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What is race?how can we distinguish race, ethnicity and nationality?

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What is race?how can we distinguish race, ethnicity and nationality?

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  1. Race and ethnicity are both social terms that are generally used to distinguish different groups of people based on looks or behavior (there's no scientific evidence of either.)

    Nationality is based on what country you are from or what country you live in.


  2. Race in my opinion is a slightly out of date term with dodgy connotations as what does it imply? We are seperate and competing against each other.

    Ethnicity is a more politically correct term for race. I think its more precise as well.

    Nationality is about which country you are from or atleast believe you are from.

    The term can become confused so people have to make their own sense of it. For example boxer Joe Calzaghe was born in England with a Welsh mother and Italian Father. He was raised in Wales. He counts his nationality as Welsh Italian and quite rightly.

  3. race is a social construct. that means that it is an idea held by members of a given culture about others, and themselves based on appearance and perceived genetic differences. ethnicity is about culture background and tradition. to be a member of a given ethnic group,one must label themselves as a member, as well as receive the ethnic label from others in their community. race is generally about appearance, while ethnicity is more about cultural tradition. nationality is simply a matter of where you live or where you were born, or where you hold citizenship. i'm not sure exactly which it is, but i think it can change over a lifetime depending on which country you live in and how long you've lived there, as well as what country you feel most loyal to.

  4. Race... is pretty easy to distinguish by DNA testing these days, there's a company called DNA print that will give you a pretty accurate breakdown of your ancestry, and it's reliable enough for law enforcement use. It corresponds to your continental ancestry, for the most part.

    http://www.dnawitness.net/

    It's also supported as a concept by the majority of biology PHD's and forensic anthropologists. They bothered to poll a load of professors a few years ago, and I bothered to look up the poll. 'Race is real' won. A serious number of geneticists back the 'race is real' position too, there is absolutely no consensus to the contrary, in spite of repeated claims by the media and cultural anthropologists.

    http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/...

    http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:CU1-Q...

    If you look up 'race' on google it becomes obvious that the 'race is a social construct' supporters are most from the media or are anti racism campaigners. The truth is there are definable biological differences between populations, and every few years another press release shows that the original 'we are 99.9% the same' figure you see quoted so often is incorrect. Even the geneticist who originally made the claim (Venter) admits it's about seven times more than that, at least.

    http://www.world-science.net/othernews/0...

    http://www.lff.org/RaceAndGenetics.pdf

    It also has to be observed that it gets used a LOT in research  for a 'wrong' concept.

    Ethnicity refers to the culture you grow up in, and nationality the country. For example, a Hispanic person can came into just aboput any racial category, from Caucasian to black or native American, but can be born in a quite a few countries.

  5. In truth, Race doesn't really exist because there isn't enough significant genetic difference between humans to define real racial groups. Though the proper construct of "Race" would have three main Anthropological groups: Caucasoid, Asianoid, and African. These groups are very general groups that include more specific racial groups. Races: White, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Sub-saharan/Black, South Asian, East Asian, Native America, ect. are big groups that have common genetic traits and geographical origin. Within the races are ethnic groups that more culturally based. National origin is where one is born and raised, and has nothing to do with one's racial group. Now, Mixed Racial groups like Mulatto and Mestizo have formed in places like The Americas. So basically: Race doesn't exist trully, though the racial groups that are constructed are based on common genetic traits and geographical region, and within the races are ethnicities, and then national origins only depend on where one is born and raised. So, really you can't distinguish race by national origin or ethnicity by race or nationality. The most you could do is guess based on the perceived culture, color, physical features, and language of the particular person.

  6. Physical race is based on skin tone, hair texture and colour, bone structure, facial features and body structure. Social race is based on a persons morals, customs, language and accent.

  7. Nationality is the easy one here...that's documentable.  Ethinicity is pretty much self-defined since people can choose to relate to and indentify with any ethnic group with whom they feel compatibility.  Only "race" with all it stigma and negative history and sterotyping is forced on us by others.  The increasing number of bi-and multi-racial people in the world will continue to obscure those identifications as time goes on.  Good riddance, I say.  The simple fact that people of diverse ethic backgrounds can reproduce argues against there being any meaningful biological difference in people with disparate outside appearances.

  8. Race is a sociological term which is deemed insientific in biology. Different races are classified according to the skin colours, hair colours, eye colours, facial and some body anatomical differences and geographical areas which usually implies superiority of a particular group of people (racism). It's insientific because genetic studies have found that the differences between races are genetically too small while the differences between individuals from the same race can be bigger than between races. There are virtually no biological differences between 'races'. A more scientific term is ethnicity which only categorise groups of individuals according to their common culture. Nationality is a political term used to describe the country in which a person has the legal right to stay.

  9. Only one race, the human race.  The differences result from the formation of differences provided by evolution as specialization that created characteristics necessary for survival in the different environments encountered by human migration.

  10. Race, term that is used to classify to the humanity according to physical and genetic characteristics. The race concept is not particularly useful from the biological or sociological point of view, since all the races belong to a unique biological species, Homo sapiens, and they only show small genetic variations. The culture much more constitutes an important factor at the time of determining the conduct and style of life of the different human groups.

    Etnicidad, property to particular a cultural group whose members share the language, the beliefs, customs, values and identity. The etnicidad concept does not have to be confused with the one of race, since that one talks about to the cultural distinctions and this one to the purely physical distinctions. The specific cultural elements of each human group - or ethnic they do not present/display a continuity necessarily, but they can have different meanings. Some are constant during centuries, like the language, the religion, the customs or the forms of property; others can be more recent or money changers, like the values. A certain human group acquires `brings back to consciousness of etnicidad' when the cultural elements are equipped with positive and used values like symbolic means of affirmation of the own identity. The human group endowed with this brings back to consciousness and based on a territory considered historically like own, `is denominated to him nation cultural'. When this group has in addition capacity to decision in the aspects economic and political, `is denominated to him nation política'. Those groups with a specific etnicidad and a territorial establishment within a State will be able to foment nationalistic movements whenever they own a high degree of brings back to consciousness of etnicidad.

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