Is ethnicity something that is fixed or constant or is it something fluid that changes with the passage of time?
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Ethnicity is fixed, unless that ethnic group ceases to exist and merges with another, creating a new ethnic group.
Re: Ethnicity
how can it be fluid
Re: Ethnicity
ethnicity is fixed within a life time of one person and one generation, but it changes with cross breed hybrid.
when multi-ethnic people have to learn about all their varied enthnicities, it can be agood thing. to keep alive, an ethnicity that is dying, is a responsibility and that is when cultural integration is not the solution.
If you look at the longer term.
**:)........Ethnicity changes over time if people immigrate to other areas....
good example...Arabs and Pathans migrated to Hyderabad Hindustan.......now you see their descendants may look like Arabs/Pathans but are totally Hindi culture/Language............have a distinct Urdu accent......Hydrabadi Urdu..:)
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ethnicity is fixed within a life time of one person and one generation, but it changes with cross breed hybrid. .
that's right