What is race? What is ethnicity? Is there a difference?

Race and ethnicity are often used interchangeably, but have different meanings. Race is an externally-imposed categorization based on certain physical features such as skin color and hair texture, a common ancestry, and cultural and moral attributes. Ethnicity is a self-defined group identity based on shared kinship, history, and culture.

[macatl]

The government needs to remove the race question on applications. This is 2021. It is racist and ridiculous asking someone what race they are. We are all of the human race, but have different ethnic backgrounds, heritage, language, and culture.

[thuthukamathebula]

Race is a social construct used to categorize people by their skin colour in order to determine their importance.

Ethnicity is the tribe or kingdom that someone belongs to. For example, I'm Ngwane. This is my ethnicity. But my race would be black (which I do not agree to be referred to as because race should not exist)

[burnsbooks]

why do you say "latinx"? feels like you're spitting on my Hispanic heritage

[kingwillie]

All of this can be boiled down to a word we refuse to use, which is breed. Were the human race, our species is homo sapien sapien, and within that we have nationality which refers to the nation you are from, and we have ethnicity which is primarily your cultural background. Breed defines your common DNA and phenotype, but we refuse to use that word for some reason and therefore the language surrounding the aforementioned definitions is convoluted.

[Rosenheim]

I believe race means nothing to me, it's just the shape and colour of your skin. Ethnicity is what matters you share a heritage, language, culture/history, if a immigrant assimilates knows the language and culture and the wider community accepts them than they are part of the tribe so to speak

[thegigadykid]

Thank you someone who knows the difference

[lawrencephefo]

Brilliant presentation ma'am! I so wish to watch more of your videos, more especially, based on topics; Culture, and Colonialism.

[kristy]

As a Latina, my family & I are told to put ‘White’ as race. Now I can’t speak for other Latinos but in my house hold, we are more white passing than colored

[luisaugustobonilha]

Race is a concept with almost no biological value in view of the genomic similarity between different human groups, but it is still useful with regard to establishing the effects that the environment exerts on natural selection and so-called geographic characteristics of different peoples, no more than that.

[CraftyShawn]

Some of the stuff you said about race is stereotypical perception

[rileymclellan]

I cringed when she said Latinx. They HATE that. It’s not accurate and it’s offensive.

[ATIWatchReviews]

To me it seems ethnicity is still strongly tied to race, and in reality they by and large mean the same. Access to an ethnic group is generally on physical similarities in appearance (because of genetic ancestral linkages). Can a black Polish person (born, raised and culturally Polish) be ethnically Polish? Or is it only for people who have ancestrally descended in their DNA from historic Polish peoples (who were likely white)? It's an impossible question to answer, as it depends on what you mean by ethnicity, but to me it does seem most would say there has to be a racial component (or at least look similar) to be regarded as the same ethnicity.

[MegaAli]

Race is a social construct, an engineering class construct identity.

[ALIFOUAD]

I need your help. I was born in iraq. I live in the Netherlands for most of my life. I live the Dutch way of life, have the Dutch mentality, norms and values. Also, I am an atheist. But my parents are both arabs from iraq. In my case, Am I ethnically Dutch or still ethnically arab?

[williebuffer]

Is there any real different between a race of people and ethnicity of people??

[CPT]

Wow this video is great. You now have a new subscriber

[YECBIB]

There's only One Race....1 Race....Human.

[p.a.andrews]

The word race came from a myth, and is completely unimportant used with double-talk, and doublespeak that can be a hate speech.

[tiberiusmononoke]

Latinx lol I hear they hate that shit.

[Vic-pgrg]

There is only one race, the Human race. The idea that there's an Asian race, African race, etc. is very stupid. That was made by the Europeans to divide us and to make themselves superior in any way. Ethnicity is the better term.
Also, I just cringe when she said the word Latinx. I'm Latino by the way.