Race & Ethnicity

An Ethnic Group
- is a
- category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share a way of
- life, a collective history, a sense of themselves as a people and a commitment
- to the ideas, norms, and material things that constitute that way of life
•Minority Group

Refers to a socially identified collection of people

who …

a Experience discrimination

a Suffer social disadvantages because of discrimination

a Possess a
strong self-consciousness based on
their shared experiences of
discriminatory treatment

Refers to
relative power

Visible Minority = refers to
racial minority groups

who are identifiably
different from racial majority

•
racism involves
- •involves discrimination or unequal treatment on basis of
- physical traits that are considered culturally and biologically inferior … may
- be deliberate or more indirect and unintentional
- §simply, a belief
- of superiority of one race over another
•Ethnicity refers to …
- §cultural heritage of a particular group of people and based
- on characteristics associated with cultural traditions and background … may
- also related to a person’s national origin
§cultural heritage of a group
race
- §category of people regarded as socially distinct because they
- share genetic traits believed important by those with power & influence in
- society … biologically distinct from
- other populations
- §Race depends on a classification system through which
- meanings are given to physical traits

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