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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.
2,473 Questions
What percentage black do you have to be to be considered African-American?
Legally, ethnicity is self-reported. Whatever race you feel you are, that is your race. If you are looking for a more practical answer, then if at least one of your grandparents is Black, it would be reasonable for you to consider yourself Black. One grandparent represents 25% of your heritage. If only one of your great-grandparents were Black (12.5%), it might seem a bit of a stretch for you to consider yourself Black, but you are entitled to do so nonetheless.
Why is there suck wide ethnic diversity within African nations?
Europeans did not understand African ethnic identities.
What is the origin ethnicity andor country of origin of the surname Thome?
1. English: patronymic from Thomas. Thompson is widely distributed throughout Britain, but is most common in northern England and northern Ireland. 2. Americanized form of Thomsen.
What are possible solutions to ethnic conflicts?
There are a number of possible solutions to ethnic conflicts and they are divided by external solution and internal solutions where an external solution leads to separation of the ethnicities and an internal solution leads to intermingling of the ethnicities.
External Solutions
1) Separate States for Separate Peoples: This is the avenue that is currently championed by the Palestinian Authority and Israeli Government for the resolution of their ethnic conflict. This is also the solution that has worked for India and Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, and former Yugoslavia. (Note: tensions in these regions are still high, but the internal ethnic conflict has dissipated. Any tensions would be reclassified as national conflicts as opposed to ethnic conflicts.)
2) Population Swaps: If two ethnic groups already have countries which represent their ethnicity, it may be more prudent to move the people than to move the borders. Turkey and Greece exchanged populations and this lead to the end of Turk Harassment in the Peleponnesus and Greek Harassment in Smyrna (Izmir). Similar exchanges occurred in Poland and Germany after World War II.
3) Ethnic Cleansing: This is not a desirable solution, but it does remove the ethnic conflict by exterminating one ethnicity completely. It worked in the era before such things were universally condemned and is the reason why there are no Native American-United States conflicts anymore (at least on the East Coast).
Internal Solutions
1) Autonomy: A different ethnic group will be given more internal power to govern its affairs that is greater than the jurisdictions given to the majority ethnicity. They may have a different style of government than the majority within this autonomous region. The Aboriginal Reservations in Australia are an example of such autonomous regions.
2) Ethnic Voting: In this system, each ethnicity registers for voting and gets a different allocation than they would naturally by population. This makes minority religions receive more of a voice than they would if they were only counted by heads. This system attempts to assuage conflict in Iran.
3) Ethnic Powers: In some countries, different ethnicities are de jure granted offices of government. In Iraq, the President must always be a Kurd for example.
Which ethnic group in the Soviet Union was seen as being dominant?
Russian people are the largest ethnic group in Russia.
What is your ethnic background?
An interesting question that is not just for an individual but for all Americans in the modern days of hypenated Americans. We are a Nation of Immigrants, and consider each American to be a part of the New World Melting Pot. There are Native Americans, African Americans, Irish Americans and other European variants. The Census Bureau records something called Pacific Islanders and American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AIAN) and Hispanic and Latinos and they exist but you will rarely hear about a New Zealander American or an Omani Ameri8can or a Turkish American. Puerto Ricans are listed on the Census Form but not American Samoans or Guamanians.
How do you identify exactly what race and ethnic background you may be without a DNA test, and should such a test be required or even desireable. Some will elect on the side of a National need to know and others will demand a right to privacy.
Here is the racial and ethnic background of an unborn American girl that will belong to and be loved by our family when she is born according to her genealogical record. She will be:
- 50% Hispanic-Latino or in truth Mexican- American whatever that means.
- 50% Hybrid American consisting of English, Czech, Norwegian. German, Arapahoe, Greek, Russian, Armenian, Lebanese, Cherokee-Scots-Irish-African American, French-Creole and perhaps some other form of Heinz 57.
- She will be born an American Citizen as were her Parents, Grandparents, Great grandparents, and all but one of her Great-Great Grandparent who to the shame of the family tree was born in Canada.
What is the ethnicity of the last name Alexander?
It comes from the greek name meaning (alex) saviour (andros) man alexandros
I am done hearing it comes from Greece when it does not originate from there. Instead the name comes from an even ancient culture. This culture is the culture the scottish warriors base there fighting off of. The culture I am talking about is the Celtic. Everybody says the Celts lived after Ancient Greece started which is true, but use the name Alexander/Andros until the Celts came along. The Celts first used the name and the Greeks got the credit. No one knows much complete truth about the Celtic culture. Then many empires and kingdoms expanded and the Celtic culture was almost destroyed. The remains of the culture fleed to an island. They stopped being Celts and Scotland was created.
