Ethnicity

The fact or condition of belonging to a social group that has a common ancestry, language, diet, or religion; often of a particular, identifiable, and distinctive, regional or cultural traditions of particular nationalities, such as these Masai people photographed above from southern Kenya.

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From ethnic denoting origin by birth, ancestry, or descent rather than by present residence or affective nationality.

A map that diagrams the many nationalities based on ethnic identity in central eastern Europe [click map to enlarge].

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For Example: The first generation of people born in the United States of Japanese ancestry were called the Japanese Nisei and they are Americans (affective nationality) their ethnic Identity is Asiatic generally and Japanese specifically. India, in Asia, is among the most ethnically varied places on earth and its 28 states represent the most religiously and ethnically diverse democracy in the world.

The Iraqi Nation-state's ethnic composition:

Culture is distinct from ethnicity and can be envisioned as a related -- but a distinct term. That is because ethnicity refers to the birth heritage and thus the genealogy or genetic ancestry of a person, while culture is a far more "fuzzy" that is less distinct word.

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List your parent's ethnic mixture based on their parent's nationality and the country of origins.

For-example.

State or guess your parent's ethnic mixture:

Summarize

Ethnic Identity

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Ritual Observances: (describe the holidays the family all participate in}

Religious (Christmas, Easter, Passover, Ramadan):

Civil (Thanksgiving, Memorial Day):

personal:

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family is a fusion of:

Ethnicity:

Nationality:

Country of origins:

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