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    Project: Kristopher Freitag Race and ethnicity and understanding its differences helped me achieve a certain amount of levity with the way I interact with others. America is extremely diverse‚ yet have an abundance of things in common. This is shown throughout history and right outside our doors‚ America‚ where our towns and cities are filled to the brim with personalities and of difference race and ethnicity share this culture that we call American society. I have learned

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    Constructions of Race and Ethnicity Race has always been a significant sociological theme‚ from the founding of the field and the formulation of the "classical" theoretical statements to the present. No society is composed of genetically “pure” people. In spite of this‚ members of society tend to rank themselves into hierarchies based on race with one race assumed to be better than another. Although traditionally in the US the category white has been ranked higher than black or other categories

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    We live in frightening times as violence continues to ensue over dogmas surrounding race and ethnicity. As a young millennial‚ I’ve witnessed the tragedies surrounding the deaths of Eric Gardner‚ Trayvon Martin‚ and Michael brown‚ create tensions tragically felt by communities because of race. According to Webster‚ Race is “A category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits”. It is a difficult social dilemma‚ due to the genetic diversity we experience in the United States. For

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    Race vs. Ethnicity If we were to go out on the streets today and ask “what is the difference between race and ethnicity?”‚ most people would probably answer “I don’t know” or “ They are the same thing”. One of the most confused concepts of defining one another is the distinguishing of race and ethnicity. In the past‚ people either thought one was the other or there was simply no difference. Labeling people in the world is often done without proper knowledge and can lead to making a false accusation

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    What is the difference between raceethnicity‚ and culture? Race is biological categorized‚ which is eyes‚ hair‚ and skin. Ethnicity shares racially similar people of similar origin. Culture is the sharing of values‚ beliefs‚ and ideals of a group of people‚ regardless of their race. Race or racial group refers to the categorizing humans into groups‚ or populations on various heritable characteristics. The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorization of humans into populations

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    are each individual all radically different? Every individual is unique‚ and come from different backgrounds like culture‚ race and even class. Yet there is an unhealthy classification that separate people by their biology and race to create an ideology that enforces inequality. For example‚ studies were conducted to determine if each individual had a biological difference that separates us from one another. Such ideology leads to term of Eugenics‚ which elaborated on the idea to have natural selection

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    A Malay person can be a Malay by race‚ but not by ethnicity. Ethnicity and race are often used together and and hence they are always confused. There is a major difference between both of them. Ethnicity is a group of people that has a shared common culture - the practices‚ values‚ and beliefs in groups; and also language‚ religion and traditions; amongst others. Race‚ on the other hand‚ artificially divides people into distinct groups based on characteristics such as physical appearance (particularly

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    Race and Ethnicity. The two terms have overlapping meanings and consequences‚ as both are group identities based on the concepts of: shared ancestry‚ shared culture‚ and often shared physical characteristics. On the first day of class we defined both (broadly). Race is a category based on similar physical appearance and social status where as Ethnicity is a category based on shared culture and/or heritage. While the definitions are different‚ the two are usually easily confused for one another. One

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    Defining Race and Ethnicity India S. Colon ETH/125 Cultural Diversity July 14‚ 2010 David N. DiBari MCJ Abstract Racial and ethnic groups have similar meanings according to the readings however there are very distinct characteristics to them as well. According to Schaefer (2006) “The term racial group is reserved for minorities and the corresponding majorities that are socially set apart because of obvious physical differences” (p. 7). Simply put‚ racial groups focus on physical and more

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    Defining Race and Ethnicity The term race is defined as a racial group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. Such as hair color‚ earlobe shapes‚ the color of one’s skin‚ the hair texture‚ and so on for the obvious. On the United States the skin color is another obvious difference the main obvious difference. People in the Unites States have learned informally that skin color is important and hair color is unimportant. Americans have traditionally classified and classify

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