What Does Ethnicity Mean?

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Joe McHugh Profile
Joe McHugh answered
In a United States sense ethnicity refers to the background that a person or their fore bearers comes from. Most of the US population will be aware of their ethnicity and find it a source of pride.

  • Immigrant

Throughout the history of the US it has provided a warm welcome and a haven for other nationals to come and earn a living. Whilst being proud and passionate to be American, most citizens will be able to trace their ancestry to other parts of the world.

  • Ethnicity

To many people their ethnicity will come in different strands. People will consider themselves to be European, African, Asian or Hispanic as well as a more detailed location. Afro-American is a widely used term and can equally apply to someone from Egypt in the north or someone central Africa such as Kenya or Nigeria.

  • Difficulties

At some stages in history ethnicity has divided people and created problems. These matters have been created through fear and ignorance, but in modern times ethnicity and diversity has been something to be celebrated.

Embracing different cultures and backgrounds living together is often promoted by civil authorities, as well as being commercially attractive by highlighting and celebrating different cultures, there is less opportunity for divisions to brew and fester.

  • Future

As cultures merge with marriages between people from different ethnic backgrounds, more and more people feel the need to celebrate their own ancestry. With the development of the internet, tracing family trees has proved incredibly popular allowing individuals to track wedding and birth certificates to piece together their own background.

Discovering unique aspects of your ethnic background can be a real eye-opener for people as they put together the diversity of their background.
John Profile
John answered
This would be your race,creed,color.
Anonymous Profile
Anonymous answered
Ethnicity is a person's innate features that has formed their appearance, such as the standard for the color of their skin, the texture of their hair,  eyes, etc. This features originate from their ancestors and whatever region of the world they come from.No one has control over what their ethnicity is. It relates to your race: Asian, African-American, Caucasian or European, Hispanic, etc.
Stewart Pinkerton Profile
An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other through a common heritage that may be real, or may be presumed. It does not necessarily have anything to do with race or religion.
wilbert u can call me sue Profile
It means your background, I am french, so my ethnic background is french canadian and american native. Heck most frenchman in Canada have aboriginal in them. It just means what background you are from, german, italian etc.

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