The world’s largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, with Mandarin being the world’s most spoken language in terms of native speakers.

According to instrumentalists, ethnicity is a result of personal choice and mostly independent from the situational context or the presence of cultural and biological traits. Ethnic conflict arises if ethnic groups compete for the same goal—notably power, access to resources, or territory.

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups such as a common set of traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, culture, nation, religion or social treatment within their residing area.

Ethnicity is considered to be shared characteristics such as culture, language, religion, and traditions, which contribute to a person or group’s identity. Ethnicity is also a preferential term to describe the difference between humans rather than ‘race’.

As of July 2016, White Americans are the racial majority. Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority, comprising an estimated 18% of the population. African Americans are the second largest racial minority, comprising an estimated 13.4% of the population.

Percentage of Races in America

Figures 3-5, 3-6, and 3-7 show analogous population pyramids for three of the largest Latino national groups: Mexicans, Cubans, and Dominicans.

Examples of Race

• White or Caucasian – British, French, German, etc.
• Black, African American or Coloured People – Kenyan, Nigerian, Somalian, biracial, etc.
• American Indian or Alaska Native – Iroquois, Cherokee, Navajo, Haida, etc.
• Latino or Hispanic – Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc.

African-American

76.3%

Examples of symbolic ethnicity include religious celebrations, and rites of passage such as the Quinceañera, a coming of age tradition celebrated by young women across Latin America. Consumer goods, notably food, are another source of ethnic symbols (Gans, 197, 435).

The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid.

Anthropologists support the idea that anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in North or East Africa from an archaic human species such as H. heidelbergensis and then migrated out of Africa, mixing with and replacing H. heidelbergensis and H. neanderthalensis populations throughout Europe and Asia, and H. …

East Asians seem to have the most Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, followed by those of European ancestry. Africans, long thought to have no Neanderthal DNA, were recently found to have genes from the hominins comprising around 0.3 percent of their genome.

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