people live in Michigan?

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What is the largest ethnic group in California?

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there is no real way of figuring out. you could take a poll but you might might miss someone. with the level of global travel a good guess would be almost all existing ethnic groups. There are 73 different languages spoken in the state, so there must be at least 73 different ethnic groups.

there are actually 300 languages spoken in california actually, including indigenous groups native to california

What is ethnicity in Nigeria?

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there are four but the main ethnic group is the IBO

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Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups.

The following are the most populous and politically influential:

  • Hausa and Fulani 29%
  • Yoruba 21%
  • gbo (Ibo) 18%
  • Ijaw 10%
  • Kanuri 4%
  • Ibibio 3.5%
  • Tiv 2.5%

How does china's location contribute to it's ethnocentrism?

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i have no idea!! i think its beacuase they judged other parts of the world

What are the ethnicities of the people of Mexico?

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Ethnicity is an important yet highly imprecise concept in contemporary Mexico. Students of Mexican society, as well as Mexicans themselves, identify two broad ethnic groups based on cultural rather than racial differences: mestizos and Indians. Each group has a distinct cultural viewpoint and perceives itself as different from the other. At the same time, however, group allegiances may change, making measurement of ethnic composition problematic at best. Originally racial designators, the terms mestizo and Indian have lost almost all of their previous racial connotation and are now used entirely to designate cultural groups. Historically, the term mestizo described someone with mixed European and indigenous heritage. Mestizos occupied a middle social stratum between whites and pure-blooded indigenous people (see Socieconomic Structures, ch. 1). Whites themselves were divided into criollo (those born in the New World) and peninsular (those born in Spain) subgroups. In contemporary usage, however, the word mestizo refers to anyone who has adopted Mexican Hispanic culture. Seen in this cultural context, both those with a solely European background and those with a mixed European-indigenous background are automatically referred to as mestizos. Mestizo , then, has become a synonym for culturally Mexican, much as ladino is used in many Latin American countries for those who are culturally Hispanic. Members of indigenous groups also may be called (and may call themselves) mestizos if they have the dominant Hispanic societal cultural values. If an indigenous person can become a mestizo, who, then, is an Indian? Anthropologist Alan Sandstorm lists minimum criteria that compose a definition of Indian ethnicity. According to Sandstorm, an Indian is someone who identifies himself as such; chooses to use an indigenous language in daily speech; remains actively involved in village communal affairs; participates in religious ceremonies rooted in native American traditions; and attempts to achieve a harmony with, rather than control over, the social and natural worlds. Should one or more criteria become absent over time, the individual probably has begun the transition to becoming a mestizo. Although mestizos and Indians may both reside in rural areas and have relatively comparable levels of income, they maintain different lives. Such differences can lead to highly negative perceptions about each other. Mestizos often contend that Indians are too unmotivated and constrained by tradition to deal appropriately with the demands of modern society. Indians, in turn, frequently complain that mestizos are aggressive, impatient, and disrespectful toward nature. Given the cultural use of the terms, it would be unrealistic to expect Mexican census officials to count the number of mestizos and Indians based on racial criteria. However, in measuring how many people speak an indigenous language, the census at least serves to identify a minimum number of racially unmixed Indians. In 1990, 7.5 percent of the Mexican population, or approximately 5.3 million people five years of age and over, spoke an Indian language. Of that total, approximately 79 percent knew Spanish as well and thus were at least potential cultural converts to the mestizo world. Enormous statewide differences exist in familiarity with indigenous languages (see fig. 6). Roughly speaking, familiarity with indigenous languages increases from north to south. The latest census showed that almost no native speakers lived in a band of eight contiguous states stretching from Coahuila in the northeast to Jalisco and Colima along the north-central Pacific coast. Speakers of indigenous languages constituted less than 5 percent of the population in states in the far northwest and along a central belt of states from Michoacán in the west to Tlaxcala in the east. The percentage climbed to between 10 and 20 percent in another contiguous grouping of states from San Luis Potosí to Guerrero, to 26 percent in Oaxaca, to 32 and 39 percent, respectively, in Quintana Roo and Chiapas, and to 44 percent in Yucatán. Only 63 percent of users of indigenous languages in Chiapas also knew Spanish. Specialists have identified twelve distinct Mexican linguistic families, more than forty subgroups, and more than ninety individual languages. Nearly 23 percent of all native speakers speak Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec people and the only indigenous language found in fifteen states. Other major indigenous languages include Maya (spoken by approximately 14 percent of all Indians and primarily used in the southeast from the Yucatan Peninsula to Chiapas); Zapotec (spoken by approximately 7 percent of all Indians and largely used in the eastern part of Oaxaca); Mixtec (also spoken by approximately 7 percent of all Indians and primarily found in Oaxaca and Guerrero); Otomí (spoken by approximately 5 percent of all Indians and used in central Mexico, especially the states of México, Hidalgo, and Querétaro); Tzeltal (spoken by nearly 5 percent of all Indians and used in Chiapas); and Tzotzil (spoken by roughly 4 percent of the Indian population and also used in Chiapas). With twelve different Indian languages, Oaxaca has the nation's most diverse