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The largest ethnic group in the United Kingdom is White British, followed by Asian British. Ethnicity in the United Kingdom is formally recorded at the national level through a census. The 2011 United Kingdom census recorded a reduced share of White British people in the United Kingdom from the previous 2001 United Kingdom census.
Along with aspects of common British identity, each of the territories has its own distinct identity shaped in its own political, economic, ethnic, social and cultural history. For instance, in the case of the Falkland Islanders , a former Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands , Lewis Clifton, explains:
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... Ethnic groups in British Overseas Territories (6 C) + British people by ...
In the Canada 2016 Census, 'English' was the most common ethnic origin (ethnic origin refers to the ethnic or cultural group(s) to which the respondent's ancestors belong [138]) recorded by respondents; 6,320,085 people or 18.3% of the population self-identified themselves as wholly or partly English.
The historical immigration to Great Britain concerns the movement of people, cultural and ethnic groups to the British Isles before Irish independence in 1922. Immigration after Irish independence is dealt with by the article Immigration to the United Kingdom since Irish independence.
National census classification of ethnicity A number of different systems of classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom exist. These schemata have been the subject of debate, including about the nature of ethnicity, how or whether it can be categorised, and the relationship between ethnicity, race, and nationality. National statistics The ethnic group question used in the 2011 census in ...
A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2007 found that British Indians have among the lowest poverty rates among different ethnic groups in Britain, second only to white British. Of the different ethnic groups, Bangladeshis (65%), Pakistanis (55%) and black Africans (45%) had the highest poverty rates; black Caribbeans (30%), Indians (25% ...
The language of the migrants, Old English, came over the next few centuries to predominate throughout what is now England, at the expense of British Celtic and British Latin. The arrival of the Anglo-Saxons into Britain can be seen in the context of a general movement of Germanic peoples around Europe between the years 300 and 700, known as the ...