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The way I see it, janacide, is that we all belong to the one race - the Human race - and that race is made up of many different ethnicities.
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Yes! Basically as I see it, ethnic is the peoplegroup we belong to and race is just skin color, physical features, etc. They are often along roughly the same population lines but ethnicity counts and race is more or less arbitrary.
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The notion of distinct human race comes from the Eugenics movement, a popular psuedo-science which stemmed off Darwinist theory. Eugenicists (and believe me, there was a time in which this was widely accepted as fact) believed that the human population could be categorised in distinct 'races', based on insubstantial aesthetic categories such as skin colour, skull shape, etc. They also believed that these 'races' would struggle to survive, and the fittest, the 'ultimate race' would prevail. The movement eventually culminated in the Holocaust, and after that all of the world's respectable White gentlemen declined to believe in such an awful thing. However, the notion of race sticks, as can be seen on American census forms (not English or Australian ones, though). Ethnic groups are much more accurate groupings of human beings based on shared ancestry, language and culture in general. Skin colour and skull size has nothing to do with it.
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G'day Janacide, Thank you for your question. Race is based on physical traits such as the colour of your skin. However, there is a growing sentiment in scientific circles that race is not a useful concept as 85% of differences occur within racial groups. Ethnicity is a group of humans who identify together on the basis of language and culture. There is considerable overlap between ethnicity and nationality which has intensified over the past two centuries. I have attached sources for your reference. References Wikipedia Race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race#Scale_of_race_research Wikipedia Ethnicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity Ethnicity Race and a Possible Humanity http://profs-polisci.mcgill.ca/abizadeh/Ethnicity.htm US Census Facts on race http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68178.htm
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