Glossary of Ethnicities Used in This Article

African	Person with ancestral origins who self-identifies, or is identified, as African, and excludes other ancestral origins. This term is the preferred description for more specific categories, e.g., African American.
African American	Person with ancestral origins who self-identifies, or is identified, as African American.
	The term most often applies to those whose origins are in sub-Saharan Africa. Most African Americans are descendants of slavery and are different from those coming from Africa or the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (distant and recent ancestry).
Chinese	Person with ancestral origins in China who self-identifies, or is identified, as Chinese.
South Asian	Person with ancestry in countries of the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.