India

Ethnic Differences

India's ethnic complexity sets it very for apart from the United States and also other

countries. India is a place that has so much ethnicity that the country needs to be looked at as not

just another nation but as a major factor in the worlds ethnic civiliation.

India's population is estimated at about 954.5 million which is a large difference when compared to the United States population of about 284.8 million, such a large populaton is a great factor of showing why there is so much ethnicity in India and shows how its system of values have always encouraged diversity in ethnicity. Almost 8 percent of India's population, which is about 65 million people that belong to social groups recognized by the government as Scheduled Tribes with social structures that set themselves far apart and making them very different from the rest of society. Ethnicity also comes form India's "regionalism" which means that different regions and states opposed the central government so that some regions may have more power than others. The language of India makes up a great deal of ethnicity the languages belong to four major families the Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-European family), Dravidian, Austroasiatic (Austric), and Sino-Tibetan, with such a large the majority of the population speaking languages belonging to the first two families. (A fifth family, Andamanese, is spoken by only a couple of hundred people among the indigenous tribal people on the Andaman Islands. The four major families are all very different from each other not just in their form but also the way they are constructed most of the more widely used Indian languages also exist in a number of different forms or dialects that are based upon where one lives and what the social patterns that are about 75 major languages that are within a total of 325 languages used in India. This is a big difference when compared to the United States of America where English and Spanish are the primary spoken languages even though others are spoken it is only a small percentage.

Some people think of India as a country were there are people running around with speers and arrows with no technology and not americanized but the truth is that tribal people make up only about 8 percent of the nation's total population, which is nearly 68 million people a small number when compared to 284.8 million people that live there. One of the Indian tribes that do exist live in a belt along the Himalayas stretching through Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh in the west, to Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland in the northeast. Another tribe lives in the hilly areas of central India (Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and, to a lesser extent, Andhra Pradesh); in this belt, which is bounded by the Narmada River to the north and the Godavari River to the southeast, tribal peoples occupy the slopes of the region's mountains. Other tribals, the Santals, live in Bihar and West Bengal. There are smaller numbers of tribal people in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala, in western India in Gujarat and Rajasthan, and in the union territories of Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The extent to which a state's population is tribal varies considerably. In the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland, upward of 90 percent of the population is tribal. However,