What's the Difference?: Race Vs. Ethnicity?

Question

When you think of the word "race," what is the first thing you think about? Do you think along the "color line"? Or, do you think along the "cultural line"?

I asked Webster and he said a race was a
"1: a breeding stock of animals
2 a: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b : a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
3 a: an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group b : BREED c : a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits
4 obsolete: inherited temperament or disposition
5: distinctive flavor, taste, or strength"

Know isn’t that strange? The first and third definitions are some what contradicting the second one.

So does this mean that we are all part of one race with many different ethnic groups and ethnicities?

I would love to hear you all's answer

Answer 1

This is what I found in Wikipedia:

Race: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race

Ethicity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity.

Better yet, read this: .

While ethnicity and race are related concepts, the concept of ethnicity is rooted more in the idea of social grouping, marked especially by shared nationality, tribal affiliation, shared genealogy/kinship and descent, religious identification, language use, or specific cultural and traditional origins, whereas race is rooted in the idea of a biological classification. In 1950, the UNESCO statement The Race Question, signed by internationally renowned scholars (including Ashley Montagu, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gunnar Myrdal, Julian Huxley, etc.), suggested to "drop the term 'race' altogether and speak of 'ethnic groups'."

Answer 2

Ethnicity Vs Race

Answer 3

Race is like Caucausoid, Mongoloid, *******, Austroloid etc.. like you said! But what's Capoid or Khoisan? Never heard of it.. I'd say ethnicity is an ethnic group, like Spaniard, French, Italian, Japanese, German, Berber, etc.. So that means American, Canadian, Australian, Mexican, are just nationalities! Unless you are talking about indigenous peoples of the Americas or Australia! But then again, they have ethnic groups like Nahua, Cherokee, Inuit, Maya, Mauche, Olmec, Guarani, Quechua, in the Americas, and In Australia, Koori, etc., as the correct ethnic, non european names for these peoples... But some term ethnicity as a culture, rather than an ethnic group!

Answer 4

chinese is not a race...

Answer 5

Race is something you're born with an ethnicity is what your culture is. Like your race could be Chinese and your ethnicity could be American if you were born in America.

Answer 6

Theres only 3 races... black white and asian. Now-a-days .. sometimes .. indian is considered a race. To them aswell..
They classify races as Black, white, yellow (asian) red (indian)

Ethnicity is your back ground..