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Ethan Guo

Ethan Guo, American teen pilot and influencer, attempted the youngest solo flight to all seven continents for St. Jude cancer fundraising; stranded in Chilean Antarctica in 2025 after an unauthorized Cessna 182Q landing, charges dropped via a $30,000 donation agreement.

Ethel Caterham

Ethel Caterham (née Collins, born 21 August 1909) is an English supercentenarian, the world's oldest verified living person since April 2025 and the first Briton to reach 117.

Ethel Kennedy

Ethel Skakel Kennedy (1928-2024), American human rights activist, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, mother of 11 children, founder of RFK Human Rights, and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Ethical naturalism

Ethical naturalism, or moral naturalism, is the metaethical view that moral facts are stance-independent natural facts within a scientific worldview. Key figures include Moore, Foot, and the Cornell realists; central debates involve the open question argument and normativity.

Ethics

Ethics, also called moral philosophy, is the branch of philosophy investigating what is right and wrong and whether moral judgments are objective or subjective, with branches including normative, applied, and metaethics.

Ethiopian Jews in Israel

Beta Israel (ביתא ישראל), Ethiopian Jews in Israel: 171,600 residents of Ethiopian origin in 2023, brought mainly by Operations Moses (1984–85) and Solomon (1991); recognized as Jews in 1973 by Ovadia Yosef after a Radbaz-era precedent, with contested giyur le-humra conversions and documented gaps in education, policing, and integration.

Ethiopian refugees in Sudan

Ethiopian refugees in Sudan were populations who crossed into eastern Sudan from the 1970s through the 1980s, fleeing conflict, drought, and the famine of 1984–85 in northern Ethiopia.

Ethiopian World Federation

The Ethiopian World Federation (EWF) is a Pan-African organization founded in New York City in 1937 at Emperor Haile Selassie's request to unite Black support for Ethiopia.

Ethnic and Racial Minorities

Ethnic and racial minorities are socially constructed groups differing in race, color, or cultural or religious origin from the dominant group; minority status reflects power, not headcount.

Ethnic enclave

An ethnic enclave, also called an ethnic neighborhood, is an area where an immigrant or ethnic group is clustered and distinct from the majority around it.

Ethnic groups in Afghanistan

Ethnic groups in Afghanistan: Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Aimaq, Turkmen, Baluch and smaller communities; no census since 1979, estimated shares, languages, and Taliban-era representation.

Ethnic groups in Asia

Ethnic groups in Asia: the culturally and linguistically defined communities of a 48-country continent holding three-fifths of humanity. Covers census classification practices, colonial legacies, genetic studies such as GenomeAsia 100K, and contested "Asian" labels abroad.

Ethnic groups in Europe

Ethnic groups in Europe: communities defined by shared origins, language, religion, or customs. No agreed statistical definition exists; western Europe largely avoids ethnic statistics, while estimates count 19 million Muslims, 8 million Black Europeans, and 7 million Roma.

Ethnic groups in Indonesia

Ethnic groups in Indonesia (suku): over 600 self-identified peoples counted in the 2000 and 2010 censuses. Javanese 40.1% and Sundanese 15.5% dominate; more than 700 languages are spoken.

Ethnic groups in London

Ethnic groups in London: the self-identified ethnic composition of London recorded by the ONS census. 2021: 8.80M residents, 54% White, 21% Asian, 14% Black; White British 36.8%, Newham 69% minority-ethnic.

Ethnic groups in Nepal

Ethnic groups in Nepal: 142 caste/ethnic groups recorded in the 2021 census, no majority group; largest are Kshetri (16.45%) and Hill Brahmin (11.29%); 124 mother tongues; caste-derived groups genetically South Asian, Newar and Magar East Asian-affine.

Ethnic groups in Russia

Ethnic groups in Russia: over 100 self-identified ethnicities besides the roughly 80–82 percent Russian majority, counted by census self-identification since 1897, concentrated in North Caucasus, Volga, and Siberian homelands.

Ethnic groups in South Africa

Ethnic groups of South Africa: black African (81.4%, Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Tsonga, Venda nations), Coloured (8.2%), white (7.3%, Afrikaner and English), Indian/Asian (2.7%) in the 2022 census, shaped by apartheid-era racial classification.

Ethnic groups in the Philippines

Ethnic groups in the Philippines: descent-based census categories (2020 CPH, 108.67 million household population) led by Tagalog 26.0%, Bisaya/Binisaya 14.3%; IPs 9.1%, Muslim tribes 6.5%, foreign ethnicity 0.2%.

Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom

Ethnic groups in the UK: self-identified census categories, first asked in 1991, collected separately by ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland) and NISRA (Northern Ireland). 2021-22 results show 81.7% White in England and Wales, 12.9% minority ethnic in Scotland.

Ethnic groups of Japan

The ethnic groups of Japan are the Yamato majority, the indigenous Ainu and Ryukyuans, long-settled Zainichi Koreans and Burakumin, and foreign residents exceeding 3.9 million.

Ethnic groups of Pakistan

Ethnic groups of Pakistan: Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Saraikis, Muhajirs, Baloch and smaller communities. The census records mother tongue, not ethnicity; 2023 shares were Punjabi 36.98%, Pashto 18.15%, Sindhi 14.31%.

Ethnic minorities in China

Ethnic minorities in China (shaoshu minzu): the 55 officially recognized non-Han groups alongside the Han majority, fixed by the 1950s minzu shibie classification project, 8.9% of the population, governed by regional autonomy and affirmative-action policies.

Ethnic nationalism in Japan

Ethnic nationalism in Japan defines the nation by shared blood, descent, culture, and language rather than citizenship. Key elements: the kokutai doctrine, the nihonjinron homogeneity myth, minority exclusion, and Sanseito's 2025 electoral rise.

Ethnic origins of people in Canada

Ethnic origins of people in Canada: census-reported ancestral origins of Canadians' ancestors, asked since 1871. The 2021 Census recorded over 450 origins, top ones being Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish, and French; 2021 data are not comparable with earlier censuses.

Ethnicities in Iran

Ethnicities in Iran: Persians, Azeri Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Baluch, Arabs, Turkmen, and smaller groups. No official ethnic census since 1976; estimates vary widely, with religion and language overlapping geography.

Ethnicity

Ethnicity: a social identity marking shared culture, ancestry, and belonging, distinguished from race as cultural rather than biological; from Greek ethnos, theorized by Weber and Barth, and measured differently by national censuses such as the US OMB standards.

Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism is the tendency to judge other cultures by one's own group's standards and regard one's ingroup as central and superior. Coined in use by Sumner's Folkways (1906), it spans ingroup favoritism, measures like GENE and CETSCALE, and links to conflict, threat, and nationalism.

Ethnographic analysis

Ethnographic analysis is a qualitative social-science method that describes a community's culture, practices, and social meanings through prolonged immersion, participant observation, and systematic fieldnote writing.

Ethnography

Ethnography, also called ethnographic research, is the study and written description of a culture or society through participant-observation, and is the primary method of social and cultural anthropology.