Cultural Diversity In America

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The purpose of this paper is to explore how ethnicity and how ethnicities that live together share and don’t share culture. Ethnicity is defined on the internet as, “the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.” There are over 133 ethnicities in the world. And in America, there are just as many. Because America is known for being a melting pot, many different ethnicities live within America. Whether they decide to live with people of the same ethnicity or not, is entirely up to them. a

Studies have shown that there has been an increase in the number of multiethnic neighborhoods since the 1990s. What used to be predominantly black or predominantly white neighborhoods, have now become a