What is the nationality or ethnicity?

Definitions

Race	Ethnicity	Nationality
Refers to identification of people into groups based on various sets of physical characteristics	Refers to people who identify themselves based on common ancestral, cultural, national, and social experience	Refers to the country of citizenship

What is the relationship between nationality and ethnicity?

Ethnicity is the state describing the heritage and ancestry. Conversely, Nationality is the legal identity, which is conferred only to a person who is born in the country. While ethnicity arises from a person’s ethnic background, nationality is dominated by the geographical location.

Can you have the same nationality and ethnicity?

Nationality refers to the country of citizenship. Nationality is sometimes used to mean ethnicity, although the two are technically different. People can share the same nationality but be of different ethnic groups and people who share an ethnic identity can be of different nationalities.

Why nationality is important?

The right to a nationality is of paramount importance to the realization of other fundamental human rights. Possession of a nationality carries with it the diplomatic protection of the country of nationality and is also often a legal or practical requirement for the exercise of fundamental rights.

What is ethnicity vs culture?

Culture vs Ethnicity The difference between Culture and Ethnicity is that Culture is a social behavior or customary form followed by people, while Ethnicity is a fact of belonging to a group of people having a common ancestry, food habits, Culture, or physical attributes.

What are examples of ethnicity?

For example, people might identify their race as Aboriginal, African American or Black, Asian, European American or White, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Māori, or some other race. Ethnicity refers to shared cultural characteristics such as language, ancestry, practices, and beliefs.

Is German an ethnicity or nationality?

By tradition, Germanness has always been an ethnic identity, based on shared descent or “blood”. But today Germany is becoming a multi-ethnic society like other Western countries.

What is the right to a nationality?

The right to a nationality is a fundamental human right. It implies the right of each individual to acquire, change and retain a nationality.

Can you have no nationality?

But it raises the question of what it means to be stateless. In simple terms it means having no nationality. Most people acquire nationality at birth by being born in a place or by inheriting their parents’ nationality. But the UN estimates that at least 10 million people are stateless.