As a Northern Igbo city, Enugu shares cultural traits with its neighbouring towns.
Ethnic categories important in Guatemala include the indigenous (Mayan-descended) and ladino (a heterogeneous Spanish-speaking population that shares cultural traits of Hispanic origin and wears western clothing) populations.
This type of trait exhibits a preferential familial clustering that cannot be explained by environmental causes alone, including shared cultural influences, and typically does not display patterns of Mendelian segregation (Acosta et al. 2004).
We know that nationality "indicates a stable community with a shared language, shared geographical region, shared economic life, which is formed by human beings at a certain stage of historical development, and common psychological qualities that are expressed in shared ethnic cultural traits".
Traditionally, Algonquin people shared many cultural traits with the tribes flanking them on the east, the Innu, and with the Ojibwa to the west.
They shared certain cultural traits with their Asian contemporaries, such as the use of fire and domesticated dogs; they do not seem to have used other Old World technologies such as grazing animals, domesticated plants, and the wheel.
Modoc and Klamath, two neighbouring North American Indian tribes who lived in what are now south-central Oregon and northern California, spoke related dialects of a language called Klamath-Modoc (which may be related to Sahaptin), and shared many cultural traits.
Though they share many cultural traits, the tribes have maintained a high degree of isolation and lack cohesion as a single people.
In their new book, The Triple Package, they compare differences in educational qualifications, median household income and occupational status to support their claim that certain American groups – including those of Chinese, Jewish, Cuban and Nigerian descent – are more successful than others because they share certain cultural traits: a superiority complex; inferiority; impulse control.
