In the collectivity of immigrants from a region of the world and their descendants are called "ethnic groups" often despite their lack of internal cohesion and common institutions and their inability to transmit language to the next generation. Immigrants are socialized into identifying as a member of one of the list of "ethnic groups" with various "traditions" which, although often of recent invention, appeal to some notion of the past. Thus Mexican nationals, upon crossing the border, sometimes become ...

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Ethnic group, Ethnic group - In the West, Ethnic group - Ethnicity

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In the United States, the collectivity of immigrants from a region of the world and their descendants are called "ethnic groups" often despite their lack of internal cohesion and common institutions and their inability to transmit language to the next generation. Immigrants are socialized into identifying as a member of one of the list of "ethnic groups" with various "traditions" which, although often of recent invention, appeal to some notion of the past. Thus Mexican nationals, upon crossing th ...

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Ethnic group, Ethnic group - In the West, Ethnic group - Ethnicity

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The term "ethnic cleansing" has come to mean the displacement or expulsion from a territory of one ethnic group by another. The displacement is usually forcible, though there are examples of voluntary or compensated ethnic cleansing. The 20th century has seen numerous cases, particularly in Europe and the Middle East. Ethnic cleansing - Older examples. In Canada the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755 from their ancestral lands in Nova Scotia or Acadia by the British military because of the Fren ...

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Ethnic cleansing is designated a crime against humanity in international treaties, such as that which created the International Criminal Court (ICC). The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was set up in a similar spirit, and prosecutes these crimes under more generic names. The United Nations' General Assembly condemns "ethnic cleansing" and racial hatred in a 1992 resolution [5]. The emergence of ethnic cleansing as a distinct category of war crime has been a somewhat complex process. Each individ ...

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The purpose of ethnic cleansing is to remove the conditions for potential and actual opposition, whether political, terrorist, guerrilla or military, by physically removing any potentially or actually hostile ethnic communities. Although it has sometimes been motivated by a doctrine that claim an ethnic group is literally "unclean" (as in the case of the Jews of medieval Europe), more usually it has been a rational (if brutal) way of ensuring that total control can be asserted over an area. The campaign in Bosnia in early 1992 was a case in ...

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About 90% of the Amhara are rural and make their living through farming, mostly in the Ethiopian highlands. Prior to the 1974 revolution, absentee landlords maintained strict control over their sharecropping tenants, often allowing them to accumulate crippling debts. After 1974, the landlords were replaced by local government officials, who play a similar role. Barley, corn, millet, wheat, sorghum and teff, along with beans, peppers, chick-peas and other vegetables are the most important crops; in the highlands one crop per year is normal, while in the lowlands two are pos ...

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Amhara ethnicity, Amhara ethnicity - Agriculture, Amhara ethnicity - Religion, Amhara ethnicity - Art, Amhara ethnicity - History

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The Assyrian Empire regularly deported entire ethnic groups, as did the Babylonians; victims of this policy most famously include the Israelites of Israel in 722 BC and the Israelites of Judah in 586 BC (see Babylonian captivity of Judah). In some instances, the expulsion of Jews had some features of ethnic cleansing, especially if accompanied by violence and enacted on the whole territory of the state. Jews were expelled from England (1290), France (1306), Hungary (1349–1360), Provence (1394 and 1490), Austria (1421), Spain after t ...

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During more recent times, ethnic cleansing has often been used during colonisation projects. In North America, British and American settlers ethnically cleansed millions [citation needed] of Native Americans, forcibly relocating them to remote and often inhospitable reservation land. In southern Africa and Australia, native tribes were removed from their lands so that they could be replaced by white farmers and settlers. The colonization of the Americas by European powers, particularly Spain and Britain. This l ...

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Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Aeta Negrito. Aeta (Negritos), (in Filipino, Ayta, Aeta, Ita, Ata, Agta, Remontado, Baluga, or Remontado): the Aetas are descended from the Negritos and Australoid-Sakais who first settled the archipelago during the Ice Age. They are the poorest and most disadvantaged class of the Filipino population. Their numbers have been decreasing rapidly and are estimated to number between 20,000 and 30,000, or 0.03% of the population ...

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The term "ethnic cleansing" has come to mean the displacement or expulsion from a territory of one ethnic group by another. The displacement is usually forcible, though there are examples of voluntary or compensated ethnic cleansing. The 20th century has seen numerous cases, particularly in Europe and the Middle East. During more recent times, ethnic cleansing has often been used during colonisation projects. In North America, British and American settlers ethnically cleansed millions [citation needed] of Native Amer ...

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The purpose of ethnic cleansing is to remove the conditions for potential and actual opposition, whether political, terrorist, guerrilla or military, by physically removing any potentially or actually hostile ethnic communities. Although it has sometimes been motivated by a doctrine that claim an ethnic group is literally "unclean" (as in the case of the Jews of medieval Europe), more usually it has been a rational (if brutal) way of ensuring that total control can be asserted over an area. The campaign in Bosnia in early 1992 was a case in ...

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Ethnic cleansing is designated a crime against humanity in international treaties, such as that which created the International Criminal Court (ICC). The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was set up in a similar spirit, and prosecutes these crimes under more generic names. The United Nations' General Assembly condemns "ethnic cleansing" and racial hatred in a 1992 resolution [3]. The emergence of ethnic cleansing as a distinct category of war crime has been a somewhat complex process. Each individ ...

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The Assyrian Empire regularly deported entire ethnic groups, as did the Babylonians; victims of this policy most famously include the Israelites of Israel in 722 BC and the Israelites of Judah in 586 BC (see Babylonian captivity of Judah). Elsewhere, the Bantu expansion and Arab conquests are other examples of systematic expulsions. The migration of Caribs led to the displacement of indigenous Arawaks, but they themselves were later defeated and expelled. Mongols, Turks, and Russians have instigated var ...

