Fractal Investigation Of The Ethnic Group Concept

The concept of ethnic group is a huge and complex and fine system, its feature of irregularity, and fracture can be seen everywhere. At the same time, there is self—similarity of many kinds and many layers in its part and entirety of the system. These are the features of the fractal. Fractal is a geometrical progress or evolution form that is irregular or fractural , whose part and entirety is similar in itself in a way ,and whose dimension cannot be integer. The thought and method of the fractal is widely used in the field of natural science and social science in the latest tens of years, but rarely in the field of ethnic group study. The article, as the second dissertation on national study which quotes fractal method systematically, initiated by the article"Quoted or not the thought of the fractal, a thought about the innovation of the ethnical theory", investigated and analyzed concretely the contemporary national process of Baise Nationalities Autonomous County of Guangxi, using the features of no scale, self- similarity, fractional dimension, fractal generator, fractal order of the theory, and after observing the fractal feature of the modern process of Gelao in Longlin, proves the fractal from the concept of Chinese nationality to the concept of ethnic group of the human being.