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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 is the ethnic mix of Greece's popuation?
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?
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 largest ethnic group in Libya?
Libyan nation is a mix of Arabs, Berbers, Tuarig and other ethnicity. This makes Libya unlike any other arab country.
What is the ethnicity of United Kingdom?
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%
What is the ethnicity of Sri Lanka?
The Buddhist religion reinforces the solidarity of the Sinhalese as an ethnic community. In 1988 approximately 93 percent of the Sinhala speakers were Buddhists, and 99.5 percent of the Buddhists in Sri Lanka spoke Sinhala. The most popular Sinhalese folklore, literature, and rituals teach children from an early age the uniqueness of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, the long relationship between Buddhism and the culture and politics of the island, and the importance of preserving this fragile cultural inheritance. Buddhist monks are accorded great respect and participate in services at the notable events in people's lives. To become a monk is a highly valued career goal for many young men. The neighboring Buddhist monastery or shrine is the center of cultural life for Sinhalese villagers.
Their shared language and religion unite all ethnic Sinhalese, but there is a clear difference between the "Kandyan" and the "low-country" Sinhalese. Because the Kingdom of Kandy in the highlands remained independent until 1818, conservative cultural and social forms remained in force there. English education was less respected, and traditional Buddhist education remained a vital force in the preservation of Sinhalese culture. The former Kandyan nobility retained their social prestige, and caste divisions linked to occupational roles changed slowly. The plains and the coast of Sri Lanka, on the other hand, experienced great change under 400 years of European rule. Substantial numbers of coastal people, especially among the Karava caste, converted to Christianity through determined missionary efforts of the Portuguese, Dutch, and British; 66 percent of the Roman Catholics and 43 percent of the Protestants in the early 1980s were Sinhalese. Social mobility based on economic opportunity or service to the colonial governments allowed entire caste or kin groups to move up in the social hierarchy. The old conceptions of noble or servile status declined, and a new elite developed on the basis of its members' knowledge of European languages and civil administration. The Dutch legal system changed traditional family law. A wider, more cosmopolitan outlook differentiated the low-country Sinhalese from the more "old fashioned" inhabitants of highlands.
TamilsThe people collectively known as the Tamils, comprising 2,700,000 persons or approximately 18 percent of the population in 1981, use the Tamil language as their native tongue. Tamil is one of the Dravidian languages found almost exclusively in peninsular India. It existed in South Asia before the arrival of people speaking Indo-European languages in about 1500 B.C. Tamil literature of a high quality has survived for at least 2,000 years in southern India, and although the Tamil language absorbed many words from northern Indian languages, in the late twentieth century it retained many forms of a purely Dravidian speech--a fact that is of considerable pride to its speakers. Tamil is spoken by at least 40 million people in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu (the "land of the Tamils"), and by millions more in neighboring states of southern India and among Tamil emigrants throughout the world.There was a constant stream of migration from southern India to Sri Lanka from prehistoric times. Once the Sinhalese controlled Sri Lanka, however, they viewed their own language and culture as native to the island, and in their eyes Tamil-speaking immigrants constituted a foreign ethnic community. Some of these immigrants appear to have abandoned Tamil for Sinhala and become part of the Sinhalese caste system. Most however, continued to speak Tamil and looked toward southern India as their cultural homeland. Their connections with Tamil Nadu received periodic reinforcement during struggles between the kings of Sri Lanka and southern India that peaked in the wars with the Chola. It is probable that the ancestors of many Tamil speakers entered the country as a result of the Chola conquest, for some personal names and some constructions used in Sri Lankan Tamil are reminiscent of the Chola period.