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What do Americans describe themselves in terms of ethnicity?
If you were born in the U.S. then you are considered American technically. However, most Americans will identify you by race. So if you are Puerto Rican, Spanish, Indian, etc, you are considered of "foreign" decent. If you were not born here, forget it, you are a foreigner. Even if you obtain citizenship, you are not American. Same goes in the opposite direction. If I move to Mexico, and live there for twenty years, I am still not a Mexican! I have blonde hair and blue eyes.
Why did Adolf Hitler hate Jews Gypsies and Romanians?
He didn't kill Romanians, he killed gypsies. It's a huge difference.
What is the general ethnicity of Portugal?
Portugal WAS in 2001
98.0% Portuguese
1.5% Other White
0.3% Maghreb or Muslim
0.1% Black
0.1% Other
In 2012:
99.1% EUROPEAN DESCENT (2050: 94%)
-96.1% Portuguese (By 2050, will drop to nearly 75%)
-1.6% Ukrainian (Very High fertility and migration; prjctd. to be 15% by 2050!)
-0.7% Spaniard (Virtualy 0.76 TFR and high EMMIGRATION rates, 0.1% by 2050
-0.7 Other White/European
0.5% MUSLIM WORLD (2050: 4%)
-0.3% Maghreb
-0.2% Turk/Other
0.4% Other
-0.2% Black (2050: 1%)
-0.1% Asian (2050: 0.5%)
-0.1% Mixed Race/Other (2050: 0.5)
The Balfour Declaration promised a homeland for which ethnic group?
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised to establish a Jewish home (not homeland) in Palestine.
Why is it important to know the difference between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism?
Answer 1
Cultural relativism is the opposite of ethnocentrism; which states that no culture should be judged based on the standards of another.
Answer 2
Cultural Relativism: The belief that the value systems of different cultures cannot be measured by the value systems of a different culture.
Ethnocentrism: The belief that one ethnic group or nation (usually the one of the speaker) is superior to others and that its values and actions are superior.
: Germany, with a total population of 82.4 million is made up of 91.5% German, 2.4% Turkish, and the other 6.1% is Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Others.
What is the fastest growing ethnic group today in Australia?
In an announcement released on June 23, 2016, the US Census Bureau stated that the fastest growing minority group in the USA was the Asian group. Most of the new immigrants have come to the US from China. The growth in the Asian population replaced that of Hispanic immigrants.
No I don't think he's Asian. I know that he was born in Newport Beach, California, but I'm not too sure what his original background is.
white alone
Which ethnic group was the largest non-English group in Colonial America by 1775?
Germans, by far. In fact, Germans over took English as the largest Ethnic group in America before 1900. But the seeds were placed in Colonial times. Pennsylvania's population was 33% German in 1775, and other Northern states were around the same percent.
What are the characteristics of an ethnic group?
Ethnic groups are formed because of the what makes people think they are the same either it been race or religion. Previous backgrounds of a person usually plays a very important role in distinguishing me from you type of thing.
e.g. If a person was brought up in a poor family, they will find it much easier to talk to someone who has been in the same situation before.
Beliefs and Religion also play a significant role.
What were the ethnic groups in Germany in 1914?
They are usually Germans, Turks, Arabs, poles, Russians, Vietnamese, and blacks
What ethnic group is the majority group found in North Africa and Middle East?
Arabs.
However, it is worth noting that Arabs and numerous other ethnic groups are not actually homogenous. They are composed of two historical groups that intermarried and created a unified culture. In the Arab case, Arab nomads from Arabia conquered the Levant region, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and North Africa and brought those territories under their rule. During that period, those Native Peoples who converted to Islam began to take on the same mannerisms as the foreign Arabs who had conquered them. They began to speak the same language, dress in the same clothes, and believe in the same general ideologies. This process is well-documented by Arabs and is called Arabization or Ta3arib (تعريب). This is why the Jews and the Christians of the Upper Middle East (the Levant and Mesopotamia) often do not consider themselves Arabs. Unlike their brethren whose conversion to Islam made them more susceptible to Arabization, they retained their pre-Arabized ethnic sensibility. Therefore, although many Middle Easterners call themselves Arabs, the majority do not and should not have lineages that go back to Arabia, but to pre-Arab ancestors in the Middle East and North Africa, likely Jews, Christians, and Pagans in the Byzantine Empire.
