What's the main distinction between the terms race and ethnicity?

Question

What's the main distinction between the terms race and ethnicity?

Answer 1

Ethnicity is more specific.

Race is more like "continent" and ethnicity is "country or other subgroup".

Thus, a person can be White (European, which is their race), and French (more specific, their ethnicity).

As another noted, 'race' is a problematic term. There's just the one, really: human race.

Answer 2

biologically there is no such thing as race but we can trace your ethnicity from your dna!

they can tell from my blood that my anscestors were irish dutch and cherokee but not how light or dark the pigment of my skin is

Answer 3

http://science.jrank.org/pages/9231/Ethn...

http://science.jrank.org/pages/9228/Ethn...

http://www.aaanet.org/gvt/ombdraft.htm

I also suggest you read Race and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Focus on the United States and the World by Scupin.

Answer 4

The term "race" is not a scientific construct.  It's artificial and based on cultural perceptions.  For example, lots of groups thought of as "white" today, like Jews, Italians, even Irish and Poles, were not considered white 150 years ago.

They're all ethnic groups.

Answer 5

well jews and armenians are from the white race and are different ethnicity groups . got it? race is a fisiological type and ethnicity is based on culture :)