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Ocean
Atlantic
Ocean
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0
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3000
km.
1: 66000000
Gulf of
Mexico
Gulf of
Alaska
Sea
Caribbean
Bay
Baffin
sea
Labrador
sea
Los Sargazos
Scotia Sea
bay
Hudson
symbology
international border
Inuit
Blackfoot
Iroquois
Apache
pápago
Rarámuri
Nahua
Zapoteca
Maya
Guajiro
Jivara
I otavalo
aymará
Quechua
Mapuche
Guarani
Cayapó
Vapichana
Chippewyan
Cheyenne
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Map Annex, page 192
An ethnic group is a group of people who share scraper
gos cultural, language, religion, celebration of certain holidays,
music, clothing, food type, a history and commonly
mind, a territory. By sharing these traits, members of
a group identify each other and differ from those
They are belonging to another ethnic group.
Cultural minorities
Cultural minorities are human groups sharing element
linguistic, religious and ethnic elements that differ from the great
Most of the population, state or where they live.
When these minorities are from the country where they live,
are called national minorities, and when they come from
other countries and settle in a new region, called them
immigrant minorities. An example of national minority are
Australian Aboriginal groups, representing little more
2.
1%
of the total population; an example of a minority of immigrants are
Chinese and Italian representing around
2%
in that country.
Against this background, it is common mestizo groups dis-
Criminalization ethnic minorities and immigrants.
Look at the map in Annex, on page 192,
they appear some cultural minorities
and answer the following questions:
•
Why the distribution of indige- groups
genas does not match the political division
actual?
•
Which groups are located in more than one
country?
E
The Huichol indigenous group inhabiting
the states of Nayarit and Jalisco.
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