Residents of the Americas
Let an agent explain the population of the Americas as a geographic category, relay demographics and national groups from official sources, describe diversity and terminology, and distinguish the continental sense from the United States sense of American.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand Who residents of the Americas are.
Definition
Definition and terminology.
Definition
Definition.
- Who counts as a resident of the Americas, and why is the word American ambiguous? definition
- Is the question about the continents, a region, a specific nationality or the United States? boundary
Groups
National and regional groups.
Groups
Groups.
- What are the main national and regional groups, such as Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Dominicans and Antiguans and Barbudans? definition
- Which entry fits the specific group? action
Demographics Demographics.
Statistics
Statistics.
Statistics
Statistics.
- What are the population, languages and religions of the Americas, from official sources? measurement
- Which references are standard? provenance
Migration
Migration.
Migration
Migration.
- How have migration within and to the Americas shaped populations, with sources? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Diversity Diversity.
Heritage
Heritage.
Heritage
Heritage.
- How do Indigenous, European, African and Asian heritages combine in the peoples of the Americas, as scholars describe? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful and attributed? boundary
Identity
Identity debates.
Identity
Identity.
- What debates surround pan-American, Latin American and national identities, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits Latin American identity? action
Context History and culture.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did settlement, colonisation, slavery and independence shape the peoples of the Americas? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of the Americas? action
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- What shared and distinct cultural traditions exist across the Americas? provenance
- Which entry fits culture of the Americas? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Tobagonians, Trinidadians, Dominicans, Antiguans and Barbudans, Antiguans, Barbudans, Saint Lucians, Arubans, Virgin Islanders, Trinidadians and Tobagonians, West Indians, Caribbean people
What it is Filled
People who live in the Americas, the continents of North and South America and the Caribbean, comprising about a billion inhabitants of 35 sovereign states and many territories, including national groups such as Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Dominicans, and Antiguans and Barbudans, as well as Indigenous peoples, descendants of European settlers, enslaved Africans and Asian migrants; the category is a geographic grouping rather than a single people, and the term American alone is ambiguous between the continents and the United States.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the population of the Americas as a geographic category, relay demographics and national groups from official sources, describe diversity and terminology, and distinguish the continental sense from the United States sense of American.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Two continents and Caribbean
- Indigenous and immigrant heritage
- Linguistic diversity
- Ambiguous terminology
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Stereotype national, ethnic or Indigenous groups.
- Use American to mean only people of the United States in a continental context.
- Give stale statistics as current.
- Erase Indigenous peoples or the descendants of enslaved Africans from descriptions.
Only with a human decision
- Using population data for policy decisions.
May
- Describe the population of the Americas with sources and dates.
- Use the continental sense of American clearly and not confuse it with the United States sense.
- Describe national and Indigenous groups by the names they use.
Moral aspects Filled
- The history of the Americas includes conquest, slavery and displacement that still shape lives.
- Labels carry identity and should be used with care.
Who is affected
- Indigenous peoples
- Afro-descendant communities
- Migrants
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns a population; national statistics offices count residents.
Master systems
- National census registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q22947 - registry parent class
related
- inhabitant - in registry terms
- Americas - the continents
- Latin Americans - as a major subgroup
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas - as original inhabitants
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.residents-of-the-americas
- Wikidata: Q2384959 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384959)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- population of the Americas: about 1.04 billion - UN estimates
- sovereign states: 35 count
- most populous countries: United States, Brazil, Mexico list
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Inhabitants of North and South America and the Caribbean
- National groups such as Trinidadians, Tobagonians, Dominicans, Antiguans and Barbudans; Indigenous and immigrant descent
- Americans in United States usage means US nationals; Latin Americans and Caribbean people are subgroups
- Not a visible object; peoples of two continents.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the category
- relay demographics
- describe diversity and terminology
- distinguish senses of American
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing continental and US senses of American
- Stereotyping national groups
- Stale statistics
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National census categories
- UN regional groupings
- Minority and Indigenous rights frameworks
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a geographic population category.
- North Americans
- Central Americans
- Caribbean peoples such as Trinidadians, Tobagonians, Dominicans, Antiguans and Barbudans
- South Americans
- Latin Americans
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- diasporas within and from the Americas
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q2384959: Residents of the Americas - identity and sense of the item
- Americas - Population and demographic context for the inhabitants of North and South America.
Open questions
- Should Caribbean people and Latin Americans be the primary linked entries?
- How should census sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific Caribbean nationalities; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q2384959/spec.json