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Posted by: Primo84
It's not present in the games until Reach, but some of the last names in the novels are a big indicator.
In The Cole Protocol, many of the citizens of The Rubble are refugees from Madrigal, and a lot of them have Hispanic surnames.
In Contact Harvest, Jilian al-Cygni was speculated to be from New Jerusalem. The 'al' prefix on her surname is common naming convention of the Arab ethnicity. The 'Jerusalem' is obviously a nod to the city of Jerusalem in Israel, which, sure enough is in the Middle East.
Jorge from Halo: Reach is from Reach, speaks Hungarian, and encounters locals in the game that speak Hungarian. I also read somewhere that many of the locations in Reach are in Hungarian.
Both Kat and Jun from Halo: Reach are from New Harmony, and sure enough, share a similar accent.
I think this is plenty of proof that the Earth's colonies as a whole are ethnically diverse, it's just that the fiction seems to suggest that each colony is primarily inhabited by people of one particular ethnicity. I don't think that each colony is primarily one ethnic group, I believe that the first major ethnic group to arrive on the colony decides the accent.