Is race and ethnicity real?
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The reason why people have problems with this concept is simply because they fail to understand the difference between a BIOLOGICAL reality and a CULTURAL reality.\n\nLook, if we wanted to we could group people by shirt colour couldn’t we? People with blue, green or purple shirts in one group, red yellow and orange in another and blacks, whites and greys making a third group? Do you agree that we could do that? We could then choose as a SOCIETY to teat those groups differently. We can tax them at different rates, throw them in prison whatever we like. \n\nWhat we have here is an example of a CULTURAL reality. The division of people by shirt colour is indisputably real. It indisputably has real effects on the real lives of real people. By any standard you like it is real. But do you also accept that such a division by shirt colour is not based in BIOLOGY? Do you accept that there is no common genetic thread amongst all the people in the green shirt group? Do you accept that it is perfectly possible for two people who are very closely related BIOLOGICALLY to be placed in totally separate shirt groups?\n\nWell, race is no different in any way at all. We have traditionally grouped people according to certain racial features. Those features were chosen at random, they are just as random as shirt colour. And they tell us no more about the person than shirt colour does. \n\nThat is what we mean when we state that race has no BIOLOGICAL reality. Black people are not closely related to one another. A random black person has a greater chance of being related to a White person or an Asian person than to another Black person. A White person has the same chance of being related to a black person as to another White. The only common feature held by Black people is the feature that we used to define them in the first place: black skin. That’s it.\n\nSo to answer your question, yes race is real. Nobody has ever denied that race is very, very real. How could you anyone possibly deny that race is real?  But race is CULTURALLY and HISTORICALLY real. It is not BIOLOGICALLY real.\n\n>>>>> Is the difference in skin colour and hair texture down to mutations\n\nIf you go back far enough, yes. But what  you need to realise that it isn’t just one mutation. There is no common skin colour gene found amongst all black people or all white people.  Heck, there isn’t even a common skin colour found amongst all the people we define as Black or White. That is precisely why race has no biological meaning.
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Mestizo. (Mixed European- White and American Indian.) It's not technically a race, but it tells who they are genetically.
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They are all very interelated, but not necessarily causal of each other.\n\n\nSay a female Mexican immigrates elligally into the US.  She will start off unemployed, and not be able to secure a high-paying job.  She will thus live in poverty, or the lower class.\n\nSince I know all of this to be almost a guarantee, I may be viewed as racist.\n\nIt is not, however, entirely causal.\n\nHer Mexican ethnicity does not cause her realtionships with all of these categories.  Rather, her lack of legal citizenship, english skills, etc., are the cause.\n\nNow say I drive down the street, and I see her.  By recognizing her ethnicity and what she's wearing, I may be able to make fairly accurate judgements about all of these things.  In this case, her Mexican ethnicity is causal, and I am racist.\n\nThe underlying problem with racism, stereotypes is that they are, or were at one time, often quite accurate.  Rather than recognizing the reasons for these accurate correlations, people assume they are causal relationships.  In otherwords, they're poor because they're Mexican.  By doing this, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy for those people.
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Yes, welcome to reality. There are two races of man in this world ever since the addition of a second man, the last Adam, who is the Messiah. Previously you had only one choice of race in which to belong and that was Adams race. Of course, the choice was easy and made for you, as you were born into it and automatically enjoyed its many benefits and privileges, among which were sin and death. Now, however, thanks to the death burial and resurrection of the Christ you are offered a rare opportunity to join a  separate race. It too has benefits and privileges, among which are holiness and eternal life. Your choice. Choose wisely.
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I wouldn't think that race would matter as much as culture.  Culture would affect you physcological state more than simply your ethnic origins.
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I think most folks are answering what "ethnicity" or "ancestry" hispanics are.  I was taught in school that humans categorized into 3 major "races" - caucasion, of African decent, and mongoloid - with subcategories beneath these.  The US census recognized subcategories that included:\nWhite (original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa)\nBlack, African American\nAmerican Indian or Alaska Native\nAsian: Indian / Chinese / Filipino / Japanese / Korean / Vietnamese \nPacific Islander: Native Hawaiian / Guamanian or Chamorro / Samoan \nOther \n\nWithin these, hispanics would technically be "White" since their ancenstry was from Europe or Native American since many of hispanic ethnicity have roots with the native peoples of Mexico and Central / South America.  \n\nInteresting that "latino" or "hispanic" is not included although the census got a lot of these responses in the "Other" category.\n\nIt's definately a hard one.
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It could be, but ONLY if you think that nationality should be a crucial part of your identity. It is normal that you feel conflicted if people permanently ask you what is your nationality, who are you and where are you from and expect a certain answer from you. This is because for the most of them is hard to think about some person out of his/her nationality, origin, gender... But, in reality, nationality is just a construction, not a matter of DNA or something like that and theoretically, you can choose to live in a culture and in a way you want. In fact, you are just a human being, and for me, it is mush more then being English, Irish, Turkish... But if your parents grew up in different cultures, use it as a great advantage instead of being conflicted. Learn as much as you can about them, their history, costumes, their personal memory... You have a great opportunity to become a rich person.
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Why do we say that human's are of different "races"?  Seems to me we are all running at the same speed and heading towards the same destination ............. If I must place myself in a race, I am triracial, where would I fit?
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I think biracial people have the best of 2 worlds they're created from.  Some of the most beautiful people in the world are biracial or multiethnic.  You have two heritages to be proud of.
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If it's a form you're filling out and there isn't a category for mixed race, put either one you want. Or check both and let them figure it out. \n\nIf someone asks you and you feel like telling them, you could say "my mom is caucasian and my dad is mexican."  If people ask they probably are just curious.
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"Natives" of this country refer to themselves as OP's (original people). This country wasn't named America by them. They are labeled by their being here first. As far as the descriptions that you gave you used Asian as an ethnic description but used a color as a description for African American. Why? Also the Op's have different genetic makeups just like every other ethnic group. I know African Americans who have slanted eyes and they are not mixed race. The darker skinned Natives are obviously from the hotter regions just like darker skinned caucasians and African Americans and any other race who live there. The colder the climate year round the paler the skin tone.
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no... knowledge is not based on what race u belong, it is based on experienced.
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there is only one race...the human race\n\nthere is no biological basis for multiple "races" within the human race\n\nif it helps any, i'm a molecular geneticist\n\nthat doesn't make me right, it just means that i have some background relative to your question\n\none can find larger variation, genetically speaking, within an ethnos than found between two different ethnicities\n\nin other words you can take a group of white europeans or black africans...and not in all but in some cases (and it would be quite common), you could find greater genetic variation within the group of white europeans than by comparing both groups\n\nyou could do the same with the group of black africans or any other so-called race
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it's the same with how many races and nations there are.\npeople have different belief and different languages.
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People assume that certain speech habits are indicative of race.
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Blacks do not call themselves Afro-Americans. That's what white people started putting on apps. I don't consider myself an Afro-American nor do I consider myself and African- American. I was not born or raised in Africa nor have I ever been. My mother or father has never been nor have their parents or the ones before them. That's just another way to let others know  they are referring to a dark skinned person.
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There is no difference based on geographic location but there are HUGE differences based on race.  Whites, blacks, hispanics and asians differ markedly on this issue.  However, someone of the same race from a different part of the country is very similar on this.