The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of populations as a shifting landscape made up of different ethnic groups and of what factors cause these populations to change size and location.

• Write your answers directly under each question.
• List your references, if other than the site, directly below the questions
• Pay close attention to your spelling, grammar, and punctuation while you are writing this paper.

Choose an ethnic population — yours or one you are curious about — and a location or locations in the U.S. where this population can be found. explore the available data regarding that population to answer the following questions.

1. Identify the ethnicity and location(s) you chose. Does your ethnicity definition match up to one used by the site?
2. How did the size of this ethnic population change (or not) in the area(s) you chose between 2010 and today?
3. Use the data provided on the site and/or data from other sources to identify some of the influences that might affect the size of this population in this location.
4. Identify data provided on the site and/or data from other sources that you consider to be culturally important to this population in this area and explain why.