The Tamil speakers in Sri Lanka are divided into two groups that have quite different origins and relationships to the country. The Sri Lankan Tamils trace their immigration to the distant past and are effectively a native minority. In 1981 they numbered 1,886,872, or 12.7 percent of the population. The Indian Tamils are either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who came under British sponsorship to Sri Lanka to work on plantations in the central highlands. In 1981 they numbered 818,656, or 5.5 percent of the population. Because they lived on plantation settlements, separate from other groups, including the Sri Lankan Tamils, the Indian Tamils have not become an integral part of society and indeed have been viewed by the Sinhalese as foreigners. The population of Indian Tamils has been shrinking through programs repatriating them to Tamil Nadu.
Ethnic Tamils are united to each other by their common religions beliefs, and the Tamil language and culture. Some 80 percent of the Sri Lankan Tamils and 90 percent of the Indian Tamils are Hindus. They have little contact with Buddhism, and they worship the Hindu pantheon of gods. Their religious myths, stories of saints, literature, and rituals are distinct from the cultural sources of the Sinhalese. The caste groups of the Tamils are also different from those of the Sinhalese, and they have their rationale in religious ideologies that the Sinhalese do not share. Religion and caste do, however, create divisions within the Tamil community. Most of the Indian Tamils are members of low Indian castes that are not respected by the upper- and middle-level castes of the Sri Lankan Tamils. Furthermore, a minority of the Tamils--4.3 percent of the Sri Lankan Tamils and 7.6 percent of the Indian Tamils--are converts to Christianity, with their own places of worship and separate cultural lives. In this way, the large Tamil minority in Sri Lanka is effectively separated from the mainstream Sinhalese culture and is fragmented into two major groups with their own Christian minorities.
MuslimsMuslims, who make up approximately 7 percent of the population, comprise a group of minorities practicing the religion of Islam. As in the case of the other ethnic groups, the Muslims have their own separate sites of worship, religious and cultural heroes, social circles, and even languages. The Muslim community is divided into three main sections--the Sri Lankan Moors, the Indian Moors, and the Malays, each with its own history and traditions.The Sri Lankan Moors make up 93 percent of the Muslim population and 7 percent of the total population of the country (1,046,926 people in 1981). They trace their ancestry to Arab traders who moved to southern India and Sri Lanka some time between the eighth and fifteenth centuries, adopted the Tamil language that was the common language of Indian Ocean trade, and settled permanently in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Moors lived primarily in coastal trading and agricultural communities, preserving their Islamic cultural heritage while adopting many southern Asian customs. During the period of Portuguese colonization, the Moors suffered from persecution, and many moved to the Central Highlands, where their descendants remain. The language of the Sri Lankan Moors is Tamil, or a type of "Arabic Tamil" that contains a large number of Arabic words. On the east coast, their family lines are traced through women, as in kinship systems of the southwest Indian state of Kerala, but they govern themselves through Islamic law.
The Indian Moors are Muslims who trace their origins to immigrants searching for business opportunities during the colonial period. Some of these people came to the country as far back as Portuguese times; others arrived during the British period from various parts of India. The Memon, originally from Sind (in modern Pakistan), first arrived in 1870; in the 1980s they numbered only about 3,000. The Bohra and the Khoja came from northwestern India (Gujarat State) after 1880; in the 1980s they collectively numbered fewer than 2,000. These groups tended to retain their own places of worship and the languages of their ancestral homelands.
The Malays originated in Southeast Asia. Their ancestors came to the country when both Sri Lanka and Indonesia were colonies of the Dutch. Most of the early Malay immigrants were soldiers, posted by the Dutch colonial administration to Sri Lanka, who decided to settle on the island. Other immigrants were convicts or members of noble houses from Indonesia who were exiled to Sri Lanka and who never left. The main source of a continuing Malay identity is their common Malay language (bahasa melayu), which includes numerous words absorbed from Sinhalese and Tamil, and is spoken at home. In the 1980s, the Malays comprised about 5 percent of the Muslim population in Sri Lanka.
