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Usually, your ethnic identity is developed as you grow up in your family. The ethnicity of your family affects traditions, beliefs, and how you interact with people of other ethnicities. Growing up in your family and interacting in your community usually develops how you think about yourself and who you are... including ethnicity. Additional study can develop that identity further... a black man reading a book about Malcom X might be affected by it and change the way he thinks and reacts to certain people. It doesn't usually happen any other way, although I do know one woman who discovered that she was 1/32 Cherokee indian, and so she studied the Cherokee people, and talked to them, and now that is a part of her identity when it wasn't before. A similar thing could happen if a person of one race or ethnicity were adopted by people from a different group. Study could enhance the sense of who the adopted child is. Ethnic identities, in general, are developed by the community over time. People who live close together and who are similar will develop traditions and beliefs and a sense of who belongs and who doesn't belong. This happens on a large scales with ethnicities, races, and national identity, but it also happens on a smaller level with other groups... even high schools develop the same kinds of beliefs, biases, and cliques that you see on a larger scale in communities, ethnicities, and countries. Certain people just don't talk to each other. It isn't always an ethnic thing, but the development is similar in that we usually reject anything outside our comfort zones.

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