Race distinguishes groups of individuals based on noticeable physical differences. For example, here in the United States we categorize groups of individuals based on Black, Native American, Arab American, Japanese American, Chinese American and other Asian people (n.a., 2012). Ethnicity distinguishes groups of individuals based on origin and cultural. Cultural traits and/or forbidden from becoming part of society are what make this group distinctive. The race group is not determined in the ethnic group due to the fact that it includes Irish Americans, Polish American and Norwegians Americans (n.a., 2012).
NATIVE AMERICANS In the United Staes of America, Native American is an ethic group which has the earlier historical connection from the regions of North America also known as Unites of America. They consist of large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups. Although Natiive Americans are very different in terms of culture, language, religion, polity and physical characteristics. Many Native American groups such as the Sioux, Navaho, Cherokee and Iroquois are recorded under their own name. Native Americans are regarded as a racial group because of the fact that they have different physical features from the dominant white Anglo-Saxon physical features.
Macionis explains that race is a concept invented by scientists over a century ago. Macionis defines race as “a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important” (Macionis 300). In other words, your race is genetic and refers to recognizable physical characteristics that are dissimilar from other races such as skin color, skin tone, eye and hair color. Race does not have customs or globally learned behavior. However, regardless of race, all humans are 99.9% genetically similar.
Race and ethnicity are hard concepts to define. Race according to our lecture notes refers to not only the physical characteristics of a person but also the mental attributes they possess. Ethnicity refers to selected cultural and sometimes physical characteristics used to classify people into groups or categories; race is broken down into ethnicities. In lecture we discussed physical isolation and the distinctive gene pools that have formed do to outward migration. The professor stated that the development of different racial groups was due to the theory of genetic drift; we all originally started in the same location and spread outward.
Physical differences, such as skin color and hair color, and different cultural distinctions, distinguish racial groups. Ethnic groups are distinguished from dominate groups based on cultural differences. These cultural differences such as; language, different beliefs about marriage and parenting, and different food preferences, differentiate individuals from the minority group, into the ethnic group. Hispanics and Latinos make up a large part of the ethnic group. Religious groups are based on an association with a religion other than the dominate faith is the basis for this minority group.
Jeff Badu History 281 Section AD1 2/4/13 Paper #1 The Pursuit of Power In the book Whiteness of a Different Color, Jacobson made a strong argument on how race was not only something biological, but a social construction and a forever evolving, unstable process. This means that the color of your skin did not necessarily define who you were, but how society viewed you based on your appearance and actions determined your race. Also, different people such as the Irish faced different obstacles throughout different times in order to gain their citizenship and be socially accepted as “white”. Jacobson’s book does not support the idea that all immigrants encountered the same obstacles with the different examples he provides and the term “whiteness of a different color” refers to how different racial groups were fighting in order to be considered white. Different racial groups had to struggle throughout different time periods in order to gain their “whiteness”.
Race is defined as a class of people based on physical or biological characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, bone structure, or hair and eye color. Ethnicity is defined as a class of people who share a national origin and culture. Ethnic groups share the same heritage, values, and traditions (blurtit.com). I don’t understand why people feel the need to identify other people by the color of their skin or where they come from. All my life I have heard what I consider to be racial slurs.
Spencer Beck Anthropology TR 8:00am February 18, 2015 ANTHROPOLOGY 412I: Written Assignment (10 points) Type (word-process) your answers to the following questions about the handout articles “Black-White-Other,” “White privilege” and “Defining Racism.” “Black-White-Other” (Jonathan Marks) 1. After Carolus Linnaeus attempted to categorize humans into “races”, or sub-species, why did other scientists later (even into the 20th century) have difficulty in determining the “proper” number of human “races”? a. The difficulty scientist had determining the proper number of human “races” is because humans have two different ways of classifying the divisions among us. This first is the biological category and the second is cultural such
Friday, 10 February 2012 1:22 PM The 1950s was a time of many changes in Australia. Technological changes in the transportation and household occurred in the 1950s cultural change occurred because of the influence of American music, fashion and television and social changes happened for women. The spread of the motor car in the 1950s changed patterns of living in Australia's. In 1948 Australia's first car was produced in Victoria it was named 'Holden'. by 1941 they were making at least 100 cars per day and in 1960 one in four Australians owned a car.
As socially constructed categories, race lump together many ethnic groups in the same racial category, each of the major races typically recognized in United States (African American, European Americans, Latino/a Americans, Native American and Asian Americans) (Burr,1995:130). The racially essentialists cite obvious differences in physical features and then links physical appearance to differences in blood pressure or predisposition to particular disease Dalmage,1965:9) .The above statement really proves that racial constructionists understand race differently far from racial essentialists. Essentialist links biology and race. Strongly believe that it is something the people are born with. For example a child race can be tested trough DNA