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The majority of Afro-Haitians are descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the island by Spain and France to work on plantations. Since the Haitian Revolution, Afro-Haitians have been the largest racial group in the country, accounting for 95% of the population in the early 21st century. The remaining 5% of the population is made up of mixed ...
Haiti's population is mostly of African descent (5% are of mixed African and other ancestry), [37] though people of many different ethnic and national backgrounds have settled and impacted the country, such as Poles [38] [39] (from Napoleon's Polish legions), Jews, [40] Arabs [41] (from the Arab diaspora), Chinese, [42] Indians, [43] [44 ...
The following article lists sovereign states, dependent territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries.
Marabou (French: marabout) is a term of Haitian origin denoting Haitians of multiracial ancestry. The term comes originally from the African Marabouts.Marabous are mainly descended from intermingling between Africans, Europeans and Taino but may also have Indian and Chinese ancestry.
There are more than 600 ethnic groups [1] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world. The vast majority of these belong to the Austronesian peoples, concentrated in western and central Indonesia (), with a sizable minority are Melanesian peoples concentrated in eastern Indonesia ().
Haiti, [b] officially the Republic of Haiti, [c] [d] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic .
Many Haitians are descendants of Taino or Caribs who cohabited with the African descendant population. Haiti is an Afro-Latin nation with strong African contributions to the culture as well as its language, music and religion with a fusion of French and Taino, with a sizable degree of Spaniard; all relate and are not limited to its food, art ...
One of the largest Haitian community of Nassau County is Elmont that is nearly 4,902,13.0% Haitians of African descent along with their entire extended families. In Manhattan, a small concentration of working-class Haitians (7%) congregates on the Upper West Side and Harlem. Some reside along Cathedral Parkway and in Washington Heights.