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unusual facts about ethnic groups



Avianca Flight 52

In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, the crash of Flight 52 was discussed in a section on different ethnic groups responses to authority figures.

Candomblé Jejé

The various ethnic groups as Fon, Ewe, Fante, Ashanti, mine to come in Brazil, were called "djedje", deployed here in your worship Salvador, Cachoeira and São Félix in Bahia, and São Luís of Maranhão, then spread itself to several Brazilian states.


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André Milongo

Milongo's government was dominated by members of the Lari and Bakongo ethnic groups.

Art in Sierra Leone

Although most often affiliated with the Mende, these societies are exist widely in the ethnic groups of Sierra Leone including in the Temne, the Kono, the Vai, and Bullom languages communities.

Badawacho

The five largest ethnic groups reported in Badawacho were the Hadiya (82.15%), the Kambaata (5.45%), the Alaba (4.71%), the Welayta (3.77%), and the Oromo (2.05%); all other ethnic groups made up 1.87% of the population.

Châu Thành District, An Giang

The ethnic groups in the area in order of size, are ethnic Vietnamese, Khmer Krom, Cham, and Hoa.

Chiquitano people

A variety of indigenous ethnic groups inhabited the Chiquitanía prior to Spanish arrival, which was marked by the 1559 founding of Santa Cruz de la Sierra at a point far to the east of the city's present location.

Chitwan Valley

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the main part of the Chitwan Valley was under forest and sparsely populated by ethnic groups, such as the Tharu, Danuwar, Darai and Majhi people who had acquired some resistance against the infectious malaria raging the region.

Columbio, Sultan Kudarat

Columbio is inhabited by ethnic groups such as the Ilocanos, Ilonggos, Blaan and Maguindanaon.

Dangur

The four largest ethnic groups reported in Dangur were the Awi (40.5%) a subgroup of the Agaw, Gumuz (34%), the Amhara (16.5%), and the Shinasha (3.3%); all other ethnic groups made up 5.7% of the population.

Demographics of Benin

:African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 10,000

Di people

Di (狄), also called Beidi (北狄) or Northern Di: Zhou Dynasty ethnic groups living in northern China

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (Concordia, Entre Ríos, January 17 1917 - Buenos Aires, July 13, 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups.

Ethnocultural empathy

First, children begin to establish their ethnic identity by distinguishing themselves from other ethnic groups based on physical features.

Fazilka

The Fazilians have ethnic groups hailing from Southern Punjab,Saraiki, Rajasthan, Malwa, and Sahiwal with their own specific dialects.

Franca Arena

She was offered the Order of the British Empire for services to migrants, but refused the honour; in 1980 she accepted the Order of Australia for services to ethnic groups.

Genetic studies on Sri Lankan Tamils

Furthermore, a study looking at genetic variation of the FUT2 gene in the Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhalese population, found similar genetic backgrounds for both ethnic groups, with little genetic flow from other neighbouring Asian population groups.

German-American internment

In 2007, the U.S. Senate passed the Wartime Treatment Study Act, which would examine the treatment of ethnic groups targeted by the U.S. government during World War II.

Hadiya Zone

The four largest ethnic groups reported in Hadiya were the Hadiya (90.04%), the Kambaata (1.96%), the Gurage (1.53%), and the Amhara (1.32%); all other ethnic groups made up 5.15% of the population.

Hibernia

Another occurrence is in familial Hibernian fever or TRAPS (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome), a periodic fever first described in 1982 in a family of Irish and Scottish descent, but found in all ethnic groups.

History of Uganda

The Acholi and Langi ethnic groups were particular objects of Amin's political persecution because they had supported Obote and made up a large part of the army.

Irani

Iranian peoples, ethno-linguistic groups which come from ethnic groups that speak Iranian languages as their mother tongue.

Laotian American

The "national origin" category of Laotian American, which is different than ethnic groups, includes all ethnic groups who lived within the borders of Laos, such as the Hmong, ethnic Chinese, ethnic Vietnamese, and ethnic French or other Europeans.

Lawngtlai district

The inhabitants of the district are mainly the ethnic groups of tribals like Lai and Chakma, who are among the minor tribal communities of Mizoram.

Mechi Zone

The majority of the population in Mechi are Kirantis (Lumbu and Rai) and other ethnic groups like Koche and Meche, and hill castes like Bahun and Chhetris.

Melawi River

The people in upper reaches of the Melawi speak Ot Danum and elsewhere along the river speak variants of the Malay language and the river banks are inhabited by the Malay and Dayak ethnic groups.

Metekel Zone

The five largest ethnic groups reported in the Metekel Zone were the Gumuz (33%), the Amhara (24%), the Oromo (13.4%), the Shinasha (16%), and the Awi (7.6%), a subgroup of the Agew.

The five largest ethnic groups reported in the Metekel Zone were the Gumuz (36.78%), the Shinasha (21.6%), the Amhara (17.39%), the Awi (11.33%), a subgroup of the Agew, and the Oromo (11.09%); all other ethnic groups made up 1.81% of the population.

