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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 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. _____________________________________________________________________
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.
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.
What ethnicity is Mauricio Umansky?
I am 99.9% positive he is Buddhaist.
He is a realtor and on realtor.com,
every house he is trying to sell,
If you look closely at a few pictures
he has Buddha statues in his house
What ethnicity is Cota De Pablo?
She was born in Chile, so I suppose that she would be Hispanic, and she was raised in Miami.
What is the Ethnicity of Egypt?
Egypt, famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous
monuments is located in Africa. The ethnicity in modernEgypt is primarily Arab.
This ethnic transition took place long after Pre-historic and Ancient Egypt, which
is noted as one of the world's earliest civilizations. Only in 639 AD, Egypt became
a part of the Islamic empire by the Muslim Arabs. Egypt, which is located in
Africa was once occupied by only Africans but since the days of Ancient Egypt it
has had man occupiers.
Is language associated with the ethnic group in Africa?
Yes, but it's actually spelled Afrikaans. It's related to Dutch, and it's one of the languages of South Africa.
What ethnicity is Gary Sinise?
Gary Sinise is third generation Italian.
However, his mother's maiden name is Alsip, which is English. In fact, the name Alsip is connected with the early 11th Century Anglo-Saxon name Allsop; meaning the people who come from Derbyshire or the city of a Alsopenledale. (Note the red hair and green eyes)
What do you call a half Mexican and half German?
You are a Mexican-American. Mexican is a nationality, not a race, so you could be asking something on the lines of what do you get if you mix Charlie Sheen (of Mexican origin) and Ming Na (of Chinese origin), being the case that both are Americans?
If you mean white and mestizo, which is the ethnicity of most Mexicans, you have someone with 3/4 white traits and 1/4 Native American.
What ethnicity is Natasha Curry?
Her father is white. Both of her maternal grandparents have bi-racial ancestry, going back several generations. They're all very much American, ethnically and culturally. Natasha's maternal grandfather is a major general (retired) in the U.S. Army.
