Ethnicity vs race
What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
Is it correct to say « What’s your ethnicity/race? »
What could the answer be for both questions so I can understand the difference?
Thank you.
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anonymous Is it correct to say « What’s your ethnicity/race? » That can be offensive and overly personal in some societies. Ethnicity: a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
- anonymous Is it correct to say « What’s your ethnicity/race?
- » That can be offensive and overly personal in some societies.
- Ethnicity: a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
- Race: A set of alleles (in DNA) that are the source of detectable differences in physical characteristics such as skin tone, eye color, height, or hair texture.
- The differences are not substantial enough to preclude interbreeding.
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anonymousIs it correct to say « What’s your ethnicity/race? »
That can be offensive and overly personal in some societies.
Ethnicity: a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
Race: A set of alleles (in DNA) that are the source of detectable differences in physical cha
0race involves physical differences, eg skin colour.
ethnicity is harder to efine. it involves distinctive cultural and historical traditions, and often race as well.
eg Look here. https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a28787295/race-vs-ethnicity-difference/
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