Bostonians come from a huge variety of backgrounds, including Native people, people whose ancestors immigrated hundreds of years ago, and brand new arrivals. The City-Wide Dialogues project looks forward to welcoming people of all backgrounds to learn more about one another and our richly varied cultures and experiences. In the 2000 Census, Boston residents identified their race, tribe, national origin, or ancestry in the following 171 ways:
  1. Acadian/Cajun
  2. Afghan
  3. African
  4. Alaskan Athabascan
  5. Albanian
  6. Aleut
  7. Alsatian
  8. Apache
  9. Arab/Arabic
  10. Argentinean
  11. Armenian
  12. Asian Indian
  13. Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac
  14. Athabascan
  15. Australian
  16. Austrian
  17. Bahamian
  18. Bangladeshi
  19. Barbadian
  20. Basque
  21. Belgian
  22. Belizean
  23. Blackfeet
  24. Bolivian
  25. Brazilian
  26. British
  27. British West Indian
  28. Bulgarian
  29. Cambodian
  30. Canadian
  31. Cape Verdean
  32. Celtic
  33. Cherokee
  34. Cheyenne
  35. Chickasaw
  36. Chilean
  37. Chinese
  38. Chippewa
  39. Choctaw
  40. Colombian
  41. Colville
  42. Comanche
  43. Costa Rican
  44. Cree
  45. Creek
  46. Croatian
  47. Cuban
  48. Cypriot
  49. Czech
  50. Danish
  51. Delaware
  52. Dominican
  53. Dutch
  54. Dutch West Indian
  55. Ecuadorian
  56. Egyptian
  57. English
  58. Eskimo
  59. Estonian
  60. Ethiopian
  61. Fijian
  62. Filipino
  63. Finnish
  64. French
  65. French Canadian
  66. German
  67. German Russian
  68. Ghanian
  69. Greek
  70. Guamanian or Chamorro
  71. Guatemalan
  72. Guyanese
  73. Haitian
  74. Hmong
  75. Honduran
  76. Hungarian
  77. Icelander
  78. Indonesian
  79. Iranian
  80. Iraqi
  81. Irish
  82. Iroquois
  83. Israeli
  84. Italian
  85. Inuet
  86. Jamaican
  87. Japanese
  88. Jordanian
  1. Kenyan
  2. Korean
  3. Laotian
  4. Latin American Indians
  5. Latvian
  6. Lebanese
  7. Liberian
  8. Lithuanian
  9. Lumbee
  10. Luxemburger
  11. Macedonian
  12. Malaysian
  13. Maltese
  14. Menominee
  15. Mexican
  16. Mi'kMaq
  17. Mohawk
  18. Moroccan
  19. Native Hawaiian
  20. Navajo
  21. Nicaraguan
  22. Nigerian
  23. Nipmuck
  24. Norwegian
  25. Onandaga
  26. Ojibwe
  27. Other Subsaharan African
  28. Other West Indian
  29. Paiute
  30. Pakistani
  31. Palestinian
  32. Panamanian
  33. Paraguayan
  34. Pennsylvania German
  35. Penobscot
  36. Peruvian
  37. Pima
  38. Polish
  39. Portuguese
  40. Potawatomi
  41. Pueblo
  42. Puerto Rican
  43. Puget Sound Salish
  44. Romanian
  45. Russian
  46. Salvadoran
  47. Samoan
  48. Saulteaux
  49. Scandinavian
  50. Scotch-Irish
  51. Scottish
  52. Seminole
  53. Seneca
  54. Serbian
  55. Sierra Leonean
  56. Sioux
  57. Slavic
  58. Slovak
  59. Slovene
  60. Somalian
  61. Spaniard South African
  62. Sri Lankan
  63. Sudanese
  64. Swedish
  65. Swiss
  66. Syrian
  67. Taino
  68. Taiwanese
  69. Thai
  70. Tohono O'Odham
  71. Tongan
  72. Trinidadian or Tobagonian
  73. Turkish
  74. U.S. Virgin Islander
  75. Ukrainian
  76. United States or American
  77. Uruguayan
  78. Venezuelan
  79. Vietnamese
  80. Wampanoag
  81. Welsh
  82. Yaqui
  83. Yugoslavian