BurghersThe term Burgher was applied during the period of Dutch rule to European nationals living in Sri Lanka. By extension it came to signify any permanent resident of the country who could trace ancestry back to Europe. Eventually it included both Dutch Burghers and Portuguese Burghers. Always proud of their racial origins, the Burghers further distanced themselves from the mass of Sri Lankan citizens by immersing themselves in European culture, speaking the language of the current European colonial government, and dominating the best colonial educational and administrative positions. They have generally remained Christians and live in urban locations. Since independence, however, the Burgher community has lost influence and in turn has been shrinking in size because of emigration. In 1981 the Burghers made up .3 percent (39,374 people) of the population. VeddahThe Veddah are the last descendants of the ancient inhabitants of Sri Lanka, predating the arrival of the Sinhalese. They have long been viewed in the popular imagination as a link to the original hunting-and-gathering societies that gradually disappeared as the Sinhalese spread over the island. In the 1980s, Veddah lived in the eastern highlands, where some had been relocated as a result of the Mahaweli Garga Program. They have not preserved their own language, and they resemble their poorer Sinhalese neighbors, living in small rural settlements. The Veddah have become more of a caste than a separate ethnic group, and they are generally accepted as equal in rank to the dominant Goyigama caste of the Sinhalese.Largest ethnic group in america?
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?
the largestethnic group in Nova Scotia is Scottish (29.3%), followed by English (28.1%), Irish (19.9%)
What muslim group lived in spain?
The Muslim group that conquered Spain was the Amazigh, better known by their names Berber (outdated) and Moor (derisive). However, Spain was inhabited by many different types of Muslims. The most popular were the Muladí, who were Iberians who converted to Islam or the children of such Iberians. Amazigh were the next-most common. There were also Arabs from the Middle East. Finally there were also Slavic slaves that were brought to Spain, but eventually gained their freedom as Muslim citizens.
What is the ethnicity of Asia?
They are:
Han, Yamato, Korean, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, Manchu, Mongol, Buryats, Evenks, and Yakuts.
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What are the ethnic groups of Australia?
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. _____________________________________________________________________
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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.
What is Venezuela's ethnicity?
many different kinds of races are in vanuzuela.
No national census has classified Venezuelans according to ethnicity since 1926, so that characterizations of the national composition are only rough estimates. Only 1 to 2 percent was pure Indians, and somewhere between 56 and 82 percent of the population were mestizos, which in Venezuela signified a mixture of any of the other categories. A credible break-down through 1990 would be 68 percent mestizo, 21 percent unmixed Caucasian, 10 percent black, and 1 percent Indian.
A lot of the time Turkish people look Caucasian, but I think they're actually a mix between European and Asia because half of Turkey is in Asia and the other half is in Europe.
What are Bulgaria's ethnic groups?
Bulgarians, Turks (Turkish-speaking Bulgarians), Roma-speaking Gyspsies. These three are major ethnic groups (Bulgarians are the biggest).
There are small minorities of Jews, Armenian and Greeks.
How many black people live in London?
From the Office of National Statistics the 2001 census reports 783,000 people considering themselves to be Black or Black British people in London - about 11% of the 7.2 million total. There are a further 866,000 Asian or Asian British (about 12%). There are 226,000 mixed race people (3%) some of whom may identify as Black.
Some areas of London have larger proportions of Black members of the community, mostly the more economically deprived South and East London. Lewisham, Hackney and Lambeth boroughs have about 25% Black or Black British. About 50% of Newham and Tower Hamlets borough's consider themselves to be non-white. About 1,000 of the 7,000 people who live in the city centre consider themselves to be non-white, the smallest proportion for all London administrative districts.
Over half of all black or black British people in England live in London and about a third of all Asians or Asian British in England live in London.
What are Aruba's ethnic groups?
According to the U.S. State Department, Aruba's ethnic groups are mixed white, Caribbean Amerindian, and other.
Specifically, 80% of the population is mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian. Other ethnicities account for 20%. According to the Joshua Project, ancestry is mainly traced to Caquetios Indian, Dutch, and Latin American roots.
