An ethnicity is a group of people of common race or religion or who speak the same language. Those such a group have strong common characteristics and differences from other groups. The most common classification of ethnicity is race. A key aspect of an ethnicity is the cultural traditions that belong to it.

The term ‘culture’ is often defined as a group of people with certain values, beliefs, ideas, traditions and knowledge inherited by each generation. Cultures usually have obvious characteristics, often artistic, academic or social. Each culture follows rituals and looks to a varied mediums and forms of expression.