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An '''Ethnic Group''', also a "Cultural Group" or "Volk" in German is a term used to describe a group of people sharing the same [[culture]]. This often includes sharing the same [[language]], [[religion]], [[history]], [[politics]] and social habits. Many countries have a dominant indigenous ethnic group, like the [[Netherlands]], while others, like the [[Brazil]], have no dominant ethnicity. People from the same ethnic group neccesarily come from the same [[race]].
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An '''Ethnic Group''', also a "Cultural Group" or "Volk" in German is a term used to describe a group of people sharing the same [[culture]]. This often includes sharing the same [[language]], [[religion]], [[history]], [[politics]] and social habits. Many countries have a dominant indigenous ethnic group, like the [[Netherlands]], while others, like the [[Brazil]], have no dominant ethnicity. People from the same ethnic group neccesarily come from the same [[race]]. But, the term is more based on a social not biological construct, after all the ethnic-national identity of a person depends on how they view themselves as member of a single nation, cultural and community through personal feeling, family roots and historical experiences.
 
      
== List of Ethnicities ==
 
== List of Ethnicities ==
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*[[Irish]]
 
*[[Irish]]
 
*[[Italian]]
 
*[[Italian]]
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*[[Jews]] - sometimes an ethnocultural or ethnoreligious identity
 
*[[Latvian]]
 
*[[Latvian]]
 
*[[Lithuanian]]
 
*[[Lithuanian]]
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*[[Welsh]]
 
*[[Welsh]]
 
*[[White Hispanic]]
 
*[[White Hispanic]]
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*[[Yugoslavian]]
    
For various reasons, it is difficult to classify [[European American]]s as an ethnicity.
 
For various reasons, it is difficult to classify [[European American]]s as an ethnicity.
    
[[category:Ethnicities]]
 
[[category:Ethnicities]]

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