GEO-1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Polish Americans, Janjaweed, Kurdufan
Document Summary
Ethnicity is identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. It is often confused with race, which traditionally has been thought of as identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor. The distribution of persons of color matters to geographers because it is a factor that affects many activities of daily life. The us census shows the difficulty in distinguishing between ethnicity and race. President barack obama illustrates the complexity of designating race and ethnicity in the us. Like in the us, brazil is composed of people whose ancestors emigrated from many places. Genetic studies show that roughly 70% of brazilians have predominately. Asian americans are clusters in the west. Voluntary migration from latin america and asia. Most hispanics and asian americans were recent immigrants, but currently are children or grandchildren of immigrants.
