What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
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id say race is your color and ethncity is you heritage... prob where there are so many mixed ppl that they need to know...i dont see why cause color SHOULDNT make one better than the other..but it does
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The other's answers are partially right, but take the common social constructivist view too far. Race/creed/caste/religion/clan/ethnicity are all slippery terms that are not easily defined. In a similar manner it is very hard to define what a species is (The common idea that a species is defined by when organisms can reproduce is violated for many species and meaningless for asexual organisms). A race or population from a biological perspective is a grouping of organisms that tend to breed more among themselves than with other groups. Subsequently they tend to have distinctive features. Now of course our common definitions of race have a large social influence that defies the logic of a group that tend to breed more with itself than other groups. For example the U.S.'s idea of hypodescent that dictates that someone who is 1/16 of black african descent is African American is kind of silly (on the other hand if these African Americans tend to breed mainly with other African Americans then perhaps it is not so far fetched).\n\nJust because something can not easily be defined and overlaps does not mean it does not exist. Males are on average taller than females, but many females are taller than many males. This doesn't mean that it is a social construction to say menare bigger then women.\n\nTo answer your original question, with these caveats acknowledged, genes are distinctive among different human popularions (populations which follow human conceptions of race pretty well). Many of these genes are neutral and depend upon similar techniques to those used in forensics to get a DNA fingerprint. Interestingly, some of these gens are functional, they change the way our bodies and minds work.\nFor example, the sickle cell gene which helps protect against malaria is at much higher frequency in populations which must deal with malaria.\nA genetic polymorphism, the dopamine receptor D4 gene varies radically among populations. This is a gene that has been associated with behavioral differences among people including ADHD. It is thought by some that different social background may select for different frequencies of the DRD4 gene. The frequency of ADHD associated genese in a population probably also impacts how that culture evolves.
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racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race\nor racial prejudice or discrimination \nSo if you jsut don't like a certain person that is black or a diffreent color but you don't ahte all of them then no.
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Scientifically, yes.  Negroid, Caucausion, and Asian are the three categories identified by Anthropologists.  Also note "Human populations do vary biologically in many ways, but it is important to realize that few of these ways are correlated with each other."  The three categories were established at the beginning of Anthropology (it's only abou 150 years old as a science)...Presently, many anthropologists point out that the differences between black/caucasian/asian's exist, but when put on a spectrum, you couldn't tell the difference from one to the next because the changes are so slight.  Egypt is a good example, in the south, they're darker, in the north, they're lighter skinned.  What are they?  They exhibit many bone structures of both caucasians and negroid.  They live on the continent of Africa... hhmmm?  \n\nso, first I had to debunk the whole caucasian thing to begin with...it exists only as a marker for science, not in reality...\n\nbut...by using that marker, most people from the country of Mexico exhibit caucasian traits in their skeletal structure.  I didn't know this until my best friends mom told me they were caucasian.  I said "what?  I don't follow"...and she said Latinos are considered cacasoid.  Hard Liberal Arts and Science Educated Latinos will know as much (i.e, if you majored in music in college, you probably didn't get this lecture).  \n\nPolitically:\nPeople of Mexican descent are considered "caucasian of hispanic descent" (go look at any government form).  Hispanic is a term derived by politicians in the late 1940's early 1950's to describe people the spoke Spanish as having descended from Spain; however, the politically correct word for people from this area of the world is Latino --- being of/from Latin America.  \n\nby the way...most mexicans have both indegenous blood and European blood...a mix...Look at people from Spain...they're not all dark, most of them are very "white".\n\nHope this helped some!\n\nGrab a cultural anthro book on race, you'll find plenty more.
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Unlike most, who will give the standard politically correct answer you probably expect, I will tell you the hard truth.\n\nStereotypes and generalizations are based primarily on group traits, based on years and perhaps centuries, of common reactions to different situations.  In short, there ARE traits exhibited by different ethnic and racial groups that are typical to that group.  I am not talking about skin color but rather common traits found in slang speech, clothing choices, even vehicle choices.  It is based on cultural values and experience that goes to the root of that particular race or ethnic group and has been cultivated over thousands of years.  Thats why you will find Jews heavily in finance, Germans tending towards advanced engineering, the Italians having a sharp sense of style, etc.
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Genetically speaking there is no such thing as race...it is a social construct.  Socially, it is a common thing to have parents of 2 "races"...the most important thing to remember is that there is only one race- Human.
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Why are you so focused on race? Is it really that important? The only place I know that race makes such a big difference is prison and other places where there are a lot of people with low education. In educated society, Latin generally refers to people whose language is derived from Latin.
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My race is Caucasian.  My ethnicity is Scottish/Irish/Italian/Mohawk and Iriquois.  (a real Heinz 57!)\n\nAnyway you slice it, I am American (not Irish American, African American etc...) - that bugs the snot out of me!
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Terms of ethnicity and race are just labels.  I place no importance on either of the words...you are who you are no matter your race, creed, etc.\n\nAs for the person who said we are all americians.  Hmmmmmm....I think you should look at a map and then you may realize there is more than one country on planet earth
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you can't say that either one is better.. that would be ignorant.. but understandable if you are one of those two races.. because people are always trying to represent.  But both are of Asian decent..  they kinda look similar,, but defiantly not the same... with different cultures and basically they are just different... its like comparing Mexicans and Puerto Ricans
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USA...We have all ethnics here..Caucasians, African-Americans, Chinese, Hispanic, Indian, etc...What more could you want?...haha...
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Here you go\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition\n\n///
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I do believe that there are cultural differences but I don't think they are limited to skin color. It is true that certain cultural circles are dominated by a certain skin color, but the behavior is the same. A white kid grows up in the ghetto, just because he is white doesn't mean he acts any different than the black kid and the Mexican kid sitting next to him. Same goes for upper society. If there is a Mexican family or black family living in the Hamptons that doesn't mean he will act the same as the Mexican kid from the ghetto just because he is Mexican.\n\nIn the end it does come down to the difference just being skin color and stereotypes. It all depends on how and where you were raised. But, there are always exceptions to the rule on all sides and with all colors.
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Different race. Different origin. Different culture. Everything but human status.
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Nationality has nothing to do with it.  It depends on the person.
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This is a point that has been taken up by those in scientific and academic circles.\n\nSo, no, you aren't the only one.\n\nNot long before I was born, it was assumed that Black blood types must be different than Whites, and Blacks who wanted to donate blood were rejected.\n\nTurns out there's no relation between blood type and race.\n\nThere have been people arguing that the whole concept of race is bogus.\n\nA few weeks ago, I caught part of a really interesting documentary on PBS of a genetics expert who was following out the migrations of humans.\n\nTurns out, everyone in Europe, most of East Asia (northern, primarily) and the Americas are related, and descended from the same small group of people -- who had first migrated to the middle of Eurasia, then some traveled west to Europe, and a very few to the Americas.\n\nThe differences that have sprung up since the separation of people into the "races" are as nothing compared to our shared traits.\n\nAnd no one is "pure" as there has been mixing ever since.\n\nNo, you're both in good company and on solid ground in finding the concept bogus.
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In a perfect world there would be no distinctions b/w race, gender or even religion. But since this is the United States and African-Americans are the largest and longest established minority group, I think we can cut them some slack as the spokesman-race for all other minorities. Just a thought.