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White is a racial classification of people generally used for those of predominantly European ancestry.It is also a skin color specifier, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, ethnicity and point of view.
France: By ethnicity The collection of official estimates of ethnicity and race is prohibited in France. [21] Ethnic groups in the country are the French and native minorities such as Corsicans, Bretons, Basques and Alsatians.
The book was a New York Times best seller. [15] Professor of English Paul Devlin, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, said the book "is perhaps the definitive story of a most curious adjective. It is a scholarly, non-polemical masterpiece of broad historical synthesis, combining political, scientific, economic and cultural history."
White ethnic is a term used to refer to white Americans who are not Old Stock or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. [1] They consist of a number of distinct groups and make up approximately 69.4% of the white population in the United States. [2] The term usually refers to the descendants of immigrants from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe ...
The notion of race first entered the French lexicon in the late fifteenth century to categorize breeds of animals for hunting or combat. Shortly afterward, it was applied to members of the French monarchy, then certain members of the French nobility, as a signifier of lineage and to distinguish from new nobles, the vulgar, and the older noble families (the noblesse de race).
In 1979, many ethnic minorities refused to answer this question due to the fear of deportation. [152] In the 2011 census, the ethnic group options for England and Wales were White, Mixed, Asian British, Black British, Chinese or other ethnic group, and Not stated, with ethnic origin sub-group choices for most of these. [153]
The population of France is growing by 1,000,000 people every three years- an average annual increase of 340,000 people, or +0.6%. [7] France was historically Europe's most populous country. During the Middle Ages, more than one-quarter of Europe's total population was French; [8] by the seventeenth century, this had decreased slightly to one ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica says that "the French are strongly conscious of belonging to a single nation, but they hardly constitute a unified ethnic group by any scientific gauge", and it mentions as part of the population of France the Basques, the Celts (called Gauls by Romans), and the Germanic (Teutonic) peoples (including the Norsemen or ...