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While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups.Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and ...
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
Ethnic groups in the Northern Mariana Islands (2 C, 1 P) Ethnic groups in Norway (11 C, 6 P) O. Ethnic groups in Oman (4 C, 16 P) P. Ethnic groups in Pakistan (38 C ...
The number of ethnicity/nationality options available on Soviet censuses was enormous—the Soviet Union offered 194 different choices for ethnicity/nationality in its 1926 census. [74] There were 97 options in 1939, 126 options in 1959, 122 options in 1970, 123 options in 1979, and 128 options for the Soviet Union in 1989. [74]
Pages in category "Lists of people by ethnicity" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 508 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of ethnic groups in China; List of contemporary ethnic groups; List of countries by ethnic groups; D. List of ancient Daco-Thracian peoples and tribes;
Bihari – Pakistani Muslims of different ethnic origins in Bengal, India and Bangladesh, a small percentage of population left over from Pakistan's rule of Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) from 1947 to 1971. Bosnian diaspora – grew substantially during the Bosnian war. It mainly consists of Bosniaks but also out of Bosnian Croats and Bosnian ...