African (especially from the Yoruba tribe), native, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Arabic (Brazil has a higher population of Lithuanians than Lithuania), Japanese (Brazil has the largest population of Japanese outside of Japan), and Ukranian to name a few.
What Is the ethnic breakdown in Spain?
Following linguistic criteria, modern Spanish citizens could be divided into Castilian, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, Basque, Asturian-Leonese and Aragonese ethnic groups.
Castilians
The largest ethnic group in Spain. The Spanish capital of Madrid is located in the historical region of New Castile, and what the Castilian language (castellano) is also known as Spanish (español). The Kingdom of Castile was the principle actor in the unification of Spain.
The original Castilian nucleus was around the modern day autonomous communities of Cantabria and part of Castile-León (around the city of Burgos). In the Christian reconquista("reconquering") of Al-Andalus (Muslim Arab-dominated kingdoms in most of the Iberian Peninsula), Castilians settled and became the dominant population in Castile-La Mancha, Madrid, most of Extremadura, Andalucia, and Murcia.
In the last century, many Castilian-speakers from Andalucia and Extremadura emigrated to urban centres to the Basque Country and the Catalan-speaking areas. This has changed the demographic balance in those areas, which along with the dictator Francisco Franco's oppressive policy towards minority languages has made Spanish (i.e Castilian) the dominant language throughout Spain.
Catalans
Historically confined to a small Pyrenean area between the far south-east of what is now France and the far north-east of what is now Spain, the Catalans spread (as did other Iberian Christian ethnic groups) towards the south and east in the Reconquista. They colonized the rest of the modern autonomous area of Catalonia, most of the Valencian Country, the Balearic Islands and the eastern strip of Aragon. They also settled the Sardinian city of Alguer, and conquered but did not colonize many other areas of the Mediterranean in the Crown of Aragon. They also conquered and settled Murcia, but the Crown of Aragon gave this region to the Kingdom of Castile, so the main language of this area ended up being Castillian albeit with some Catalan influence. There are around 6-7 million speakers of Catalan in Spain, in a historical area of around 13 million people.
Galicians and Portuguese
Galicians inhabit the western part of the Iberian Peninsula, and despite their Romance language they got their name from a Celtic people that predated Roman settlement. In the Reconquestathey conquered what is now Portugal, spreading their language throughout the western part of the peninsula. Galicia was then annexed by Spain but Portugal gained independence, which has lead to the curious situation where nowadays the Galician language is more internationally known under the name "Portuguese". In Galicia, the urban areas have become largely Castilianized, and the Galician-speaking areas have become depopulated because of emigration to the Americas. Even today in Hispano-American slang, the word "Galician" (gallego) is used to refer to all Spaniards.
A historical part of Portugal, Olivenza, also became part of Spain through annexation, and El Bierzo was added to the Castile-Leon autonomous area despite it's Galician ethnolinguistic affiliation. Furthermore, the Eo-Nava region of Asturias represents a transition between Asturian and Galician cultures.
Basques
The Basques are the only non-Indo-European ethnic group in Western Europe, meaning the ancestor of their language was spoken in Europe before the ancestors of modern Romance, Germanic and Celtic groups arrived. Their kingdom in the medieval period was the kingdom of Navarre. Their language did not spread during the Reconquesta, unlike those of the other Spanish ethnolinguistic groups. Nowadays their urban areas are very Castilian-speaking, both because of Andalucian and Extremaduran immigration and the Castilianization of ethnic Basques. Their country, known in their language as Euskal Herria is made up of the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre in Spain, as well as the areas of Lapurdi, Zuberoa and Lower Navarre in southwestern France.
