What are the 3 types of ethnic groups?

Definitions for Racial and Ethnic Categories

• American Indian or Alaska Native.
• Asian.
• Black or African American.
• Hispanic or Latino.
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
• White.

What are the main ethnic groups in the country?

The most recent United States Census officially recognized five racial categories (White, Black or African American, Asian American, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) as well as people of two or more races.

What is the highest ethnic group in the world?

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

Why are there so many ethnic groups in China?

After the breakup of Yugoslavia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there was a shift in official conceptions of minorities in China: rather than defining them as ‘nationalities’, they became ‘ethnic groups’.

Are there any ethnic groups that do not have a nation-state?

In France, besides the obvious cases of the Bretons and the Basques, there are also Savoyards, Occitans and Alsatians who do not have their nation states. True, overwhelming majority of them consider themselves French but they can be considered ethnic groups.

Which countries in Africa take their names from ethnic groups?

As far as I remember (do correct me, Emmanuel-Francis Nwaolisa Ogomegbunam if I am wrong), the only countries that take their names from ethnic groups in Africa are Somalia, Uganda, Lesotho and Swaziland. No African ethnic group except Somalis, Baganda, Basotho and Swazis, has “their own nation”.

What is the cause of ethnic conflict?

Ethnicity results from interethnic relations, whenever two different groups or societies come into contact and establish various modes of spatial, political-economic, cultural and social relations. Throughout history, ethnic conflicts have long been a component of international politics (Esman, 2004).

What is the largest ethnic group in the world?

That said, the largest commonly identified ethnic group that is not a majority in any country worldwide is probably Punjabis, who number around 131 million and make up 45\% of the population of Pakistan. Edit: see discussion in comments about whether Punjabis are an ethnicity.