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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre race y ethnicity ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre race y ethnicity ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.
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- Inglés (US)
The term "race" in English (and in use in other languages, like French) these days tends to refer mainly to physical traits, especially skin color and facial physiognomy. (Usage 100-150 years ago was rather different, in both English and French, but that would take us far afield, and it's probably today's English that you care about.) "Ethnicity" in contrast looks more like national origin or ancestry, cultural identification, traditions within one's family and the like. But it is also sometimes is used as a euphemism for race. Most people in the U.S. would probably treat "Asian" as a race, not distinguishing between Han or non-Han Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Hmong, etc., which might be treated as ethnicities. Most U.S. people would call American blacks and all dark-skinned Africans, whether Dinka (tall) or Bambenga (short), speaking Swahili or Khoisan or Yoruba, all as in a black "race" and leave the rest to "ethnicity." For my part, I'm not so interested in race as such, as in minor markers of population memberships: little details about the teeth that help us identify kinship across millenia between some northern Asian populations and those that settled the Americas across the Bering Strait and so on. But the distinction described is how most people in English use the terms.
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- Inglés (US)
Race refers to the physical traits of a person, such as skin or hair, while ethnicity refers to cultural traits such as language exc. You could have multiple ethnicitys, but, you only one race.
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- Inglés (US)
Race pertains to someone’s physical characteristics, such as skin, hair and eye color.
Ethnicity refers to cultural factors like nationality, language, and ancestry
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The term "race" in English (and in use in other languages, like French) these days tends to refer mainly to physical traits, especially skin color and facial physiognomy. (Usage 100-150 years ago was rather different, in both English and French, but that would take us far afield, and it's probably today's English that you care about.) "Ethnicity" in contrast looks more like national origin or ancestry, cultural identification, traditions within one's family and the like. But it is also sometimes is used as a euphemism for race. Most people in the U.S. would probably treat "Asian" as a race, not distinguishing between Han or non-Han Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Hmong, etc., which might be treated as ethnicities. Most U.S. people would call American blacks and all dark-skinned Africans, whether Dinka (tall) or Bambenga (short), speaking Swahili or Khoisan or Yoruba, all as in a black "race" and leave the rest to "ethnicity." For my part, I'm not so interested in race as such, as in minor markers of population memberships: little details about the teeth that help us identify kinship across millenia between some northern Asian populations and those that settled the Americas across the Bering Strait and so on. But the distinction described is how most people in English use the terms.
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