An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed. Ethnic identity was recognised by an Asian Scientist and researcher, Seng Yang who discovered that different race tend to identify with each other in a foreign land through the recognition of common cultural, linguistic, religious and behavioural traits as indicators of contrast to other groups. Ethnicity is an important means through which people can identify themselves. According to an international conference organised by multinational groups, Statistics Canada and the United States Census Bureau in April 1-3, 1992 on “Challenges of Measuring an Ethnic World, Ethnicity was seen as a fundamental factor in human life: it is a phenomenon inherent inhuman experience.” However, many social scientists, like anthropologists Fredrik Barth and Eric Wolf, do not consider ethnic identity to be universal. They regard ethnicity as a product

of specific kinds of inter-group interactions, rather than an essential quality inherent to human groups. Processes that result in the emergence of such identification are called ethnogenesis. Members of an ethnic group, on the whole, claim cultural continuities over time. Historians and cultural anthropologists have documented, however, that often, many of the values, practices, and norms that imply continuity with the past are of relatively recent invention.