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Ch. 9 Race & Ethnicity - Coggle Diagram
Ch. 9 Race & Ethnicity
Race: socially & culturally defined; an attempt to categorize humans based on observed physical differences
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Ethnicity: the degree to which a person identifies with and feels an attachment to a particular ethnic group
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Culture Diversity
Acculturation: loss of a minority group’s cultural distinctiveness in relation to the dominant
culture.
Multiculturalism: Encouraging respect of ethnic and cultural
diversity as a quality that enriches society
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Ethnic Groups: people in a society who claim a distinct identity for themselves based on shared cultural characteristics and ancestry
Genetic Traits are Nonconcordant: Traits are inherited independently, not bundled into a racial group
Race in Three Nations:
U.S.: Race has been seen as mutually exclusive categories;
one-drop rule (hypodescent); arbitrary Census
Brazil: 5 government categories, but people use hundreds of tipos (types) to classify people on a continuum
Japan: Burakumin are socially stigmatized, even though they are physically and genetically indistinguishable from other Japanese