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Ethnicities
Matthew Cartlidge
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Key Issues
Where are ethnicities distributed?
Why do ethnicities have distinctive
distributions?
Why do conflicts arise among ethnicities?
Why do ethnicities engage in ethnic
cleansing and genocide?
Learning Outcomes
7.1.1: Identify and describe the major
ethnicities in the United States.
7.1.2: Describe the distribution of major
U.S. ethnicities among states and within
urban areas.
7.2.1: Describe the patterns of forced
voluntary migration of African Americans,
Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans
to the United States.
Learning Outcomes
7.2.2: Describe the patterns of migration
of African Americans within the United
States.
7.2.3: Explain the laws once used to
segregate races in the United States and
South Africa.
7.3.1: Explain the difference between
ethnicity and nationality.
7.3.2: Identify and describe the principal
ethnicities in Lebanon and Sri Lanka.
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Learning Outcomes
7.3.3: Describe how the Kurds, as well as
ethnicities in south Asia, have been
divided among more than one nationality.
7.3.4: Identify and describe the principal
ethnicities in western Asia.
7.4.1: Describe the process of ethnic
cleansing.
7.4.2: Explain the concept of ethnic
cleansing in the Balkans.
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Learning Outcomes
7.4.3: Identify the principal episodes of
genocide in northeastern Africa.
7.4.4: Identify the principal episodes of
genocide in Central Africa.
2. African American
Americans who identify as a group with an extensive
cultural tradition with origins in Africa
3. Hispanic
Americans who are from Spanish-speaking countries.
Asia
Ranking of sending countries
1) China 2) India 3) Philippines 4) Korea 5) Vietnam
Iran
Most numerous ethnicity is Persian.
Adheres to Shiite Islam
Pakistan
Most numerous ethnicity is Punjabi.
Congo
Conflict between Hutus and Tutsis spilled into
neighboring countries.
Laurent Kabila, president succeeding Mobutu, permitted
Tutsis to kill some of the Hutu residents.
Summary
Ethnicity is identity with a group of people
who share the cultural tradition of a
particular homeland or hearth, whereas
race is identified with a group of people
who share a biological ancestor.
Ethnicities cluster within the United States
as a result of distinctive patterns of
migration.
Conflicts can arise when a country
contains several ethnicities competing with
each other for control or dominance.
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Summary
Conflicts also arise when an ethnicity is
divided among more than one country.
Ethnic cleansing is a process in which a
more power ethnic group forcibly removes
a less powerful one in order to create an
ethnically homogenous region.