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How do you determine ethnicity?
Briefly, in answer to your question, at census time in Canada, a multicultural society where many languages are heard on the streets, one question on the official census form …usually pinpoints ethnicity of each citizen. " What was your mother's tongue ? " meaning, what was the language spoken in your family when you were very young. Answer An ethnic group refers to a group, usually a minority one, that shares a culture regardless of racial composition. Ethnics are the cultural things shared by that particular group. One very important thing to keep in mind is that an ethnic group is not identified by race, it is identified by culture. Answer You determine your ethnicity by the people who you call family. You develope your ethnicty with theirs to form your own. Answer In practice, ethnicity is often used as a 'polite' (and acceptable) word for national or racial origin. On the basis of physical traits,ethnicity is recognizes.There are 3 important human groups,they are cocasiad,Mangolied and Negroid.Al Europen and milky white skin people are called cocosiad.They have thin features. Mangolied means people of pale color,like Asia's communities of china,Japan,India .and the 3rd category is of black color people ,who are mostly in south Africa ,USA,Nigirea etc countries. (MORE)