Americo-Liberians, or the Congo people in Liberian English, are a Liberian ethnicity of African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and liberated African descent.
 The sister ethnic group of Americo-Liberians are the Sierra Leone Creole people, who shared similar ancestry and related culture.
 Americo-Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans who immigrated in the 19th century to become the founders of the state of Liberia.
 They identified there as Americo Liberians.
 (Some African Americans, following resettlement in Canada, also participated as founding settlers in Sierra Leone and present-day Côte d'Ivoire.)
 Although the terms "Americo-Liberian" and "Congo" had distinct definitions in the nineteenth century, the terms "Americo-Liberian" and "Congo" are currently interchangeable and refer to an ethnic group composed of the descendants of the various free and ex-slave African American, Caribbean, Recaptive, and Sierra Leone Creoles who settled in Liberia from 1822.
Islam in Liberia is practiced by an estimated 12.2% of the population.
 The vast majority of Liberian Muslims are Malikite Sunni, with sizeable Shia and Ahmadiyya minorities.
 The primary Muslim ethnic groups are the Vai and Mandingo but also Gbandi, Kpelle and other ethnic groups.
 Historically, Liberian Muslims have followed a relaxed and liberal form of Islam that is heavily influenced by indigenous religions that were integrated into Islam when it came to Liberia in the 16th century with the collapse of the Songhai Empire in Mali.
 Islamic religious practices vary in cities and towns across the country.
 Younger Liberian Muslims, particularly in the cities along the coast, tend to be more secular but still practice Islam in everyday life.
 In rural areas, Liberian Muslims are more conservative in dressing modestly, performing prayers and attending religious studies.
 The practice of Islam in Liberia has been compared to Sufi Islam common in Senegal and Gambia.
 The major Islamic holidays, Eid el Fitr, Ramadan and Eid al Adha, called Tabaski Day, are celebrated annually in Liberia.
 People have begun to go on Hajj to Mecca in recent years.
 Joint English-Arabic language, Quranic, and Muslim universities and Islamic studies schools have opened and been rebuilt in the capital Monrovia, rural towns and other cities.
 Islam appears to be experiencing revival alongside Christianity in the country as a result of the Liberian Civil War.
 America-Liberian Methodists, the first Christians in Liberia, arrived on January 7, 1822.
Etsakọ people are one of the major ethnic groups in Edo State, Nigeria.
 They presently occupy three local government areas of Edo State; these are Etsako East, Etsako West and Etsako Central, with Agenebode, Auchi, and Fugar, as their administrative headquarters.
 In some quarters the people of Owan are also referred to as Etsako.
 The Etsakos,Owans, and Akoko-Edo people are often referred to as the Afenmai.
 This is due to their close linguistic and historical relationship.
 Local tradition of origin often trace their migration from Benin due to the tyrannical desposition of the Oba of Benin.
 Which many oral traditionalists attribute probably to the 14th century.
 It is believed their ancestors must have settled in South Ibie before groups started moving to populate the other area they occupy.
 It is one of the three major ethnic groups in today's Edo State, and the most populous ethnic group in Edo North.
 The loyalty of an Etsako man firstly is to His home/homestead, Village, Clan, and ethnic group.
 Also strong affinity between the Etsako people and their neighbors can be deduced in some customary rites, borrowed words, and even migration pattern.
 A good example is the "Ajinebode" myth of the Idah Igala who believe that the early founder or ruler of Idah was "Ajinebode".
 This coincidence is worthy of further Historical elucidation since the mighty River Niger divides Idah in present-day Kogi State and Agenebode in Edo State.
The Social Democratic Party was a social democratic political party in Canada founded in 1911 by members of the right wing of the Socialist Party of Canada, many of whom had left the organisation in May 1907 to form the Social Democratic Party of British Columbia.
 These members were dissatisfied with what they saw as that party's rigid, doctrinaire approach.
 As opposed to the Socialist Party of Canada, the SDP allowed minority language groups ample room for self-determination, which led to a perception that the ethnic groups were more dominant than the overarching SDP.
 When the authorities cracked down on ethnic groups during the 1918 wave of repression, many of these individual ethnic chapters were shut down.
Immigration to Chile has contributed to the demographics and the history of this South American nation.
 Chile is a country whose inhabitants are mainly of Iberian (mostly of Andalusian and Basque origin) and Native American (mostly descended from Mapadungun-speaking peoples such as Picunche and Mapuche/Araucanians) descent) There are also small populations of Aymara, Quechua, Atacameño, Kolla, Diaguita, Yaghan, Rapa Nui, and Kawaskhar in other parts of the country.
