GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Detailed explanation-1: -Listen to pronunciation. (ETH-nik groop) A group of people who share a similar culture (beliefs, values, and behaviors), language, religion, ancestry, or other characteristic that is often handed down from one generation to the next. They may come from the same country or live together in the same area.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnic origin refers to the ethnic or cultural origins of the person’s ancestors. An ancestor is usually more distant than a grandparent. Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ethnicity has a more striking relationship to language than other social factors such as gender, age, or social class. Thus language is only one factor in the ethno linguistic description of a people, or an ethnic group. Language is a primary characteristic and an always present characteristic of ethnicity.