Ethnic group

One ethnic group it is a community defined by affinities , and racial. These communities commonly share a social, political structure and a territory.

Ethnic group is used sometimes like a eufemismo stops , or like a synonymous one stops minority group.

is a concept very related to the one of ethnic group, is one of the distinguishing aspects of this one. But whereas ethnic group understands the cultural factors (nationality, affiliation , , faith, , or traditions) and biological of a human group, race specifically alludes to to the distinguishing morphologic factors of those human groups (color of skin, corporal contexture, face stature, characteristics, etc.) developed in its process of adaptation to determined geographic space and ecosystem (climate, altitude, flora, fauna, etc.) throughout several generations.

Ethnic group also is a used term to justify real or imaginary historical bows.

Historically, the word "ethnic group" means "gentile", originating of the Greek adjective "ethnikos."the ethnos adjective is derived from the noun, that means people or foreign nation. The noun let be related to "pagan"at the beginning of century XVIII. The use in the modern sense of the word began in half of .