Ethnicity is a collectioncultural practices, religious dogmas, norms and morals, as well as a number of other characteristics that are inherent in a particular society. Each of us is familiar with a similar definition, but few people thoroughly delve into its essence, origin and nature. Therefore, to dispel all doubts, we will try to consider this issue in the framework of this article.
So ethnicity is, firstline, a feature inherent in a large number of people. The range of this concept includes language, clothing, moral and legal norms, traditions, religion, history (which can be fictional). As we see, all of the above definitions are the fruit of life and even human creativity. They were created so that a certain group of people could have significant differences from another. Consequently, ethnicity is something that is inherent only in a person, a being who has the opportunity to distinguish his personality from the rest, not only on the basis of innate qualities, but also on the basis of acquired ones.
In various parts of our planet throughoutThousands of different ethnic groups have evolved. They had their patrons (natural, fictional or represented by one person), their life and clothes (this factor depended on the region: in the tropics there were enough bamboo huts for living and sheets as clothing, in the north warm houses were built , and as clothing used animal skins), as well as its own dialect, which served as the key to communication. Of course, in the early days of society, all words were fictional and were not recorded on the letter.
Gradually, these communities turned into statesand so formed the definition of ethnicity. It is worth noting immediately that it had nothing to do with racial characteristics and has no today. There are not so many races on Earth: white (Europe), yellow (East), black (Africa) and red (natives of America). However, the number of ethnic groups is very difficult to count, they appear and disappear, some complement others.
Ethnicity is the environment inwhich brought up a particular person. The simplest example can be used to describe the development of a subject of society in Russia. The child belonging to our country and ethnic group speaks Russian from birth, celebrates the New Year (instead of Christmas), eats pancakes and compote. It is also worth noting that, due to the geographical location, we all realize that winter alternates with summer, and in the first case it is worthwhile to dress warmly. A child born in Mexico (if he is Latino and has Spanish roots) speaks Spanish, his usual products are tacos, tortilla and salted, he is used to celebrating Christmas in the family circle and New Year in a noisy company. Of course, the Mexican does not need either a fur coat or a coat, since in this country all seasons are characterized by equally warm weather.
In general, the ethnicity of a persondetermines its type of behavior, temperament, type of thinking. In part, all the traditions of peoples are associated with geographic location, which is why some biological characteristics of people may also depend on them.
