Ancestry Numbers Identifying Themselves as This Ancestry (millions)
German 47.9 Irish 34.6 English 25.9 Italian 17.2 Polish 9.6 French (except Basque) 8.8 Scottish 5.5
Source: U.S. Census Bureau. (2011). 2005–2009 American Community Survey, B04006 People Reporting Ancestry. 5-Year Estimates (2009). Retrieved from http://search.census.gov/search?q=people+reporting+ancestry+2009& btnG=Search&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0&entqr=0&ud=1&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF_8&ie=UTF_ December 4, 2011.8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&site=census.
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health care providers. The intention is not to create a vehicle for stereotyping but to whet the reader’s appetite to search out more information about the people in their care, given the vast differences among Whites. There are count- less cultural phenomena affecting health care; Table 13–2 suggests a few.
■ German Americans The following material, relating to both the German American and Polish American communities, was obtained from research conducted in southeast- ern Texas in May 1982 and updated over time. It is by no means indicative of the HEALTH and ILLNESS beliefs of the entire German American and Polish American communities. It is included here to demonstrate the type of data that can be gleaned using an “emic” (a description of behavior dependent on the person’s categorization of the action) approach to collecting data. It cannot