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• Ethnic group


  A unit of population having unique characteristics in relation to others and united in common language, myth of origin, and history of ethnic allegiance
• Ethnic group


  • Formed based on belief in common descent and shared by its members, extends beyond kinship, and political solidarity in relation to other groups
  • Represented by common customs, language, religion, values, morality, and etiquette
• Ethnic group (according to B. Anderson)


  An "imagined community" that possesses a "character and quality"
• Ethnic group (according to Schermerhorn)


  A unit of population having unique characteristics in relation to others and united in common language, myth of origin, and history of ethnic allegiance
• Ethnic categories are created out of the contact between groups


  Trying to understand ethnic groups as isolated from each other is as absurd as speaking of sound from clapping one hand
• Ethnic group (according to F. Barth)


  A self-identified group based on subjective factors or fundamental cultural values as they chose from their past history or existing conditions at present of which members are aware of-and-in contact with other ethnic groups
• Ethnic group (according to F. Barth)


  • In a context of inter-ethnic interaction, group distinctiveness depends on identification of self and ascription by others
  • Members of a certain ethnic group are evaluated in accordance with their 'performance' of the value standards and 'possession' of diacritical features that represent the group against other
• Ethnic group


  Defined as result of group interaction, where members of a group keep their social solidarity, and identified themselves as belonging to specific group on the basis of subjective communalities (language, myth of origin, and shared cultural entities) that defined in reference with others
• Ethnic group


  • Constitute an identity as defined by outsiders who do not belong to the group and the "insiders" who belong to the same group
  • Identification with the group is the base for mobilization of group consciousness and solidarity which would result in political activities
• Six main features of ethnic group (according to Hutchinson and Smith)


  • Common proper name, used to identify and express the "essence" of the community
  • Myth of common ancestry that includes the idea of common origin in time and place that gives an ethnic group a sense of fictive kinship
  • Shared historical memories, or, shared memories of a common past including heroes, events, and the commemoration
  • One or more elements of common culture, which need not be specified but normally, include religion, customs, and language
  • A link with a homeland, not necessarily its physical occupation by the ethnic group, but only symbolic attachment to the ancestral land, as the case of people of the diaspora
  • A sense of solidarity at least in some sections of the ethnic group population