Ethnic group

an ethnic group or ethnicity is a collective of individuals and peoples who identify on the basis of shared attributes and outlooks which distances them from other groups. Ethnicities follow a common set of cultural traditions such as ancestry, linguistics, historical, social, cultural, national, religious and social treatment. In some instances ethnicity is entwined with nationality or racial identification. Ethnicities principally base themselves on genetics and race, ethnicities also generally speak related languages with one another depending with the proximity in certain regions and relativity to another through historical, cultural, religious and genetic causes. Different ethnicities can also be altered and changed with appliances of adoption, cultural assimilation, religious conversion, language change or shifts and acculturation. Over time this causes the establishment of or are coalesced into forming a separate ethnicity. In several nations ethnic groups intermingle which fabricated the concepts of multiculturalism and being homogenised to create a singular common identity on the basis of a political organisation or nation-state, referred to as a social melting pot with instances of nation such as the United States and Chemgota.
Several examples of ethnic identification include 
* Ethno-linguistic
* Ethno-national
* Ethno-racial
* Ethno-regional
* Ethno-religious 
* Ethno-cultural
* Ethno-social
Category:Ethnic Groups
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