What is my ethnicity, race, and nationality (what's the difference),I'm black and raised in America, but I was born in Germany (parents were in the army, so still American)..how do I determine all three things?
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Your race is Negroid (not a pleasant sounding word but I don't know the current term - if there is one). You should know though that "race" isn't considered to be a valid term anymore because: a)intermixing - there are, for example, white folks with lots of black in them and black folks with lots of white so would they be Caucasoid (white) or Negroid (black) and b) The seperations were based on nothing more than physical attributes and so have no real empirical purpose. BTW the other racial group is Mongloid (Oriental). Your nationality is a function of citizenship. Of what country are you a citizen? Answer that and you have your nationality. Ethnicity is a little trickier. For most cultures it is determined by the father's ethnicity (ie if your father is Jabroolian then your enthicity is Jabroolian). Some cultures go by the mother's ethnicity. I, for example, am a caucasian (race), Canadian (nationality) of Icelandic descent (ethnicity). Hope this helps. Bliss
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where a person is born is what your nationality is not your ethnicity.people of different ethnic groups are born in different parts of the world it's not unusual. now if your ancestry traces back all the way black then that is what your considered but if there is mixture in your background then Ican understand yopu wanting to know your ethnicty
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I am just an American....born white....i don't know my roots, and don't CARE...it is irrelavant to my life in America as an American... you are an American, born black.... no need to determine...if serves no purpose in the big picture of your life...
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