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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Attributes that ethnicities believe to share include language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment. Ethnicities are maintained through…

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Definitions and conceptual history

EthnographyClassical antiquityAnaximanderHecataeus of MiletusHerodotus
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Terminology

GreekLatinLate Middle EnglishEarly Modern EnglishEcumene
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Ethnicity and nationality

Ernest GellnerBenedict AndersonWestern worldMercantilismCapitalism
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Ethnic groups by continent

LanguagesNiger-CongoAfroasiaticNilo-SaharanKhoisan
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Ethnicity and nationality

Ethnicity and race

Ethno-national conflict

Ethnic groups by continent

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Ethnicity

Nodes271
Edges270
Triples140
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00738
Components1

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Ethnicity

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related to Sources · 30
Ethnicity → Agus, Ananta, Anthony, Arifin, Aris, Demography, Evi Nurvidya, Handayani, Hasbullah, Howard, Inc, Indonesia's Ethnicity, Institute, ISBN, Kegan Paul, Michael, Myths, Nation, New York, Nur Budi
related to history · 17
Ethnicity → Although, Anaximander, Aristotle, BC, Ethnography, Greek, Greeks, Hecataeus, Hellenes, Hellenic, Herodotus, In, Macedonia, Miletus, Politics, Sparta, The Greeks
related to Ethnicity theory in the United States · 13
Ethnicity → African Americans, Biological, God, It, Many, Native Americans, Other, Park, Religious, Robert, This, White, White Europeans
related to Ethnicity and nationality · 11
Ethnicity → Anthropologists, Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, European, In, Members, Nation, This, Thus, Under, Western
related to Approaches to understanding ethnicity · 10
Ethnicity → As Jonathan, Different, Ethnic, Examples, Hall, Nazi, So, The, Their, World War II
related to Ethnicity and race · 10
Ethnicity → Around, Ashley Montagu, Before Weber, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gunnar Myrdal, In, Julian Huxley, The Race Question, UNESCO, With Weber's
related to Europe · 8
Ethnicity → Europe, European, Europeans, France, Pan, Pfeil, Switzerland, The
see also · 7
Ethnicity → AncestorDiasporaEthnic, Genome Diversity ProjectIdentity, Indigenous, National, PolyethnicityPopulation, Society, United States
related to External links · 6
Ethnicity → American Psychological AssociationEthnic Power, AtlasList, EPR, EScholarship, Ethnic Minority Affairs, Relations
is a · 4
Ethnicity → a priori fact of human existence, basis for a hierarchical arrangement of individuals, important means by which people may identify with a larger group, tool used by political groups to manipulate resources such as wealth

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ethnic groups social group race states people cultural language one theory used identity political nation also power indigenous history stratification

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Ethnicityis aa priori fact of human existence0.90text
Ethnicityis atool used by political groups to manipulate resources such as wealth0.90text
Ethnicityis abasis for a hierarchical arrangement of individuals0.90text
Ethnicityis aimportant means by which people may identify with a larger group0.90text
wealthinstance ofThis view holds that the concept of ethnicity is a tool used by political groups to manipulate resources0.80text
powerinstance ofThis view holds that the concept of ethnicity is a tool used by political groups to manipulate resources0.80text
territory or status in their particular groups' interestsinstance ofThis view holds that the concept of ethnicity is a tool used by political groups to manipulate resources0.80text
Belgium or the United Kingdominstance ofbut also in European countries0.80text
Netherlandsinstance ofExamples for the second case are countries0.80text
which were relatively ethnically homogeneous when they attained statehood but have received significant immigration in the 17th centuryinstance ofExamples for the second case are countries0.80text
even more so in the second half of the 20th centuryinstance ofExamples for the second case are countries0.80text
the United Kingdominstance ofStates0.80text

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