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Norwegian Americans are primarily descendants of 19th or early 20th century working class and rural Norwegians, and the traditions which these immigrants brought with them represented a specific segment of the Norwegian population and cultural period. As these traditions continued to evolve in an American context, they are today divergent from ...
Pakistani Norwegians are Norwegians of Pakistani descent, 65.23% of Pakistanis in Norway live in the capital Oslo. [2] First-generation Pakistani Norwegians, who migrate from Pakistan, are distinguished from the mainstream in several demographic aspects, while second-generation Pakistani Norwegians, who are born in Norway, are well established in Norway and have gone on to become professionals ...
Sámi Americans were generally given the same privileges as other white Americans, although within Nordic migrant communities they were recognized and discriminated against. In order to avoid discrimination and conform to Anglo-American cultural norms, very few first-generation immigrants were open about their ethnicity. [2]
Category: Norwegian people of Asian descent. 4 languages. ... Norwegian people of Indian descent (3 C, 13 P) Norwegian people of Iranian descent (2 C, 10 P)
Norwegians (Norwegian: Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population. They share a common culture and speak the Norwegian language . Norwegians are descended from the Norse of the Early Middle Ages who formed a unified Kingdom of Norway in the 9th century.
Hindoestanen, people of South Asian origin in Dutch-speaking countries (Suriname and the Netherlands). The name comes from a Dutch language inflection of the Persian term Hindustan, an alternative name for either the modern Republic of India, the whole Indian subcontinent, or the areas from which Hindi speakers historically originated.
The Norwegian Emigrant Museum in Hamar, Norway is dedicated to "collecting, preserving and disseminating knowledge about Norwegian emigration, and to the preservation of cultural ties between Norway and those of Norwegian ancestry throughout the world," according to the museum's website, which states that a million Norwegians emigrated to other ...
As of 2014, an official study showed that 4,081,000 people or 79.9% of the total population were Norwegians having no migrant background (both of their parents were born in Norway) [19] and more than 759,000 individuals (14.9%) [19] were immigrants—or descendants of recent immigrants—from neighbouring countries and the rest of the world. A ...