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Aug 1, 2020 · Results indicated that the most frequent colloquial meanings of ethnicity included origin, culture, ancestry, related or similar to race, social similarity, religion, and identity.
Race and ethnicity are distinct social constructs that are typically based on physical (race, skin color) features and cultural (ethnicity) characteristics, including national origin and ancestry. While federal and state laws prohibit discrimination based on race, color and national origin,
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The scholarship on ethnicity, race, and na-tionalism has become unsurveyably vast. Nu-merous articles in the various social science Annual Reviews have addressed particular themes, problems, and strands of research in this domain.1 Clearly, any review must be ruth-lessly selective. I focus on two trends of the past two decades (though both have ...
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This version: 26 April 2021. Previous version. Summary. The term “race” refers to groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by society to be socially significant, meaning that people treat other people differently because of them.
The Oxford English Dictionary currently defines race as “a group of people connected by common descent or origin” or “any of the (putative) major groupings of mankind, usually defined in terms of distinct physical features or shared ethnicity” and ethnicity as “membership of a group regarded as ultimately of common descent, or having ...
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- 2021
where "race" is defined in the first edition of 1694 as "lign6e, lignage, extraction" in relation to either families or beasts. This definition was repeated under the heading "Race" in the Encyclopdie (vol. 13, 1765), where this term is closely linked with the idea of a "noble race" or family.2 The first recognizably modern definition of race
Aug 1, 2020 · Ethnicity Definition Themes Data Examples; Origin and Background (n = 68; 45.03%): Responses define ethnicity as (a) geographical location or place (n = 34; 22.52%); (b) nationality or national origin (n = 14; 13.25%), or (c) background unspecified, referencing background or origin but not specifying culture, ancestry, geographical location ...
