What are the ethnic groups of Australia?

Answer 1

Most of the Australians are Caucasians i.e. white people, Settlers from Europe. And the original people of Australia are aboriginals (Native to Australia), dark brown skinned people, who were outnumbered by the settlers. _____________________________________________________________________

Second opinion:

Most Australians are of European descent. The largest European people in Australia are the Anglo-Celtic Australians (or just "Anglos"), who are of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish (and even Cornish and Manx) descent. Other large groups of Northern Europeans include the Germans, Dutch and Scandinavians.

Southern and Eastern Europeans in Australia are not as assimilated into the single White identity that the US has. They are still seen as "wogs".

Southern Europeans in Australia include mostly Italians and Greeks - there is even a large amount of Maltese!

Eastern Europeans include Slavs such as Serbs, Poles, Croats, Bosniaks, Russians, Ukrainians, Macedonians and others. Non-Slavic Eastern Europeans include Albanians and Hungarians. Middle Easterners are one of the newer immigrant groups (the older "wogs" are joining with the Anglos because of newer groups such as these). They include Arabs (the largest group of Arabs are those with ancestry in Lebanon, although there are a substantial number of Egyptians, too) and Turks. East Asians are huge in Australia. The Chinese are one of the largest migrant groups, and many Anglo-Australians are afraid of being swamped by Asians (see: the notorious racist politician Pauline Hanson)! Chinese are the biggest group of East Asians, indeed, Cantonese is the fourth largest language in Australia! Japanese and Koreans also have a large presence.

There is a large amount of Southeast Asians, especially Filipinos, Vietnamese and Thais. There are not many Black-Africans or Native Americans in Australia, but there are some. Jews, especially Ashkenazis (but also from other groups) are also present in Australia, but they are not anywhere near the size and influence of the American Jewish community (where the largest number of Jews reside).

The Australian Aboriginal tribes were the original ethnic groups of Australia. However, after British colonization, the English became the majority. Later, the English merged with the Scots and Welsh into a single "English-aligned" group, due to their common dislike of the Irish. Then, the Irish became part of the Anglo group, due to Hungarian, German, Italian, etc. Immigration. Then the Hungarians, Germans, Italians, etc. became part of the White group because of Asian immigrants. Aborigines, unfortunately, are one of the poorest ethnic groups in Australia.

Answer 2

The largest ethnic group in Australia are the Italians.

The estimated resident population of Italians in Australia, as of the 2006 Census, was 220,469. This is ahead of the Chinese (203,143) and Vietnamese (180,352).

Answer 3

Most Australians are of British or Irish ancestry. In 1999, approximately 92% of the population was Caucasian. The Asian-born population tally stood at 7% while aboriginal and other groups comprised only 1% of the population.

After the coming of the Europeans, the aboriginal population declined drastically, from about 300,000-1,000,000 to some 60,000 by the early 1920s. By the 1950s, however, the decline was reversed. In the 1991 census 265,492 people identified themselves as being of aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin, or 1.5% of the population. (Of these, the latter numbered 26,902.) Many of them live in tribal conditions on government reservations in the north and northwest; some 39,918 were in the Northern Territory in the 1991 census and 41,792 in Western Australia. Queensland had 70,130, and New South Wales, 70,020. Their social organization is among the most complex known to anthropologists. They do not cultivate the soil but are nomadic hunters and food gatherers, without settled communities. Anthropologists believe the aboriginals, also known as Australoids, are relatively homogeneous, although they display a wide range of physical types. Their serological, or blood-group, pattern is unique, except for a faint affinity with the Paniyan of southern India and the Veddas of Sri Lanka. The aboriginals probably originated from a small isolated group subject to chance mutation but not to hybridization. There seems to be a sprinkling of Australoid groups in India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Timor, and New Guinea. In 1963, aboriginals were given full citizenship rights, although as a group they continued to suffer from discrimination and a lower living standard than European Australians generally.

Beginning in the 1960s, the government abandoned its previous policy of "assimilation" of the aboriginals, recognizing the uniqueness of aboriginal culture and the right of the aboriginals to determine their own patterns of development. From the passage of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act in 1976 to mid-1990, aboriginals in the Northern Territory were given ownership of about 34% of territorial lands (461,486 sq km or 178,180 sq mi). The South Australia state government and its aboriginals also signed a land-rights agreement, and similar legislation was developed in other states during the 1980s. In all, aboriginals held 647,772 sq km (250,104 sq mi) of land under freehold in mid-1989 and another 181,800 sq km (70,193 sq mi) under leasehold. A reservation in Western Australia consisted of 202,223 sq km (78,078 sq mi). By the mid-1990s, however, more than two-thirds of the aboriginals had left rural lands to settle in urban areas.

Source - http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Australia-ETHNIC-GROUPS.html

POSTED 9/20/2009 by Andrew Shevis

Answer 4

The second largest ethnic group in Australia are the Chinese, with an estimated resident population of 203,143, as of the 2006 Census.

They trail the Italians in Australia (220,469) and are ahead of the Vietnamese (180,352).

Answer 5

Australia's largest 6 ethnic groups

1.English

2.Irish

3.Scottish

4.German

5.Italian

6.Chinese

Answer 6

The major ethnic groups of Australia include: the Greeks, English, Chinese, Taiwanese, Spanish, etc.

Answer 7

torres strait islanders