linguistic pattern. Census data reveal that Indians remain the most marginalized sector of Mexican society. More than 40 percent of the Indian population fifteen years of age and older was illiterate in 1990, roughly three times the national rate. Thirty percent of Indian children between six and fourteen years of age did not attend school. Indians also had significantly higher morbidity and mortality rates associated with infectious and parasitic illness, higher levels of nutritional deficiencies, and less access to such basic services as indoor plumbing, piped water, and electricity. Sourced from the University Of Congress library via website. Ethnicity is an important yet highly imprecise concept in contemporary Mexico. Students of Mexican society, as well as Mexicans themselves, identify two broad ethnic groups based on cultural rather than racial differences: mestizos and Indians. Each group has a distinct cultural viewpoint and perceives itself as different from the other. At the same time, however, group allegiances may change, making measurement of ethnic composition problematic at best. Originally racial designators, the terms mestizo and Indian have lost almost all of their previous racial connotation and are now used entirely to designate cultural groups. Historically, the term mestizo described someone with mixed European and indigenous heritage. Mestizos occupied a middle social stratum between whites and pure-blooded indigenous people (see Socieconomic Structures, ch. 1). Whites themselves were divided into criollo (those born in the New World) and peninsular (those born in Spain) subgroups. In contemporary usage, however, the word mestizo refers to anyone who has adopted Mexican Hispanic culture. Seen in this cultural context, both those with a solely European background and those with a mixed European-indigenous background are automatically referred to as mestizos. Mestizo , then, has become a synonym for culturally Mexican, much as ladino is used in many Latin American countries for those who are culturally Hispanic. Members of indigenous groups also may be called (and may call themselves) mestizos if they have the dominant Hispanic societal cultural values. If an indigenous person can become a mestizo, who, then, is an Indian? Anthropologist Alan Sandstorm lists minimum criteria that compose a definition of Indian ethnicity. According to Sandstorm, an Indian is someone who identifies himself as such; chooses to use an indigenous language in daily speech; remains actively involved in village communal affairs; participates in religious ceremonies rooted in native American traditions; and attempts to achieve a harmony with, rather than control over, the social and natural worlds. Should one or more criteria become absent over time, the individual probably has begun the transition to becoming a mestizo. Although mestizos and Indians may both reside in rural areas and have relatively comparable levels of income, they maintain different lives. Such differences can lead to highly negative perceptions about each other. Mestizos often contend that Indians are too unmotivated and constrained by tradition to deal appropriately with the demands of modern society. Indians, in turn, frequently complain that mestizos are aggressive, impatient, and disrespectful toward nature. Given the cultural use of the terms, it would be unrealistic to expect Mexican census officials to count the number of mestizos and Indians based on racial criteria. However, in measuring how many people speak an indigenous language, the census at least serves to identify a minimum number of racially unmixed Indians. In 1990, 7.5 percent of the Mexican population, or approximately 5.3 million people five years of age and over, spoke an Indian language. Of that total, approximately 79 percent knew Spanish as well and thus were at least potential cultural converts to the mestizo world. Enormous statewide differences exist in familiarity with indigenous languages (see fig. 6). Roughly speaking, familiarity with indigenous languages increases from north to south. The latest census showed that almost no native speakers lived in a band of eight contiguous states stretching from Coahuila in the northeast to Jalisco and Colima along the north-central Pacific coast. Speakers of indigenous languages constituted less than 5 percent of the population in states in the far northwest and along a central belt of states from Michoacán in the west to Tlaxcala in the east. The percentage climbed to between 10 and 20 percent in another contiguous grouping of states from San Luis Potosí to Guerrero, to 26 percent in Oaxaca, to 32 and 39 percent, respectively, in Quintana Roo and Chiapas, and to 44 percent in Yucatán. Only 63 percent of users of indigenous languages in Chiapas also knew Spanish. Specialists have identified twelve distinct Mexican linguistic families, more than forty subgroups, and more than ninety individual languages. Nearly 23 percent of all native speakers speak Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec people and the only indigenous language found in fifteen states. Other major indigenous languages include Maya (spoken by approximately 14 percent of all Indians and primarily used in the southeast from the Yucatan Peninsula to Chiapas); Zapotec (spoken by approximately 7 percent of all Indians and largely used in the eastern part of Oaxaca); Mixtec (also spoken by approximately 7 percent of all Indians and primarily found in Oaxaca and Guerrero); Otomí (spoken by approximately 5 percent of all Indians and used in central Mexico, especially the states of México, Hidalgo, and Querétaro); Tzeltal (spoken by nearly 5 percent of all Indians and used in Chiapas); and Tzotzil (spoken by roughly 4 percent of the Indian population and also used in Chiapas). With twelve different Indian languages, Oaxaca has the nation's most diverse linguistic pattern. Census data reveal that Indians remain the most marginalized sector of Mexican society. More than 40 percent of the Indian population fifteen years of age and older was illiterate in 1990, roughly three times the national rate. Thirty percent of Indian children between six and fourteen years of age did not attend school. Indians also had significantly higher morbidity and mortality rates associated with infectious and parasitic illness, higher levels of nutritional deficiencies, and less access to such basic services as indoor plumbing, piped water, and electricity. Sourced from the University Of Congress library via website.

