what is ethnicity? Explain its elements in boundary maintenance between ethnic groups?
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An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation. Ethnicity is usually an inherited status based on the society in which one lives.
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Ethnicity is a word that describes people identify eachother on the basis of culture , society and natural experience.
In other word we can say that ethnicity also like race, gender , social , political and economic religion.
An ethnic group is defined as that group which shows various types of community of distinct features which is help to differentiate group from the surrounding community.
Some main points are given below:
It's differentiate members of a social groups which is culturally and traditionally different.
People have different types of symbolic marks which diffentiate the community form the other groups. In this it includes food habits, dress, language etc.
Willingness to make relationship with the outsiders so that their boundary of groups will be preserved.
This tells this ethnicity is not really very necessary.
It also shows that how the person shows the ethnicity , when it's birth identity is different.
He adopt new culture , religion and follow their rule where he lives at present.