Millis, Massachusetts

There are many other smaller percentages of several ethnic groups, such as Arab, French, Scottish, Greek, Russian, and Bulgarian, among others.

Misraq Shewa Zone

The five largest ethnic groups reported in Misraq Shewa were the Oromo (69.59%), the Amhara (16.77%), the Soddo Gurage (2.21%), the Kambaata (2%), and the Welayta (1.78%); all other ethnic groups made up 7.65% of the population.

Moxo people

Moxeño ethnic identification derives from the combination of different pre-existing ethnic groups in this mission environment, and includes peoples associated with several different missions: Mojeño-Trinitarios (Trinidad mission), Mojeño-Loretanos (Loreto mission), Mojeño-Javerianos, and Mojeño-Ignacianos (San Ignacio de Moxos mission).

Music of Liberia

The indigenous ethnic groups of Liberia can be linguistically divided into three groups; those in the east who speak the isolate Gola language and the Mel languages (particularly Kissi) and those in the west who speal Kru languages (particularly Bassa).

Northeast China

Various ethnic groups and their respective kingdoms, including the Sushen, Xianbei, and Mohe have risen to power in the Northeast.

October 2013 Burma bombings

Small bomb blasts occurred frequently under previous military regime, and were normally blamed on armed ethnic groups, although many believed the authorities were behind the explosions.

Origins of the Sri Lankan civil war

G. G. Ponnambalam, a leader of the Tamil community, proposed to the Soulbury Commission that there should be 50-50 representation (50% for the Sinhalese, 50% for all other ethnic groups, including Tamils) in the proposed independent Ceylon - a proposal that was rejected.

Pajuçara

People of Latin Europe descent form the largest ethnic groups in the district.

Panchthar District

Panchthar's majority population is that of Kirantis (Limbu, Rais) and other ethnic groups and hill castes.

Racism in Africa

Much of the ethnic conflicts in Kenya tend to usually more often occur only between the nation's larger ethnic groups such as the: Kikuyu, Luhya, Luo and the Kalenjin.

Search for Common Ground

Featuring six children, one from each of Armenian, Christian, Druze, Palestinian, Shiite, and Sunni backgrounds, the show calls attention to the interactions between the different ethnic groups and shows different means of nonviolent conflict resolution.

Semien Omo Zone

The largest ethnic groups reported in this Zone included the Welayta (44.17%), the Gamo (26.65%), the Kullo (10.15%), the Gofa (9.12%), the Basketo (1.87%), the Konta (1.86%), and the Amhara (1.84%); all other ethnic groups made up 4.34% of the population.

Shashamene Zuria

The five largest ethnic groups reported in Shashamene were the Oromo (74.11%), the Amhara (9.26%), the Welayta (5%), the Kambaata (2.3%), and the Soddo Gurage (2.13%); all other ethnic groups made up 7.2% of the population.

Slavery in Bhutan

Outside Bhutan proper, various ethnic groups of the Assam Duars including the Mechi were subject to taxation and slaving such that entire villages were abandoned when the British examined the region in 1865.

Southeastern Nigeria

Before Nigeria became a country through British colonial government, Southeastern Nigeria was a home to many ethnic groups such as the Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ekoi, etc.

Sri Lankan Tamil dialects

These dialects are also used by ethnic groups other than Tamils such as Sinhalese people, Sri Lankan Moors and Veddas, who consider them to be distinct.

Tarakan riot

Minister of Interior Gamawan Fauzi tried to calm the masses by reminding them that the riot was originally an ordinary criminal incident, which accidentally involved two different ethnic groups.

The Americans

Americans, examination of racial and ethnic groups etc. in USA

Time for a Tiger

The action centres on the vicissitudes of Victor Crabbe, a history teacher at an elite school for all the peninsula's ethnic groups – Malay, Chinese and Indian the Mansor School, in Kuala Hantu (modelled on the Malay College at Kuala Kangsar, Perak and Raffles Institution, Singapore).

Timeline of Serer history

Sonko-Godwin, Patience, "Ethnic groups of the Senegambia Region, Sunrise Publishers Ltd (2003), ISBN 9983-9900-6-2

Turnhalle Constitutional Conference

The Turnhalle Conference was attended by 134 members of 11 ethnic groups: Ovaherero, Coloureds, Baster, Tswana, Damara, Ovambo, Caprivians, Nama, Kavango, San, and Whites.

Wenbera

The five largest ethnic groups reported in Wenbera were the Shinasha (33.6%), the Oromo (33.4%), the Gumuz (27%), the Amhara (3.7%), and the Awi (1%) a subgroup of the Agaw; all other ethnic groups made up 1.3% of the population.

Whitny Braun

Braun was born in Redlands, California and raised between Downey, California and Coulterville, California in the Seventh-day Adventist church and is currently an associate scholar of the Seventh-day Advenstist run Center for Christian Bioethics at Loma Linda University, however her writings and opinions most often reflect a secular humanist position and her interests lie in the application of under represented ethnic groups' normative ethics in a clinical setting.

Zebola

It originated among the Mongo people but is also practised among various ethnic groups in Kinshasa.