 Small numbers of European immigrants settled in Chile during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mainly Spanish, as well as German, British, French, Italian and Southern Slavs (mostly Croats and Montenegrins) made additional contributions to the racial complex of Chile.
 However, this immigration was never in a large scale, contrasting with mass migrations that characterized Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, and therefore, anthropologically, its impact without consequence.
 Between 1880 and 1940, an estimated 43,000 immigrants arrived from Spain and became part of Chilean society.
 Approximately 2500 were from Andalusia (Spain).
 Descendants of different European ethnic groups often intermarried in Chile, diluting the cultures and separate identities of the home countries and fusing them with the descendants of the original Basque-Castilian aristocracy of the colonial period.
 At the same time some separate cultural aspects, such as British afternoon tea, German cakes, and Italian pasta, were preserved.
 This intermarriage and mixture of cultures and races have shaped the present society and culture of the Chilean middle and upper classes, who, however, frequently deprecate Chilean folk culture, an offshoot of the culture of the Spaniards who settled the country in the colonial period.
 This fusion is also visible in the architecture of Chilean cities.
In religious studies, ethnic religion (or indigenous religion) is the expression of religion associated with a particular ethnic group.
 Ethnic religions are often distinguished from religions which claim to not be limited in ethnic or national scope, such as Christianity or Islam.
 Ethnic religions do not have to be excluded to independent religions.
 Some localized denominations of global religions are practiced solely by certain ethnic groups, with ethnic groups like the Assyrians following a unique denominational structure of Christianity known as the Assyrian Church of the East.
Vietnam is a multiethnic country with over fifty distinct groups (54 are recognized by the Vietnamese government), each with its own language, lifestyle, and cultural heritage.
 Many of the local ethnic groups residing in mountain areas are known collectively in the West as Montagnard or Degar.
 The largest ethnic groups are: Kinh (Viet) 85.7%, Tay 1.9%, Tai Ethnic 1.8%, Mường 1.5%, Khmer Krom (Khơ Me Crộm) 1.5%, Hmong 1.2%, Nùng 1.1%, Hoa 1%, others 4.3% (2009 census).
 The Vietnamese term for ethnic group is người thiểu số or dân tộc thiểu số (literally "minority people").
 One distinctive feature of highland ethnic minority groups in Vietnam is that they are in colorful attires whether at home, in the farm, on travel or in the town.
 Many of the ethnic groups elsewhere such as southern part of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, China, Papua New Guinea, and many other countries do not wear attractive clothes while engaged in their day-to-day activities.
 The clothes of one group is quite different from that of other groups that adds color to the social landscape.
The racial classification of Indian Americans has varied over the years and across institutions.
 Originally, neither the courts nor the census bureau classified Indian Americans as a race because there were only negligible numbers of Indian immigrants in the United States.
 Various court judgements instead deemed Indians to be "White" or "not White" for the purposes of law.
 In 1970, in the most recent assignment, the U.S. Census Bureau designated Asian Indians as White.
 Since 1980, while keeping the validity of its earlier designation (White), the U.S. Census Bureau further allowed Indian Americans to self-report their ethnicity, owing to the immense diversity of the Indian subcontinent, which is home to more than 2000 different ethnic groups and all the racial groups known to mankind.
 Only the continent of Africa exceeds the linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity of the nation of India.
 The decision to let Indian Americans self-identify was made both in light of the aforementioned diversity in India, which has all the different racial groups represented in its diverse population, in addition to accommodate the fact that in recent years, increasingly diverse racial and ethnic groups of Indians and South Asians have immigrated to the United States, including from the North-West of the Indian subcontinent, where Caucasian ethnic groups are found.
The Republican Party, early named Liberian Party, was a political party founded soon after the establishment of Liberia in 1848.
 It was known to be made up primarily of Americo-Liberians who had mixed African and European ancestry.
 Its main opponent was the True Whig Party.
Nigerians or Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria.
 Nigeria is composed of multiple ethnic groups and cultures and the term Nigerian refers to a citizenship-based civic nationality.
 Nigerians derive from over 250 ethnic groups and languages.
 Though there are multiple ethnic groups in Nigeria, economic factors result in significant mobility of Nigerians of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds to reside in territories in Nigeria that are outside their ethnic or religious background, resulting in the intermixing of the various ethnic and religious groups, especially in Nigeria's cities.
 The English language is the "lingua franca" of Nigerians.
 About 50 percent of Nigerians are Muslims and the other 50 percent are Christians.

Question: The Republican Party was known to be made up primarily of ethnic groups composed of descendants who settled in Liberia from what year?
Answer: 1822