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Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Negritos. The first people to come to the Philippines are the Negritos, the ancestors of today's Aeta people of the Philippines. They are considered as the aborigines of the East Indies, and are related to the Orang Asli people of Malaysia, and to the Andamanese islanders of the Andaman and Nicobar islands of India. They are largely independent and live separately of the rest of the Filipinos who are descendants of later arriving peoples. Ethni ...

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Ethnic groups in the Philippines, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - History, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Negritos, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Senoi Australoid Sakai, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Austronesians, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Southern Chinese, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Successive immigration, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Filipino Ethnic Groups, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Aeta Negrito, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Austronesian-Southern Chinese, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Filipino-Mestizo, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - European-Filipino, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Asian-Filipino, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - American-Filipino, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Other Mestizos, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Foreign Ethnic Groups, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - East Asians, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Americans, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - South Asians, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Europeans, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - West Asians, Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Notes

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Minnesotan accent, where vowels are usually elongated. Minoplis (Dominican Republic) Very dark-skinned Dominicans or all Haitians, deriving from the expression "me no, please", refering to the beg for life of a person who's going to be executed (derives probably from the English punch-line of a joke, whose origin might have been during the U.S. intervention of the D.R. in 1916-1924). Mingita  (U.K.) Lesbian Indian/Muslim young woman, used offensively. From "minge" (female pubic hair ...

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Because of the independence of local communities, Jewish "ethnicities", even when they circumscribe differences in liturgy, language, cuisine and other cultural accoutrements, are more often a reflection of geographic and historical isolation from other communities. It is for this reason that communities are referred to by referencing the historical region in which the community cohered when discussing their practices, regardless of where those practices are found today. The Jewish communities of the modern world can all be found represented today in Israel, ...

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Minnesotan accent, where vowels are usually elongated. Minoplis (Dominican Republic) Very dark-skinned Dominicans or all Haitians, deriving from the expression "me no, please", refering to the beg for life of a person who's going to be executed (derives probably from the English punch-line of a joke, whose origin might have been during the U.S. intervention of the D.R. in 1916-1924). Mingita  (U.K.) Lesbian Indian/Muslim young woman, used offensively. From "minge" (female pubic hair ...

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List of ethnic slurs, List of ethnic slurs - 0–9, List of ethnic slurs - A, List of ethnic slurs - B, List of ethnic slurs - C, List of ethnic slurs - D, List of ethnic slurs - E, List of ethnic slurs - F, List of ethnic slurs - G, List of ethnic slurs - H, List of ethnic slurs - I, List of ethnic slurs - J, List of ethnic slurs - K, List of ethnic slurs - L, List of ethnic slurs - M, List of ethnic slurs - N, List of ethnic slurs - O, List of ethnic slurs - P, List of ethnic slurs - Q, List of ethnic slurs - R, List of ethnic slurs - S, List of ethnic slurs - T, List of ethnic slurs - U, List of ethnic slurs - V, List of ethnic slurs - W, List of ethnic slurs - X, List of ethnic slurs - Y, List of ethnic slurs - Z

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Foreign minorities in the Philippines are estimated to account for a combined 3% of the population. Some are recent immigrants and their Philippine-born children, but most (examples are the Chinese and the Spaniards) have long-spanning histories in the country as independent communities. Most have assimilated much of the mainstream ethnic Filipino culture, and harbor a shared loyalty to both their Filipino nationality and independent community identity and continuity.

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Organised persecution of ethnic Germans - Australia. Persecution of ethnic Germans was much the same in Australia as it was in the United States during World War I. Many were interned for the duration of the war and others faced hostility from their fellow citizens. To avoid persecution, many Germans changed their names into anglicised or Francophone variants. Organised persecution of ethnic Germans - Germany. The book Other Losses by James Bacque (ISBN 1551681919) alleg ...

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Mitsogho People: The Mitsoghos are the people of the Massifs de Chaillu mountains in the Ngounié province of Gabon. Tsogho is their language, hence the name Mi-Tsoghos (where the prefix "Mi" means plural). They are a relatively small ethnic group who are revered and feared for their abilities in conjuring spirits from the afterworld. They may represent the first non-Baka Pygmees of the entire area. This knowlegde can be extrapolated from the widespread usage of Mitsogho words and customs especially pertaining to the animistic religio ...

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Ethnic groups in Gabon, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Estuaire, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Haut Ogooué, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Moyen Ogooué, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Ngounié, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Nyanga, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Ogooué-Ivindo, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Ogooué-Lolo, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Ogooué-Maritime, Ethnic groups in Gabon - Woleu Ntem

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The Balkan Wars resulted in drastic changes to Macedonia's demographics after the Ottomans were forced out of the region. Ottoman Macedonia was carved up between the Balkan nations, with its northern parts coming under Serbian rule, the southern under Greece and the northeastern under Bulgaria. The territory of the present-day Republic of Macedonia came under the direct rule of Serbia (and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and was sometimes termed "southern Serbia", and it officially, together with a large portion of today's southern ...

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The Balkan Wars resulted in drastic changes to Macedonia's demographics after the Ottomans were forced out of the region. Ottoman Macedonia was carved up between the Balkan nations, with its northern parts coming under Serbian rule, the southern under Greece and the northeastern under Bulgaria. The territory of the present-day Republic of Macedonia came under the direct rule of Serbia (and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and was sometimes termed "southern Serbia", and it officially, together with a large portion of today's southern ...

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