Ethnicity And Race
Submitted by asher3542 on January 26, 2012
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Ethnicity And Race
Race and ethnicity in some ways go together. An ethnic group is a group that has a distinct culture of its own. It tends to be a group that shares an ancestral heritage. A race, is defined more by physical characteristics. Thus, a black Dominican and an African American would be of the same race, but not of the same ethnicity.
Race refers to broad division of people based on their biological characteristics such as colour of skin, colour of hair and their facial features. These differences developed among humans in prehistoric times due to different groups of people developing in different parts of the world isolated from each other. Originally all humans in the world belonged to...
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