What is the Largest ethnic group in Vietnam?

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the Kinh ethnic groups

What are the ethnicities of Denmark?

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In the period of WWI Denmark (which according to the category of this question is your area of interest) Denmark was almost ethnically almost entirely Danish. The major exceptions being Swedish immigrants in Copenhagen (who BTW mainly came from southern Sweden, and thus ethnically probably was Danish anyway), and to a lessor extant Russian/Polish Jews also in Copenhagen. After WWI a German minority, which hadn't existed since 1864, was reestablished as the border with Germany was moved North after a referendum.

Which ethnic group is redarded as second class citizens by some bulgarians?

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By constitution, by rule, and by the Bulgarian Court <no Bulgarian Citizen> to be charaterized as second class citigen. No discrimination by law

What is the ethnic mix of Greece's popuation?

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Mostly Greek.

There are non-ethnic Greeks in Greece, however, including:

Slavs (Bulgarians, etc.), Albanians, Roma (Gyspies) and Romanians. There's also a tiny minority of South Asians, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

What is the ethnic breakdown of people in Greenland?

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Greenlandic Inuit (including mixed-race persons) make up approximately 85%-90% and Danish Greenlanders (meaning ethnic Danes who live in Greenland) constitute roughly 11% of the territory's population. Any remaining percentage is taken up by European and American minorities.

What is the ethnicity of United Kingdom?

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Mixed

According to the 2001 Census, the ethnic composition of the United Kingdom was: Ethnic groupPopulationProportion of total UK populationWhite54,153,89892.1%Mixed race677,1171.2%Indian1,053,4111.8%Pakistani747,2851.3%Bangladeshi283,0630.5%Other Asian (non-Chinese)247,6440.4%Black Caribbean565,8761.0%Black African485,2770.8%Black (others)97,5850.2%Chinese247,4030.4%Other230,6150.4%

Largest ethnic group in america?

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California is the biggest U.S. state based on population. New York City is the biggest U.S. city based on population.

What is the ethnicity of Nova Scotia?

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the largestethnic group in Nova Scotia is Scottish (29.3%), followed by English (28.1%), Irish (19.9%)