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What’s the difference between race, culture, nationality and ethnicity?
If someone asked you to describe your identity to them, where would you begin? Would it come down to your skin color, race or your nationality? What about the language you speak, your religion, your cultural traditions or your family’s ancestry?
This bewildering question often pushes people to separate their identities into two parts: race versus ethnicity, versus nationality & culture. But what do these terms actually mean, and what’s the difference between race, nationality, culture and ethnicity in the first place?
These words are often used interchangeably, but technically, they’re defined as separate things. “‘Race’ and ‘ethnicity’ have been and continue to be used as ways to describe human diversity,” “Race is understood by most people as a mixture of physical attributes. Ethnicity recognizes differences between people mostly on the basis of language and shared culture.”
In other words, race is often perceived as something that’s inherent in our biology, and therefore inherited across generations. Ethnicity, on the other hand, is typically understood as something we acquire, or self-ascribe, based on factors like where we live or the culture we share with others.
Race
Race is defined as the classification of humans into groups based on physical traits.
Over the centuries, the expansion of empires and colonialism as well as population migrations have given rise to racially mixed individuals. However, this does not discount the scientific basis for the existence of different races. Thanks to genomic analysis, an individual of mixed heritage can now trace his or her genome, and assign each segment to, for example, an African or European ancestor. This would simply not be possible if race did not have a biological basis.
As scientifically proven, different races also carry and/or are more susceptible to certain illnesses or medical conditions. It would be irresponsible and devoid of scientific basis to negate these genetic characteristics in different races because it would result in those individuals not receiving proper treatment.
Nationality
Nationality: refers to the country that a person belongs to either by birth right or naturalization. For example, a French national is someone who was born in France to French parents or was born abroad to French nationals or was born to non-French parents but was later naturalized as a French citizen.
Often times, race or ethnicity does not play a role in determining someone’s nationality. Multicultural countries like the U.S., Canada, and Germany have nationals of every race and ethnicity. However, countries with ethnically homogenous populations, such as Jordan, Japan, Korea, or Hungary, would have the majority of their nationals share a particular appearance based on the genetic pool predominant in that country.
I’m guilty, I was one of those people who thought Latino/Hispanic was a race growing up lol, but it’s not my fault, I blame my teachers because they never broke it down to us like how you did. They also never corrected us when we referred to it as a Race. lol
We have to remember that these teachers attended and received education from some of the same bankrupt systems we did. That’s why independent learning is good.
Nationality: Canadian
Ethnicity: Ghanaian (Asante)
Race:Black
Status: Boss, Queen, Goddess and everything in between lol
Race: Black (negroid sounds like I’m hard criming myself)
Ethnicity: AA
Nationality: Merican
Culture: …Southern/midwest idk. Lol.
Both part one and two makes perfect sense 👍🏾 You sounded just like me when I explain this to people, it’s annoying when people don’t know the difference between Race, nationality and ethnicity! I have gotten into so many arguments with Hispanic people and Latino people about this stuff. People don’t understand that you can be of any decent and be Hispanic or Latino!
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Mexican
Race: Mestizo ( Native American, European)
Status: Junior in high school
It took me a long time to realize people define themselves by their ethnicity and nationality not race outside of the U.S. Sometimes by their region. This includes a lot of countries ie Nigeria, Liberia and Haiti. A lot of people outside the U.S. often scratch their heads when race comes up in American identity.
👏🏾 thank you
Nationality: American
Culture:Caribbean/Afro American
Ethnicity: Afro Jamaican/African American
Race: Black
Status: Leader and not a follower
mmmmm interesting!
I don’t see anybody calling themselves African.
When can we classify ourselves as African?
For example My
Nationality is Dutch
Ethnicity is Surinamese
Culture is African, Caribbean/west indies
Race black
But as we know all of us who are from the Caribbean or north/south America were brought here on boats during the slave trade. So when do we classify as African? how many generations we can go back to call ourselves African?
because in Surinam we dominantly have a west African culture followed by a caribbean culture.