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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).
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 ...
1996 map of the major ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (substantially based on G.P. Murdock, Africa, its peoples and their cultural history, 1959). Colour-coded are 15 major ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows: Afroasiatic
The article lists the state of race relations and racism in a number of countries. Various forms of racism are practiced in most countries on Earth. [ 1 ] In individual countries, the forms of racism which are practiced may be motivated by historic, cultural, religious, economic or demographic reasons.
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statisticts Second Racial System in the Brazilian Census: Inspired by a census of open ended question. Acquired similar but more specific racial terms. Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statisticts Third Racial System is the Black Movement: pardos and pretos and negros. Afro descendant is a term that is ...
This glaring lack of diversity is the catalyst for the Joint Center’s congressional hiring campaign, which launched this month to track the racial makeup of top staff hires of newly elected and ...
You've heard it a million times: Eat fewer calories, lose weight. But what if you're in a calorie deficit—consuming fewer calories than you're burning—and still not losing?
Russia is the largest Christian country in Europe by population, followed by Germany and Italy. [83] According to Scholars, in 2017, Europe's population was 77.8% Christian (up from 74.9% 1970), [84] [85] these changes were largely result of the collapse of Communism and switching to Christianity in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc ...