During the twentieth century, the world saw an ethnic collective undertaking; both developed and undeveloped countries such as Great Britain, South Africa, Canada, Spain and India were among the countries with several ethnic movements. Ethnic groups are “groups within a larger society that display a unique set of cultural traits” (Marger, 2015, 2012). The collective identity of an ethnic group is an intrinsic part of social life; the identities that make them unique from other ethnicities are built based on experiences and traits. On the other hand, many experts argue that ethnicity, as an occurrence is a socially built mainly as individuals select a particular part of history as well as to focus on their dissimilarity from other ethnicities. Therefore, collective ethnicities do not just focus on the somebody's skin color but also on the values and beliefs of their choice, which also includes religion and political beliefs as well. When an identity is passed on from, one generation to another, this process is called an ethnic collectivity. The main focus will be of the ethnic collectivities and the ethnic categories of the Haitian Americans and African Americans.
An ethnic collectivity is derived from social negotiation in which an identity is aligned with various elements similar to other ethnic categories, which means that some ethnic group are incline to identify with and relate themselves with an another group in order for them to establish an identity; for instance, the case of the Haitian Americans. Haitian Americans originally came from Haiti, which was once under the French rule making them fluent in French and also majority of them are blacks. The Haitian American immigrants that came to the United States assimilated and fully adapted the African American culture. Furthermore, the second generation Haitian Americans see themselves or relates as an African