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[[File:War and Peace.jpg|thumb|''Guerra y País'' ("war and peace") representing the formation of the Baliscan cultural mosaic]]
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The '''ethnography of Balisca''' is reflects a [[w:cultural mosaic|cultural mosaic]] ("''mosaico cultural''") of various ethnicities. In fact, [[immigration to Balisca]] was so strong that it eventually became the country with the second highest number of immigrants, with 19.8 million, second only to the United States with 27 million, and ahead of such other immigratory receptors such as Argentina, Brazil and Australia.

According to the 2021 Baliscan census, over 450 "ethnic or cultural origins" were self-reported by [[Baliscans]]. The major {{W|Panethnicity|panethnic origin groups}} in Balisca are: [[European Baliscans|European]] (21%), [[Arab Baliscans|Arab]] (14.8%), Asian (9.2%), [[Indigenous peoples in Balisca|Anhangá Indigenous]] (21.1%), [[Afro-Baliscans|African]] (24.8%), Latin, Central and South American (12.5%), Caribbean (2.1%), Oceanian (0.6%), and Other (0.4%). Balista reports that 44.9% of the population reported multiple ethnic origins, thus the overall total is greater than 100%.

The country's ten largest self-reported specific ethnic or cultural origins in 2021 were Baliscan (accounting for 15.6 percent of the population), followed by Catalan (14.7 percent), Italian (12.1 percent), [[Araucaria|Araucarian]] (12.1 percent), Occitan (11.0 percent), Arab (8.1 percent), [[Indigenous peoples in Balisca|Indigenous]] (4.7 percent), [[W:Javanese people|Javanese]] (4.3 percent), [[W:South Asian ethnic groups|South Asian]] (3.7 percent), and [[W:Berbers|Berber]] (3.5 percent).

Following the conclusion of the [[Baliscan War of Independence]], the newborn country had a large territory but was thinly populated, and its ethnic composition was largely the same from the colonial era that had lasted from 16th to early 19th centuries. In the mid-19th century, a large wave of immigration started to arrive due to newly established [[W:Free migration|constitutional policies that encouraged immigration]], and due to issues in the [[w:Old World|Old World]] such as wars, poverty, hunger, social unrest and pursuit for opportunities or a better life in the [[w:New World|New World]]. 

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