With French support, a reorganization of the armed forces was initiated early in 1991 with the goal of reducing its numbers and making its ethnic composition reflective of the country as a whole.

The demographic situation in Georgia, like that of some other former Soviet republics ( especially Estonia and Latvia ), has been characterized by two prominent features since independence: decline in total population and significant " Georgianization " of the ethnic composition.

Many synagogues in the diaspora, even though Ashkenazi by rite and by ethnic composition, have adopted the " Sephardic " pronunciation in deference to Israeli Hebrew.

The 2009 census figures give the ethnic composition as follows ( out of a total population of 38. 6 million ):

Migration and international conflict have contributed to the present ethnic composition of the country and to the geographic distribution of its ethnic groups.

No natural frontier marks the border, and the ethnic composition, language, value systems, and traditions of the two peoples are nearly identical.

Although it must be pointed out that the ethnic composition of Manchu Banners was far from homogeneous as they included non-Manchu bondservants registered under the household of their Manchu masters.

The demographics of Russia is about the demographic features of the population of the Russian Federation, including population growth, population density, ethnic composition, education level, health, economic status and other aspects.

Therefore, the percentages mentioned above are taken from the total population that declared their ethnicity, given that the non-declared remainder is thought to have an ethnic composition similar to the declared segment.

Following figures show that the ethnic composition of the resident population has been stable over the last 30 years, while non-resident population has boomed.

It influenced the formation of colonies, the perpetuation of slavery, the transition to indentured labour, the migration of peoples, wars between 19th century sugar trade controlling nations and the ethnic composition and political structure of the new world.

As the effects of the new crop increased, so did the shift in the ethnic composition of Barbados and surrounding islands.

The partition of territories in the Balkans by the Great Powers without regard to ethnic composition led to a wave of discontent not only in Bulgaria, but also in its neighbouring countries.

As of 2010, Allegany County had a racial and ethnic population composition of 88. 16 % Non-Hispanic whites, 8. 03 % Blacks, 0. 14 % Native Americans, 0. 76 % Asians, 0. 04 % Pacific Islanders, 0. 08 % Non-Hispanics who reported some other race, 1. 47 % Non-Hispanics who reported two or more races and 1. 44 % Hispanics.

The Malay Peninsula has a long history of international trade contacts, influencing its ethnic and religious composition.

Predominantly Malays before the 18th century, the ethnic composition changed dramatically when the British introduced new industries, and imported Chinese and Indian labor.

The ethnic and racial composition of the population was 40. 1 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 7 % African American, 1. 0 % Asian, 5. 3 % Native American, 0. 3 % non-Hispanics reporting some other race, 5. 4 % reporting two or more races and 51. 9 % Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 50. 4 % Native American, 45. 8 % white, 0. 3 % Asian, 0. 2 % African American and 2. 3 % reporting two or more races.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 34. 9 % non-Hispanic white, 13. 4 % black or African American, 1. 7 % Native American, 0. 7 % Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 0. 1 % non-Hispanic reporting some other race, 2. 7 % reprting two or more races and 49. 2 % Hispanic or Latino.

According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was 93. 1 % Russians ; 1. 2 % Germans ; 0. 9 % Ukrainians ; 0. 9 % Tatars ; 0. 4 % Kazakhs ; 0. 2 % Belarusians ; 0. 4 % Armenians ; 0. 3 % Azeris ; and 0. 5 % Uzbek.

According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition was:

Its ethnic composition is predominantly Russian, but Ukrainians, Tatars, and Chuvash also live in the oblast.

The 2010 Census reported the following ethnic composition:

The ethnic composition is roughly 1, 000, 000 Malay and Bumiputra, 233, 000 Chinese, 68, 500 Indians, 13, 700 others, and 68, 000 non-citizens.

It is thought to occur with similar frequency in both genders, and knows no geographic or ethnic boundaries.

A similar policy applied to the various ethnic and national groups considered subhuman such as Poles, Roma or Russians.

Sweden prohibits hate speech, and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or express disrespect for an ethnic group or similar group regarding their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Rushton describes " ethnic conflict and rivalry " as " one of the great themes of historical and contemporary society ", and suggests that this may have its roots in the evolutionary impact on individuals from groups " giving preferential treatment to genetically similar others.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Women who adopt a lesbian identity share experiences that form an outlook similar to an ethnic identity: as homosexuals, they are unified by the discrimination and potential rejection they face from their families, friends, and others.

Workers ' solidarity means that anarcho-syndicalists believe all workers — no matter their race, gender, or ethnic group — are in a similar situation in regard to their boss ( class consciousness ).

A similar dispute involves the Ogaden, another territory in the Horn of Africa that has traditionally and predominantly been inhabited by ethnic Somalis.

In recent times, separatist aspirations have been growing again in Nigeria, not only by the indigenous people of Biafra but also by other ethnic groups both in the North and in the South, giving a clear sign that Nigeria may not remain the same, but will either be restructured to guarantee self-governance to the six geopolitical regions similar to the Aburi Accord 1967 or break up, disintegrate and go into oblivion like one of the ancient empires we read in history.

Second, to analyze how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in the modern era, when things such as shared religious and ethnic background could no longer be assumed ; to that end he wrote much about the effect of laws, religion, education and similar forces on the society and social integration.

After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.

Up to 65 % of ethnic Russians and a similar percentage of Belarusians and Ukrainians identify themselves as " Orthodox ".

People of ethnic minorities in some areas of the world are sometimes told by an employer to use a pseudonym that is common and / or acceptable in that part of the world when conducting business, as some people might prefer a person of similar ethnic origin or similar background to people of foreign background or foreign ethnicity.

The notion of exclusivity however is challenged by the existence of similar forces working against different social and ethnic groups such as homosexuals and the Roma, which resulted in the victimization and systematic destruction of homosexual lives and lifestyles, as well as those of the Roma.

Workers ' solidarity means that anarcho-syndicalists believe all workers, no matter what their gender or ethnic group, are in a similar situation in regard to their bosses ( class consciousness ).

Although, in general, human beings possess a similar concentration of melanocytes in their skin, the melanocytes in some individuals and ethnic groups more frequently or less frequently express the melanin-producing genes, thereby conferring a greater or lesser concentration of skin melanin.

In any case, ethnic borders in the Cantabrian mountains were not so important after that time, as the clans divisions that permeated the pre-roman societies of all the peoples of Northern Iberia fell under similar political administrative culture impossed on them by the Romans.

Phyles are groups of people often distinguished by shared values, similar ethnic heritage, a common religion, or other cultural similarities.

According to Breitbonde, categorization of communities based on cultural distinctiveness, historical or ethnic identity and socio-political autonomy “ may have brought about the large numbder of distinct Kru dialects ; " Although the natives were in many respects similar in type and tribe, every village was an independent state ; there was also very little intercommunication ".