What ethnic group has the people of India belong to?

Although there is no biological evidence of a 'race', ethnicity defined in the dictionary as follows: "An ethnic group or ethnicity is a human population whose members identify with each other, either on the basis of a common genealogy or ancestry is or recognition by others as a distinct group, or common cultural traits, linguistic, religious, or physical. "This question is asked in surveys, censuses and many application forms. PS There is no biological evidence of" race ", for 99.9 percent of all people are equal in the DNA make-up despite their appearance. New studies have shown that the variation of 10% of genes in the human population, unprocessed in different ethnic populations. This means that 10% of the population of the same ethnic group may be different or not!

India is an ancient country. Suppose if 5000 years from now there will be a new place, where people emigrate. What would you call U.S. immigrants? Definitely, immigrants U.S. can not be classified as Americans when ethnicity is concerned. Why? Americans are people of the USA, Canada, Mexico and Latin South. Classify people of India as the Asian regional correct perhaps, but takes no account of their ethnicity. U.S. Immigrants can not be classified U.S. and U.S. either. Why? U.S. American is a nationality, not ethnicity. Similarly, when it comes to ethnicity, one person in the India can not be ranked as India. Therefore, India is a nationality, not ethnicity. According to the U.S. Department States, people of India can classified in these ethnic groups: Indo-Aryan 72% Dravidian 25% Mongoloid 2%, other 1%. " Since my great-grandparents were from India and I am a citizen U.S. 3rd generation, I always use the information from the U.S. State Department to fill the part of any application ethnicity.

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