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.
- Identify the ethnicity and location(s) you chose. Does your ethnicity definition match up to one used by the site?
- How did the size of this ethnic population change (or not) in the area(s) you chose between 2010 and today?
- 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.
- 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.