what is the difference between your race and your ethnicity?
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“Race” is usually associated with biology and linked with physical characteristics such as skin colour or hair texture. “Ethnicity” is linked with cultural expression and identification. However, both are social constructs used to categorize and characterize seemingly distinct populations.
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Ethnicity vs. ... Ethnicity, however, refers to cultural factors, including nationality, regional culture, ancestry, and language. An example of race is brown, white, or black skin (all from various parts of the world), while an example of ethnicity is German or Spanish ancestry (regardless of race) or Han Chinese.
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What is race? The Census Bureau defines race as a person's self-identification with one or more social groups. An individual can report as White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, or some other race.
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Although national origin and race sound the same, the law treats the two separately. Race refers to a person's physical characteristics, most typically skin color. National origin, on the other hand, refers to where a person was from, or where that person's ancestors were from.
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Originally Answered: what is the difference between who you are and what you are? What you are is the way you present yourself. And the things you do. Who you are is the person underneath all that.
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Hispanic if you and/or your ancestry come from a country where they speak Spanish. Latino refers to geography. Specifically, to Latin America, to people from the Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), South America (Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, etc.) and Central America (Honduras, Costa Rica, etc.)
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Your race is determined by how you look while your ethnicity is determined based on the social and cultural groups you belong to. You can have more than one ethnicities but you are said to have one race, even if it's "mixed race".
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"Race is understood by most people as a mixture of physical, behavioral and cultural attributes. Ethnicity recognizes differences between people mostly on the basis of language and shared culture."
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Culture, ethnicity and race are terms that we often confuse and think mean the same thing, but they are actually different. Culture is something we're taught by other human beings. ... All Asian, but different ethnicities. Race is the most loaded term of all.
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People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino or Spanish may be of any race." The U.S. Department of Transportation defines Hispanic as, "persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central or South American, or other Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race."
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I would recommend “I am (insert race here) American” or “I am an American of (insert continent or country here) decent” when specifically asked about ethnicity, because for most Americans, they only know a general direction of the continent they are from, and not much else. Most people would leave it at that.
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Nationality refers to the country of citizenship. Nationality is sometimes used to mean ethnicity, although the two are technically different. People can share the same nationality but be of different ethnic groups and people who share an ethnic identity can be of different nationalities.
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Terms in this set (25) Which best describes the main difference between ethnicity and nationality? (A) Nationality is connected to a state while ethnicity is connected to culture.
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There is no significant relationship between ethnic and racial background and health status. Ethnic and racial minorities are more vulnerable to poor health status than the rest of the population because minorities are at greater risk for poverty.
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How do race and ethnicity differ? Race is used to describe biological differences between groups of people (physical) while ethnicity is used to distinguish groups of people based on their culture and heritage (cultural).
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The relationship between the terms ethnicity and nationality is nearly as complex as that between ethnicity and race. ... A nationalist holds that political boundaries should be coterminous with cultural boundaries, whereas many ethnic groups do not demand command over a state.
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The Census Bureau defines race as a person's self-identification with one or more social groups. An individual can report as White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, or some other race. Survey respondents may report multiple races.