Asturians
Asturias was the first Christian in Spain to pursue the Reconquesta, and indeed it and its sucessor state Leon conquered large areas of western Spain. Asturian-Leonese people inhabited what are today the autonomous community of Asturias, the provinces of Leon, Zamorra and Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, and the western areas of Extremadura. However, in Extremadura there are only a few villages which still speak anything close to Asturian-Leonese, in Salamanca there are no speakers left, and in Leon and Zamorra the speakers are left in some western villages. In Asturias most people have some knowledge of the language -- but it is far from dominant, and it has no official status. There is no Asturian nationalist or secessionist party with parliamentary representation in Asturias, Castile-Leon or Extremadura, in contrast with the Catalans, Basques, Aragonese and Galicians.
Aragonese
The Aragonese inhabited primarily Aragon (the central and southern areas being fruit of the Reconquesta) as well as the churro areas of Valencia (the rest of the region is historically dominated by Catalans). They gave their name to the Crown of Aragon which was a major playor in the Mediterranean, but its centre was Barcelona and it spread Catalan language and culture. Furthermore, eastern Aragon was settled by Catalans, and now western dialects of Catalan are predominantly spoken in that sparsely populated area. Other parts of Aragon rapidly became Castilian-speaking -- this was both due to Castilian resettlement of areas depopulated by plagues and the Castilianization of the ethnic Aragonese due to the lack of prestige given to their language. By the 20th century the Aragonese language was mainly spoken in mountain areas of the Huescaprovince.
What is the ethnicity of Switzerland?
-Over 60% are descended from the Alamanic German people native to Switzerland (Switzerland had ethnic Germans before Germany existed)
-Around 20% are a Arpitan French people. They originated in Switzerland, and speak Swiss French and Standard French as their native languages.
-over 5% are Ticinese Italians, who speak Lombard dialects.
-1% are Romansh people.
There are also "non-native" minorities, the largest of which are South Slavic peoples (such as Serbs and Croats) and Turks.
What is the main ethnicity in Ireland?
If you're asking what % of the modern Irish population is of English descent, Danish descent, and so forth, here's a good place to start: http://www.eupedia.com/forum/showthread.php?24907-Genetics-of-the-British-and-Irish-people
But since much of the information is of a technical sort, (requiring a fair grounding in the language of human genetics), it'd take quite a bit of study and a fair amount of number crunching to nail down percentages across various lineages.
An estimate is however given which states that roughly one quarter of today's Irish population descends from English stock (paternally). We'll understand how necessarily 'approximate' this has to be because, of course, what it means to be English is itself up for grabs as, yes, they too are an amalgam of peoples in their own right.
Based on the presence or absence of specific genetic markers, (and groups of markers, really), great gains are apparently being made toward clearing all of this up though. So the day may soon come that such questions can be answered with greater ease and confidence.
Tom Raywood
What is the ethnicity of Saudi Arabia?
The people of Saudi Arabia are ethnic Arabs; generally more swarthy in complexion than many of the other Arab countries; possibly because of their proximity to both Africa and and the southern part of India. The make-up is 90% Arab and 10 % Afro-Indian. The entire population worship Islam.
Is singer Cassie Ventura Spanish?
NO. Cassie is an American. Her heritage on her father's side is Filipino and her heritage on her mother's side is a mix of African-American, Mexican and West Indian. She has no links to Spain.
What ethnicity is Elvis Presley?
No he did Not hate Mexicans. He loved most everyone for their personalities since he was a mix of almost everything. He was even part Cherokee.
This was an ugly made up rumor back in 1958 and the details were exposed in a book years ago titled "Refried Elvis". Actress Elsa Cardenas also worked with him in a movie and addressed this saying in an interview that most Mexicans should know by now there was no truth in this rumour. She went on to say Elvis was one of the kindest and most open minded people she worked with in Hollywood. Same thing happened with a made up rumor among African American community back in in the 1950s. We now know it was a made up rumor to make people not like him, but everyone believed it ... some still do unfortunately, even though many blues musicians and black friends defended him, many people thought of him has a racist. These were just terrible rumors made up by mean spirited people that were jealous of Elvis success and wanted to spread hatred. by all accounts of people that new him no matter what nationality or race they were, Elvis liked everyone.
