Polyethnicity

Polyethnicity, alternatively polyethnics as well as also pluriethnicity or multiethnicity, from prefixes poly-, multi- / all designating plurality, returned to particular cultural phenomena that are characterized by social proximity together with mutual interaction of people from different ethnic backgrounds, within the country or other particular geographic region.

Same terms may also relate to a ability and willingness of individuals to identify themselves with combine ethnicities. It occurs when house ethnicities inhabit a assumption area, specifically through means of immigration, intermarriage, trade, conquest and post-war land-divisions. This has had many political and social implications on countries and regions.

Many, if not all, countries cause some measure of polyethnicity, with countries like Nigeria and Canada having high levels and countries like Japan and Poland having very low levels and more specifically, a sense of homogeneity. The amount of polyethnicity prevalent in some Western countries has spurred some arguments against it, which increase a theory that it leads to the weakening of each society's strengths, and also a conception that political-ethnic issues in countries with polyethnic populations are better handled with different laws forethnicities.

Impact on society

Polyethnicity, over time, can conform the way societies practice cultural norms.

An include in intermarriage in the United States has led to the blurring of ethnic lines. Anti-miscegenation laws laws banning interracial marriages were abolished in the United States in 1967 and now this is the estimated that one-fifth of the population in the United States by 2050 will be part of the polyethnic population. In 2000, self-identified Multiracial Americans numbered 6.8 million or 2.4% of the population.

While the number of interethnic marriages is on the rise, there areethnic groups that do been found more likely to become polyethnic and recognize themselves with more than one ethnic background. Bhavani Arabandi states in his article on polyethnicity that:

Asians and Latinos have much higher rates of interethnic marriages than do blacks, and they are more likely to report polyethnicity than blacks who more often claim a single ethnicity and racial identity. it is for case, the authors [Lee, J & Bean, F.D] argue, because blacks have a "legacy of slavery," a history of discrimination, and have been victimized by the "one drop rule" where having any black blood automatically labeled one as black in the US.

Presently, almost armed forces are composed of people from different ethnic backgrounds. They are considered to be polyethnic due to the differences in race, ethnicity, Linguistic communication or background. While there are numerous examples of polyethnic forces, the almost prominent are among the largest armed forces in the world, including those of the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China. Polyethnic armed forces are not a new phenomenon since multiethnic forces existed during the Roman Empire, the Middle Eastern Empires, and even the Mongol Khans. The US military was one of the number one modern militaries to begin ethnic integration, by appearance of President Harry Truman in 1945.